Daffeh,
The perfect solution indeed is to ensure that there is a single opposition coalition candidate to challenge dictator Yaya Jammeh in The December presidential poll. The scenario we are faced with in The Gambia is extraordinary, and thus requires an extraordinary solution.
I have no doubt that The UDP in terms of national following, is not just the biggest opposition party in The Gambia, but it is indeed the biggest political party in the country. A coalition that removes Yaya Jammeh can only be to the UDP's interest, but that can only be a coalition which includes not only all the opposition parties, but also PDOIS/NADD in particular. Only such an all inclusive opposition coalition will have the muscle to resist the criminality which constitutes the modus operandi of the A(F)PRC. The moment nomination day ends with a single opposition candidate up against Yaya Jammeh, you will witness Gambians in their thousands standing up for such an opposition candidate. There will be generated such a tremendous momentum for change that Yaya Jammeh even with all his green berets, will not be able to campaign in some places. This is not a matter of conjecture, but it is a fact, as we know how Jammeh has been stealing elections in The Gambia over the years.
I am certain about another thing: In view of the banditry, brutality and criminality which characterize the body politics of the A(F)PRC, to contribute towards the regimes constitutional removal from power is a moral duty. Similarly, to procrastinate the evolution of the framework which to the majority of our citizenry and well wishers constitutes the perfect solution, should constitute a moral transgression. Though no person should hold moral judgement over another, this regime has been so murderous, that it can only be deemed to have committed the worst against us. This also helps to highlight the mess we are in, and make all the more obvious the urgency of the need for national sacrifice and compromise.
Finally, I intend not to abide by your advice if we do not have a single opposition coalition candidate to challenge dictator Jammeh in the forthcoming presidential poll in The Gambia. However, whatever resources I have to contribute shall be equally divided between all the opposition parties. For me, they are all comrades-in-arms against murderers and friends of rapists!
In conclusion, I hereby remind all our opposition leaders of the teaching of a man at the beginning of his eternal journey to his children. The man called all his children. When they were all gathered, he asked fo a traditional African broom to be brought in. When his request was complied with, he untied the broom and requested one of the children to sweep the floor with just one of the sticks from the collection that make up the broom. The act was impossible to perform. But when the sticks were put together again, the act of sweeping the floor became possible. The story teaches not only the significance of unity, but how paramount it is, especially when what constitutes the bottom line is messed up; like when truth and justice are not part of the basis of our national dialogue and interactions, like what obtains in The Gambia now.
Best of regards,
Omar Joof.
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 19:31:46 +0100
Subject: Re: [>-<] The deteriorating condition of Gambians in The Gambia
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Ansu, here is the perfect solution to this problem; Vote UDP if you live in The Gambia or canvass for votes and funds for the UDP if you lived outside The Gambia..
Regards
Daffeh
On 14 May 2011 18:49, ansukoroma
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Sixteen years of tyrannical rule has plunged The Gambia further into an abyss of a rat hole that will take generations to rectify. Thanks to Yaya Jammeh - a military police corporal passing himself off as Head of State.
Gambia's economy has been the number one victim of Jammeh's misrule outside of the human rights and liberties of Gambians which has been under assault since 22 July 1996. The economy has been decimated by sheer ignorance of a collection of sycophants led by Jammeh, whose sole role seem to be is to pilfer an economic system that, despite its shortcomings and inefficiencies under Jawara, has brought economic order through a reasonably predictable model of free enterprise. The invisible hand has been transformed into the very visible hand of a single individual who tries to single-handedly determine the demand and supply curves of the Gambian economy. Yaya Jammeh allocate public resources by determining the level of the annual budget and then turns around and use those very resources to purchase goods and services for government and political agents. The goods and services bought under Jammeh are more to do with highly depreciable assets like vehicles, tractors and other leisure vehicles and less to do with expenditures that will add lasting value to the economy. For example, less resources are allocated to school supplies, teacher training and teacher education and consumables and more on vehicles and buildings. The same applies to the health sector where it is common to see a shining ill-equipped hospital facility with empty medicine cabinets.
The resultant budget deficit has been a drag on the economy resulting in higher interest rates adding to the inflationary pressures that ordinary folks encounter daily. To ameriorate the fiscal pressures on government, there is a less-publisized measure of salary reduction for public servants to help pay for the irreponsible spending spree of an indeciplined giovernment. Reducing civil service pay during an economic down-turn only adds to an already difficult living condition for Gambians. It is now a common sight in the Greater Banjul area to see people walking along the Serrekunda-Banjul highway to work in Banjul bacasue they can no longer afford the transport fare which can easily total D25 per day, a sector now domonated by Jammeh transport companies. It has gotten that bad, folks. I don't know how long we can afford to sit and watch our country destroyed by a corrupt, inept and vicious government.
A. Koroma