I am surprised seeing you (Haruna Darbo), making senses on this issue thanks to
Karamba for making you to act maturely. I think everyone will surely agree with
him hence it was not Halifa, Darbo or Musa Jeng who authored the piece. Socrates
once said that he who sees with his eyes is the blind, and this idea is most
famously captured in his allegory of cave and more explicitly in his description
of the divided line. He agues that the invisible world is the most intelligible
and that the visible world is the least knowable, and therfore the most obscure.
So thanks Karamba for not seeing with your eyes. Edi
om: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, 22 April, 2011 7:46:57
Subject: Re: Karamba Touray Calls on Opposition Leaders to Draw deep into their
resevoir of Selflessness and Patriotism to save the Country!
Thank you Cous Fakoo Fakoo for sharing the great Karamba, a man I have personal
admiration for. I encourage all of us to read and understand his plea. Like
Karamba, I believe that if there is genuine desire on the part of all our
opposition party leaders to remove Yahya from governance, a position Yahya is
clearly unfit for, an alliance to remove Yahya should be very easy and swift to
form. There ought not be any unnatural excuses, no matter the pride or
prejudice, to free oneself from landmark oppresdsion and fear.
I encourage those of our fellow citizens who collaborate with Yahya against
their fellow citizens to cease and desist from that odious and selfish endeavour
and join the greater number of Gambians to isolate and remove Yahya from leading
all of us astray.
Haruna.
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From: Fankung Fankung Jammeh <[log in to unmask]>
To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 12:27 am
Subject: Karamba Touray Calls on Opposition Leaders to Draw deep into their
resevoir of Selflessness and Patriotism to save the Country!
Message for UDP
Karamba Touray Calls on Opposition Leaders to Draw deep into their resevoir of
Selflessness and Patriotism to save the Country!
Significant worry has set in the hearts of many of us who support the respective
political parties opposed to the regime of Yahya Jammeh.Individually and as
civic minded groups, Gambians of all stripes have tried to work towards a
cohesive unified front that would offer our people a clear alternative to a
regime they instinctively know is not right for them.Here in the US, like minded
Gambians began working years ago begining with late night telephone
conversations and evolving to enthusiastic gatherings such as the overflow crowd
in an Atlanta meeting hall where representatives of opposition political parties
met an eager constituency not dissimilar to the ones right there in The Gambia.
The bond between the frontline politicians present in that meeting and the cross
section of ordinary Gambians from across the US and Europe was palpable . In the
voices of the speakers and the eyes of the audience one sensed a deep yearning
for a Gambia that was led by selfless honorable men anchored on democracy and
the rule of law.
We had hoped to build on that air of optimism to execute a simple but critical
proposition which has at it's heart a grand coalition of all the parties to
effect regime change and establish a plural democracy that was functional with
the requisite institutions and checks and balances.Despite the best efforts of a
lot Gambians and non Gambian friends of our country, we have simply failed to
have all the opposition political parties sign on to a straight forward
arrangement.
I will not discuss any of the reasons advanced for the lack a united opposition
because in the main it really doesn't matter what the reasons are. Considering
the existential problems the nation faces at this juncture,no reason is good
enough to risk the fate of a people that have already suffered enough under a
regime whose failings are not up for debate.A temporary arrangement to persuade
a plurality of Gambian voters to change course shouldn't take more than a
weekend of meetings among the handful of opposition parties whose prinicipal
figures live in the same metro area.
It is disheartening to us ordinary citizens that arranging simple face to face
meetings become arduos months long prodding and coaxing exercises with uncertain
outcomes. The net result has been costly and has precitipated a significant
enthusiacism gap and in some instances a real crisis of confidence.
Each political party can rightly claim confidence in the validity of their
policy prescriptions for the nation or that theirs is superior to that of the
others and that the practice of democracy requires that those claims be tested
in the political arena and they will be right. But what is also true is the fact
that only regime change would bring about a competitive testing of ideas since
the agents of change themselves would be the contestants in the vastly inproved
democratic space they would have created. Therefore investing in regime change
by putting aside differences and fears would deliver the democracy dividend that
would benefit the Gambain people and by extension the parties and people who
seek to lead them.
What is clearly harmful to both the nation opposition political parties is a
divided slate of candidates running what would amount to quixotic campaigns with
a lot of their potential voters or supporters heartbroken, infuriated or both.
To pursue a strategy whose only outcome can be failure is not worthy of great
men who we know have and continue to sacrifice for the Gambia and it's people.
I have had the honor of meeting all of our current opposition political leaders
and I have been impressed with their dedication to issues larger than
themselves. It is in this spirit that I ask each of them to draw deep into their
resevoir of selflessness , patriotism and the burden history has placed on them
as leaders when our nation acutely needs leadership to enter into and swiftly
conclude an all inclusive coalition and mobilise the nation to chart a better
future.
The Gambian people will support you and the new direction you lead
enthusiastically. What binds you is far greater than whatever divides you and
the great democracy you build by unifying would bequeath to the nation a
perpetual gift for succeeding generation of Gambians.
Karamba Touray
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GOD BLESS THE GAMBIA. LET US JOIN HANDS AND SUPPORT SHEIKH PROFESSOR DR. ALH
YAHYA JAMMEH (NASIRU DEEN) TO BUILD OUR COUNTRY.
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