folks, Mr. Callous Kebba Jobe is out of touch with reality. Mr. Jobe wakeup
and smell the coffee perhaps that may help in opening your heart and mind to
come to terms with reality. My advice to you is to avoid intellectual
dishonesty on the forum because you are dealing with honest intellectuals
who will not hesitate to tell you in your face that you are a real fool who
reads upside down. Thanks, Maimuna Kujabi.


>From: saihou Mballow <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: CALLOUS UDP.
>Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 01:25:20 -0700
>
>  For the past six years gambian women have been
>subjected to both mental and physical torture by this
>despotic regime.The most recent revelation came from
>Mrs Isatou Touray,a leading gender activist.I refer
>you to the Daily Observer published on
>wednesday,November 1st,2000.
>
>To be continued:
>Saihou
>
>--- Kebba Jobe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > BACKGROUND.
> >
> > During the past few years there has been a lot of
> > gender sensitization in
> > schools and the media, both print and audio-visual.
> > In the print media
> > respected ladies like Adelaide Sosseh Gaye, Satang
> > Joberteh, Juka Jabang,
> > sarah Grey-Johnson etc, contribute to the opinion
> > column of the Daily
> > observer, enlightening people about the need to
> > recognize that the
> > development of the country cannot be left in the
> > hands of men only. Like I
> > said earlier, it is just a pity that our online
> > don't put online the opinion
> > columns. Then you would have had a better picture
> > than the one I am
> > painting.
> >
> > Anyway, in addition to this, there is an ongoining
> > programme whereby young
> > school girls are "twinned' with established ladies
> > who achieved something
> > for themselves despite all the odds against them.
> > The idea is for these kids
> > to make supervised visits to the place of work of
> > these people as well as
> > their homes to enable them to see that education is
> > as important to ladies
> > as it is to men. They can also see for themselves
> > that being a professional
> > lady does not in any way affect your role as a wife
> > and a mother.
> >
> > There has also been a lot debates to encourage
> > ladies to go into politics
> > and for the political parties to introduce some form
> > of affirmative action
> > to encourage them. There have even been calls for
> > some sort of quota for
> > women in the national assembly to kickstart the
> > process of women's active
> > participation in politics.
> >
> > THE UDP CALLOUSNESS.
> >
> > When the UDP propaganda secretary was asked about
> > his opinion of these
> > ongoing activities, he replied that WOMEN HAVE NO
> > REASON TO COMPLAIN. When
> > asked about his opinion of gender equality and the
> > participation of women in
> > politics, he said "When we talk about gender
> > equality, this has nothing to
> > do with participation of women as professional
> > politicians. The decision of
> > someone to go into politics as a profession depends
> > on the individual and,
> > there is no gender bias attached to it at all".
> > According to him, there
> > exists no party for males only. He accused our women
> > educatinists of
> > "SCHEMING TO BE NOMINATED INSTEAD OF PUTTING A
> > FIGHT.
> >
> > With elections expected in less than 6 months from
> > now and with more than
> > half our population being women, what sort of
> > stupidity and callousness
> > would you call this? While the APRC is wooing the
> > women voters by
> > establishing a special scholarship fund for girls,
> > special credit schemes
> > for our women farmers, appointment of qualified
> > professional ladies to key
> > possitions in government such as the secretary
> > General of the civil service,
> > Auditor General, Director of SIMA vocational
> > training centre, Director of
> > MDI, the vice president, deputy speaker and other
> > secretaries of state, the
> > UDP propaganda secretary is instead antagonizing
> > them. In his opinion,
> > "there will be absolutely no room in the interest of
> > gender balance to hand
> > pick people and give them cabinet posts when they
> > refuse to join us in the
> > opposition to fight against the current state of
> > affaires in the country".
> >
> > I wonder what people like Jabou Joh would say about
> > such callous remarks by
> > none, other than the UDP propaganda secretary Lamin
> > Waa Juwara, a supposedly
> > educated and experienced political scientist.
> >
> > Hava a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.
> >
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