Halifa Sallah and his Pdios´s position towards the justified and successful London Briefing session of the 28th February 2001 is prompting me to raise some questions to Mr..Sallah again. I have difficulties to understand the position or the relationship between Mr..Sallah / pdios and the Gambian opposition in one hand, and with jammeh/aprc in the other. Therefore, I will re-state some of my earlier questions plus the new ones. Even though, one disagreed to the positions of some members of the disarray or dead "moja -g", who shamelessly but are honest to exposed their true collar openly by participating in the crimes jammeh & co are committing against the peace loving people of the Gambia. However I am afraid the same cannot be said of pdios, therefore am here raising the following questions to pdios´s Mr. Halifa Sallah 1. Why should you often -if not always make parallelism or comparison between Jawara/ppp and Jammeh/aprc whenever critics are raised against Jammeh? 2. Do you think that Jawara/PPP's economic & human right crimes are on the same level with that of Jammeh/aprc? 3. For fairness sake, do you think that Jawara/PPP government is capable of gun down unarmed students? Have you witnessed the student/youth demonstrations in 1968,69 and 70? 4. If one reduce the London meeting to mere briefing the British MPs because of the Gambian refugees in UK, that is belittling the efforts and purposes, isn´t?Don´t you think that your reactions to London meeting is out of pettiness or the fantasy that whatever is not Halifa/Pdios is unprogressive,bankrupt and unintelligent? Would it be fair if one is also saying that pdios´s present at labour party congress was a matter of looking for economic help? Or was Halifa Sallah trying to expose himself to an international arena by traveling to Europe prior to 1996 elections because he have the hope then that he and his party will file the power vacuum after the elections? 5. Is it fair to claim that pdios/Halifa is more hostile to Jawara´s regime than to Jammeh´s because (a) Halifa is more expose (positively) both national and international in Jammeh´s era. (b)That Halifa is encouraged to be a statesman (status quo) in jammeh´s era. (c)Halifa is in political solidarity with Jammeh but ideological indifference.It seems that you have difficulties with the oppositions.Are you an opposition to the oppositions ,or is it that the other oppositions ( with the exception of Pdios) aren't reasonable? 6. Halifa Sallah ,can you honestly make reflections of the following points.(a)Your political role during the transition.(b) Halifa been the only unstop politician of the first republic during the transition.(c) Your stand or explanation on the death of Koro Ceesay,Sadibou Hydra,Basirou Barrow & co.(d) Gunning down unarmed students, "and let the law take its course with toothless or fake commission of inquiry" 7. Is it fair to claim that "comrade "Halifa Sallah have a complex because he believes that he alone knows what is best for the Gambia 8. Hence pdios is the oldest political party in the Gambia but far from the biggest, don't you think that you need to make a reflection why the quantity is not matching with the age? 9. Isn't that Jammeh & co are destroying our peace loving country? If yes is the answer to this question ,isn't better for the opposition to have some points of agreement or co-operation so to unseat Jammeh? And if so is the case, are you honestly believing that your attitude is helping the process of such a co-operation or agreements. 10. Mr. Sallah, you have been mentioning the resources contributions of Gambians in diaspora to their respective party of choice, do you think it will be fair if one is saying that you and your party is only interested in material / economic resources from the Gambians living in abroad? Would that not tantamount to "milking " or trying to exploit your fellow country folk- most of whom are struggling very hard so that the means can meet the needs? 11. It is often said that pdios is a party of difference (like Jammeh claimed to be a solider of different ?), and therefore will not be corrupted, bribe or buy votes in whatsoever-fine. What would one call it, if one MP put certain percent of his salary to a fund for a development of his /her constituency likes in the case of Wuli, which you are all proud of? Is that not bribing or corrupting the voters of Wuli to vote for Hon Sidia Jatta. Why can't you give that sum to Foni Bintang area for the development of that area if the reasoning is not to bribe/corrupt the voters to vote for Hon Sidia Jatta? 12. Mr.Sallah, why do you think that your party comrade won the elections in Wuli but you lost to a total newcomer? Is it because of your party policy, program or personalities involved in both constituency-Wuli and Serre Kunda respectively? What do you think the results of the election will be if you Halifa happen to contest in Wuli while Sidia contest in Serre Kunda? Do you think you will win if you contest in Serre Kunda again independent of OJ or not?Did it ever come across your mind that you will be more effective as an educationist than a party politician? Hence one seek to look for the affairs of our be love country,we as an individuals or group have a legitimate right to raise our doubts and questions,and on the bases of that i raised the above questions in good faith. Thank you sir FC _________________________________________________________________________ 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------