Comrades: Please educate me on the Saho issue. Is it true that he will be the APRC candidate for the bi-elections in Central Badibu? If that is the case, then the ban on former Jawara ministers from participating in any electoral process is null and void. I am appealing to SM Dibba to come out clean and challenge this. Mr. Dibba, please speak now. You have been quiet for a long time. Mr. Dibba, dictator yahya cannot do a damn thing to you if you decide to run. If the so-called "Dr." Saho can run, then I do not see a reason why you cannot. The Badibu people will never yield an embarassing statement to the UDP. The APRC will be disappointed. "Dr." Saho will be defeated. Badibu will forever be strong. On the issue of tribalism, I am disappointed that Mr. Ahmed would generalized tribal sentiment that all Mandinkas care about what language one speaks as a prerequisite to join a kabilo. Historically, a kabilo consists of few compounds, either by marriage or parental linkage. A Kabilo also consists of "luntans" within the community, and some of them might speak different languages. It is appropriate to do further research before one writes sensitive issues, especially from a cultural view point. Please let us remain one Gambia. Tribalism has no place in our politics. Naphiyo, Comrade M. Lamine Jassey-Conteh --Original Message------ From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Sent: February 7, 2001 8:40:23 PM GMT Subject: WHAT???????? SAHO WHO????????? Its not a suprise to me or anyone to hear news of such retro-develomental recycling of "knighted" socio-economic "gang bangers" back and forth from our so-called government of the Gambia. To me it is a sad thing that we Gambians most notably our poor rural population, have to sit back and get "Bambuzulled" by the likes of Dr Saho over and over again because, we cannot seperate politics from tribalism. Simply put I think Gambians, especially the "Mandingos" are more concerned in what tribe or "Kaabiloo" the candidate came from rather than his potential for regional developement.If what is rumoured, is actually flying and Saho is actually "hot" for APRC's( Anti Prosperity Reenactement Cohort as I call them,)potential pick for the By-elections, I think its the duty of every educated Gambian to campaigne and educate our rural "Badibunkas" that it is a humanitarian right to have a "Funtional" advocate in the House of Palliament who will not just be a "seat warmer",and a vulture waiting to scavenge at any potentially corruptable loophole, but actually work hard to improve the livelyhood of his people he vowed to represent. Looking back at his track record, I can't even see APRC, as "DUMB" as they have been over the past years, for lack of a better word, could even consider him fit to be invited over as one of their party's "Hentchmen". Maybe because they're soo low in "BRAINS" that they would pick any psychotic with even the faintest neural activity in the their brain, since they've gone through almost every "DICK" in town who knows how to write his or name. The political situation in the Gambian is soo F$@%K*! that I can't even put it in a sensible propective. Sitting here and reading the "L" and some of the things that people write about, gives the me feeling that there is a generall lack of appreciation of how SH$%%Y things are back home as result of the present government.Maybe people do not care or are so used to life being so hard that it became accepetable standard of living. Come to think of it now, Dr Saho's cross carpetting to APRC and his potential selection and/or probable win, is just a minor SH&^%T of the bigger SH**T thats is going on down there right now, economically, Socially and politically. I think we Gambians need to redirect our focus on the state of affaires back home and maybe come up with a more deliberate solution to the problem before it escalates to catastrophy. This I am positive will happen with the way things are going, its just a matter of time and oppotunity. The immidiacy of the situation calls for aggressive measures, and by this I don't mean killing each other, but I think we can focus the WORLD'S lenses on us .... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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 You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------