Yes, we are getting there. Gambia will be free by the grace of God.


>From: Kutubo Manneh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Sami Election Results are in!
>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 02:22:06 +0300
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>Congratulations Seyfo Moro Jawla!!"Miniminin tafali to nya lay ka
>laabang"!!
>
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>Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:16 AM
>Subject: Sami Election Results are in!
>
>
> > Moro Jawla has decisively won the chieftaincy election of Sami . He
>defeated
> > the Aprc candidate who for more than two years illegally occupied the
> > position for which the people of Sami never elected him to. Like 21
>other
> > chiefs, Yahya Jammeh imposed him on the people and it was only after
> > litigation initiated by Lawyer Darboe and a supreme court order that our
> > people have exercised their constitutional right to choose their
> > representatives. Even as they were hamstrung by an I.E.C who seems
> > preoccupied with making up draconian and undemocratic rules for this
> > particular contest, the people of Sami nonetheless sent a clear message
>to
> > this thug of a president and his cronies. The commissioner at Georgetown
>has
> > spent countless nites with a bunch of July 22 youth groups attempting to
>try
> > last ditch intimidation efforts in villages throughout the district.
>They
> > delivered explicit threats to folks they thought they could scare into
> > submission. It didn't work. This was all done in the dead of nit typical
>of
> > these vile and insidious bunch. First they try to disenfranchise the
>Gambain
> > people and after that fails they attempt to bully them. The good people
>of
> > Sami who I proudly call my own stood up to them and handed Yahya and his
> > goons their tails. Something tells me it is an important lesson for the
>rest
> > of the nation and the people would once and for all rid themselves of
>this
> > regime and all that it representatives. I urge list members and all
>Gambians
> > to join me in extending a heart felt congratulation to Seyfo Morro
>Jawla,
>the
> > elected chief of Sami. I pray that God give him the strength and
>integrity
>to
> > discharge his duties to all the people of his district and usher in
>fresh
> > breath justice and equal protection under the law.
> >
> > Karamba
> >
> >
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