OPINION  Readers Sound off on the NADD Leadership Controversy  Letters

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December 23, 2005
  With due respectDear Mr. M'bai,
With due respect, I am disappointed that a person like you who is expected to have all the reasoning and sense of objectivity is writing so unfairly about the Lawyer Darboe. If you have little liking for the man, please so some sense of objectivity in your criticism. But the biased and unjustifiable manner in which you dropped the clanger on his head as if he is a criminal or treacherous, is just not expected from a just journalist of high calibre like you. The issue of his withdrawal from representing Halifa is very apparent. He had represented all of them and later, during the course of the case, Halifa Sallah, for one reason or the other, decided that he would like to instead represent himself. We all know that Halifa does this out of arrogance and ill-comportment thinking that he knows everything in this world, forgetting that even if he knows the constitution, he is not a lawyer and that law is a profession that requires professionals to handle it. You clearly know what I am
 talking about as you know that Halifa's main aim was to humiliate Darboe by looking low on him as a lawyer. Halifa knew vividly well that even though he blindly represented himself, if his other colleagues were granted bail he would automatically be granted bail as he has the same case at hand with them and therefore, the arguements in that case were the same. So he was just interested in self-aggrandisement and to meet his political interests and desires for cheap popularity which was not indeed fair to the lawyer who of course, still, indirectly represented Halifa by arguing the case for the others. So you don't expect Darboe, who was representing all of them without even being paid a penny, to insist in representing Halifa who had declared that he did not want to be represented.

On the issue of leadership, I don't know what is exactly happening in Nadd but one thing I know is that Lawyer Darboe of course is that right person to lead it. Pardon me but it was as baseless as the sky, when you said the issue of one having strong support does not matter at this moment. It of course maters. If the members of Nadd are really interested in the country, let them allow the man to lead because he deserves it by virtue of his majority.

BARU

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    NADD leadershipAye, What am I hearing? We have predicted a leadership crisis in NADD earlier this year but the NADD leadership quickly described it as mere rumours. Now that the full truth is emerging, was the NADD leadership simply lying or telling the truth?

While some senior executives in NADD like Halifa, Hamat and OJ are sincerely devising modalities to bring an end to Jammeh's tyrannical rule, others are busy behind frustrating their effort.

As removing an incumbent is not easy, the NADD leadership must put the issue of leadership in the dust bin and seek a good approach to achieve their common goal.

About Pa Nderry, while many argue that you are the most patriotic Gambian, am yet to be convince. Patriotism does not mean hiding behind journalism to assassinate people's character based on false rumours. You cannot rely on false rumours to write garbage stories on The Gambia. I sometimes panick when I read your stories only to be told when I call home life is going on as usual charaterised by peace, progress and prosperity.

Like one journalism professor said: Journalists must be sensitive to people's feelings. Put yourself in the position of people whose activities or welfare you are reporting to the public.

We must not be damaging the entire fabric of our society due to our own selfish desires. Seeking for asylum should not warrant us to wreck our country.

I don't like President Jammeh, but am glad with the numerous development projects that have taken place in The Gambia since 1994.I laugh when Pa Nderry talks about the wealth of Jammeh. Can he tell me which current leader is poor like him. Absolutely not for even President Bush is ten times richer than he was before assuming power. My dear countrymen, we should be very realistic in our dealings and carve our country into a modern democratic country.

Christ George, Chi Jaama




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