Mbodge, keep it up sir

On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mboge
> Cogent, respectful, mature, and to the central and only issue in this difficult but necessary conversation. The matter is one of high principle and although I accept reasonable people may disagree on the point, I am solidly in the camp that reflects your outlook.
> I commend you for an absolutely compelling and non-personal response to Sidi Sanneh.
>
> No one who shares these distros with you can be in any doubt about your fierce independence of mind.
> I salute you, and celebrate your willingness to ask why anyone, especially former critics armed with cutting edge information about freedom and its values, would want to work at Professor Jammeh's policy councils after 2000 when the permanent features of his style of governance were fully formed and in no doubt.
> As you are wont to say, Best
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> LJDarbo
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> From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2013, 19:03
> Subject: [G_L] A reply to Sidi Sanneh’s piece “Mboge: I cannot win for losing”
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> A reply to Sidi Sanneh’s piece “Mboge: I cannot win for losing”
> By Momodou Olly Mboge
> Koto Sidi,
> I address you as Koto Sidi since you take exception on being called ‘Seedy’ which as you are aware is also a common spelling of your name in the Gambia.
> You admonished me to ‘… argue your [my] case cleanly, clearly and with facts. Never use a broad brush to paint - a bad idea’ (Sidi Sanneh). As my elder whom I owe respect beyond political discuss, I accept your advice, though I insist that I never ‘use a broad brush to paint- a bad idea’. I take responsibility of my actions and words in whatever context. I only agree with folk based on my own analysis and understanding of issues, however flawed they may be on occasion. No one can bully me to agree with them on any issue.
> In the case of Joe Sambou and LJD and the like, I agree with them on some things but not everything and I guess they know that. As a matter of fact, I refute your allegation that Joe Sambou “has scared the Bejesus out of you…. I wonder what Joe has that can scare the hell out of people to the extent that we never disagree with him. I disagree with folk when I think it is necessary. People are disagreeing with the Joe Sambous and LJDs every day on many different issues. Before you joined the Jammeh government, I cannot remember anyone ever accusing you of ‘herd mentality or scared some folk’ simply because you agreed with some people who were very vocal and uncompromising in their condemnation of the Jammeh regime. It will be nice to allow us to make our own decisions on whom to agree or disagree without being labeled.
> Koto Sidi, I agree with you that just as anybody you have the right to defend your character and reputation and I have no power or desire to stop you exercising such, but you as well cannot change the fact that you have no power to stop people expressing their anxieties and concerns on those who enabled Jammeh. The fact remains you knowingly joined a regime that you have called over and over undemocratic and dictatorial. In your case I entirely agree with the following statement by LJD March 19, 2013:
> Naive"? Absolutely not! "... obviously wrong in ... assessment"? Again, absolutely not! The UNEP, FAO, and ADB angle is mere elitism. In the main, those people never overtly displayed any real interest in the public life of The Gambia, and especially where it mattered most, on the critical question of the rule of law. They were role models for Sidi, and people with his type of priorities.
> Koto Sidi, sorry but I believe in the rule of law, freedom, human rights, democracy and I am not prepared to compromise with those who flagrantly and wittingly show contempt towards these values in justifying their reasons for joining the criminal and evil regime of President Jammeh based on some so-called ‘ result-oriented, problem-solving, practical approach’ or ‘ subversive motives’.
> Koto Sidi, indeed you reserve the right not to explain or justify to anyone and especially to small fish like myself on why after
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