Saul, thanks for your remarks and I will see you at the ALD conference.
Chi Jaama
Joe Sambou
>From: saul khan <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: My opinion.
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:04:27 -0000
>
>Ousman,
>
>Joe is right. While some of the questions being raised are valid,
>him or
>none of the other leaders of this drive can give anyone answers they
>simply
>DON'T have. We're all cognizant of the huddles the Opposition face
>back home
>-especially when it comes to funding. Therefore, if we're sincere
>about our
>support for them, we ought to give what we can to help them fend off
>the
>APRC's open Money Politics. So, unless I'm missing something, I just
>don't
>see the sense in pestering the leaders of this fund drive with
>questions
>about what the fund will be used for. That's quite self-evident: The
>fund
>will go to an Opposition Coalition (even if that doesn't turn out to
>be ALL
>the opposition parties,) with our stipulations/conditionalities. We
>all have
>some ideas about what type of Constitutional/Legislative Changes The
>Gambia
>needs to prosper, and these will be presented to the Oppositioon
>Leaders
>next week, and we'll take it from there. Other than that, I just
>don't know
>what people want Joe Sambou, or Dr. Saine to assure them. Time is
>going, and
>our help is desperately needed. Should we dip in our pockets and do
>what we
>can so the Opposition can unseat Yaya thru' the ballot (and avert
>something
>more undesirable,) or should we continue to engage in irrelevant
>enquiries
>to cast aspersions on the wisdom of the whole drive? You tell me.
>
>And on the Kiang defeat, be careful here Ous. Remember, I was one of
>the
>first people to react to the results, and I was really inclined to
>blame the
>UDP -until I spoke to people on both sides of the fence. If it
>wasn't
>vote-buying that did it for APRC, I'm dying to hear what did. Fancy
>this:
>MaHawa Cham (APRC) -Secondary Four education; NEVER had a job in his
>life
>-unless if you want to call July 22nd Movt thuggery a job; no family
>life to
>speak of. (Yus Dabo will be here this week. He was MaHawa's
>classmate at
>Kiaf Primary School. You talk to him.)
>Fabakary Jarju (UDP)- Semi-professional; had solid employment before
>the
>APRC came on the scene; respected member of the Kiang community;
>responsible
>family man and father; has hosted hundreds of his kin when they
>visit the
>Kombos over the years; (from reports) has helped many Kiang School
>graduates
>find jobs over the years.
>Remember, both candidates have a similar social and ethnic
>background.
>
>Question: Who among these two do you truly believe Kiang people will
>vote
>for in a level-playing field? Who do they owe something?
>Specifically, what
>does anyone owe MaHawa? If it wasn't the money that Baba Jobe, Nai
>Ceesay
>and others were throwing around that corrupted those desperate
>people, I'm
>very curious to hear what did it. It's erroneous to think that the
>UDP was
>only hilighting the APRC's Human Rigths record. That's what Kebba
>Jobe Daddy
>Nying want's us to believe for obvious reasons. In reality, they
>discuss
>bread and butter issues relevant to ALL Gambians!
>Saul.
>
>
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