no need to apologize for depicting what you see from your vantage point. The truth often hurts!
"Keep the Fire Burning"
Katchikally "KATS" Touray
>From: AMIE BOJANG-SISSOHO <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Jabou you wrote
>
>"We cannot afford to have fragile egos that prevent us from
>addressing the issues intelligently and sticking to the facts
>without making
>it personal. Otherwise, we will never accomplish anything because we
>will
>spend all our time arguing and nursing fragile egos".
>
>This is what we all have to work on. Personalities are addressed
>because of
>their public roles. If they are not in the public eye nobody will
>mention
>them. Therefore I support the fact that we need to deal with the
>real
>issues and not to be hypocritical about them. I only hope my comment
>will
>not be taken out of context. It is a general phenomenon I have
>observed
>with Gambian in general. We need to tell the truth to both our
>friends and
>critics for the Gambia to move forward. Sometimes the truth hurts
>but upon
>reflection one realizes it. We have to stop being selfish for the
>general
>good.
>
>I apologize for hurting anyone, if I do, it was not intentional.
>
>Cheers,
>Amie.
>
>
>>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO US AT RIP/may I?
>>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:04:14 EDT
>>
>>People,
>>
>>I just wanted to put in my two bututs.What Ous Ngum said about
>>Chongan's
>>past
>>is a good point. We must commend people for having the decency to
>>come
>>forward with their stories that will help us put the present
>>criminals
>>occupying the seat of government in our country, but never for one
>>minute
>>must we forget those who also abused power and metted out brutality
>>to our
>>people in the past.
>>
>>If we do, history will keep repeating itself in our country. The
>>Jawara
>>gov't
>>gave us 30 years of corruption and incompetence, only to be
>>succeded by a
>>murderous gang. We cannot afford to forget this even if the present
>>brutality
>>has us thinking that it was at least a little bit better in the
>>past.
>>
>>Finally, I just want to ask why it is that we Gambians seem to wear
>>our
>>egos
>>on our shoulder. We cannot afford to have fragile egos that prevent
>>us from
>>addressing the issues intelligently and sticking to the facts
>>without
>>making
>>it personal. Otherwise, we will never accomplish anything because
>>we will
>>spend all our time arguing and nursing fragile egos.
>>
>>Jabou Joh
>>
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