Mr.Conteh,
           i must tell you that many people including
the people of Niani have commended the UDP leadership
for this expulsion.However,your concern is very
important to us.The party believe power is not in the
hands of a minority but of the majority of people.As i
once mentioned here,we do not need the praises of
anyone else whose words may delight us,but whose
estimation of facts will fall short of what is really
true.

Your sentiments on our unity is perfect,that united we
stand,divided we fall,these statements may sound a
little corny but nevertheless they still hold true.

On the UDP tour:you wrote"i have seen some UDP
meetings on video.Is there anyway that you can
convince the leadership to minimize its limited
resources.On one ocassion,the three high ranking
officials were the only three passengers in their
respective vehicles on their way to Basse."
 I have all the UDP Basse tours video cassettes but
have not seen a single tape where three high ranking
officials were the only passengers in their respective
vehicles as you alleged.Nevertheless,i would
appreciate it if you can come with the tape to DC
during the ALD so that you,the secretary general
Ousainou Darboe and my humble self would sit and
review the matter.We don't have resources to waste and
let me assure you,any single butut that the party has
is put in a better use to reach the Gambia people at
the grass root level.
Thank you.
Saihou

--- MLJ Conteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Mballow:
>
> It seems that the more we argue on the Touray
> debacle,
> the more we agree that dictator yahya jemus is the
> worst thing that has ever happened to The Gambia.  I
> am of the opinion that no Gambian should give a
> blanket
> support to any political party.
>
> My concern is that if the UDP leadership had expelt
> Hon. Touray, why didn't the leadership come forth?
> It
> is disturbing to hear the Touray debacle from an
> opposition camp.
>
> With so much at stake, the entire opposition should
> embark on creating a bridge building strategy than
> initiating disarray.  The Touray affair has shifted
> our initiatives and the UDP leadership did not
> handled
> it in a proper way.
>
> Touray's arrest was an embarassment to both the UDP
> and The Gambia as a whole.  Hon. Susso's
> imprisonment
> is also a disgrace to the APRC and The Gambia as a
> whole.  Whether Touray was working with the enemy
> forces
> against the UDP, the UDP leadership should have
> waited
> until the presidential election and convince the
> people
> of Niani to choose a different candidate.  Touray's
> absence during a vote on the indemnity law should
> not
> have convinced the leadership of the UDP to expel
> him.
> Please let us be realistic.  Do you really thing
> that
> the indemnity law will exist under a different
> government in The Gambia?  Do you think The Gambian
> people will not ask for a new constitution?
>
> It is disturbing that while we argue, the dictator
> of
> kaninlai continues to divide us.  I want to make it
> clear
> that our failure to unite will defeat us come
> October.
> No single opposition party can claim to have the
> soul
> right to our struggle.  Our desire in defeating the
> dictator of kaninlai must be a collaborative effort.
>
> I have seen some  UDP meetings on video.  Is there
> anyway that
> you can convince the leadership to minimize its
> limited
> resources.  On one ocassion, the three high ranking
> officials were the only the passengers in their
> respective
> vehicles on their way to Basse.  With the price of
> gasoline, it is wise to minimize limited resources.
>
> I again call for the UDP to condemn anyone within
> the
> party who advocates tribalism.  Our desire for a
> free
> Gambia must be exhibited on the principle of one
> tribe
> and one people.  Tribalism has no place in Gambian
> politics.
>
> Naphiyo,
>
> Comrade ML Jassey-Conteh
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: saihou Mballow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: May 11, 2001 7:40:32 AM GMT
> Subject: Re: UDP EXPELS HON. ALMAMY
> TOURAY/INDEPENDENT
>
>
> Conteh,
>        surely,there is no doubt Almamy Touray didn't
> tender any resignation letter to the UDP.Infact if
> there was an element of truth in his statement that
> he
> actually resigned,he would have presented his letter
> of resignation to the Observer paper at the time of
> his reaction to our expulsion but no there was no
> proof for him to show them that he wrote something
> to
> the UDP as we did on a press release.
>  Touray got in to panic when one of the ladies who
> attended the thursday 3rd meeting at the UDP bureau
> phone to tell him that the UDP leadership had
> expelled
> him from the party,according to the lady.Touray
> knows
> very well the quickest way to send a letter to our
> office without posting it, if he had intended to
> resign as he claimed.
>  Mr.Touray has no commitment for any policy or
> principle but only for money.He is not patriotic for
> the simply reason that he has not only put the UDP
> party in a big embracement but the whole country
> when
> he was caught in Brussels airport on December 3rd
> 1999
> trafficking of young women for prostitution
> internationally.Touray told a big lie to the Airport
> officials that he was traveling with his daughter
> Fanta Touray and niece Ya Fatou Touray who after an
> interview with the immigration officials claimed
> that
> they didn't knot Almamy Touray at all much more
> related.At the time of his arrest the 1999 budget
> session at the National Assembly was on but he
> choosed
> to give his back.If Touray was a credible MP, he
> would
> have resigned not only his membership to the UDP at
> that time but his MP-ship as well to safe both the
> image of the party and the country as whole.
>  The Niani constituency people are with us in this
> action to expel him from the party in order to safe
> both the party and the constituency from this
> unscrupulous,unpatriotic and dishonest behavior.
>  We would therefore, not be surprise to see him in
> the
> APRC party where
> corruption,dishonesty,robbery,terrorism and BIG lies
> is the order of the day.That's the right party for
> him
> where everybody knows the leader is a "Deremo".
>  I would thank Mr.Kebba Dampha for speaking his
> honest
> opinion about UDP being not a tribalism party.It is
> only people who are being cow by the popularity of
> the
> party who would call it a tribalism.The composition
> of
> the party is Mandingka,Fula,Wollof,Jola and
> Sarahule.UDP is not a party of one man show but real
> democracy exist.
> Saihou
>
> --- MLJ Conteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Mr. Manneh:
> >
> > The mere fact that you enumerated tribes in each
> > polling station should be a concern to any
> > Gambian.  Tribal identification or enumeration
> > is the worst evil that continues to divide us.
> > I therefore, condemn your analogy and I advocate
> > that
> > we are one Gambia and tribe has no place in
> Gambian
> > politics.
> >
> > As a new generation of Gambians, we should be
> > sensitive to tribal issues.  I believe that
> > tribalism should be made a crime in The Gambia.
> > We have been living together for so long that
> > any Gambian who advocates tribal identification
> > should be condemned.
> >
> > As I meet Gambians here in The US, I am quick to
> > advocate that our tribal attitudes need to change.
> > We are so intermingled that no Gambian can claim
> > to be 100% one tribe.  It is deplorable that we
> > witness discrimination in the US and yet we
> continue
> > to exercise this evil sin.
> >
> > If Hon. Almamy Touray advocated tribalism during
> his
> > campaign, he should have been condemned by the
> > leadership
> > of UDP.  We must be careful in how we treat each
> > other.
> >
> > My condemnation of the leadership of UDP is based
> on
> > the
> > fact that we need to seek unity.  No one knows
> > exactly the
> > dispute between Hon. Touray and the UDP
> leadership.
> > The
> > saddest thing is that the UDP has more to lose
> than
> > gain in
> > this dispute.  People are asking, who is actually
> > saying the
> > truth, Touray or the UDP leadership?
> >
>
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