Hamadi, I'm with you all the way. To see this govt talk about anybody being non-Gambian is a joke. Nowhere in the Gambia is the concept of dual citizenship taken as literally as in Foni. Yaya Jammeh himself personifies that. How many Gambian relatives does this man have. All one needs to do is look at this man's blood connections vis-a-vis Yorro and BabaGalleh's. Then there is Edward, whose casee needs no mention. But what most Gambians don't know is the background of Yankuba Touray. He is Senegalese. Yankuba hails from a tiny Fana Fana village on the Badibu/Senegalese border near Minteh Kunda. The area is one of the many places we have in the Gambia where nobody gives a hoot about colonial borders. And rightly so, as far as I'm concern. As I understand it, Yankuba's dad was friends with Mustafa Minteh's (footballer) father. Given that there are no schools on the Senegalese side in that area, and the fact of their friendship, Minteh's father was given ward of Yankuba. Thus the reason for Yankuba living with the Mintehs at Tobacco Road. And of course anyone who remembers Minteh's football days beginning with his time at Nusrat, may also remember the fellow always carrying his football boots: Yankuba Touray. To the dismay and disgust of that family, he Yankuba would later betray their trust. I don't want to go into those details, but to hear these people talk about "foreigners" is truly insulting. I hope the "real" Gambian reporters will follow up this lead, and go talk to people in Minteh Kunda to verify this story. Maybe that would shut them up on this shameless crusade against the Jallow duo. Saul. ><< text1.html >> ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------