Saiks, thanks for your analysis of the failed promises of the APRC.  It is
time for the farmers to act after all their pleas have been ignored.
Farmers need to converge in Banjul and other major cities and organize
sit-ins until they are paid what's owed to them.  That is the only way they
are going to be paid.  They have the power to get paid, if only they would
do what they should - demand justice.  They voted for Jammeh and if he does
not deliver they need to get into action and take him on.  However, as long
as they are willing to play his game and accept trinkets here and there from
his henchmen, then they shall stay marginalized to infinity.  We need to
stop being passive and know that power resides with the electors and not the
elected.  You give the authorities the chance to rectify their mistakes,
however, if they willing disregard our concerns, by any means rise up and
take what's yours by any means necessary.  If you are not paid season after
season, then make sure that none gets paid, either.  That is the only way
that you are going to get paid.  The Executive, Legislature, nor the
Judiciary is looking out for your best interest, so why keep on pleading
with them year after year with nothing to so for.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou

>From: saikss <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Farmers Are Crying
>Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:06:20 +0100
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>Just after the Parliamentary elections a sister in the Gambia sent her
>friend
>an E-Mail, telling her that she was sorry for the late reply due partly to
>the
>fact that electricity is back to normal in the Gambia. At first I thought
>that
>the "98% " promised is been finally fulfilled, that the Generator that we
>were
>proudly told will solve our electricity supply and got the people dancing
>in
>the street and the president who himself got so excited, started dishing
>out
>the Dalasi to the Dancing crowd, remember, not even his grand Children will
>get poor. I said to my self that this is the greatest achievement of the
>APRC
>government. It would not take me long to understand the language, that this
>was just a dream, that what is "Normal" in the Gambia is few hours of
>electricity a day or no hours of electricity. How on earth could the APRC
>believe that "Vision 2020" could be realising without sufficient
>electricity
>supply? How on earth could we industrialise that country without sufficient
>electricity supply? At our 37 year old celebration as a nation, we are
>still
>not able to supply the whole country with clean running water, even though
>that this is a country where you need not be many miles away to the source
>of
>water on or below the earth, no matter what part of the country you are.
>Had
>the government engaged itself in a safe drinking water supply project for
>all
>, they will not only be increasing employment at Sankung Sillah, they would
>be
>lifting a great burden on our poor health system. But instead they sent our
>heads and minds into the skies, to look at flying Jets. Who does not
>understand this language? Who is the Gambia going to war with? With
>Senegal?
>Which other country? Or is it that the jets could fly without entering
>Senegalese airspace, for we could not expect to ask Senegal permission to
>use
>their airspace any time we fly them to bomb another country. But we have
>another human factor, the feeling of insecurity could lead to such action,
>for
>there will always be the need to poof that one is capable of defending
>him/her
>self in case of danger. I am of the opinion that these Jets, if they are
>that
>of the APRC government, are only for the psychological warfare and nothing
>else. There are better things to do than having Jet fighters; a commercial
>plane would do better for the national interest, it will be a source of
>income. There are better things to do and more effective in defending the
>national interest of Gambians and or improved their security.
>Nothing more better to do than the buying of the Farmers groundnuts and pay
>them in time rather than sending them at the doors of newsmen crying, after
>many months of maleria, hard work and hunger. You can never build a defence
>wall against such humiliation; you are hurting the pride and all that makes
>him/her human. Why should you not understand how it feels when one is not
>able
>to provide for his/her family, not that he/she did not try, but after many
>months of hard work, you might not be there when the children cry. And just
>some few months back, you impressed the whole world with the many millions
>you
>have at your disposal for your poverty alleviation project. The
>contradiction
>here could be beyond conprehention. Help the farmers to get their monies
>and
>feed their families; don't let them wait for your poverty alleviation
>monies.
>It is no fun for an adult to go to a newsman and cry.
>And one thing more, free Dumo saho, Justice delay is Justice denied.
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>For Freedom
>Saiks
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