CONGRATULATIONS-SEYFO MORO JAWLA!!


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>Subject: Sami Election Results are in!
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:16:13 EST
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>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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