Hear Hear Sonny!! Haruna. -----Original Message----- From: UDP United Kingdom <[log in to unmask]> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Mon, Jul 8, 2013 7:15 am Subject: A review of A WEEK OF HELL by Papa Faal Demba, there was almost no economy at the time they assume power. The country was almost entirely dependent on handouts from Great Britain prompting fears that the country could never be able to stand on its own feet as an independent nation. Some including IM Garba Jahumpa even wanted to see Gambia annexed to Senegal. I suggest you read 'the birth of an improbale nation' by Berkeley Rice. I am informed by historical facts, not idle talk or sentimental rambling. On institutions, you can't tell me the judiciary was not functioning under Jawara because I know it was. You can't tell me Gamtel, a creation of the PPP, was not doing well because I know it was; You can't tell me the central bank, a creation of the PPP, was not functioning because I know it was; you can't tell me the tourist industry, a creation of the PPP, was not serving the country well economically; you can't tell me GPTC, GPA, GCAA, SSHFC, all creations of the PPP, were not functioning because I know they were. Yes, there were cases of mismanagement and financial misappropiation within the civil service and some parastatals and I have seen evidence of this unfold before my eyes in the Algali Commission. The only blame one can attached to the PPP political leadership in this regard is their failure to take grip of the issue and tackle it head on, and I have alluded to this when I said the PPP was too linient to a fault. LJD also alluded to the same. So yes, they might be negligent in some respect but not corrupt as a govt, in my view. I have no interest in defending the PPP for neither myself nor my parents benefitted from them in anyway or form apart from the public service they provided/ were providing for us all. Thanks Daffeh On Sunday, 7 July 2013, Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > "a vibrant nation state with functioning institutions and a promising economy." Hmmmm! Not sure the former regime and first republic could accurately be described as "Vibrant, functioning and promising institutions with promising economy. Certainly we did not have the democratic institutions, the economy was going down the drain by the day due mainly to public mismanagement and lack of oversight..., I know what we have now is far worst but lest we forget how we got here... we won't do justice in recognizing what a functioning institutions, a vibrant nation and promising economy look like.. just my two cents.... > > Demba > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Haruna <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hear Hear JDAM!In your honor, I shall share a video interview of our son in Misera. Coming up. > > Haruna. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> > To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sat, Jul 6, 2013 5:45 pm > Subject: Re: A review of A WEEK OF HELL by Papa Faal > > Thanks Haruna. Except for unbelievable advancements in the technological and other material side of things, modern times have nothing on antiquity. Cicero was just one of humanity's treasure trove of thinkers from societies across the world. I like him > > LJDarbo > ________________________________ > From: Haruna <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2013, 19:04 > Subject: Re: [G_L] A review of A WEEK OF HELL by Papa Faal > > 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. 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