Haruinerding, Keep being silly. Don't thinking you are winding me up. Mboge On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Wonderful Olfactor. I was just speaking with Senegambianews editor > Jambang two hours ago, reason why I came on now when I saw your tantrums, > about sharing Junior's editorial with Ellen. I didn't even know Gainako also > carried it. Men. You see how DaarManso works in mysterious ways don't you? > You and I are really meant to be friends and by God we will be bosom > buddies. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. You are a remarkable > man sometimes Olfactor. All I have to say is I love you. I mean it. > > Sincerely, > Haruna. > > In a message dated 4/5/2010 2:25:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > I Lost Faith In the Gambian Justice System; A Miscarriage of Justice - > Says Femi Peters Junior! > > > Femi Peters Senior UDP > > By: Femi Peters Jr (Chelsea) > > > > I would have given a lot for it to be a joke. Sadly, the matter at hand > wasn’t. It was about as hilarious as cackling at a funeral. > > April 1st 2010...the day justice in The Gambia hit the buffers. Drew its > last. Curled up and gave out. Ceased to be. Got coffined and earthed. > > Take your pick. > > > > We all have dates in our lives etched in our minds forever. Mine are 29thOctober and 9 > th November. I will explain why some other time. I will always remember > where I was, what I was doing, what I was attired in when I got the call > that my dad (the man who sired me, gave me all his names, paid my fees, > raised me right and instilled in me the love for books) has had his freedom > curtailed. I mean, it is not daily the average Gambian guy’s dad gets > accommodated in Mile Two. > > > > I was reading the Metro paper on a bad weathered Thursday afternoon when my > phone shrilled. It was my dad’s baby sister, aunty Acy to me. ‘I got news > about your dad. Guess what?’ My heart took a leap. Ever the pessimistic > one, I blurted out, ‘h-he got jailed?’ hoping I was wrong. ‘Yeah, he got a > year plus D10, 000.00 fine and hard labour.’ I had the experience of being > mad and sad at the same time and, take it from me; it is not a very pleasant > one. It is that sinking feeling when you feel there is not much left to > breath for. > > > > When the miserable red mist cleared, my first thought was my ten year old > brother, Lenrie Peters. Growing up, I was lucky to have my dad around me, > help with my home work, help me transform from a baby to a toddler, boy to a > man, answer my questions and simply being there. As I write this, it’s not > with pride I say I took those things for granted. You know, daddy leaving > home in the morning and be back in the evening is as guaranteed as > scorching, throat-parched weather on any given Friday afternoon in Banjul. > > > > Now my baby brother will be denied that opportunity of having dad around. > All the basic, normal things dads do for their seeds has been heartlessly > yanked away from him. All because the APRC government thought my dad > possessing a loudspeaker and initiating a rally is worth a year behind bars. > > My dad just clocked 64 in January and not in the very best of health. Do > the math on what a year in the direst of conditions in the state prison, > throw in unpalatable food and hard labour would do to a man his age and see > what you come up with it. Might as well start putting away for a casket! > > > > I lost faith in Gambian justice when, ten years ago this week, students > were gunned down and it was left at that. Forget me being caught that day > and given a pasting my dad has never given me, which resulted in a bad knee > I will take to my grave. My dad being banged up for exercising his right > as a citizen leaves a bad taste in the mouth of any sane individual. I > can’t remember knowing anyone who had to grow up with his dad in jail. To > have to happen so close to home, to my baby brother, is a nightmare. > > > > I’ve been made to understand the order to jail my dad came from above and > I’m not on about the flaming sky.That don’t surprise me one bit. If > journalists can get detained, tortured, one killed, one disappeared > completely off the face of the earth, printing press torched, political > opponents get arrested, refuse permission to hold rallies and existing in a > society where such is how it unfolds, jailing the man whom I’ve looked up to > all my life is a drop in the ocean, if you look at the bigger picture. > > > > Home, since 22nd July 1994, is not what we know it for what it had been. > It has transformed in a very un-Gambian kind of way and it is not getting > better. > > > > Today, it is my dad down for a year for his political beliefs. Tomorrow it > would be your mum doing a bid whose only crime was looking funny at a > portrait of the president. This madness will not stop. A complete change at > the helm is called for and the opportunity for that is at next year’s > general elections should it be free, free and held in a conducive > environment. Knowing what we all know, there is a better chance of God > lowering a ladder and we all scurry up to heaven than that happening. > > > > I had always thought April 10th 2000 was the day I felt less good about > being Gambian. I erred. April 1st 2010 it is and will always be. > > > > God willing, my dad will survive this and I pray his dream of a democratic > Gambia would be in his lifetime… > > > > PS: Thanks for all your calls and emails during these trying times. You > know who you are. God bless and keep you all. > > > > *Courtesy of the Gainako newspaper* > > > > * > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > * > > > > *Yero,* > > ** > > *I hope it is ok with you and your fellow editors at Gainako by my sharing > this poignant write-up of a son on his father's unfair, unconscionable > and illegal incaceration. Yaya and his goons will not break and connot > suffocate the will of good and truthful persons. * > > ** > > *Best,* > > ** > > *Mboge* > > - > > ** > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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]¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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]¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