Gambia-L:

The unedited e-mail below came from a source in the heart of the Gambia
Government.

Ebrima

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Ambassador-designate and related matters
>Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001
>
>Ebrima,
>I would like to change my initial position and support Dr. Katim Touray's
>proposal to submit the petition after the US Amb-designate to The Gambia
>has been confirmed. I appreciate the method proposed by Dr. Touray for
>collecting the signatures which is designed to ensure that the signatories
>are genuine and verifiable within limits.  Good luck to Jabou and other
>volunteers for participating in a worthy cause. The issues raised by
>Karamba in his "Reflections" piece, I hope will be taken seriously by the
>Opposition.  If you ask me, I sincerely believe that the elections have
>already been rigged by the Jammeh regime through the issuance of Gambian
>Identity cards to foreigners. (KB has been sounding the alarm for sometime
>now and I am glad that Karamba is on the same wave length). The exercise (
>of illegal registration of foreigners on Sundays etc.) is conducted openly
>in many localities..  In my view, to legally contest these illegal
>registrations in the courts would be futile. Gambian democrats are left
>with no option but to boycott the elections.  The petition to the
>Ambassador-designate should include this issue although I am reasonably
>certain that he has been or will be briefed on it.  Back to the Baba Jobe
>issue, the Jammeh regime realised after Dr. Jobe's stupid letter, the
>serious error they have committed by blatantly defending a junior civil
>servant. The diplomatic community in Banjul is openly asking why?  Jammeh
>and his cronies, including Sedat Jobe, would have to answer to these
>questions.  Why defend the illegal activities of a junior "civil servant"
>before the International Community. MRDG-NY's question concerning a bounty
>on the head of Baba Jobe is partly accurate.  There is bounty, according to
>someone who is very close to YAYA JAMMEH himself. Baba knows too much and
>he has the support of Ghadaffi and Charles Taylor. The only way Yahya can
>be certain that what transpired between himself and Baba Jobe i.e the deals
>they have made without the knowledge of the rest of his Government, remains
>a secret is to have him put away or "six feet deep". Speaking of tracking
>these criminals, the former Interior SOS Bojang is in the US and he should
>be tracked and legal action taken against him in the US. He has some
>knowledge of the blood diamonds since he was purposely posted to Sierra
>Leone for this same reason. We reported on his case about nine months ago.
>This should be a good assignment for MRDG-NY. Happy 4th of July to all.
>

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