Jabou you wrote

"We cannot afford to have fragile egos that prevent us from
addressing the issues intelligently and sticking to the facts without making
it personal. Otherwise, we will never accomplish anything because we will
spend all our time arguing and nursing fragile egos".

This is what we all have to work on.  Personalities are addressed because of
their public roles.  If they are not in the public eye nobody will mention
them.  Therefore I support the fact that we need to deal with the real
issues and not to be hypocritical about them. I only hope my comment will
not be taken out of context.  It is a general phenomenon I have observed
with Gambian in general. We need to tell the truth to both our friends and
critics for the Gambia to move forward.  Sometimes the truth hurts but upon
reflection one realizes it.  We have to stop being selfish for the general
good.

I apologize for hurting anyone, if  I do, it was not intentional.

Cheers,
Amie.


>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO US AT RIP/may I?
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:04:14 EDT
>
>People,
>
>I just wanted to put in my two bututs.What Ous Ngum said about Chongan's
>past
>is a good point. We must commend people for having the decency to come
>forward with their stories that will help us put the present criminals
>occupying the seat of government in our country, but never for one minute
>must we forget those who also abused power and metted out brutality to our
>people in the past.
>
>If we do, history will keep repeating itself in our country. The Jawara
>gov't
>gave us 30 years of corruption and incompetence, only to be succeded by a
>murderous gang. We cannot afford to forget this even if the present
>brutality
>has us thinking that it was at least a little bit better in the past.
>
>Finally, I just want to ask why it is that we Gambians seem to wear our
>egos
>on our shoulder. We cannot afford to have fragile egos that prevent us from
>addressing the issues intelligently and sticking to the facts without
>making
>it personal. Otherwise, we will never accomplish anything because we will
>spend all our time arguing and nursing fragile egos.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
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