Gambia L, The e-mail below is from one ofmy sources in the Gambia. Ebrima Ceesay ______________________________________________________________________ Hello Ebrima I hope both you are fine. We are trying to keep mind, body and soul together at the expense of our collective sanity as a Nation. But we the people shall prevail. The Gambian situation is no longer tenable and sooner rather than later something has to give. The Gambia is effectively a dysfunctional state. The civil service is crippled. The business environment polluted with government controls through administrative fiat contrary to the free market philosophy that we all espouse. The government has now and finally accepted (thank God) its ineptitude.(One government Secretary of State saying to another "you must realise, we don't know how Government functions). This government is incapable of handling the myriad of problems it brought upon itself through GREED. Even the die-hard supporters are now convinced that Yahya Jammeh and his cohorts have failed them, have lied to them, have deceived them, have murdered them, have raped them and have rendered them unemployed through greed-driven policies . They have now gone as low as siphoning off duty-free fuel through a scheme involving GPTC, Castle Oil (local oil company owned by Tufik Massry) under the guise of fuelling the personal plane that belongs to Yahya. The Gambia has been hijacked by a group of bandits and ALL Gambians are now hostages, but not for long. Lamin Kaba Bajo who was partly responsible for the dismissal of so many civil servants and helped create the lawlessness of Brikama town is under close surveillance by the NIA. Jammeh suspects that LaminBajo will flee the country which would spell disaster for a regime he knows so much about and on the verge of total disintegration. On the political front, the Opposition continues to attract impressive crowds during their recent tours. In fact, the UDP is currently touring the provinces with huge crowds at each stop. The NRP leader also registered a successful campaigne tour as was reported in the Independent of last week. PDOIS also earlier on made some rural tours. As for the APRC, the continuous and pathetic showing in the campaign circuit is embarrassing to say the least. In Sukuta, this week their rally attracted less than 70 people. In SerreKunda, it was repeat performance of the week before when APRC officials (Saja and Yankuba) tried to explain the reason for the low turn out; this week the figure was lower (some estimates put the "crowd" at 25 people) which forced them to move from the street into a compound and quickly converted the rally into a sensitisation meeting of "Yaicompins" as alluded to by Saja Taal after their disasterous Tallinding rally the week before. In their attempt to divert the attention of the people from their recent failures, Fatoumatta Jahumpa and the Jammeh cronies are proceeding with their Million Mom March set for tomorrow. Despite the 10 (ten) buses they intend to use to ferry in the would be Moms-for-hire, I still predict that it will be a dismal failure. The organisers are an insensitive bunch. How can you celebrate the birthday of Jammeh at a time when Gambians want to know who killed our defenceless children on the 10th and 11th of April. The celebrations, marches and the like are efforts to rehabilitate Jammeh's battered image. What they fail to accept is that the guy's image is beyond repair. Have you seen Sam Sarr's (not Sam Sarr of PDOIS) interview on the Crude Oil Deal? The UDP said they will reply appropriately and shortly. What of Tamsir Jallow's view on the role of the IEC in selecting dates for Local Council elections? He's got his reply from the horse's mouth. No one is going to take these nonesense lying down. Those days are over..gone. You want to tell me that these are serious people? Yahya and APRC, we say " game's up...finished...kaput" I am still in the office doing some work for the useles Cabinet Thanks! ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------