Lamin Allah ya long kafoo eye tooo nyaa foo! You have spoken the truth. Muhammad Bai Drammeh Bin Alhagie Sheihu Muhammad Lamin Drammeh Bin Muhammad Kanday Drammeh bin Muhammad Kissima Drammeh bin Foday Drammeh --- On Sat, 25/4/09, Lamin Jatta <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Lamin Jatta <[log in to unmask]> Subject: To: [log in to unmask] Date: Saturday, 25 April, 2009, 5:21 PM Frankly, I'm very disappointed that Yanks put up this animated attack against Mr. Drammeh for his reference to lawyer Darbo as a coward.At this rate you are coming across as one bad boy Uday Hussein on rehearsal. And I think you are doing more damage at Mr. Darbo's chances of becoming president than what you perceived Mr. Drammeh is doing.And I'm urging Mr. Mballow to discourage that kind of tone coming from an individual claiming to be an immediate family member of lawyer Darbo. I urge Mr. Mballow to ask the family of lawyer Darbo to refrain from validating the accusations that the Darbos are untouchable. Sincerely, Lamin Jatta Muhammed Drammeh wrote: > I will no longer respond to Yankuba Darboe unless he is prepared to talk about issues. He does not deserved to to be responded to. Let the members of the L make their own judgement. He has confirm to the L that his support and defence of Darboe is based on nepotism which is sad. He is still attacking me personally. Thus this will be my last response to Yanks until he grows up. About your expectation of Halifa and co taking on Jammeh and removing him from power, I will respond separately not to you but the members of the L. > Muhammad Bai Drammeh Bin Alhagie Sheihu Muhammad Lamin Drammeh Bin Muhammad Kanday Drammeh bin Muhammad Kissima Drammeh bin Foday Drammeh --- On Sat, 25/4/09, yanks dabo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: yanks dabo <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Justice for Lawyer Darboe not Muhammed Drammeh! To: [log in to unmask] Date: Saturday, 25 April, 2009, 12:50 AM > "I believe that Muhammed Drammeh betrayed his own guidelines. Drammeh initially advised that Ousainou should not be deemed to be a coward for seeking sanctuary at the Senegalese High Commission but then not not only did he, Drammeh, subsequently personally try to prosecute Ousainou he ultimately went to the extent of sentencing Ousainou to life on the 'Island-of-no-return-from-cowardice'. Seriously, If Ousainou were a coward or a selfish opportunist, he would have by now joined the APRC regime in some capacity" By Bailo Jallow Bailo; you speak the language of the quran in the above statement, i could not add anything more to it. Unfortunately, the only person who is still oblivion to this fact is Mr Drammeh. As he wondered why he was condemed for his blasphemy. Lord Devlin once said " a rebel is > right in thinking that he has a right to rebel against society, but he was wrong to think that society would condone his rebellion ". Mr Drammeh started his diatribe on 5 April 2009 on the Gambia post. At first i did not want to read it or participate in it. But the post was not enough for Mr Drammeh. So he brought it to the Gambia L, who knows where else he was heading with it, if did hep him to put sense in him, Fredomnewspaper, BBC, CNN. That was the reason for my timely intervention, which was two weeks later on 17 April 2009. Contrary to what Mr Drammeh struggled to allege, I did not start by attacking him. I started by asking him to explain what was his yardstick to confirm that Ousainou is a coward. He never bothered to asnwer this. I tried to help him understand the rational behind Darboe's actions. I even went as far as explaining to him that what > Ousainou did was not cowardice but that of a Lawyer exercising his convention right, under the 1951 Geneva convention. However, just as Saihou Mbalow, Haruna, Suntu, Ginny, and many others had tried and failed, I had also failed to convince this man that Ousainou is not a coward. However, to make matters worst and unlike his reactions to others, this ballooney started fabricating stories about me being chased by Major Bojang. That was very much uncalled for, then he wondered why i had to go after his lineage. The simple truth is that Drammeh thinks he is a clever man, but he is a fool! He claimed that Ousainou is a coward; I am a coward, because i ran away from Major Bojang; Haruna is a coward, because he wouldn't bother responding to his emails. So, he expected me to do, what derided, as "the Darboe thing". This hero boy failed to understand that what he was > insinuating was an insult to all Darboe's without realising. Yet he finds it offending that his father was dragged into the banter. If Drammeh only claimed to be a PDOIS, NADD, sympathiser, our exchanges wouldn't have gone this far. Simply because, Drammeh, is not the only Talibe of Halifa Sallah in this forum. However, his difference to the rest is that they know their bounds whilst he doesn't. You can support a party without insulting others. However, once you attack or insult other people's party, you cannot expect them to condone your actions; fact. Drammeh could have done a good job by just stating the fact that he is a PDIOS supporter or even go further to praise Halifa, Sidia and Sam as the power of trinity . Write books about their bravery and see if i care! As far as I am concern, if Halifa, Sidia and Sam are that > brave, they would scold Yahya by the throat and drag him out of State House. But they have not done that yet, have they? So what's the fuss about their gallantry? As for the actions of Dr Jaiteh, I