Suntoumana,
Happy Ramadan. You are spot on your analysis, in fact, that is what another respected citizen shared with me way before reading your post, especially with CORDEG folks calling whenever GDAG have their show time.
On a note, I meant to join the Buba Baldeh tribute on Kairo, but rcd the notice on email late.
Keep it up Suntou and you are doing a fantastic as always!!
"There is no god but Allah; & Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger"
Kind Regards,
Yero.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:59:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: CORDEG is Done; GDAG –Celebrity Quitters!!
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Yero
You did a painstaking analysis. I hope all sides listen and take stock. The brothers and sisters failed us, and I hope they can just get off the high horse and smell the coffee. We are all awaiting the tapes of the proceedings. I listen to all sides on Freedom radio, Gainako and Kairo.
James Bahoum a man I considered very restrain was not his usual self on freedom last week. He was actually saying "GDAG should stay and fight..." Amean, fight for what when the burning issues that cause the split were not even acknowledged. The Cordeg set up just baffles me, since these are people that have been in the struggle for far too long to expect that, the listener, reader can be easily won.
Tha amount of being in denial in Cordeg is amazing. The blames lies on all sides, but since GDAG stick to a principle and with that remaining unresolved, they left made them far better in the way they handled themselves. However, it has reached the point of the present remaining Cordeg folks not caring what anyone thinks or says, and the public saying, who are they representing anyway? Hence, no one is listening to the other, thereby, Cordeg dead and buried in terms of significance, respect and etc.
The other issue that bothers me is that, when Cordeg folks are on radio, no GDAG or Jainaba Bah team phone or even send a comment, but whenever GDAG is putting their side of the story, you will hear flurry of Cordeg members jumping in and hijacking the phone lines. That is so desperate. Allow the public to hear each side freely. I think radio presenters Should just tell this Cordeg callers to go away and leave the listener to judge, and a panel be convene where both sides can prepare and come rather than the unplanned jumping in.
Thanks
Suntou
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
CORDEG is Done; GDAG –Celebrity Quitters!!
By Yero Jallow
Hue, I was alerted to Freedom's radio interview with the GDAG team on Sunday July 13th 2014. What does the future hold for CORDEG? The one time promising organization, CORDEG, has gotten a good beat-up from one of its member organization, the celebrity quitters – GDAG. The future for CORDEG becomes no speculation. It is conclusive to say unless a miracle happens in the next days ahead, CORDEG, by all measurements is done, and sitting on an egg about to squat, vindicating the critics who saw the dark cloud hanging on CORDEG’s head a while back, as a result of Judas’ presence in the disciples midst. Oh well, they had a great referee in the person of Raleigh’s own radio host and controversial stubborn journalist of times, Gambia’s own Pa Nderry Mbai, who is also eying at getting the audios and documents to break the big news. He jokingly called one of the radio panelist CORDEG’s “Edward Snowden” and that just trickled my soul to laughter. Oh hells yes, share those audios and correspondences with Gainako, as we are also curious to know what happened. To Freedom’s credit, Pa Nderry, Seedy Ceesay and their team asked the right questions, moderated the dialogue beyond expectations, and even coached on some of those grown-ups, just like the good Samaritan caller in Pata Saidy khan of Nebraska too cautioned and coached them, but trust me, they were too busy with the damage of their new political competitor than heeding to decency and just thinking of tomorrow.
Personally, I have the highest respect for any of GDAG’s executive individually with no political grudge whatsoever, but politically they messed up big time, and I have my disagreements with their style of aggression and competition. Of course, GDAG is a group of less than ten stationed in Raleigh North Carolina, with no constituency, no base, with minimal history of organizing, and it looks like they are taking advantage of the fall out with CORDEG, to do more damage, and present themselves for radio prime time here and there. That is the height of rivalry and hate monger. They are relying on air time to strangle CORDEG and using that advantage to station themselves while flirting around with half-truths, half-false, even to what they themselves did during tenure, now become CORDEG’s fault. To me, the only thing they get, is the charges against CORDEG, which to their smear ability, they succeeded in throwing dust on CORDEG's vision. They have succeeded in creating a doubt on CORDEG as a viable organization, and it is accompanied by destructive mechanism, threats, punching below the belts on Dr. Saine’s waist which is low standard, and threatening that they will reveal more of CORDEG's prior audios and documents which they have to their possession, part of what some of them were accused of by their peers, to which they are blatantly denying. If CORDEG have nothing to hide, why would the leaking, the threats of exposing them even create fear? That is one good thing about being open and transparent, something which CORDEG greatly faltered.
