Camara thanks for the forward. The statement of Yahya Jammeh proof that he need help. His agenda is divisive politic. APRC have fail Gambians so they want defuse trial politics to bring disunite among the communities. With his quarter bark education, he knows nothing about diplomacy. He think he is brave while he has a faint heart.
Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Jammeh Threatens "Anti-APRC" Husbands President Promises "Better Men" for
Female Party Stalwarts
The Independent (Banjul)
NEWS
July 26, 2004
Posted to the web July 26, 2004
By Blamin M. Fatty & Fatou Badjie
Banjul
President Yahya Jammeh has vowed to deal strongly with men who deny their
wives the political independence to support the APRC party, which he said
stood for progress, prosperity and development.
Jammeh was in his usual erratic element, as he pulled no punches against
what he called intolerant and retrogressive Gambian husbands who are in the
habit of threatening with divorce wives whose justified support for the
ruling party alienates them. The Gambian leader who was speaking during a
women's solidarity march by thousands of women to show support for his
government's "progressive strides" for their cause Friday forebodingly
directed his rhetoric at them saying, "if your husbands divorce you in the
course of your dedication to the APRC and its progressive cause, I would
find you better husbands".
Jammeh accused Gambian husbands of harassing their wives for joining the
APRC and attending its programmes based on anything but myopic and self-
serving political reasons. He said where such instances occur, he will get
such women "progressive men as husbands" who have the interest of the
country at heart. Such men he added are in the ruling party, which he
argued stands for progress and prosperity. According to the Gambian leader,
such politically intolerant men should opt for self-imposed exile since he
was no longer prepared to put up with their presence in the country.
President Jammeh also took a brutal swipe at the opposition, calling them
social misfits, who are not deserving of the hard-earned democratic
consensus to rule this country. "Because they are retrogressive, I am
saying this because I know why I am saying so, that they will never rule
this country in the next million years" he emphasised, before adding that
those in the opposition are failures who are grossly incapable of managing
their lives much more manage a country like The Gambia, which he believes
deserves more progress-minded people to steer it to a buoyant future.
President Jammeh used glowing terms to describe the development efforts of
Gambian women, saying they are selflessly patriotic and hardworking.
"I will always be with women because of your dedication and unflinching
support for the party", he said adding that women are more progressive-
minded since they constitute the higher percentage in all APRC gatherings.
He said if women had not been behind the party they could not have had the
cause to celebrate a decade of achievement under his leadership. "As long
as I am alive insha Allah the sky is the limit for you, Gambian women. As
long as you continue to be united and support the banners of the APRC the
sky will be the limit" he re-emphasised.
President Jammeh vowed that in the next ten years Gambian women should be
ready to witness unprecedented development in The Gambia that will be
unparalleled in the history of mankind and the world.
Led by the vice president Isatou Njie-Saidy women from all walks of life
came together in their bid to demonstrate unalloyed solidarity and
unflinching support for President Jammeh in his trumpeted drive to upgrade
the lives of the womenfolk. The solidarity march from the KG5 to Arch 22 in
Banjul was part of elaborate ceremonies marking ten years of the APRC
revolution.
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