>From: panderry mbai <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: WHAT HAPPEN TO APRC'S "JALI TOURAY"? MORE QUESTIONS THAN >ANSWERS!!!!! >Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:43:57 +0100 (BST) > > > BY PA NDERRY M'BAI > > > > It appears that the newly reinstated agriculture minister Yankuba Touray >is no longer speaking out as he used to do few years ago. Does Yanks >suspect that change is inevitable in The Gambia and is therefore playing it >safe not to allow to be used again by Yahya Jammeh. If that is the case >then, Yankuba had indeed learnt a lot from his brief separation with >dictator Yahya Jammeh. Touray is very cautious these days in the way and >manner he deals with Jammeh. What happen to his Observer news headlines? >What happen to his mobilisation campaigns? > >Reading a local paper in The Gambia, it appears that Yanks was rehired >without formal consultations. He was just telephoned by the "Kanilai so >called Mansa" to resume work. This goes to show that our country is in >wrong hands. That the affairs of the state can be decided by one man >without heeding to his advisers. I even doubt if Jammeh have advisers in >view of his unconstitutional moves. > > We are in serious, serious troubles. That our nation is being misruled >by a person who does not have The country's interest at heart. If true >that Jammeh is patriotic as he called himself, why is he employing divide >and rule politics in The Gambia.? Why is Jammeh using some of our >"misguided" soldiers to create harm and mayhem in The Gambia.? Why >training our sons and daughters in Libya to receive military training >knowing fully well that Gambians are not interested in war. > >The future of The Gambia is indeed bleak. Our senior citizens should not >watch by and see cherished peace being upset. There are sufficient >evidence on the ground to suggest that The Gambia is not moving into the >right direction. > >We should learn from war ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other >countries within the African Sub-region. These countries used to enjoy >peace like The Gambia. But what happened later? Greed, corruption, >nepotism and unfinished oppression compelled citizens to take arms against >their own elected government. Taking arms against a democratically >elected government is not the solution to the continent's current >predicaments. But people engaged in such moves say they cannot withstand >the oppression and tyranny in their respective countries. Guess what? >They took to the streets and bush to ask their governments to step down. >In the process thousands died, maimed and displaced. > >Church and Muslim leaders in The Gambia, have a big challenge and >responsibility. They should depart from the culture of silence and speak >out against the dictatorial regime of Yahya Jammeh. They should use >their mosque and churches to preach the need for the government to respect >the rights and freedoms of citizens. They should also try and bring >sense of sanity into power "drunken" Yahya Jammeh who is bent on showing >seeds of discord in the tiny West African country. > >Already, Kanifing Imam Baba Leigh and Father Cleary are taking the lead. >We need more religious leaders in this crusade. > >It's unfortunate that the majority leader of the National Assembly >Churchill Baldeh is trying to frustrate efforts made by Baba Leigh for the >need to maintain peace in The Gambia. Churchill in his interview with the >Daily Observer, tried to portray the Gambia as a peaceful nation. He >dismissed Imam's Leigh call and said"there is no problem in The Gambia". >Churchill is this really true? Are you not trying to play with the minds >of the right thinking members of Gambia's society? Are you not economical >with the truth by trying down play the current state of affairs in the >impoverished nation? > >Indeed, The Gambia is at war. War in the sense that people are longer at >peace. They have been reduced to economic destitutes. Their freedom to >free speech is also seized by Yahya. Their right to support the political >party of their choice is also sized by Yahya. How many times, have this >regime fired people believed to be opposition sympathisers? The National >Assembly, you are heading is also reduced to a rubber stamp National >Assembly. Your APRC NAM members cannot figure out what's in the National >interest and what's not. They welcome any bill that comes before the house, >be it good or bad. They gave Yahya and his security agencies blanket >immunity when the Assembly voted in favour of the draconian indemnity Act. >Now our military can kill Gambians without worrying about any court action. > That the state had issued them license to kill with impunity. You also >championed the need to curtail free press in The Gambia by voting the >widely criticised Media Commission > Act. Now the courts can sentence libel and defamation first offender >journalists between six months and three years in jail with hard labour >respectively. And how about the recent expulsion of opposition NAM >members? All these crisis taking place in The Gambia and yet Churchill >Baldeh you is saying that there is no problem in The Gambia. You must be >kidding, Mr.majority leader. Dishonest politicians like your type are >undermining the peace and stability of The Gambia. You are not only doing >disservice to our country but to the future generation. > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- >Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection >for FREE! Get Yahoo! Mail _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい