>From: Jabou Joh<[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list<[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Rust College
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:36:35 EST
>
>Mr Conteh,
>
>I join others in thanking you and Mr Jallow for following through on this
>effort with Rust college. I also appreciate the tuition waivers for Gambians
>at the college, and your reminder that it is essentila for us to educate our
>young people if we are to have a viable future.
>Regarding the comment by Dr Stovall that he is aware that the regime at home
>os repressive, my asnwer to that is, if he was aware of this, then what was
>he doing inviting Tombong Saidy and Yankuba Touray to address this gathering,
>and what is he doing entangling himself with this regime? I think Stovall
>also needs to tell us just how he acquired the African Village Hotel. Was it
>a reward for cosying up to the regime, or did he purchase it as a business
>venture independent of the regime?
>We must remember that it is one thing to just pay lip service to something,
>and quite another to actively refuse to lend support ot a brutal regime.
>Stovall had to say all the right things so as to not get in toruble with
>using his position to acquire property from oppressive regimes, and
>endagering the studensts he took to the Gambia by involving them in visits to
>the dictator.
>Let us be appreciative of what the college is doing for our students, but we
>must also be careful not ot have Stovall and his likes pull the wool over our
>eyes. His statements about the regime and his dealings with them are not
>consistent at all.
>Again, thanks to both of you for going to the college to represent Gambia.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>In a message dated 1/18/01 9:57:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< Comrades:
>
>
>
> Our mission to Rust College was successful. The administration at
> this great institution obliged to their promise in rescinding invitations to
> Tombong and Yankuba.
> >>
>
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