KB,

Thanks for your elucidation of Jammeh's corruption.  Only fools and hypocrites would deny the moron's level of corruption.  Maybe Kebba 'Joke' Nying can explain where his LORD and BENEFACTOR got his money from.  Nying/Jobe stated that Jemus is a very wealthy man yet never ventured to explain how a pauper can become the richest Gambian in less than seven years.

KB, your vigilance is what we need to keep us focus.

Take care,

Regards,

Mboge

>From: Dampha Kebba<[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list<[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Yaya: Corrupt to the Core
>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:24:44 -0400
>
>Last night I came across a very funny piece in Gambian newspapers.
>There was
>a report stating that a school teacher was attacked by her students
>because
>apparently the lady was given ten Dalasis by Yaya and the lady
>decided to
>keep the five thousand to herself (as a personal gift from Yaya) and
>give
>the school the other five thousand.
>
>Very plain and simple story on the surface. Rudiments of right from
>wrong we
>should learn from our parents at a very early age. The teacher and
>the
>students both thought that they were entitled to the five thousand
>the
>teacher was claiming to herself. But what was significant to me
>about this
>story was that I detected the same kinds of traits that characterize
>the way
>Gambia is run at the helm. As we go up, the characters in the story
>simply
>change. The teacher becomes Yaya and the students become the general
>Gambian
>population.
>
>This is the same game Yaya plays on the Gambian people. He sends his
>people
>to Taiwan to negotiate loans. The cash dollars are loaded in
>suitcases and
>brought straight to the State House (forget the Central Bank and the
>transparent way things were done in the past). When Yaya sees the
>money, he
>takes a decent chuck of the money and regard it as a 'personal gift'
>to him
>from the Taiwanese. These are the dollars Yaya and his cronies use
>in order
>to open accounts such as account number 49275.1 with Credit Lyonnais
>in
>Switzerland and a $20 million dollar account at Citibank also in
>Switzerland.
>
>There is no such thing as Allah's Bank as Yaya and his cronies would
>like us
>to believe. What is going on here is corruption to the core. Like
>the
>teacher, Yaya will receive money on behalf of Gambians and treat the
>money
>as a 'personal gift' to Yaya. It is that money he uses to engage in
>'gift'
>giving to win people's support. He also uses the money to finance a
>flamboyant lifestyle; driving 'fancy' cars, buying an airplane,
>building a
>bunker in Kanilai, fencing villages he can call his own and
>importing exotic
>animals into the country.
>
>Like the students that attacked their teacher, Gambians should also
>attack
>Yaya. The same sense of justice that spurred the students to
>repudiate the
>teacher's claim that the money was donated to her personally, should
>energize Gambians to claim what is rightfully theirs from Yaya. This
>money
>Yaya is dishing around belongs to the Gambian poor. Yaya is NOT
>doing people
>a favor by dishing ten thousand dalasis to any entourage that visits
>him in
>Kanilai. He is simply returning to people what originally belonged
>to them.
>Surely the students will not hail the teacher as a benevolent leader
>if she
>sees light and return the five thousand to the students. The
>students know
>that the teacher would not have received the five thousand dalasis
>on her
>own merit. If the teacher was not with the students, she would not
>even go
>to Kanilai let alone be given five thousand dalasis. So Gambians
>should NOT
>see Yaya as a philanthropist if the vermin steals from the people
>and then
>return part of the money.
>
>What is clear is that Yaya's salary cannot finance the lifestyle he
>is
>leading. Like the crook he is, he engages in criminal behavior to
>finance
>his flamboyant lifestyle. Even if we assume that these moneys Yaya
>claims
>are actually given to him, people should ask themselves why the
>Taiwanese
>will want to give Gambia a $35 million loan and give Yaya $10
>million on the
>side as a personal gift. Does that make sense? Would the Taiwanese
>give $10
>million to any low-life lieutenant from Gambia? I submit that even
>if the
>money was 'given' to Yaya on the side, that is bribery; a crime in
>our
>books. Yaya had access to those bribes by virtue of his position in
>the
>country. When he was a lieutenant, no one would even 'give' him
>$100. Should
>we allow the vermin to go around boasting to be the richest Gambian
>when we
>all know that he did not earn 'his' money? Should we allow our
>people to
>feel indebted to Yaya because the low-life is stealing from them
>just to
>turn around and 'give' them back part of the money?
>
>In this election season when all sorts of opportunists are parading
>before
>Yaya to ask for 'donations' and declare their 'allegiance' to Yaya,
>we
>should make the source of Yaya's 'wealth' an issue. In six years,
>the thief
>has stolen from us more than people can imagine. We have documented
>proof
>that by January 16, 1996 (less than two years after the criminals
>stole
>power) Yaya by himself opened Swiss Bank accounts with moneys
>totaling over
>$20 million. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Yaya did not just
>steal
>money from us, but he uses our Attorney General's Chambers and
>Gambian
>taxpayers' money to ensure that the money stays with him. Anyone
>that doubts
>this figures can ask the then Attorney General in early 1996.
>
>We should be as mad as the students that would not allow their
>teacher to
>take the five thousand dalasis for herself. Yaya is taking millions
>of
>dollars for himself; millions that rightfully belong to the Gambian
>poor.
>KB
>
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