>From: panderry mbai <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: NADD RALEIGH MEETING ON POINT'S NEW WEBSITE!!!!
>Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:08:24 +0100 (BST)
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>Folks,
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>Below is a comprehensive coverage of the Raleigh NADD meeting authored by
>veteran journalist Ebrima G Sankareh. This is a master piece and i
>urge you to read it.
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>NADD’s Diaspora Launching Delegation Portrays Gloomy Gambia -Tales of
>Torture, Corruption & Maladministration
>By Ebrima G. Sankareh in USA
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>Raleigh, NC, USA- The Co-coordinator of the National Alliance for Democracy
>& Development in The Gambia (NADD), Mr. Halifa Sallah, expressed deep
>resentment over the affairs of state in the country. Addressing a crowded
>hall during NADD’s Diaspora launching in Raleigh, state of North Carolina
>in the USA, Mr. Sallah told his countrymen that across the spectrum, APRC
>regime’s performance has been a disaster for The Gambia. “Therefore”, he
>warned, “unless the APRC leaves office, the nation will sink into an
>abyss.”
>
>According to Halifa, “some 20,000 students will be leaving school in the
>next decade, while government can only employ a few thousands.” This bleak
>situation, argues Sallah, coupled with the multi-million Dollar wasteful
>projects from Libyan and Kuwaiti loans, are the grim realities confronting
>a regime that has neither a vision of reality nor a clear economic policy
>for the better. Consequently, says Sallah, “The Gambia is heavily indebted
>with no efforts to maximize its economic base.” He cited the poor
>performance of several public corporations, particularly citing the
>purchase of Mariatou Beach Hotel with tax payers’ money as a case in point.
>According to Halifa, it was against this backdrop that NADD was conceived
>to fix the economic situation and return The Gambia to a democratic culture
>with respect for the Rule of Law. Since its launching, revealed Sallah,
>NADD has contested six bye-elections. Of these, NADD has a cumulative vote
>of 11, 582 while the ruling APRC has 9, 852
> votes. These figures, argued Sallah, contradict lies that the APRC is
>popular and deeply entrenched. He described such claims as deceptive and
>appealed to all genuine Gambians to rally behind NADD to rescue what he
>considered an otherwise doomed nation.
>
>Echoing Sallah’s dismal account of events in the country, Mr. Kemeseng
>Jammeh told the crowd that Yahya Jammeh has woefully failed Gambians and
>that his APRC government has no respect for human and people’s rights. He
>said, “instead, we have a corrupt judicial process that has become
>synonymous to detention without trial, abuse and misuse of power.”
>
>According to Kemeseng, this human rights record explains partly why the
>nation did not receive an olive branch in the debt relief programme that
>richer countries have benefited from. “This explains why,” he reasoned,
>“the country now depends on remittances from you people for its
>sustenance.”
>
>Lamin Waa Juwara echoed similar sentiments, albeit more fiercely. He called
>GRTS, “Yahya Jammeh TV,” given President Jammeh’s alleged monopoly over
>both the radio and television. Since coming to power, says Waa, Jammeh has
>ruled the state with an iron fist and despite claims to the contrary, APRC
>has systematically ruined the state apparatus. With the radio and TV at his
>disposal President Jammeh, says Waa, is bent on a massive campaign of
>misinformation and disinformation. He expressed a great deal of pessimism
>over the political dispensation of The Gambia. “I have no confidence in the
>political climate and the only way to avoid a recurrence of events in
>Sierra Leone and Liberia in The Gambia is for us to rally behind NADD and
>democratically remove the APRC from power,” he said.
>
>Mr Juwara forcefully argued that the 1996 elections were rigged and that
>non-Gambians voted massively in the 2001 elections, particularly Senegalese
>from Cassamance. According to Waa, since coming to power, APRC has made
>torture a consistent trademark, himself having fallen victim to a most
>degrading and inhuman treatment while in jail both at Janjangbureh and Mile
>II Central Prisons.
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>In his exposition, Mr. Omar A. Jallow, former Agriculture Minister in the
>PPP government, said that APRC was a dictatorship that has no respect for
>fundamental human rights. Contrary to what Jammeh claimed on seizing power,
>contended OJ, his government has proven to be a clique of “thieves, thugs,
>human rights violators and pathological liars”. He disclosed to the crowd
>that between them Yankuba Touray, Momodou Clerk Barjo, Baba Jobe and Lang
>Conteh have on Jammeh’s watch allegedly embezzled more than D700 Million
>from the Central Bank of The Gambia. He concluded that Yahya Jammeh and his
>government were irredeemably corrupt, inept and lacked the moral fiber to
>govern The Gambia.
>
>In his remarks, Gambian born American professor of political science, Dr.
>Abdoulaye Saine, the brain behind the coalition, thanked the delegation for
>sacrificing their lives to challenge a dictator of the APRC’s magnitude. He
>urged Gambians in the Diaspora to support NADD so that come 2006, Jammeh
>will be history. “Today the average Gambian, posited Dr. Saine, “is poorer
>than he was ten years ago thanks largely to APRC malfeasance.”
>
>Meanwhile, the NADD delegation together with Dr. Saine, paid a courtesy
>call to the Carter Center in Atlanta where they had a fruitful discussion
>with Dr. David J. Carrol, Director of its Democracy Program.
>
>There is hopeful anticipation that the Carter Center will send monitors for
>the 2006 elections. Efforts are also underfoot for the delegation to meet
>top officials of The State Department and the Washington-based National
>Democratic institute.
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