Folks, Sajar Taal's trap is going to net a big dirimo - Tony, soon.  His
attempt was to so-called expose the coalition, but the APRC will have to
explain the millions of Dalasis they lavished for the past ten years.  The
coalition funding is published on both the Gambia L and Gambia Post and they
are still in the archives.  The APRC will be taken to task and Gambians will
not be mistaken as to who the thieves are.  We are not going to allow them
to ride the donkey called Baba Jobe on this one either, as even Yaya's own
swindles are tagged on BDJ.

On a slightly different note, STGDP has appealed to you, the custodians of
democracy and the hope of Gambia, to help fund the Sare Ngai ward contest in
two weeks?  It is disappointing by the silence on that thread?  Are some of
us here to just drown us with speeches and jubilation but ignore appeals to
funding of any sort?  Free rider ship is not going to cut it for us folks.
According to George Sarr and the L managers, we have hundreds of members
here and assuming that the coalition supporters are 90% of us, even $10 per
member will give us victory in Sare Ngai, easily.  Now, can anyone of us say
they cannot afford to contribute just $10 to ensure victory in Sare Ngai?
If affordability is not the issue, then why are we silent on this important
appeal?  Folks, let's each ask ourselves if this silence is doing justice to
the cause we each day espouse to believe in.  If winning in Sare Ngai is
important to any, please send in your contributions to the STGDP now.
However, if ours is just lip service for the victories, then we need to stop
being pretentious.  This is one of the things the ordinary Joe on the ground
accuse us of - that we are detached from their reality and are more known
for rhetoric.  If winning in Sare Ngai in not important to us, then why are
we here?  Please do not see this as an insult but an attempt to remind you
that there is a lot at stake for the Coalition.  If we do not show up for
Sare Ngai, are we going to show up in 2006?  Are we ready to just let the
momentum the coalition grassroots accumulated just go to waste?  If you are
out there and are about to fire an email to the readership please freeze and
ask yourself whether that email will help the Coalition in Sare Ngai?  Thus,
challenge yourself to send in that important contribution towards victory.
Banka, as I told you the other day my contribution and that of four others
is in transit and you should get it any day, right to this minute.  If this
mail is a waste of your time, by all means disregard it and do your thing.
Please see below, the PDOIS response to Dr. Taal.


PDOIS discloses sources of revenue
By Sulayman Sowe
Sep 30, 2004, 11:52

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Sam Sarr, executive member of the People’s Democratic Organisation for
Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) has disclosed the party’s source of
revenue.

Speaking to the Daily Observer yesterday, Mr Sarr said the party’s sources
of revenue come from individual contributions of party symphatizers in The
Gambia and abroad.

He said as a constitutional requirement, the party is obliged to disclose
its sources of revenue annually.
“The PDOIS is actually fulfiling its constitutional requirement to the
masses. Each year we publish the party’s audited accounts of revenue,” he
said.
Mr Sarr also said that most contributions are received during the “peak
election periods”.

He further said the party executive members are not mandated to contribute a
specific amount of money but that they contribute whatever they can afford.

He also denied that some of the party expenditure is funded by proceeds from
the party newspaper, Foroyaa.
The PDOIS executive member could not give an exact figure of their revenue
base as he “would have to check the records” but maintained that this is
annually published.

Commenting on the selection of the Sare Ngai coaliton sponsored candidate,
Karamo Touray, Mr Sarr confirmed that he is a PDOIS member but was selected
by a local coalition select committee and later endorsed by both the
coalition divisional committee and the executive committee of the coalition.

He further said Mr Touray will be fully backed by the coalition during the
election process.
“A coalition campaign committee has been set up to conduct the campaign in
peace and tranquillity without discrimination or character assasination,” he
added that his only concern is “for the other side to maintain the same.”

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