"Turn your justified
anger at the current terrible regime and its excesses into an
opportunity to shape a better future by mobilizing your family friends
and making them an instrument of change. 

Urge
them to register and ensure that they vote." (Karamba Touray)
The above and following is extracted from the online newspaper: The Gambia Echo.
I share Karamba's sentiments. Please read on.

Bailo
 
           Karamba Touray Urges Gambians To Be Patriotic, Keep Femi Peters' Democratic Dream Alive

		Friends of Gambia’s jailed civil rights activist,
Femi peters

Femi Peters, Gambia's prisoner of conscience 
I am writing in my capacity as an ordinary friend of Mr. Femi Peters and
having fielded several calls expressing outrage at his political
persecution and pledges of solidarity on this critical battle for the
very essence of our country. The principled stand taken by all in this
ongoing fight for justice vindicates the very ideals for which Mr.
Peters has staked his personal liberty for the sake of our nation and
it's people. It reminds all of us that The Gambia and its true future
lies not in the hands of the bloody tyrant or those who eagerly line up
to auction their souls to him or to his munions. It is men and women
who know what is right and just and persist in it's pursuit no
matter what the price that will restore the country to the values
worthy  of it's people. Members of Mr. Peters Party, the UDP have been
murdered, tortured, disappeared, exiled, unjustly imprisoned over the
years, but they have persevered because of the righteousness of the
cause they have embarked on. Political parties and individuals with
demonstrable records of fighting for the Gambian people deserve our
ongoing support. 
I
appeal to all of you good folks out there to consider assigning
yourself some responsibility in the national endeavor to build a just
and democratic nation. It wouldn't take much but it would surely make a
huge difference if most of us choose to participate in our own limited
way in the political process. We can't choose to consistently make it
the sole responsibility of frontline politicians to build our democracy
for us. It’s us who have to shape our democracy and in the process
retain control of the politics and the politicians. Turn your justified
anger at the current terrible regime and its excesses into an
opportunity to shape a better future by mobilizing your family friends
and making them an instrument of change. 
Urge
them to register and ensure that they vote. It is simple and for those
of you for whom under stably fear is of some concern to you, organising
your family and friends will attract no attention to you or them. It is
simple and effective. What is also simple but ineffective is to the
make calamitous democratic dispensation of Gambia someone else’s
problem on the grounds that it hasn't affected you so far. All
available evidence suggests all Gambians face the same dangers to their
lives and liberties under Yahya Jammeh.

           
For
those of you who wish to help Mr. Peters and his family in addition to
your much appreciated expressions of solidarity, we have set up an
adhoc arrangement here in the United States .To help coordinate all
direct financial aid to Mr. Peters and his family ,Ms Maimuna Ceesay
has volunteered to collect and remit all donations directly to the
Peters family.  Maimuna can be reached at

917-519-9835.
Thank you all for standing with Femi. Keep him and all

those who are fighting on our behalf in your thoughts and prayers.

Sincerely, 

Karamba Touray





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