BROTHER HALIFA: Frankly, sometimes my conscience tells me that I often unnecessarily hit PDOIS too hard, and therefore I should back off; but on the other hand, carefully following up your inadequate responses as to why your party failed to attend the London Meeting, that tends to vindicate my tougher stand against your party. The fundamental question is, why is PDOIS, the third oldest political party in The Gambia after PPP and NCP, is still bugged down to a SHEER PROCEDURAL MATTER in clarifying their position as to why they did not attend the London Meeting? Initially, your party was questioning whether the meeting was a BRIEFING SESSION or not, and after flip-flopping on that, your next concern was how the INVITATION LETTER was addressed and delivered ie, whether the letter was EMAILED or POSTED. After these concerns were thoroughly addressed by Brother HJK, your next flip-flop now centers on what you called FACT FINDING MISSION. As you said: " We are engage in a fact finding mission. You would agree that decisions are connected with, dependent on and determine by the raw materials from which they are made. We are trying to put the factual ingredients together. " The above quotation of yours seems as if there is a so-called "PARLIAMENTARY INVESTIGATIONS OR FACTS FINDING GOING ON" on such a basic procedural matter. This is absolutely pathetic, rediculous and very petty for a SENIOR and so-called Party of "BEST BIG IDEAS" like PDOIS to ignore the PARAMOUNT REASONS and MISSION of the London Meeting. Sometimes I even wonder whether there are "ANIMALS"(excuse my language sir) making decisions at the PDOIS Central Committee Head Quarters. And even there are human beings making decisions, they have been using their "YAHOOS" effectively. Frankly, I cannot comprehend why a well experienced political party like PDOIS is far behind every political party in the country, and further engulfing itself into seriously damaging and tarnishing its very fine Image and Integrity. The huge time and energy that PDOIS have spent in trying to gather what you called "RAW MATERIALS" in order to divorce facts from fictions, if you had been expending similar resources onto fact finding of the massacre of our innocent children, and all the injustices prevailing in our country today, you could have nailed an extra nail on the coffin of the Dictator. But instead, PDOIS as a Political Party tend to work with the Dictator behind the scene, whiles still advancing a JOURNALISTIC ARGUMENTS as the chief reason why they did not attend the London Meeting. As I mentioned it before, and I will mention it again, PDOIS' only reason for not attending the London Meeting was sheerly due to fact that they hated the former President SIR DAWDA JAWARA so much that they hated to be under the same roof with him, period. PDOIS still have MATURING to do if it will be regarded as a party which would be able to RE-UNITE all the peoples of The Gambia together after so much TRIBAL DIVISION and NEPOTISM. A country in which peoples of different tribes and religions inter-marry is now on the brink of total anarchy, tribalism, and nothwithstanding, the worst economic mismanagement the country is currently experiencing. Therefore, if we are going to consider PDOIS as a political party which is matured enough and up to the TASK of RE-UNITING the country together, and at the same time, become the country's SHREWD ECONOMIC MANAGER, then PDOIS as a political party MUST grow beyond advancing a mere journalistic contentions as to why they erred in this one, for not attending the London Meeting. To that end, I think enough is enough and no more journalistic arguments from PDOIS; they should call it quits. ANSUMANA KUJABI:(THIRD-Truth Telling, Honesty, Integrity, Responsibility and Democracy) >From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Statement on the PDOIS position >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:17:24 -0000 > _________________________________________________________________________ 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 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------