Beran, thanks for forwarding Yaya’s interview with Marcel Thomasi (who at one point was appointed briefly to replace Tombong). It has been ages since I saw such magnitude of unadulterated rubbish. Yaya’s handlers tried all they could to package the vermin and make him sound intelligent and moderate. But the bottom-line is that you can take Yaya from the bush but you can NEVER take the bush out of Yaya. The real Yaya is the one that stands on national TV without any handlers and threatens NAWEC personnel with death if they ‘sabotage’ his regime. The real Yaya is the one that stands on national TV without any handlers and boasts of being the richest man in Gambia. Did these people for one moment believe that we are going to buy this garbage Yaya was spewing about corruption and morality? I do NOT know what these Yaya handlers think of Gambians. Yaya is the MOST corrupt person The Gambia has ever seen. As he was giving that interview, he had stashed away in Swiss Banks millions of dollars stolen from the Gambian poor, and the vermin preach about corruption and morality. Rather than saying that they were interviewing Yaya, Thomasi et al should have just said that they were publishing a self-serving statement written for Yaya by one of his despicable handlers. That is what this is. We know Yaya is a callous moron and a thief. The vermin thinks (according to the ‘interview’) that it is a bad thing to flaunt wealth. Yet, he sits on national TV and boasts that he is so rich that his upspring will never be poor. And just where did he get that money from? The savings he had when he was a lieutenant in the army? Let these morons give us a break. Ah! No, Yaya got his money from his farm. And just how did he get that farm? Inherited it from his dad? The vermin is stealing from the people willy-nilly. It is public record in Swiss courts that Yaya instructed The Central Bank of The Gambia to transfer millions of dollars to his PRIVATE Swiss Bank Account. Yaya CANNOT deny this. The then Attorney General of The Gambia knows that the records exist. What real journalists (interested in the truth) would have asked Yaya was for him to account for the ‘wealth’ within the past seven years and tell us how he can explain being richer than Jawara who was the president for thirty years. That’s how you know whether the vermin is telling the truth. Yaya’s conciliatory language towards the EU and Europeans in general is just lip-service and everyone (including the EU) knows it. Is this man not the same moron who was few weeks ago castigating the British for allegedly masterminding the proscription of Baabaa Jobe as an international criminal? Doesn’t he know that Britain is part of the EU? Such unedited statements about the British, are the real Yaya. We know the vermin does NOT mean more than ninety person of what was ascribed to him in this ‘interview’. If AFPRC/APRC supporters doubt this, let them unleash the moron on national TV and see what will happen. Let him not hide behind speechwriters and see what will happen. We will soon start hearing the ‘six feet deep’ infantile rhetoric that is characteristic of the vermin. As we move to the campaign season all these AFPRC/APRC lies about education, health etc. ‘projects’ will be debunked. What the APRC stalwarts did NOT bank on when they were alienating all those Permanent Secretaries was that the latter know everything about these ‘projects’. These former civil servants that are mainly UDP supporters should go to the grassroots and inform them about these ‘projects’ and the AFPRC/APRC lies. We should reveal the limited input Yaya’s government put into these projects. The vermin attributes the first ‘feeder road’ to Kanilai to the EU and NOT to the Jawara government. But when it comes to the roads that are sponsored by the donors but constructed during the AFRPC/APRC regime, it is Yaya’s achievements. Is this man well? Does he know that ninety percent of the development budget of the country comes from loans and grants? He has no input whatsoever in attracting these funds. On the contrary, thanks to their illegal usurpation of power in July 1994, our people lost half of those grants and loans. Couple with that what the vermin are stealing and putting in Swiss Bank Accounts. No wonder our people are POORER today than they were seven years ago (ACCORDING TO FAMARA JATTA’S FIGURES). But you read Marcel Thomasi’s interview, you think the whole country is ‘educated’ now and our ‘hospitals’ are well-equipped, and people are happy earning a living. No amount of packaging can erase the truth. Let Marcel Thomasi go and tell what Yaya said to the poor farmers up country that have to wait two months to see fifty dalasis. Let Marcel Thomasi tell Yaya and his cohorts about the ‘excellent’ state of our hospitals. Maybe he can convince them to stop sending their wives to America to have babies and in the process looting taxpayers’ money. We know this ‘interview’ does NOT reflect the reality in the country. The reality in the country is a breakdown in law and order (where citizens are abducted and illegally incarcerated incommunicado). The reality in the country tells us about the slaughter of defenseless and innocent children in broad daylight in order to perpetuate a tyrant. The reality in the country tells us about farmers crying that prices of basic commodities such as rice and cooking oil have gone up while the government of the day CANNOT guarantee farmers (even) a conducive environment to earn a living. The reality of the country tells us that dollars are virtually nonexistent in the country. Even banks do NOT have foreign currencies. Gambians are NOT interested in this type of packaging for Yaya to gain international respect. I do NOT know where Marcel Thomasi was when The Gambia was implicated in the ‘Blood Diamond’ saga and Baabaa Jobe was proscribed an international criminal. How can anyone argue that Yaya and his gang brought respectability to the country? The morons have brought nothing but shame to us. KB _________________________________________________________________ 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------