the sentiments are mutual. We all love you and enjoy your postings
for your information, missed the ALD symposium yesterday ( I was there all saturday) all because of GHANA Airways delays. my sister was leaving for Banjul and as usual we were held at the airport and the flight finally too off at 7.30 pm four hours late-This is becoming the norm these days. maybe the new Afrinat Airlines going three times weekly to Gambia from New York will shake the mgt of Ghana Airways . The excess baggage situation on Ghana is ridiculous. They tell you that you can go but your bagage will arrive one week later - unbelievable
HDG
>From: Lamin Sanyang <
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>Subject: Re: MESSAGE FROM GAMBIA-L MANAGEMENT
>Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 02:25:21 +0000
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>The List Management,
>Thanx for reminding us the rules to be followed when one joins
>Gambia-L!
>There is a clamor for free speech! Hope you will settle this recent
>fracas
>between membership and your good selves in a very commendable way!
>
>When Jawara was in power, i guess the biggest insults hurled at him
>by
>people like myself were:
>
>Dictator
>Murderer
>Unpatriotic &
>Power-hungry
>
>Not because one did not command uncouth and vulgar vocabulary! But
>may be
>due to his age, people like myself see Jawara old enough to be our
>father.
>Even when he was at his most terrible. We shout/graffiti
>'Ngunja!!!' and race down the street! (Hahahahahahahaha!!!!)
>
>Jammeh's case is totally different. He is younger than a lot of
>people on
>this List. He is in the same age group as a lot of people on this
>List. And
>he is 'just' a few years older than a lot of people on this List!
>This makes
>Yaya Jammeh a leader who people can address very informally. That
>informality can easily result in sending him a daily dose of
>invectives when
>he's saddled with the corpses of twelve young lives, incacerated
>prisoners
>of conscience, and wailing farmers. People like OJ have 'only' one
>dangling
>corpse down their neck; when his body guard shot a guy dead in broad
>day
>light!
>
>But whereby Jammeh, Yankuba and their group are young and fit the
>description of D**Heads, there are people old enough to be our
>parents in
>that Government/Cabinet. Somebody's father is there, and somebody's
>mother
>is there. And fact is these people are subscribed on Gambia-L. Even
>if i am
>not afraid of a confrontation or a hidding, i will feel very ashamed
>to call
>someone like Sheriff Mustapha Dibba names in front of his
>son/daughter when
>the latter has not addressed any of my parents with uncouth
>metaphors. Our
>culture does not encourage that kind of freedom of speech, and it
>will be
>very sad if we have to abandon it for anarchy! Let us remember Njaga
>Mbaye's
>famous words:
>
>'Li nga giss chi nit ki beh hasskoh, gissnako chi yoow dafa nopi!'
>
>(live & direct translation: whatever you see in another person that
>warrants
>an insult, has already been observed by him/her on you. The person
>is just
>being quite)
>
>And when you call people names, when you insult them, or you insult
>their
>parents or relatives, don't expect them to just roll over, stand up
>and give
>you a hug.
>
>People working with Jammeh have all kinds of invectitives hurled at
>them. At
>times justified, many a time very uncalled for! If what is going on
>in our
>country really hurts us and cannot be contained any longer...let us
>do as
>Jammeh did...'hani seesay mang faa', (not even a chicken died). When
>i
>joined Gambia-L i made this appeal. Today i am leaving Gambia-L with
>the
>same appeal! Being a cyber 'guerilla' will not put food in our
>farmers'
>hungry stomachs. Dampha and all who share the dream of a free
>Gambia, if you
>cannot demonstrate in New York for one reason or the other, it is
>HIGH time
>you divert all that excessive energy in cyber to the ground. To
>mobilize the
>masses or take the short cut. Whichever you choose, kindly let me
>know to
>put in my worth(which as Manneh would say is not much anyway), but
>which
>definitely will be given whole heartedly!
>
>To Dave Manneh:
>You are endowed with a great gift; the special gift to move people.
>Even if
>you you had to learn the word PLAGIARISM from Edi Sidibeh:-)! Please
>use
>your gift in a wise and constructive way!
>
>To the following, thanx for sharing your knowledge, being
>motivating,
>humorous and sometimes jump-starting my day/week
>
>Karamba Touray
>Joe Sambou
>Yusupha Jow
>Bakary Kanteh
>Bamba Laye
>Haruna Darbo
>Pa Modou Gassama
>Sanusi Owens
>George Sarr
>Dave Manneh
>Buharry
>Dampha
>ML Jassey(Naphiyo)
>Uncle Habib; isi akabilah ongobinoh
>Musa Amadou Pembo &
>Saikss
>
>Down with the child murderers
>Justice for the murdered children
>Freedom for Lalo Jaiteh & Dumo Sarho
>Power to the people
>NOPINTCHA!!!
>
>Goodbye Gambia-L! Ciao!
>Sanyang.
>
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>>Subject: MESSAGE FROM GAMBIA-L MANAGEMENT
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