Tombong, clearly you were not thoroughly following debates we had here with Kebba Jobe a few months ago. If you were, you will NOT unashamedly exhibit your ALES (Acute Low Expectation Syndrome) by peddling the same garbage your side-kick, Jobe, was trying to sell here. After all, you both support child-murderers with a fanaticism unparalleled here on G_L. Maybe you were busy shuttling from continent to continent, performing what you can of your 'husbandly' duties and did NOT grasp what we tried to tell to Jobe. When you ask Gambians to vote for Yaya (APRC) because of generators they bring in the country, you are asking Gambians to also vote in a child-murderer capable of butchering more children. Why should be suffer from ALES and NOT expect a president that can give us MORE generators and would NOT Massacre our children? That is the issue. Darn right I am NOT impressed by the generators. Yaya and APRC deserve no commendation. Knuckle-heads like Buba Baldeh would be the ones impressed by this gimmickry and urge Gambians to thank God for Yaya. I am surprised that you even did not read between the lines of the Observer report. The APRC mouth-piece could NOT even articulate the 'purchase' for APRC to gain maximum mileage. According to the Paper, "the launching of the rural electrification programme this year will provide electricity supply to about 46 major villages and towns all over the country by 2003." The Paper further went on to report that "this, according to SoS Touray, would afford electricity supply to about 90 per cent of the Gambian population as promised by the president". Now, am I missing something here, or was Buba Baldeh reporting that Yaya's 'promise' will NOT be fulfilled until 2003? I thought your boss promised that the 90% electrification would be reached before July 22, 2001. Correct me if I am wrong. Would your boss stick to his word and NOT celebrate the despicable day they stole power from a democratically elected government? Of course 90% of the country have NOT been electrified. We do NOT even have all the three generators that were already purchased. According to Buba Baldeh and Yankuba Touray, you guys have NOT even started the 'Rural Electrification Program'. The loans are NOT in yet. Rather than being thankful to God for Yaya, Gambians should be praying endlessly to God and asking for forgiveness for the sins that brought us Yaya. At no time in our history have we suffered this much. I refer you again to another garbage you sought to peddle here. The article from the APRC mouthpiece (Observer) on poverty and Baddibu, categorically told you that Gambians (as a whole) are POORER today that they were before Yaya stole power in 1994. I put it to you that you are NOT only ignoring Baddibu, you are ignoring the WHOLE COUNTRY. Apart from Yaya's little click of cronies like yourself, Gambians are rendered destitute by the day. You can afford to be shuttling from continent to continent, ride in a 'flamboyant' vehicle, rent a decent house, carry a cell phone all over the place. How about the farmer that has to wait three months to see one fifty dalasi note? Tell us that your own stats are wrong and Gambians are not poorer today than they were before Yaya. The dalasi is dilapidating by the day, commodities are getting more expensive, yet self-employed farmers CANNOT even earn a decent price for their crops. We are not even talking about the government creating employment for people. We are talking about creating a conducive environment for hardworking Gambians to earn a living. Now, if farmers go to their farms they run the risk of being shot by Casamance rebels. Businesses cannot thrive because of the extortion from thugs like Baabaa Jobe. Hotels are empty because tourists know that Gambia is a lawless society under the grip of a Dictatorship. Anyway you slice it, Yaya CANNOT move us forward. It is telling that the Observer revealed that the cost of the generators is US $15 million. What Gambians should be asking themselves is what took Yaya so long to produce this money for the generators. Saying that Jawara did not do it, is a poor and an unacceptable excuse. If all the APRC can do is perform slightly better than Jawara, then we do NOT need them and their callousness. We deserve lot BETTER than both Jawara and Yaya had to offer us. Coming back to the generators and their procurement during this election season. Right after the coup, Ebou Jallow brought into the country more than US $30 million from Taiwan. This is more than double the amount of money needed to procure these generators. What did the vermin do with the money? They opened personal Swiss Bank accounts and transferred money from the Central Bank of The Gambia to those personal accounts. More money came into the country; Nigerian Crude Oil etc. Our loan portfolio has skyrocketed during the watch of the mental midgets. What did they do with all these moneys? Yaya built himself some villas in Kanilai, fenced several villages and declared them his own, got himself an airplane and a zoo and a wife. In the meantime, some cronies also did not do poorly at all. The Famara Jattas of this world are all building mansions at the expense of the poor Gambian taxpayers. They are always engaging in bogus trips to go see their wives, take their children to Disney World, bring their wives to the US to deliver babies. What can this bunch of shameless nonentities offer us? Nothing but misery. A real government would have commissioned these generators since 1995 when all those moneys were flowing from Taiwan. Rather than electrifying Kanilai, a real government would have ensured adequate electricity for all our hospitals and hotels in order to help boost the economy. Rather than stealing money from the people and opening Swiss Bank accounts, a real government would have electrified the whole country by 1998 instead of waiting till 2003 and increasing our debt portfolio. The crux of the matter is NOT the gimmicks Yaya is playing. We should focus on what could have been done and who has the best potential to do good in the future. Whereas on the one hand we have High School drop-outs that steal money from the people and go around slaughtering children as young as three, on the other hand, we have genuine Gambians with immense experience and integrity that can develop the country and would not slaughter our children. Whatever Yaya can do in terms of economic develop, ten-year-olds can do a comparable job. The moron has nothing to offer us. We (the Opposition) should force them (APRC) to run on their own record against people in the Opposition that can do better than them in a future government. Jawara is NOT running in this election. APRC with the Buba Baldehs and the Nafa Sahos and the Saihou Sisays are closer to PPP than the current Opposition. We should make Gambians to understand the missed opportunities these criminals had because of their corruption. We should tell Gambians the burden these vermin have loaded on our children with their irresponsible borrowing habits. Generations yet unborn would pay for Yaya's stupidity. We the Opposition do NOT need more loans and waiting till 2003 to electrify the whole country. From only one of Yaya's Swiss accounts we can electrify the whole country before October 2002. 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