>From: "ebrima ceesay" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: SSHFC and THE BRUSUBI PROJECT >Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:00:51 PDT > > >Sandra: > >Please forward this e-mail to Gambia L for me. > >Ebrima > >*************************************************************** > > >Gambia-L: > >As usual, the e-mail below is sent to me by one of my sources in the >Gambia. I am however sending it unedited. By the way, let me apologise to >you for the long silence. I was so busy helping out in the organisation of >the this year's African Liberation Day which was held in Birmingham on >Sunday and Monday. > >Ousainou Ngum: Thanks for your comments on the Sam Sarr issue. By the way, >just ignore Matarr Njie's private e-mails. He even insulted me in the past. > >Elhajj Mustapha Fye: I got your private e-mail and thanks. > >Ebrima Ceesay >Birmingham, UK > >_____________________________________________________________________ > > >Hello Ebrima, > >I am sure you do remember when the Brusubi Housing Project started. It was >conceived toward the end of the Jawara era and immediately taken over by >the AFPRC as one of their transition projects. That was in 1994. > >The Social Security Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC) Managing Director, >Andrew Sylva, told the Gambian Nation, in his GRTS interview of Saturday, >that "phase one of the Brusubi Housing Project is virtually completed". > >What does phase one comprise of? It comprises 57 housing units, of which >ONLY 3 units have been completed ( in six years) and "available for >demonstration as samples to the public". I do not regard 3 completed units >out of 57 as "virtually completed" even though we live in a virtual reality >world. > >The second, third and fourth options (are you with me?) under the first >phase comprise of empty undeveloped plots of which they have been able to >dispose of a fraction. The project has been judged to be non-viable by >several donors. Yet, Yankuba Touray (when he was in charge of AFPRC >Projects) and Mr Sylva tried their best to peddle the idea to donors >without success. > >They finally decided to finance almost the entire project out of the >resources of social security - which is your Social Security payments (I >assume The Daily Observer deducted social security from your meagre >salary), my wife's and the ordinary person in the street. > >All of this in the name of promoting the cause of the AFPRC/APRC. In one of >my earlier messages to you, I alluded to TAF CONSTRUCTION's competitors as >partly responsible for his current woes. Well, the SSHFC is the most >formidable competitor apart from that guy "Yahya Jammeh's business partner" >who will remain nameless. > >The SSHFC has been opposed to TAF's project from the unset, and has written >several letters opposing allocation of land to TAF. Andrew Sylva's claims >in his interview, is to justify this Government's action against TAF and >also to justify the continued involvement of SSHFC in such schemes. > >Mr. Sylva continues to nudge the SSHFC toward insolvency. Apart from >non-viable and ill-conceived projects, he has been playing ball with this >regime and using public funds in dubious transactions (arms, rice) which >are outside the mission of the SSHFC for which he will be called upon to >account one fine day. > >The housing finance arm of his organisation would have to be privatised at >the appropriate time. Meanwhile, let us hope that the damage inflicted thus >far will not render the SSHFC insolvent by then. > >Thanks as usual! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------