>From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Should July 22 be celebrated? >Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:43:31 +0000 > >From the Jammeh website. > >Posted by bailow on July 18, 2001 at 18:16:26: > >Seven years after the so-called revolution, the government can still >not >answer our priority needs. Gambians are still the porrest of the >world's >poor. Infant mortality rate has risen, the dalasi is at an all time >low and >our democracy is rickety. We have little to show for the revolution >we were >all so optimistic about. The APRC's handling of the economy is >disastrous as >Gambians starve under the weight of overtaxation. We are simply at >our wits >end. We have all ran out of ideas as we hurl invectives and mudsling >each >other. Check the allegations and counter allegation criss-crossing >the >political spectrum from Juwara FJC and others. It is all a sordid >reality. >No wonder youths are only interested in going away despite the >president's >criticisms. Well he can afford to say that since his is now a life >hugely >different from that poor and unkempt lieutenant he was some seven >years ago. >How time flies. Thus as we celebrate there are more questions to ask >of >ourselves than answers. Ask any including Jammeh to attempt answers >and the >words get stuck in their mouths. There is simply nothing to say >other than >to own up to the mistake of staging so costly a revolution that >makes life >even worse than how were were under Jawara. >Bye >Bailo > >Salieu Gaye's response: > >Posted by Salieu Gaye on July 19, 2001 at 10:14:25: >In Reply to: More questions than answers posted by bailow on July >18, 2001 >at 18:16:26: > >Bailo, > >If you care to know anything, the revolution has brought in hope for >the >poverty-ridden mejority of the Gambian people. This Government has >done >pratical things to solve the colossal problems it inherited from the >PPP >regime. > >If you care about infant mortality, maybe you would give credit to >the >regime that builds hospitals - Farrafeni, Bwiam and soon Serrekunda. > >If you care about the state of the dalasis then you would give >thanks to the >regime that is trying to improve our exports by opening the free >gateway >project at the Banjul port, where our local products will be >processed >before being exported, so that we depend less on imported products >and more >on goods produced locally. > >If you care about our democracy, you will salute the regime that has >licenced more private newspapers and radio stations that we have >ever seen >in this country. > >If you care about our youths leaving home for the West, you will >commend the >government that has established the University of the Gambia and the >National Youth Service Scheme and so many skill centers up and down >the >country. > >Added to this I can give you countless more achievements of this >government >in the areas of Agriculture, Communications, Energy etc. > >For all these great achievements we have all the reason to celebrate >as the >Gambia is indeed a better place now than it was seven years ago and >things >will only get better as the solide foundations have been put in >place by >this APRC regime not the useless PPP. > >If you can't realise this then you must be living in cloud-kokoland. > >Have a nice day! > >Kebba Jobe (Gassa) adds: > >Posted by Kebba Jobe on July 19, 2001 at 12:32:51: >In Reply to: Re: More questions than answers posted by Salieu Gaye >on July >19, 2001 at 10:14:25: > >Thank you salieu Gaye for making such a brilliant case for the >government. >Bailo, you have to realise that development is a continuous process. >It is >not an event that just happens. People have to work for it. Europe >and >America did not just develop over night. It takes a clear vission >and very >hard work. This government clearly has a vission for the country and >it is >now up to all of us to join hands and move the country forward. No >development can take place without a healthy, enlightened and >educated >workforce. This, the government fully realises, and is pursueing >them >vigorously. Imagine the government is giving out 150 scholarships to >worthy >students to study for degree programmes in the Gambia and the >president >promises to give scholarships to as many as 200 others. This >excludes those >pursueing other courses outside the country. Can you imagine if this >government had inherited all the infrasture it is now building, how >Gambia >would have looked like? Can you imagine where Gambia would have been >today >if we had been producing atleast 200 hundred graduates a year from >1981, >when most of the donor money received after the failed 1981 coupe >was >squandered? Please lets give credit when it is due. The constant >grumbling >will only take us backwards. > >Have a good day and bye 4now, Gassa. > >Quote of the week. > >Explaining his views about those who blame our woes on the West, >colonialism >and neocolonialism, Mr. Anslem Emanolom of New Jeshwang writes: > >"I know one thing: Only the house rat can tell the one in the bush >about the >cake in the oven. Only the house rat can lead the bush rat into the >kitchen >where the fish is. When you treat your clothes like rags, others >will use it >to clean the floor" > >Have a good day, Gassa. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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. >----------------------------------------------------------------------------