George Sarr,

It is said that when people do not have the wherewithal to deal with issues as they find them too challenging, they resort to mediocrity. Whoever said that I needed your endorsement or that of anybody else to tell it as it is? My friend, get real and remove your blinkers. Do not allow myopic bigotry or outright stupidity blind you.

As for your assumption that I may be in this game, yes it is a game for me, because of a lousy job or its associated benefits, is really being absolutely uninformed or being downright dishonest.

I do not need any references about my competense or lack of it as what I do is in the public domain where it matters. You are welcome to make any probe you want about that and I bet you will be disappointed. I can definitely assure you that at the end of the day you will not find one iota of evidence to prove that I do not know my job or do not do it well. For your information, I did not join Gamtel because things are all roses, if you do not know that already. I joined the then Post and Telecoms Department as a very young man way back in 1978, having just quit teaching, a job I did for about three months. Since then I have worked in virtually every section rising through the ranks. You see it is therefore no coincidence that I head one of the most sensitive and important departments in Gamtel. You can lie about anything you want but the fact remains that Gamtel is one of the best success stories of our country and I have been head of its planning unit for almost a decade now. Please feel free and ask any engineer worth his salt in the country and he/she, provided he/she knows me of course, would tell you what you would not want to hear, and that is I am a very competent guy. I do things unlike many. Year in year out, I request and spend millions of Dollars in infrastructure and networkd that make it possible for Gambians to be accessed throughout the country, come rain, sunshine or harmatan.

Mr. Abdou Sanneh,

I do not know you and do not care about whatever problems you may have with Jammeh or anyone else in his government. I would therefore appreciate it very much if you would just stick to issues that you have something to contribute when responding to anything I put on the L. May be, just may be, we might all be the wiser for it. Get my drift? I hope so.

Have a good day, Gassa.