Gassa,
The useful point that Yus continues to make, which BTW you conveniently
ignore, is that Internet access for poor rural folks without food in their
bellies - who are in fact owed millions by the gov't because their groundnut
produces were taken from them and money in lieu is not readily forthcoming
from the gov't - is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek. The point is NOT that
internet access is a rarefied thing for affluent urban folks only; and rural
folks shouldn't have access to it. The point, however, IS that when you live
in "abject poverty" - as you readily admitted in one of your correspondences
- without access to good food, clean water and good electricity supply,
internet access becomes something of a privilege. For you and this silly
gov't to start drafting daft policies on how to make the internet readily
accessible to the rural poor, you have to do the basics first, i.e., good
and ameliorative policies that lessen and even help eradicate widespread
poverty that is the stuff of rural life and engage in projects that will
over time help in rural electrification. For you to ignore these basics and
start bugabooing about internet access for powervty stricken rural dwellers
is just akin to a mother upping the ante on her baby driving a car when he
has yet to crawl.
Further to your dishonest proclamations on this ghastly and medieval
regime's "achievements", you observed:
<< Finally Yus, you don't have to believe all that you here or read on the L
about the situation up country. The available statistics does not support a
lot of the allegations about how our rural folks are faring. I would be the
first to admit that there is abject poverty in the country. However, it is
absolute rubbish for anyone to suggest that these cases are confined to the
rural areas alone. For your information, from the commissioning of Gamcel to
date, we have sold over ten thousand mobile phones in the provinces. This is
about 25 % of all phones sold by Gamcel. Before you ask me how they are
charging their sets I will tell you. As most of the sets sold there can go
on for up to three or four days, they normally buy an extra battery or two.
Some enterprising people have found a way of making a living from charging
cellular phone batteries. They start by buying a couple of car batteries,
have them fully charged, get a few car chargers for the most common sets and
charge D5.00 to charge a mobile set. When one car battery is fully
discharged, you give it to a driver to have it charged in the nearest town
with electricity for D15.00 and meanwhile continue your charging business
using your second battery. Sometimes someone manages to get a small
generator and starts charging car batteries. Soon after, everyone is happily
talking to everyone else and THEY ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. >> Emphasis
mine.
Live happily ever after? Like in a fairy tale? Do we need further evidence
that you live in cloud-cuckoo land? That you are some dishonest,
self-deluding and inebriated moron who would gladly write bended knee
encomium on behalf of this ghastly and medieval regime - even if it means
covering up the ugly realities of present day Gambia.
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