Gambia-L:
The unedited e-mail below came from the managing director of HILO in the
Gambia, Alan D Collins. He is reacting to my source's e-mail about his bogus
company. The attachment came with a short covering letter in which he was
threatening me. I will be sending the covering letter separately later on.
Alan Collins: I think you are a real joker! Do you think you can threaten
me? Well, you better do your home work about who Ebrima Ceesay is? Anyway,
if time permits me, I'll give you a fitting response.
Ebrima Ceesay
Birmingham, UK
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Hilo Trading (Gambia) Ltd
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
November 27, 2000
I am in receipt of an e-mail sent from Gambia-L dated November 23rd 2000.
Clearly, you hide behind a veil of anonymity. We do not. Cowards afraid of
the truth hide in fear of being found out. Those of us who are trying to do
things correctly are unafraid and can issue a statement from a known
location, as we are now doing.
Whoever wrote the e-mail is evidently completely unaware of the true state
of affairs. In addition, the e-mail is not only scurrilous but, more
seriously, libellous.
The Gambian Government is not hoodwinking anyone. The recent ‘agreement’
reached between the parties represents a significant profit for Alimenta,
far, far more than they ever achieved during their operations within The
Gambia. It is you, and your ilk, that are attempting to hoodwink the
People, no-one else. Hoodwinking the EU would be unthinkable, for surely it
could not possibly be done?
I am unaware of any Company being formed to act as a front for His
Excellency Jammeh, leave aside one that buys Groundnuts. I may certainly
state that Hilo Trading (Gambia) Ltd has been formed – as an offshoot from
its American company – to buy groundnuts from the farmer of The Gambia. As
The President of this company, I inform you that you commit a libel by
printing a lie. I strongly suggest you cease and desist, and retract the
ill-advised statements made to date.
When I trace your whereabouts, and be assured I will, I shall take immediate
legal action. Of course, you do not dare to back your statements by openly
confronting me. Again, you prove your cowardice.
The “raisons d’etre” of Hilo Trading (Gambia) Ltd are to ensure that the
farmers are paid on time, to make a profit, as a private company is entitled
so to do, and to recognize, and accept, the necessity for social, economic
and political responsibility.
The question of a monopoly: (I assume you meant ‘monopoly’ instead of
‘monolopy’?) It is the EU in reality that is truly trying to monopolise The
Gambia, as it insidiously spreads its tentacles here and over an
increasingly large slice of the globe.
It is you, my cowardly friends, who are being hoodwinked by those you
consider allies. Et tu, Brutus?
I must agree that the farmers are not fools. They were not fools when they
applauded our plans at Tenda Ba, and they were not fools to accept FACS as
our buying agent for groundnuts. They are further confirmed as not being
fools because they are clever enough to perceive that we, as Hilo Trading,
are fully committed to them. What we have said we will do, we have done.
And, they are certainly not fools because they are receiving immediate
payment at secco level for their peanuts this season. Already we have
disbursed D 10 million to farmers.
No, my afraid friends, the farmers are not fools and neither will they be
hoodwinked like they have been these past few years – and none of those the
fault of the Government. They are not fools because they will never listen
to the likes of you. Your statements about them are not in the best
interests of the farmers, for should they listen to you, they would surely
suffer, and badly so.
As to the EU and Alimenta not being fools – I could not possibly comment.
Once again you commit libel by stating that Hilo Trading is a dummy company.
Hilo Trading Inc USA is a US$ 23 million a year merchant company, formed in
1993.
Our Gambian operation was incorporated in March 2000 with the express
purpose of operating fully from this season onward.
I am not only a British National, but an American citizen too. Thus I have
both countries resources and protection. Be warned - I know ST
JOHNS.EDU….and I will use my resources to track you down and expose you to
The People Of The Gambia as the troublemakers you are.
Those of your ‘colleagues’ in Atlanta need not bother to check out the
‘funny’ company of “Hailo” for they shall surely not find it. Perhaps this
e-mail will assist you in your uneducated approaches to the dissident
factor; for, surely, you will now at least have the correct spelling of our
‘funny’ company. Your spelling overall, by the way is thoroughly appalling.
Your fellow true-countrymen, those that don’t operate in dark and dank and
secret places, will not find HILO being so funny, but, rather quite serious.
This will be the case when we assist the country, through its farmers, back
to an economic sanity within the Groundnut Sub-Sector by paying farmers for
peanuts delivered on time – with NO CREDIT BUYING.
I do not object to being called a ‘Software Engineer’, for that is a
privileged and quite honourable position. Why are you so derogatory about
software engineers? It seems you have little good to say about anyone or
anything. I also wonder how I became a software engineer having spent my
past 30 years in the groundnut business. I must sleep less than I think, or
study in my REM sleep.
