Fatou,
          I have just been going through the mail and your questions are
found to be pertinent. I wanted to wait until the central committee gives
response to the movement before addressing side issues. I would however like
to note three things: What would be your answer if I were to ask whether the
Liberal Party of Britain is an opposition to the Conservative Party? Would
you not agree that opposition parties are indeed opposed to each other but
could form tactical alliances while preserving their identity? I don't
expect you to answer these questions. There are just food for thought. It is
my duty to address your questions. I believe I will do so by Monday.
To conclude, I must agree with you that I would be a more effective
educationist than a party politician. However a simple lesson I have learnt
as a student is that while it is noble for philosophers or sages to explain
the nature of the world, the real task is to change the world. May be this
is why I am still trying in my own little way to contribute to changing that
world.

Greetings
Halifa

----- Original Message -----
From: Ceesay Fatou <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:56 AM
Subject: Is Pdios an opposition to the oppositions,or only reasonable one?


> Halifa Sallah and his Pdios´s position towards the justified and
successful
> London Briefing session of the 28th February 2001 is prompting me to raise
> some
> questions to Mr..Sallah again. I have difficulties to understand the
> position or
> the relationship between Mr..Sallah / pdios and the Gambian opposition in
> one
> hand, and with jammeh/aprc in the other. Therefore, I will re-state some
of
> my
> earlier questions plus the new ones.
> Even though, one disagreed to the positions of some members of the
disarray
> or
> dead "moja -g", who shamelessly but are honest to exposed their true
collar
> openly by participating in the crimes jammeh & co are committing against
the
> peace loving people of the Gambia. However I am afraid the same cannot be
> said
> of pdios, therefore am here raising the following questions to pdios´s Mr.
> Halifa
> Sallah
> 1. Why should you often -if not always make parallelism or comparison
> between
> Jawara/ppp and Jammeh/aprc whenever critics are raised against Jammeh?
> 2. Do you think that Jawara/PPP's economic & human right crimes are on the
> same
> level with that of Jammeh/aprc?
> 3. For fairness sake, do you think that Jawara/PPP government is capable
of
> gun
> down unarmed students? Have you witnessed the student/youth demonstrations
> in
> 1968,69 and 70?
> 4. If one reduce the London meeting to mere briefing the British MPs
because
> of
> the Gambian refugees in UK, that is belittling the efforts and purposes,
> isn´t?Don´t you think that your reactions to London meeting is out of
> pettiness or the fantasy that whatever is not Halifa/Pdios is
> unprogressive,bankrupt and unintelligent?
> Would it be fair if one is also saying that pdios´s present at labour
party
> congress was a matter of looking for economic help? Or was Halifa Sallah
> trying
> to expose himself to an international arena by traveling to Europe prior
to
> 1996 elections because he have the hope then that he and his party will
file
> the
> power vacuum after the elections?
> 5. Is it fair to claim that pdios/Halifa is more hostile to Jawara´s
regime
> than
> to Jammeh´s because (a) Halifa is more expose (positively) both national
and
> international in Jammeh´s era. (b)That Halifa is encouraged to be a
> statesman
> (status quo) in jammeh´s era. (c)Halifa is in political solidarity with
> Jammeh
> but ideological indifference.It seems that you have difficulties with the
> oppositions.Are you an opposition to the oppositions ,or is it that the
> other oppositions ( with the exception of Pdios) aren't reasonable?
> 6. Halifa Sallah ,can you honestly make reflections of the following
> points.(a)Your political role during the transition.(b) Halifa been the
only
> unstop politician of the first republic during the transition.(c) Your
stand
> or
> explanation on the death of Koro Ceesay,Sadibou Hydra,Basirou Barrow &
> co.(d)
> Gunning down unarmed students, "and let the law take its course with
> toothless
> or fake commission of inquiry"
> 7. Is it fair to claim that "comrade "Halifa Sallah have a complex because
> he
> believes that he alone knows what is best for the Gambia
> 8. Hence pdios is the oldest political party in the Gambia but far from
the
> biggest, don't you think that you need to make a reflection why the
quantity
> is
> not matching with the age?
> 9. Isn't that Jammeh & co are destroying our peace loving country? If yes
is
> the answer
> to this question ,isn't better for the opposition to have some points of
> agreement or co-operation  so to unseat Jammeh? And if so is the case, are
> you
> honestly believing that your attitude is helping the process of such a
> co-operation or agreements.
> 10. Mr. Sallah, you have been mentioning the resources contributions of
> Gambians
> in diaspora to their respective party of choice, do you think it will be
> fair if
> one is saying that you and your party is only interested in material /
> economic
> resources from the Gambians living in abroad? Would that not tantamount to
> "milking " or trying to exploit your fellow country folk- most of whom are
> struggling very hard so that
> the means can meet the needs?
> 11. It is often said that pdios is a party of difference (like Jammeh
> claimed to
> be a solider of different ?), and therefore will not be corrupted, bribe
or
> buy
> votes in whatsoever-fine. What would one call it, if one MP put certain
> percent
> of his salary to a fund for a development of his /her constituency likes
in
> the
> case of Wuli, which you are all proud of? Is that not bribing or
corrupting
> the
> voters of Wuli to vote for Hon Sidia Jatta. Why can't you give that sum to
> Foni
> Bintang area for the development of that area if the reasoning is not to
> bribe/corrupt the voters to vote for Hon Sidia Jatta?
> 12. Mr.Sallah, why do you think that your party comrade won the elections
in
> Wuli but you lost to a total newcomer? Is it because of your party policy,
> program or personalities involved in both constituency-Wuli and Serre
Kunda
> respectively? What do you think the results of the election will be if you
> Halifa happen to contest in Wuli while Sidia contest in Serre Kunda? Do
you
> think you will win if you contest in Serre Kunda again independent of OJ
or
> not?Did it ever come across your mind that you will be more effective as
an
> educationist than a party politician?
> Hence one seek to look for the affairs of our be love country,we as an
> individuals or group have a legitimate right to raise our doubts and
> questions,and on the bases of that i raised the above questions in good
> faith.
> Thank you sir
>   FC
>
>
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