Karamba,
On behalf of PDOIS and PDOIS sympathisers/supporters/members at home and in the diaspora, I wish to thank you for your kind words.
Amid denial and thirst for the truth, PDOIS forges ahead deliberately. Amid footdragging on opportunities for indispensable coalition-building, PDOIS' eye is squarely on the prize of nation-building and incorruptibility - one voter at a time.
I am pleased to be in your company anytime. A hutspa and gumption to call it as it were, does the soul a bit of good. If you ever decide to join PDOIS, I will be delighted to welcome you to the ultimate party of conscience and unwavering charcter for discipline and professionalism.
Mr. Sidibeh, when you come upon the revelation that PDOIS is the way to go, we will gladly welcome you. There is room for selfless work at PDOIS - a chacun son choix. This is how PDOIS will win elections. Individual revelations. PDOIS' work however continues, election or no election. The Gambia is more important than the offices of president and the cabinet combined.
When the electorate realizes it is no longer free, to speak and choose with regard to his/her fellow Gambian, to engage in worthwhile industry, to be productive citizens without let or hinderance, it will vote PDOIS.No hurry here.We aim to eradicate one cancer at a time.
Quite a number of Gambians subscribe to PDOIS principles, but lacking immediate gratification as Karamba eloquently points out, they cannot bring themselves to vote PDOIS. Penchants for revenge, thievery, delusional grandeur, without regard to stewardship for future generations, cloud their thoughts and they are bribed out of their conscience.
Eid'ul Fitr Mubaarak.As we look foreward to yuletide ceremonies and Martinmas.
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>Subject: Mr Momodou Sedibeh/Commentary
>Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:56:03 EST
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>Mr Sedibeh,
> I am one person who wish you were engaged on Gambia-l more
>often than you are currently able to. I enjoy your participation. I would
>like to advance a response to the question you posed regarding PDOIS and
>their inability to garner traction with the Gambain electorate. I agree that
>the party is led by selfless, educated and motivated Gambians with impeccable
>integrity. Even as I support the coalition, I am convinced PDOIS approach
>constitute in an integral part of the kind of democracy most of us would like
>to see evolve in our country. Halifa, Sedia and Sam are examples of serious
>people who bring depth and a sense of purpose to issues of governance. You
>may not agree with their approach in it's totality but they people you want
>to have at the table. Their electoral failure even after two decades of being
>the apostles of progressive and squeaky clean politics is a reflection of the
>deep and inherent flaws of Gambian society when it comes to choosing their
>political leaders. PDOIS has failed to win elections because our society by
>and large is not interested in honesty, integrity and the values of hardwork
>and deferred gratification. We tend to excel at expediency, dishonesty and
>finding every excuse to avoid doing what is right. Gambia is not conducive to
>the very things people seem to say they want. Our people for the most part
>know that our overall problems atleast for our contemporary history revolve
>around bad leadership and when the few good among us work hard and tirelessly
>to offer an alternative, the majority would simply not do their part to
>safeguard their futures. If you pick up a phone and randomly call someone
>anywhere in The Gambia, after five minutes he/she would give you a litany of
>all that is wrong with the country and how they are heading into the abyss.
>It would all be true. But our national tragedy is you absolutely cannot rely
>on that same complainant to do all he can to get rid of the criminals and
>murderers actively destroying the country and replacing them with folks who
>would spend sleepless nights working on making their lives and country
>better. It is a hopeless situation that most certainly will cement our place
>firmly in the colony of failed states. That is why our country is now beset
>by the kind of shameful beggar mentality you read about everyday. Government
>employees engaging in fist fights about monetary 'gifts' from their socalled
>President who is actively collapsing the institutions of government and
>handing it over to people that worse than clowns. It is an unmitigating
>disaster and the Gambian people in large measure can be expected to aid and
>abet their own destruction. People revel at receiving the crumbs of
>corruption and decadence and they always try to peddle nonsensical
>justifications for their fatal flaws.
> I have concluded that our nation is doomed unless we expunge from
>our national psyche our tolerance for all the things associated with
>retrogression. Unless our society strive for honesty and integrity and
>embrace people who demonstrate selfless devotion and have the ability and
>talent to lead us, we shall for the forseable feature be stuck with
>criminals intent on destroying the only place we call home. And if we don't
>change fast we may not for long have politicians with the endurance to
>actually see through peaceful change. A nation that tolerates un repentant
>murderers will not go anywhere. We must bring the entire leadership of this
>regime before a competent Gambian legal authority not constituted by rented
>jurists and charged them with capital crimes and other serious felonies and
>administer the law to it's full extent.
>Karamba
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