LJD, it is called multi-tasking.

On the PPP issue, I do credit them for laying a solid foundation for the Gambia, which took the country from the status of an improbable nation to a vibrant nation state with functioning institutions and a promising economy.

I don't think the political leadership of the PPP was corrupt but I do think they were too lenient to a fault at the latter part of their reign and that gave room to malpractices within the civil service and some of the parastatals they themselves created.

I have attended some of the proceedings of the Bamfo Commission as a young high school student and I can tell you that what transpired there particularly in the rigorously contested cases of Lamin Kitti Jabang,BB Darboe, MC Cham and OJ, did not measure up to the 'rampant corruption' propaganda the junta was drumming outside. No wonder the Bomfo report was never made public. It was a different case in the Algali Commission though and they were mainly civil servants and officials of the parastatals.

The Alagi Commission itself was not without its flaws and I don't agree with some of the orders he had made against certain ex-civil servants.


Thanks
Daffeh

On Sunday, 7 July 2013, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Daffeh. Glad you could handle the review as well as deal with Dr Jaiteh, my classmate through seven years of high school.
> LJDarbo
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> Subject: Re: [G_L] A review of A WEEK OF HELL by Papa Faal
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> Nice one LJD.
>
> Thanks
> Daffeh
>
> On Thursday, 4 July 2013, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Nice review LJD. I am still flipping these pages because of a busy life, al ahm doulilah.
>>  
>> You did a great job on the review Lamin and your style of writing is golden to me.
>>  
>> Simply, love it. Independence. history. Facts. and moreover, precise and to the point.
>>  
>> Keep it up bro.
>>  
>> Best & happy 4th!
>>  
>> Yero
>>  
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>> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 14:04:18 -0400
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [G_L] A review of A WEEK OF HELL by Papa Faal
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Thanks JDAM for sharing Cicero once again, that luminary of Roman exigencies.
>>
>> Rome is not merely a matter of geography. Rome is not defined by rivers, or
>> mountains, or even seas. Rome is not a question of blood, or race, or religion;
>> Rome is an idea. Rome is the highest embodiment of liberty and law that mankind
>> has yet achieved in the ten thousand years since our ancestors came down from
>> those mountains and learned how to live as communities under the rule of law”
>>
>> Haruna. I will continue to take in of your magnificence in this review.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 7:10 am
>> Subject: A review of A WEEK OF HELL by Papa Faal
>>
>> Book Title:      A Week of Hell, 378 double-spaced pages
>>       
>>                                    Author:          Papa Faal
>>  
>>  
>> Review by Lamin J Darbo
>>  
>> Having finished reading A Week of Hell on 02 May, Kukoi Samba Sanyang (may the God of infinite mercy forgive his sins), would have had the opportunity to read my thoughts on the seminal events that indelibly etched his name in the national memory. More urgent matters intervened to place the actual review on ice. His untimely and sad passing has no bearing on my view of A Week of Hell, Papa Faal’s very limited recollection, and even narrower perspective, on the events that broke out on July 30 1981, but whose actual triggers were to be found in The Gambia’s post-independence governance of the decade prior. Astounding indeed was the day a civilian outmanoeuvred the collective state security system of Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara’s (Sir Dawda) Gambia, and overthrew, if only briefly, his progressively decaying PPP government. Whatever training and support he got from “rogue” governors in distant African lands, Kukoi was the complete outsider whose pomp and ceremony, his presidential prize, if you like, was snatched by neighbouring Senegal after a clearly successful overthrow of the partying, thieving, and generally decadent PPP.
>> Just out of the Gambia High School Sixth Form, and working in the very temporary position of a temporary reporter with Radio Gambia under the tutelage of Lala Hydara, I overslept on Kukoi’s big day, and missed work, without punitive consequence. Perhaps the military-type music being played by the putschists acted as a lullaby and kept me in bed until about midday. Kukoi’s choice of music must have had a similar effect on the “little boy that speaks Toubab”, aka Saul Saidykhan. We both slept through part of an extraordinary morning. I finally woke to the pleasant news of the overthrow of the decadent PPP government. What disappointment then at Senegal’s quelling of Gambia’s first successful experiment with a forceful overthrow of a so-called democratically elected government! The point here is to simply underscore that having completed the highest stage of academic training then internally available in the country, I was old enough to remember the terrain then prevalent, and to fo
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