Jabou,
I hope peole like Kebba Dampha, the master of all read your lines well. His
most be on his head. Or my back.I did not mean to say that.

Lamin Ceesay


>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO US AT RIP/may I?
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:04:14 EDT
>
>People,
>
>I just wanted to put in my two bututs.What Ous Ngum said about Chongan's
>past
>is a good point. We must commend people for having the decency to come
>forward with their stories that will help us put the present criminals
>occupying the seat of government in our country, but never for one minute
>must we forget those who also abused power and metted out brutality to our
>people in the past.
>
>If we do, history will keep repeating itself in our country. The Jawara
>gov't
>gave us 30 years of corruption and incompetence, only to be succeded by a
>murderous gang. We cannot afford to forget this even if the present
>brutality
>has us thinking that it was at least a little bit better in the past.
>
>Finally, I just want to ask why it is that we Gambians seem to wear our
>egos
>on our shoulder. We cannot afford to have fragile egos that prevent us from
>addressing the issues intelligently and sticking to the facts without
>making
>it personal. Otherwise, we will never accomplish anything because we will
>spend all our time arguing and nursing fragile egos.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
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