More creepy crap from our millenium sycophant. You never cease to amaze. This is the same filthy piffle you churned out when you were Kebba "Joker" Jobe. Nothing new. Same old trash. History cannot be rewritten. A writer once wrote that 'Facts are sacred'. Your attempts to distort the factual history of our nation which is so blatantly obvious is mind-boggling. Why brother? The man who provided you with a place of abode at Latri Kunda (Uncle Bekai Sosseh) was a great and kind man. Where is your sense of decency?
Your continuous parroting for this vile,roguish, disgusting, murdering APRC shows your contempt for our people. How can any normal decent human being excuse the killing of children as young as three year olds a mistake. How can the continuous incarceration of Dumo et al be called a mistake. How can the stashing away of millions of pounds in secret Swiss Bank accounts be a called mistake. How can the mysterious murder of a Cabinet minister be called a mistake. How can the cold-blooded butchering of exemplary soldiers like Basiru Barrow be called a mistake. How can the torturing of decent ordinary folks by the NIA be excused as mistakes. How can the abrogation of the constitutional provisions be called a mistake. How can the summary dismissal of civil servants be called a mistake. How can the repeated utterances of bilge by a president be called a mistake. How can any educated and rational human being downplay such criminal activity by uncouth and unscupolous characters like Baaba Jobe be excused. How can the harassing of journalists be justified by a senior manager a of communication outfit. How can one even pit the plight of our people with silly projects like the building of an arch.
Gassa, you are special. Only miscreant and lying criminals can do what you are doing. As i say to you before history shall be our witness when the day of reckoning comes. You will never ride roughshod on this forum as far as i am concern.
May you have a hellish and disgusting time. I hate you to the max. Any invectives and insults will be returned with equal ferocity.
Mboge
P.S For those friends, elders and colleagues on this forum whom i have very high regard and who'd advised me in private to leave Pa Modou Gassama alone, I apologise for not heeding your advise as i'd promised. My conscience won't led me sleep if i stay mute at this decisive moment in our history. What Pa Modou Gassama is perpetuating here is blatant lies and contemptuous behaviour towards Gambians. Democracy is about upholding the truth among other things. History will out the truth.
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>Subject: Of goats and politics - part 3.
>Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:34:59 +0000
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>The AFPRC having dissected and scrutinized every facet of the PPP
>regime
>announced a series of development projects that almost nobody
>believed
>achievable. The most significant of all the projects at the time, as
>far as
>I was concerned, was their commitment to invest heavily in the
>public media.
>Within a few weeks radio Kombo began regular broadcasts in the
>Greater
>Banjul Area and was to soon begin broadcasting nationwide. This was
>later
>followed by a national TV service.
>
>They effectively used the public media to showcase the blatant
>corruption
>and misrule of the government they overthrew. They made sure that
>every
>Gambian knew about all the corrupt practices of the former
>government and
>how they’ve come to redeem us. They were actively aided in this by
>calls
>from the deposed regime for sanctions to be applied on the Gambia
>and
>threats by some members of the international community to cut off
>aid.
>
>When the USAID pulled out of the country and the infamous British
>travel
>advice brought our tourism industry crashing within 48 hours, most
>Gambians
>rallied behind the government as most thought that our ultimate
>survival as
>a nation was at stake. Some of those opposed to the AFPRC regime did
>not
>help either. False rumours were being circulated that the government
>was
>near bankrupt and that salaries will not be paid after six months.
>From then
>on it was very simple making the majority of Gambians to believe
>that all
>our woes were the work of former president Jawara and his corrupt
>officials
>in a bid to come back to power. This, most Gambians were not
>prepared to
>have.
>
>It seems that the former regime seriously underestimated the power
>of the
>media particularly the radio and television. If only they had
>developed this
>during the first republic and used it effectively for civic
>education or to
>explain to the Gambian people what plans they had for the country
>perhaps
>the coupe could have been averted. But no, they ruled us without
>having to
>fully explain anything to us. They imposed on us policies that drove
>us to
>near destitution without explaining the rational behind them. They
>imposed
>on us the 10% national development levy that nobody seems to know
>where all
>those monies went, imposed the ERP that brought so much hardship to
>the
>people without bothering to explain it to us, sold the GPMB,
>crucified our
>river transport etc, etc. (Like how some are obsessed with the human
>rights
>abuse of this regime, that is how passionately I feel about the
>demise of
>our river transport system).
>
>Throughout those trying times the government remained defiant and
>appealed
>to the people to remain calm and that God was on our side. Many
>began to
>express concern over the attitude of the regime especially Yahya
>Jammeh’s
>defiance of the international community. I was one of many who
>thought that
>he was very crude and that we deserved a more refined leader who
>could woo
>our development partners to come to our aid. However this view was
>soon to
>evaporate when during this period Jawara infuriated many when he is
>heard on
>the various radio stations insisting that his overthrow was
>illegitimate and
>that the international community should do something to restore his
>legitimate government back to power. Such calls for his restoration,
>when
>most Gambians believed that he had overstayed his welcome in State
>House
>significantly increased support for the AFPRC. Many of us who,
>earlier had
>reservations about the sincerity of the regime were soon to begin
>trumpeting
>their cause; especially when in answering a question posed by a
>Senegalese
>journalist as to whether he would be willing, as a compromise, to
>lead a
>three to six month transition government leading to elections that
>he would
>not contest, he (Jawara) was alleged to have insisted that the
>overthrow of
>his government was illegitimate, plain and simple. He is said to
>have
>insisted that the international community had a moral obligation to
>restore
>his legitimate government and that if it could be done in Haiti, why
>not in
>Gambia where a small band of army boys were imposing their will on
>the
>Gambian people. When I heard this, I said that’s it old Pa. I hope
>you don’t
>come back.
>
>As the weeks turned to months and there was no sign of outside
>intervention
>and the AFPRC continued to tell the people that despite the efforts
>of the
>enemies of the country to see them fail, they were going to deliver
>all that
>they promised the people including the restoration of the country to
>democratic civilian rule. In those days hardly a fortnight passes
>without
>the commissioning or initiation of a development project. During
>those
>trying times Lt. Jammeh and his other council members waded through
>pools of
>water and in the rain to meet the people. Thus they identified
>themselves
>with the suffering of the people and continued to explain to the
>people that
>they were “soldiers with a difference” whose only motive for seizing
>power
>was to save our country from sinking and to develop it. In all the
>places
>they went they asked the communities to tell them their problems for
>they
>will not be able to help them solve their problems if they didn’t
>know them.
>In most of these communities requests were made for the provision of
>basic
>things like markets, water, telephones, roads, schools, ambulances,
>clinics,
>etc., etc. In most cases they would tell them that while not making
>them
>definite promises, they would surely look into your problems. During
>the
>two-year transition period they delivered almost all that they had
>promised
>the people. Communities throughout the country had markets, schools,
>university, car parks, clinics, roads, bridges, wells, watering
>holes,
>telephones, a national radio and television, new airport terminal,
>hospitals, energy, etc., etc. As development project after
>development
>project are successfully implemented throughout the country, these
>are
>elaborately covered by GRTS.
>
>Having elaborated, from my own perspective, how the previous
>government
>played its role in putting in place this government, how the
>international
>community and some members of the former regime (including
>ex-president
>Jawara) helped to rally most of the population behind the AFPRC and
>how the
>AFPRC effectively took every advantage that came its way by
>effectively
>using the public media, I will next elaborate on the role played by
>the
>opposition, particularly the UDP, in consolidating the AFPRC/APRC
>rule.
>
>Have a good day, Gassa.
>
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