Laye, thanx for sharing this quote of Halifa's. I think you guys are doing
a wonderful job here. Let me see if I can figure out what this says to me:


[There are no politicians who should take politics as a career.]  Halifa.

I will come back to this later. Here I will define Politics and  Politician:
Politics is the art of harnessing a community's desires and to synthesize
such desires with their common constitution.
A Politician is the artist of politics.

[Each Gambian is a political being] Halifa.

Each Gambian forms part of the Gambian Polity.

[who owns the country] Halifa.

It may be too far-reaching to suggest that Each member of the polity owns
the community or the nation in this case. It is more correct to say that
each  Gambian owns an interest in the country.

[and has authority to give his or her consent for some to manage it to
promote their liberty and prosperity.] Halifa.

Yes. Each member of Gambia's polity has the option to give his/her  consent
or dissent to his/her fellow citizen to act on his/her behalf in  matters
of governance. In democratic countries, we complete this by vote or  power of
attorney. When the politician receives a Gambian's vote, that  politician
is now duly elected to act on said Gambian's behalf in common  governance.
The Assembly hall is not large enough to hold all citizens that is  why a
representative proportion is elected to act on the behalf of  some.

[Hence each should listen to all proposed solutions to our national
problems and endorse credible options without fear or favor, prejudice or
malice.] Halifa.

This doesn't make sense Laye. Gambians are encouraged (not "SHOULD LISTEN
TO") to consider (NOT LISTEN) or NOT CONSIDER what  anyone peddles and
endorse as we see fit. The "without fear or favor,  prejudice or malice" was
implied once the right to consider is  established. Something tells me even if
Gambians are free and happy,  PDOIS/Halifa will tell them they ain't so. And
he will try to make them  Halifa-free and Halifa-happy.

[Each Gambian should own him or herself and be involved in shaping the
destiny of the country for the good of all."] Halifa.


This is good advice and we thank Halifa for it. We also encourage him to
own himself and be involved in shaping the destiny of our country, to the
best  of his abilities, for commoner good.

Haruna. Easy men.


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