It is to be noted despite any eventuality with CORDEG; Dr. Saine remains a man with great heart, one whose respect will not fall in the cracks by a group of angry lot interested in political Ping-Pong. For goodness sake if the man hasn’t used his scholarly and educational titles, why would any civilize person use that as a weapon against him. That is the lowest that any political savvy person will get. Even the comments he made on radio which were at par with reality, but because of the spirit hunting, height of inside fighting and political rivalry and competition, you would rather find fault with his comments, and it didn’t matter if he brought the heaven down for you guys. That was just at individual level, even though politically, Dr. Saine got some work to do, as it was a miscalculated political trajectory. Such mistake is inexcusable and it is even more suicidal to quit.
To GDAG’s credit, CORDEG should have kept to the stipulation in the binding documents that show CORDEG to light in Raleigh Summer 2013. CORDEG shouldn’t have changed the term limit, they shouldn’t have operated offers of positions behind the scene, the very people who oversaw CORDEG’s process should have excused themselves from contesting for positions, and Dr. Saine should not have opened an account for the organization. What is surprising also, the easiest of all, to register an organization in the U.S, was not done, and it is correct to say that CORDEG was not operating legally. That is quite sad and unfortunate, especially the fact that, CORDEG’s leader, is a celebrated political scientist, and a renowned scholar with no little reputation, across a whole geographical milestone. Now, as it all seems, CORDEG, the full pack of intellectuals, was by its first tier in the persons of the trio, a wrong set-up, with emotionally charged, and some refusing to take even meeting minutes. This is unbelievable. The group just missed an opportunity to unite Gambians, secondary to offering themselves as servants of the people, where they were going to sit on the bench as reference referees, rather than overseeing and ending up being the very people to take the positions. Yes, CORDEG might have been selected, nominated and even voted in as they claimed, but going by revelations by GDAG and Mai Fatty of GMC, it was poorly conducted, and as a result, the whole election engineering process lost credibility and failed. This is why for any good union; it must be free from friendship shows, a good composition of honest Gambians who can criticize decisions and offer solutions, and not dip-fly celebrity quitters.
On the other hand, some in GDAG are good at clowning and clamoring, and hanging onto CORDEG’s score eyes, as their only defense and triumph. They started on competing on press releases, radio interviews, and with time, they themselves will be left to settle their own small scores, together with some of the sinister attitude which they used to destabilize CORDEG, which factually they will use against their own, especially now that they think they have fighting muscles, their offensive ploys, perhaps short-lived, maybe just a pretense, will succeed in committing political suicide, as a result of their actions, betrayal or not, will make them and their organization unsalable in the eyes of decent Gambians. Oh well, here are others, who even though they are in all these radios, social media and papers making public statements, wants any opinion writer and concerned citizen to contact or wait for them before opining on matters Gambia. Damn right! One would have thought that Mr. Alkali Conteh was going to be an elderly statesman, one loaded with Gambia’s problems at heart, to do everything within midst and beyond, and not to be seen a shooter of his own foot on broad day light. That is a dream far from reality, as he seems media-happy, and to his own record has the politics of branding CORDEG as “gang of five” and promising to put some of CORDEG’s records to public domain. That is insincerity and betrayal of trust at its best, especially if done as a result of anger, and not done sincerely to just expose its wrongs for system correction, rather done for rivalry sake.
Now that the political suicide has been done, the next thing for any sane citizen, is what next? The answer doesn’t lie in some of the organizers and their organizations. It is because partly some of them politically failed, partly some of them betrayed a trust, and to the larger part, they lost citizens’ trust and confidence. Any citizen will be a fool to fall for the bait. Some are not liberators. They are out to shine themselves in the top echelons of group leadership, perhaps for fame, perhaps not, perhaps for positioning, perhaps not, but what remains clear is there is a great deal of hidden agendas, with most left to the fooled citizen, who relies only what he is told in open space, without being suspicious or verifying to the lurkers in the wilderness, who going by their own, are demonstrating worst tendencies than the dictator himself. The answer is with a group of patriotic citizens, perhaps emerging, perhaps yet to emerge, who will love country and citizens for its sake, without interest in having to lead, without political hate and bias, without betrayal of trust tendencies, rather just wanting to see the nation liberated from tyrannical decadence and the claws of impunity in the hands of a brute leader.
Like the ollofs say, “koo gish muie dorr dehnamm, duu mom” (whoever beats his chest in arrogance, is not the one to lead) and think about this comrades. If any of those who can’t stand my opinions meet me in down town Banjul, just pull the trigger on the center of wherever pleases you, as I will not be silenced on my God-given opinion, a citizen’s right. I have no guns, no knives, and no sticks whatsoever; all I have is my thoughts.
"There is no god but Allah; & Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger"
Kind Regards,
Yero.
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