Yus,
        Come on.  Don’t waste your time trying to explain
something even a grade 7 student can figure it out.
Since the illiteracy rate is high in the Gambia, many
see this regime as God’s work and the few so –educated
ones are pursuing selfish interest.  I once heard from
someone with at least a college degree from African
University telling me that Yahya Jammeh has means, he
can even fly, and can you imagine that. So don’t be
surprise when people of Musa’s type come here to tell
us their BS.  Anyway, I will just advice you not to
waste your time.   You cannot change the minds of
these fools period.
Peace!
Alasana.

--- Y C Jow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Father Mose:
> Welcome back & hope you had a great trip back home.
>
> I would like to refer to this statement, which forms
> the cusp of your thrust
> in your piece:
>
> "While most of us Gambians living in the Diaspora
> put a lot of stock to
> governance, rule of law and the protection of civil
> liberties, the average
> Gambians I spoke with cannot see the utmost
> importance of these issues to
> their economic survival. Some will admit, and these
> are usually educated
> Gambians, that there are obviously excesses in these
> areas, but the
> government of the day’s commitment to development
> overshadows the Achilles’
> heel of these shortcomings.
> "
>
> The points you highlighted above i.e. civil
> liberties, governance, rule of
> law are some of the areas that form the backbone of
> any modern democratic
> regimes.  Now, the way a country manages these
> aspects are crucial in
> determining what direction the economy and by
> extension, the fortunes of the
> citizens takes.  The points you raised are tied to
> foreign investment and the
> general health of the economic sector in many
> aspects.
>
> My contention with the statement above arises from
> the fact that you received
> most of your input there from, by your own
> admission, well educated Gambians
> whose condition is better off than prolly 99% of the
> citizens.  Given that
> these people are not impacted much by the areas of
> bad governance that you
> highlighted, why should we put much stock in what
> they have to say.
>
> Brother, Musa, we have discussed over & over again
> how infrastructural
> developments do not impress us much in the absence
> of more substantive
> progress in the economic sector.  There is no
> documentation anywhere on the
> how the initiatives the govt. is taking has improved
> the lives of other.
> Furthermore, how can a leadership that does not
> respect the principles of
> democracy be fair to its people?  What?  We get a
> loan for 10 Mill Dollars,
> they keep half and invest half?  This is what I call
> "the shortchanging of
> Gambians".
>
> Please do not be bedazzled by so-so ventures and
> investments when Gambains
> are getting shortchanged.
>
> I hope we all remain vigilant and never take our
> eyes of the prize; a better
> Gambia for all and an "APRC-less" Gambia.  We should
> settle for nothing less.
>  Gambians have been trampled upon for too long.
> Yet, we want to take the
> Gambian "laissez-faire attitude" and say, "Yahla
> Bahna."  How elsecan we
> account for someone like Father Mose coming here and
> telling us that
> half-baked initiatives overshadow the brutality,
> inefficiency and excesses
> shown by this regime!
>
>
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