Kebba  Joke:  You  wrote:

about me is that I practice what I preach.
>Ask anybody in Gamtel and they will tell you that all staff are entitled to
>join an insurance scheme that qualifies us and our families to undergo
>diagnosis and/or treatment from any of the 18 best private clinics and
>hospitals in the country. And guess what, Barrow; I opted out of the scheme
>because I am very satisfied with the services being rendered at the
>polyclinic and RVH hospital. If you don’t believe me, make your own
enquiry.


What  are  you  thinking  man?  You  think  I  have  time  to  be  making
such  silly  enquiries  on  you?

If  you  are  satisfied  enough  with  the  RVH,  do  I  take  it  that
you  are  not  satisfied  with  the  public  schools  and  thats  why  you
send  your  kids  to  private  school  instead  of  public  schools?

Yaya  himself  must  not  be  satisfied  with  the  hospitals  in  The
Gambia  because  he  is  having  his  wife  fly  all  the  way  to  the
US  to  have  a  baby.  How  do  you  rationalize  that?

Regarding  all  the  white  elephant  projects,  I  know  you  heard
Isatou  Njie  Saidy  saying  that  the  poverty  level  in  the  Gambia
is  rising.  With  all  the  pork-barrel  "developments",  the  average
Gambian  is  getting  poorer  by  the  day.   Whom  should  I  believe;
between  you  and  Njie  Saidy?  You  are  telling  me  we  are  doing
wonderful  but  the  Vice  President  whom  I  expect  to  be  in  the
know  more  than  you,  tells  me  that  poverty  is  rising  in  The
Gambia.

Joke,  after  almost  a  decade  of  Jammeh,  and  all  the  effort  you
took  to  convince  me  that  The  Gambia  is  faring  better,  The
second  most  "senior"  in  the  Government  is  telling  us  that
poverty  is  on  the  rise.  While  I  dwell  on  the  totality   of  the
circumstances,  you  are  head  bent  on  the  bits  and  pieces  that
make  up  the  whole  number.   To  me,  nothing  matters  when  the
people  whom  the  government  is  suppose  to  safe-guard  are  getting
poorer.  I  am  looking  at  the  overall  scheme  of  things  here  and
in  that  regard,  we  are  faring  worse.  Say  what  you  may.

I  have  my  beliefs  and  you  have  yours.  Stick  to  your  guns  and
I  will  stick  to  mine  but  I  will  not  engage  in  a  futile
adventure  of  a  debate  as  to  whether  we  are  faring  better  or
worse.  Isatou  Njie  Saidy(whom  I  have  issues  with),  just  made  my
day.  I  will  come  to  Come  INN  to  holla  at  you  when  am  in  town.


Alagie  Lameen  Barrow

Nashville  TN

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