Gambia-L: Another e-mail from one of my sources. Ebrima Ceesay >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Gambia-L, The Struggle Continues!!! >Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:28:28 GMT > >Ebrima, > >Some few corrections on your previous postings, before I proceed with my >commentary and few insights into the posting of the British "friend" of >the Gambia. > >The cost of Jammeh's aircraft is US$11 million and not 10 million as >reported. > >Another correction on GRTS Explains Failure to Broadcast Euro 2000 Matches. >This piece was culled from The POINT newspaper edition of Monday, June 12, >2000 (and not June 1, 2000 as reported.) > >A third correction to a piece(yet to be posted) by Sainey Camara entitled >"Sage or Fool" the third to final para.,first line should read "can" >instead of "cannot". This Ms.Camara is quite something. Gambians are very >appreciative and impressed about her social commentaries. Thank you Sainey >and keep it up.(The above sited mistake were mine and I apologise; i have >also made another correction brought to my notice by the posting of Dr, >Janneh in reference to the President Sassou Nguesso who is the president of >Congo Brazza. I was referring to Felix Patasse, president of Central >African Republic. Thanks Doc. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Ebrima, the British "friend" of the Gambia made some pertinent observations >on the gambian political scene and our president who is constantly >contemptuous of The Constitution. Jammeh has made enemies of those >businessmen who place high premium of good corporate governance and who >adhere strictly to good business practices. Mustapha Njie is one of those >who tries to run a clean business and it is because of this that he is >being harassed by Jammeh. Taf did some work for Yahya at Kanilai and at the >end of the works, he (Taf) presented the President with the bill for >settlement, since the work was strictly private. Yahya got upset about this >and Taf has been in trouble ever since. But Yahya must be warned that his >attitude to the business community is further eroding business confidence >in The Gambia. If you can treat a Gambian investor this way, how would you >treat a foreign one. Gambia is no longer a good business address. It is >almost at par with Monrovia. So please, do not run down our economy any >further than you have already managed to do in six short years. > >Batchy Baldeh, former MD of NAWEC, who is considered by many as one of the >best electrical engineers and, a highly respected manager, also fell foul >of the butcher of Kanilai because Batchy, as Taf, presented Yahya with the >bill for all the electrical, water supply infrastructure and ancillary >works done at Kanilai by NAWEC. The bills were never paid by Yahya and he >(Batchy) got the sack in the process. > >Public resources cannot be committed to private jobs at Kanilai and Yahya >refuse to adhere to the basic rule of human decency. Ebrima, tell your >British friend that Gambians will not allow Yaya to destroy our country. >Assure him that we will succeed in booting the butcher out of power and >commence the long process of reconstruction of our administrative, social, >economic and agricultural infrastructure destroyed in 6 years by "these >people". We are certain to count on Britain and our traditional development >parters who have been devastatingly alienated by a brutal, incompetent and >corrupt regime. > >Thank you as always. THE BUTCHER OF KANILAI WILL GO SOONER THAN YOU THINK. > ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------