This is an encouraging news.  It will be a domino-effect in most local
elections.  The people of Sami have spoken and they have decided to lead
the opposition in our struggle against the butcher fitna jamus of Kaninlai.

Our struggle will not cease until the last thug is driven out.  Long live
democracy and down with dictator yahya jamus.

Naphiyo,

ML Jassey-Conteh


> [Original Message]
> From: momodou olly-mboge <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 11/17/00 10:03:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Sami Election Results are in!
>
> Karamba,
>
> I join you in extending a heart felt congratulation to the people of Sami
> and Chief Jawla.  This shows that a people who are determined, no force
can
> stop them.  The APRC are a spent-force.  This is the beginning of the end
> for them.  I hope the Gambian people will get the message.
>
> Good shall always prevail over evil.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mboge
>
>
> >From: [log in to unmask]
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Sami Election Results are in!
> >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:16:13 EST
> >
> >Moro Jawla has decisively won the chieftaincy election of Sami . He
> >defeated
> >the Aprc candidate who for more than two years illegally occupied the
> >position for which the people of Sami never elected him to. Like 21 other
> >chiefs, Yahya Jammeh imposed him on the people and it was only after
> >litigation initiated by Lawyer Darboe and a supreme court order that our
> >people have exercised their constitutional right to choose their
> >representatives. Even as they were hamstrung by an I.E.C who seems
> >preoccupied with making up draconian and undemocratic rules for this
> >particular contest, the people of Sami nonetheless sent a clear message
to
> >this thug of a president and his cronies. The commissioner at Georgetown
> >has
> >spent countless nites with a bunch of July 22 youth groups attempting to
> >try
> >last ditch intimidation efforts in villages throughout the district. They
> >delivered explicit threats to folks they thought they could scare into
> >submission. It didn't work. This was all done in the dead of nit typical
of
> >these vile and insidious bunch. First they try to disenfranchise the
> >Gambain
> >people and after that fails they attempt to bully them. The good people
of
> >Sami who I proudly call my own stood up to them and handed Yahya and his
> >goons their tails. Something tells me it is an important lesson for the
> >rest
> >of the nation and the people would once and for all rid themselves of
this
> >regime and all that it representatives. I urge list members and all
> >Gambians
> >to join me in extending a heart felt congratulation to Seyfo Morro Jawla,
> >the
> >elected chief of Sami. I pray that God give him the strength and
integrity
> >to
> >discharge his duties to all the people of his district and usher in fresh
> >breath justice and equal protection under the law.
> >
> >Karamba
> >
>
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