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Mr njie just emphasizing the respect for Human rights. It is an exposure of Jammeh Goverments lack of respect for Human rights. Not anything else.

Peace brother

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From: Abdoul Njie <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 3:35 pm

Subject: Re: BABA JOBE'S MOBILE SET SNATCHED AND THOSE WHO CALL HIM THREATENED

> Mr. minteh,
>
> I am really loosing on this one. What is your point?
>
> Should Baba Jobe be allowed to get a cell phone or should this be
> extendedto all detainees?
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Ablie Njie- Lekbi
> Atlanta
>
> >From: Binneh Minteh <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: BABA JOBE'S MOBILE SET SNATCHED AND THOSE WHO CALL HIM
> THREATENED>Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:11:47 -0500
> >
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> >
> >OPTV has just received the news that Baba Jobe's mobile telephone was
> >snatched from him because he was receiving calls while in
> detention.One of
> >his close friends(name with held) was called at the NIA and
> questioned over
> >a call that he made to his buddy.Baba Jobe's rights as a human
> being are
> >being trampled upon by a mad man who until few months ago was
> using Jobe on
> >every aspect.
> >According to sources the NIA said that none should call Jobe
> because he is
> >in communicado.Halifa Sallah raised the issue at a working dinner
> or forum
> >they held with the British diplomats some time back.Halifa and his
> >colleagues should be supported by all and sundry to fight against
> such>injustice.So Baba Jobe is being jailed before the court's
> ruling? When I
> >refer to the blatant nepotism some of us turn their mouths on me
> calling me
> >a tribalist.I am not tribalist and never will I entertain it.I do
> speak>Fula,wolof and Mandinka fluently.My home Town Fatoto is full
> of families
> >that are what we call mixture.Pointing out Yahya's side of the
> story and
> >comparing his figures to the real situation does not make one a
> >tribalist.Then does that mean talking about corruption makes one
> a corrupt
> >person? I am not a triblist and do not encourage tribalism in any
> way. I
> >live in a very diverse country and culture for that matter.People
> of this
> >civilize world regardless of race, gender, social background,
> religion,>gender are the same and we should all love one another
> and live peacefully
> >with one another.The Gambia has been destroyed by Yahya's tribal
> card and
> >that is what I am warning people to be mindful of,if not another
> Rwanda is
> >in the making.No doubts about that.
> >
> >Why should Baba Jobe,Lang Conteh and others be treated like mice
> and then
> >Kujabi the one who ordered people to steal Jawara's generators is
> still>working as a commissioner? If that is not tribalism and
> blatant nepotism
> >then what is it?
> >Yahya according to sources(these days) keeps on beating his chest
> saying>that he will provoke all those Jarankas and see who dares
> face him?!!! This
> >is true because his own boys say it in the open.Yahya has to be
> very very
> >careful because the way he is operating is stinking and when the
> smell>becomes uncontrollable he will certainly die before the poor
> Gambians.>No one can see The Gambia today and ignore the fact that
> Yahya is playing
> >the tribal card.What other means should we use to make him see
> that without
> >refering to what he is doing? Even the Senegalese media are
> reporting on
> >Yahya's tribal tendencies.If anyone is to be warned against
> stopping being
> >a tribalist it is Yahya himself.
> >Infact Yahya does not even represent the decent Jolas,he
> represents the mad
> >ones.He the very Yahya went to Badibou telling people at Iliasa
> that he is
> >Jammeh like them.
> >That was before the so-called false elections! After the meeting
> Yahya went
> >into his open and stinking pajero saying that these badibunkas
> think(in a
> >very sarcastic way) that the surname Jammeh belongs to them.He
> laughed and
> >said that he was only using that strategy to fool
> them.Immediately after
> >the meeting many elders were arrested from that vicinity.Sources have
> >revealed that Yahya has assigned special armouries to areas like
> Badibu in
> >case of an uprising some day.His orders are clear,that every soul
> from that
> >end should be crushed when they intend to rise against him.That
> is why Lalo
> >Jaiteh was dragged to mile two and Alhaji Kanteh
> disappeared.Kanteh will
> >resurface and join OPTV to get the hell out of this sick regime
> just wait.
> >This is no exaggeration!! Yahya says these things because we get
> feed backs
> >from those who are close to him.Yahya is the most vulnerable so-
> called>president when it comes to leakages around his stinking
> state house.Even if
> >he urinates people know about it within seconds or while he is on
> the act
> >itself! He Yahya himself is a loose canon so what would the
> guards do other
> >than help him spread his madness?
> >Yahya's tribal tendencies are based on two things;greed and
> trying to
> >mystify himself.
> >Look at the way he recites incantations on video cameras and then
> rubs his
> >dark palm on the heads of those losers who dance for him every
> day and
> >every night! This man is so sick and he seriously needs help.
> >Well let people revisit Yahya's speeches and see where he was
> condemning>those griots at the McCarthy Square.He was so rude that
> some elders sneaked
> >and went home.Did Yahya not dissociate himself from anything that
> had to do
> >with the history of Mama Tamba Jammeh? Ofcourse yes! Yahya thinks
> that he
> >dropped like a rain droplet when we all know that he is nothing
> but the son
> >of a wrestler,period.
> >It pains me so much when I see people trying to cover Yahya's
> behind by
> >attempting to speak decency in the middle of stinking warambas!
> >BABA JOBE'S MOBILE SET SNATCHED AND THOSE WHO CALL HIM THREATENED
> >
> >Why should the NIA tribalise Baba Jobe's case to the extend that they
> >arrest only his mandinka folks and then allow him to talk to other
> >friends.The NIA plainly stands by what mad Yahya says because he
> is the so-
> >called SOS for defence.
> >Believe me Gambians are the most tolerant people on earth.Anyway
> if Haiti
> >of all places can catch flames then OPTV knows something and God
> also knows
> >that thing.
> >Was Haiti's president not brought back by external forces? Well
> when the
> >people spoke everything turned the other way round.The USA and other
> >democratic countries only listen to the people and not one mad
> man.Yahya>cannot see the light because he only believes in his
> stupid dreams and
> >witch craft.
> >
> >NIA should allow the courts do their job and return Baba Jobe's
> mobile>set.Why is Yahya so scared of Jobe?
> >
> >Binneh S Minteh
> >New York University
> >NYU.EDU
> >
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