The nonsense that you write is clearly indicative that perhaps you are still
at pre-school, kindergarten perhaps? Surely, a grown adult with any degree
of education would shy away from writing such adolescent rubbish? And yet,
e-mailing illegally from StJohns.Edu would indicate otherwise, which I find
enormously interesting as I begin to track down who you are.
Hilo Trading Gambia has invested almost US$ 3 million this year in The
Gambia. Do you still consider us to be a ‘funny’ company? What has anyone
else invested? What have you and your band of troublemakers invested or
contributed for your country? I’ll wager absolutely nothing, of course. If
not for Hilo and this Government, this season would have been a non-starter
as well. The Government is strapped because of being hoodwinked by last
season’s operators who still owe millions and millions and millions of
Dalasis to them and others. The good deed, last season, of the Govt coming
to the rescue with funds has been paid back by a web of deceit and cover-ups
committed by those to whom money was given. More evidence of your ‘friends
of The Gambia’. No doubt you exist so as to communicate with them all of
your twisted thoughts. Perhaps they hide in the same slime as you people; no
doubt you are happy bedfellows.
We have invested. We have contributed. We are producing. We are helping. We
therefore have a right to priority usage of Denton Bridge for we are the
only ones serious enough to complete the task at hand. What rights do you
have?
Your writings are the ranting of jealous Gambians who have contributed
nothing, but want everything; of political dissidents scrambling for power
that they cannot possible obtain by fair means, but only by foul; of
ignoramuses, unwilling or incapable of understanding even the most
simplistic truths; of those that prefer chaos to security, of bad times
rather than good times. You seek to wreck, not to build. You wish to destroy
society, not make it any better. You are the true menace to The People of
The Gambia.
You are frauds and charlatans because you profess to speak the truth but in
fact you speak not only lies but utter and absolute drivel. The dog barking
in the street, the cat meowing at night, or the bray of cattle at dawn all
contain more truth than you could ever hope to muster by writing 10,000
e-mails.
As I, personally, neither Hilo Trading Gambia Ltd, have ever ‘stolen’ from
The Gambian population, your accusations, of being ‘shameless crooks’ by
deduction, must surely therefore be libellous to the EU and Alimenta. I
suspect they will be none too happy with you in this regard.
We will not be stopped in our attempt to rectify the appalling problems
created these past few years, through no fault of Government. There IS a
trade season in progress, with farmers receiving money, and money only from
Hilo Trading. We shall commence shelling within a matter of days and exports
a few days thereafter. This Government is more than competent; however it is
not Government’s role to run private businesses. I remind you, again, for
the dim-witted need reminding often – without the Govt intervening with
funds this past trade season it would have been an even greater disaster.
The insistence, of some, that buying operations be free, open and
competitive is admirable. Theory is such a wonderful thing. Communism was
once thought admirable. Your mumbo-jumbo is theory because you would never
have the sense to put in place what you preach because you could not operate
power in an effective democracy. But, in reality, yours, and it, is the
diatribe of the economically insane. A business needs to be managed properly
and not in a socialistic ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Imagine Coca-Cola allowing
others access to its trade patents, its productions and its marketing
channels and so forth. Look what happened last season – 3 non-professional,
not so ‘funny’ companies combined into one gigantic imbroglio and landed the
country in to a depressingly stupid and hopeless situation. They could not
have done a worse job if they had tried, and, yet, these are the very people
you support as you attempt to destabilize a freely elected Government and
the very people of The Gambia and its many venerable institutions.
As far as funds being released by donors to Alimenta – more verbal diarrhoea
indeed. An agreement has been reached and that is the end of that.
As to the start of the Trade Season, your reasoning is once again far from
sound. Your reasoning shows a fundamental disregard for the search of truth
and is bereft of logic. The simple reasons for any ‘delays’ were two-fold:
firstly, the farmers informed us, at Tenda Ba, that they were simply not
ready to harvest and secondly, Government has sensibly been awaiting the
announcement of a Senegalese price.
The season has now been announced, as it was no longer possible to await the
price from Senegal. Senegal appears so disorganised and most probably will
not start purchasing from their farmers until January 2001 at the earliest.
Perhaps your spleen is better vented at them, my frightened friends. For The
Gambia has a ‘jump-start’ by announcing an early Trade Season, much to the
credit of this current administration.
Well, in closing, just a further thought.
Do you know it is illegal to send private e-mails over a university system
server? It is also illegal to send political propaganda in the same manner.
We shall contact the University’s website and we shall inform the University
of your little games. We shall indeed contact our lawyers in the USA for
legal action. Perhaps the INS might also be interested in your paperwork? I
do so hope you are legal aliens?
Perhaps you may find life a little unpleasant from now on and you may not be
able to continue to use the same methods to send your spiteful, hateful and
unequivocally incompetent and untruthful mails.
Yours very truly,
Alan D Collins President, Hilo Trading (Gambia) Ltd
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