do not wish to comment. I knew Dr Jaiteh at Kotu Bojang's compound in Brikama, i do not think he would remember me now, that's if its the same Dr Jaiteh. I had high regards for the man then then and will continue to have that for him now, even if he decides to exclude me from his national bantaba. I had been excluded from the Gambia post, then Yusupha and George reinstate me few months ago without my authorisation. However, i still chose not to contribute on there beacuse their actions are only akin to that of Yahya Jammeh. I hate censureship and cannot see a moral justification for it. For that reason i commend all those who stand against > it here. I will go silent for now, but will surely come back if i heard any more Lawyer Darboe diatribe. I rest my case! Yanks Darboe The Darboe's don't run and are not cowards, simple!!!! > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:50:24 -0700 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Justice for Muhammed Drammeh -Thank you To: [log in to unmask] > Dear All, > > I am very grateful for all your effort in ensuring my right to participate in the democratic process of The Gambia. > > Some of you disagree with you but you still want my rights to express myself restored. I cannot say anymore except to express my gratitude. > > Members of the L know that my attacks on Darboe were not personal at all and all I did is to talk about issues. My brother Musa Drammeh won two elections for the PPP in 1987 and 1992 in Sandu. My cousin Chondi Drammeh stood for election for the UDP in the 1997 parliamentary election and lost. However much they are attacked I will not take it personally and I was still opposed to the PPP even though Musa Drammeh was a parliamentary secretary under the Jawara government. I oppose the APRC government even though Susan Waffa-Ogoo who taught me English Language until I passed my Common Entrance Examination was/is Secretary of state under Jammeh. My dad's elder brother Alhagie Bineh Drammeh stood for the GPP in 1987 election. Despite my relations with the above I will not react if they are attacked for their policies. Despite Yankuba Darboe's relation with Darboe he should never have > reacted the way he does simply because Darboe is his relative. I only attacked the action of Darboe. As matter of fact I would not have come to this conclusion should Yankuba Darboe not started trading in insults. I was not allowed to contribute to the L while Yankuba was allowed to continuously call me a liar. Despite all these I refrain initially to respond to Yankuba in the way he started. Yankuba went as far as insulting my Dad who has never ran for office of any sort. Thus there was no need to attack my dad on the grounds of "emotional reactionarism". Some in in L call me a PDOIS supporter. Yankuba Darboe went as far as calling me an NIA. He even accused me of being an APRC supporter. No no no I have never been an NIA never will and I have never supported the APRC and never will. however my opposition to Jammeh is not geared towards the hatred of his language grouping. It is geared towards my opposition towards his policies. I still have a very > good relation with Susan Waffa-Ogoo despite our political difference. The last time I was in The Gambia I even visited her home. As a matter of fact some of Susan's friend thought that she was my mum. > > Thus members of the L I support or oppose a parties simply because of policies not because of "nepotic sentiments". > > Members of the L may I inform you that it was my friend who while in the services of The Gambia Red Cross Society, was shot dead in headquarters of The Gambia Red Cross Society. This was my friend and his name is Omar Barrow. When I went to The Gambia in 2004 I visited his widow Awa Sanneh. If there is anyone who should be angry I should be the angriest. I lost a personal friend. My anger however will never be geared towards the hatred of Jammeh's tribe but my opposition of his policies. This is what principled people do. They act and they do not react. I believe in a Gambia of Productive economy, I believe in a Gambia where labour is rewarded and not mere the labour power being paid for. I believe in a Gambia where every one should live in liberty dignity and prosperity. I believe in an enlightened Gambia. I believe in the Gambia where Presidential monarchy is demystified. I believe in The Gambia where > every one say no to exploitation, no to servitude, no to degradation, no to cowardice, no to political bullying, no to dictatorship, no to megalomania, no to tribalism, no to nepotism, no to opportunism and no to poverty. I believe in The Gambia where there is equal opportunity for all. I believe in my life time of in the life time of my grand children this will happen. > > Members of the L we are all working towards the common good of The Gambia. We will ever be true to The Gambia. It is time that we start working for The Gambia. It is time we throw away the vices of tribal sentiments and concentrate on the national interest. It is time for honest leaders to emerge to at least to support the honest and brave ones we have at the moment. In Sedia Jatta, Halifa Sallah and Sam Sarr we have honest, brave and principled leaders and thus they should be supported despite our sentiments. > > Muhammad Bai Drammeh Bin Alhagie Sheihu Muhammad Lamin Drammeh Bin Muhammad Kanday Drammeh bin Muhammad Kissima Drammeh bin Foday Drammeh ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > Windows Live Messenger just got better. 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