KB,

You hit the nail right on the head. A replacement 6.5 mega watts generator
,that is way overdue ,is not something to jubilate about ,
especially when the lives of Gambians have been dim by a 100 mega watts ,
since this regime have been in power.

Beran

>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: BADDIBU IS NOT LEFT OUT --- The WHOLE GAMBIA IS
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:02:32 -0400
>
>Tombong, clearly you were not thoroughly following debates we had here with
>Kebba Jobe a few months ago. If you were, you will NOT unashamedly exhibit
>your ALES (Acute Low Expectation Syndrome) by peddling the same garbage
>your
>side-kick, Jobe, was trying to sell here. After all, you both support
>child-murderers with a fanaticism unparalleled here on G_L. Maybe you were
>busy shuttling from continent to continent, performing what you can of your
>'husbandly' duties and did NOT grasp what we tried to tell to Jobe. When
>you
>ask Gambians to vote for Yaya (APRC) because of generators they bring in
>the
>country, you are asking Gambians to also vote in a child-murderer capable
>of
>butchering more children. Why should be suffer from ALES and NOT expect a
>president that can give us MORE generators and would NOT Massacre our
>children? That is the issue.
>
>Darn right I am NOT impressed by the generators. Yaya and APRC deserve no
>commendation. Knuckle-heads like Buba Baldeh would be the ones impressed by
>this gimmickry and urge Gambians to thank God for Yaya. I am surprised that
>you even did not read between the lines of the Observer report. The APRC
>mouth-piece could NOT even articulate the 'purchase' for APRC to gain
>maximum mileage. According to the Paper, "the launching of the rural
>electrification programme this year will provide electricity supply to
>about
>46 major villages and towns all over the country by 2003." The Paper
>further
>went on to report that "this, according to SoS Touray, would afford
>electricity supply to about 90 per cent of the Gambian population as
>promised by the president".
>
>Now, am I missing something here, or was Buba Baldeh reporting that Yaya's
>'promise' will NOT be fulfilled until 2003? I thought your boss promised
>that the 90% electrification would be reached before July 22, 2001. Correct
>me if I am wrong. Would your boss stick to his word and NOT celebrate the
>despicable day they stole power from a democratically elected government?
>Of
>course 90% of the country have NOT been electrified. We do NOT even have
>all
>the three generators that were already purchased. According to Buba Baldeh
>and Yankuba Touray, you guys have NOT even started the 'Rural
>Electrification Program'. The loans are NOT in yet.
>
>Rather than being thankful to God for Yaya, Gambians should be praying
>endlessly to God and asking for forgiveness for the sins that brought us
>Yaya. At no time in our history have we suffered this much. I refer you
>again to another garbage you sought to peddle here. The article from the
>APRC mouthpiece (Observer) on poverty and Baddibu, categorically told you
>that Gambians (as a whole) are POORER today that they were before Yaya
>stole
>power in 1994. I put it to you that you are NOT only ignoring Baddibu, you
>are ignoring the WHOLE COUNTRY. Apart from Yaya's little click of cronies
>like yourself, Gambians are rendered destitute by the day. You can afford
>to
>be shuttling from continent to continent, ride in a 'flamboyant' vehicle,
>rent a decent house, carry a cell phone all over the place. How about the
>farmer that has to wait three months to see one fifty dalasi note? Tell us
>that your own stats are wrong and Gambians are not poorer today than they
>were before Yaya. The dalasi is dilapidating by the day, commodities are
>getting more expensive, yet self-employed farmers CANNOT even earn a decent
>price for their crops. We are not even talking about the government
>creating
>employment for people. We are talking about creating a conducive
>environment
>for hardworking Gambians to earn a living. Now, if farmers go to their
>farms
>they run the risk of being shot by Casamance rebels. Businesses cannot
>thrive because of the extortion from thugs like Baabaa Jobe. Hotels are
>empty because tourists know that Gambia is a lawless society under the grip
>of a Dictatorship.
>
>Anyway you slice it, Yaya CANNOT move us forward. It is telling that the
>Observer revealed that the cost of the generators is US $15 million. What
>Gambians should be asking themselves is what took Yaya so long to produce
>this money for the generators. Saying that Jawara did not do it, is a poor
>and an unacceptable excuse. If all the APRC can do is perform slightly
>better than Jawara, then we do NOT need them and their callousness. We
>deserve lot BETTER than both Jawara and Yaya had to offer us.
>
>Coming back to the generators and their procurement during this election
>season. Right after the coup, Ebou Jallow brought into the country more
>than
>US $30 million from Taiwan. This is more than double the amount of money
>needed to procure these generators. What did the vermin do with the money?
>They opened personal Swiss Bank accounts and transferred money from the
>Central Bank of The Gambia to those personal accounts. More money came into
>the country; Nigerian Crude Oil etc. Our loan portfolio has skyrocketed
>during the watch of the mental midgets. What did they do with all these
>moneys? Yaya built himself some villas in Kanilai, fenced several villages
>and declared them his own, got himself an airplane and a zoo and a wife. In
>the meantime, some cronies also did not do poorly at all. The Famara Jattas
>of this world are all building mansions at the expense of the poor Gambian
>taxpayers. They are always engaging in bogus trips to go see their wives,
>take their children to Disney World, bring their wives to the US to deliver
>babies.
>
>What can this bunch of shameless nonentities offer us? Nothing but misery.
>A
>real government would have commissioned these generators since 1995 when
>all
>those moneys were flowing from Taiwan. Rather than electrifying Kanilai, a
>real government would have ensured adequate electricity for all our
>hospitals and hotels in order to help boost the economy. Rather than
>stealing money from the people and opening Swiss Bank accounts, a real
>government would have electrified the whole country by 1998 instead of
>waiting till 2003 and increasing our debt portfolio. The crux of the matter
>is NOT the gimmicks Yaya is playing. We should focus on what could have
>been
>done and who has the best potential to do good in the future.
>
>Whereas on the one hand we have High School drop-outs that steal money from
>the people and go around slaughtering children as young as three, on the
>other hand, we have genuine Gambians with immense experience and integrity
>that can develop the country and would not slaughter our children. Whatever
>Yaya can do in terms of economic develop, ten-year-olds can do a comparable
>job. The moron has nothing to offer us. We (the Opposition) should force
>them (APRC) to run on their own record against people in the Opposition
>that
>can do better than them in a future government. Jawara is NOT running in
>this election. APRC with the Buba Baldehs and the Nafa Sahos and the Saihou
>Sisays are closer to PPP than the current Opposition.
>
>We should make Gambians to understand the missed opportunities these
>criminals had because of their corruption. We should tell Gambians the
>burden these vermin have loaded on our children with their irresponsible
>borrowing habits. Generations yet unborn would pay for Yaya's stupidity. We
>the Opposition do NOT need more loans and waiting till 2003 to electrify
>the
>whole country. From only one of Yaya's Swiss accounts we can electrify the
>whole country before October 2002.
>KB
>
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