Mr. Kanteh, i don't expect Halifa Sallah to be clear about any meaningful
political agenda in  The Gambia, not even his own manifesto. He always beat
about the bush!
Great job by the movement in London.
Lamin PF Manneh

>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: PDOIS and the London Briefings
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:21:01 EST
>
>Mr Sidibeh & Dr Saine,
>I notice your enquiry vis-a-vis the London Briefings and the conspicuous
>absence of the PDOIS, as Sidibeh puts it.
>Well, all the political opposition were officially contacted by the mov't
>and
>all responded save the PDOIS.The Chair of the mov't, Mr James Bahoum, had
>made it a personal crusade to get all the players involved in the political
>opposition to convene at the London Briefings.
>Similarly, when we petitioned the political opposition earlier on a
>possible
>coalescing of the opposition to fight a common enemy, we had similar
>results.
>The only notice i saw served by the PDOIS on that score, was a very
>ambiguous
>attributed statement in the local press by Halifa Sallah, who is their
>spokesman. Now, i can only speculate the ambivalence of PDOIS towards what
>the mov't has been engaged in to date and its long term objectives. I hope
>Halifa will seize the occasion to state what their reservations, if any,
>are
>about our proposals so far and long term objectives.
>Let me re-state for the record that the mov't is non-partisan - a broad
>church of Gambians of all walks of life and only interested in working hand
>in hand with all democratic forces to bring sanity back to the Gambia. The
>mov't doesn't favour any group or party over another and is open to
>membership to anyone who has the interest to work for the restoration of
>decency to our beloved country, the Gambia.
>Warm regards,
>Hamjatta - Kanteh
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