Mr. minteh,

I am really loosing on this one.  What is your point?

Should Baba Jobe be allowed to get a cell phone  or should this be extended
to all detainees?



Best Regards,


Ablie Njie- Lekbi
Atlanta

>From: Binneh Minteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: BABA JOBE'S MOBILE SET SNATCHED AND THOSE WHO CALL HIM THREATENED
>Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:11:47 -0500
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>OPTV has just received the news that Baba Jobe's mobile telephone was
>snatched from him because he was receiving calls while in detention.One of
>his close friends(name with held) was called at the NIA and questioned over
>a call that he made to his buddy.Baba Jobe's rights as a human being are
>being trampled upon by a mad man who until few months ago was using Jobe on
>every aspect.
>According to sources the NIA said that none should call Jobe because he is
>in communicado.Halifa Sallah raised the issue at a working dinner or forum
>they held with the British diplomats some time back.Halifa and his
>colleagues should be supported by all and sundry to fight against such
>injustice.So Baba Jobe is being jailed before the court's ruling? When I
>refer to the blatant nepotism some of us turn their mouths on me calling me
>a tribalist.I am not tribalist and never will I entertain it.I do speak
>Fula,wolof and Mandinka fluently.My home Town Fatoto is full of families
>that are what we call mixture.Pointing out Yahya's side of the story and
>comparing his figures to the real situation does not make one a
>tribalist.Then does that mean talking about corruption makes one a corrupt
>person? I am not a triblist and do not encourage tribalism in any way. I
>live in a very diverse country and culture for that matter.People of this
>civilize world regardless of race, gender, social background, religion,
>gender are the same and we should all love one another and live peacefully
>with one another.The Gambia has been destroyed by Yahya's tribal card and
>that is what I am warning people to be mindful of,if not another Rwanda is
>in the making.No doubts about that.
>
>Why should Baba Jobe,Lang Conteh and others be treated like mice and then
>Kujabi the one who ordered people to steal Jawara's generators is still
>working as a commissioner? If that is not tribalism and blatant nepotism
>then what is it?
>Yahya according to sources(these days) keeps on beating his chest saying
>that he will provoke all those Jarankas and see who dares face him?!!! This
>is true because his own boys say it in the open.Yahya has to be very very
>careful because the way he is operating is stinking and when the smell
>becomes uncontrollable he will certainly die before the poor Gambians.
>No one can see The Gambia today and ignore the fact that Yahya is playing
>the tribal card.What other means should we use to make him see that without
>refering to what he is doing? Even the Senegalese media are reporting on
>Yahya's tribal tendencies.If anyone is to be warned against stopping being
>a tribalist it is Yahya himself.
>Infact Yahya does not even represent the decent Jolas,he represents the mad
>ones.He the very Yahya went to Badibou telling people at Iliasa that he is
>Jammeh like them.
>That was before the so-called false elections! After the meeting Yahya went
>into his open and stinking pajero saying that these badibunkas think(in a
>very sarcastic way) that the surname Jammeh belongs to them.He laughed and
>said that he was only using that strategy to fool them.Immediately after
>the meeting many elders were arrested from that vicinity.Sources have
>revealed that Yahya has assigned special armouries to areas like Badibu in
>case of an uprising some day.His orders are clear,that every soul from that
>end should be crushed when they intend to rise against him.That is why Lalo
>Jaiteh was dragged to mile two and Alhaji Kanteh disappeared.Kanteh will
>resurface and join OPTV to get the hell out of this sick regime just wait.
>This is no exaggeration!! Yahya says these things because we get feed backs
>from those who are close to him.Yahya is the most vulnerable so-called
>president when it comes to leakages around his stinking state house.Even if
>he urinates people know about it within seconds or while he is on the act
>itself! He Yahya himself is a loose canon so what would the guards do other
>than help him spread his madness?
>Yahya's tribal tendencies are based on two things;greed and trying to
>mystify himself.
>Look at the way he recites incantations on video cameras and then rubs his
>dark palm on the heads of those losers who dance for him every day and
>every night! This man is so sick and he seriously needs help.
>Well let people revisit Yahya's speeches and see where he was condemning
>those griots at the McCarthy Square.He was so rude that some elders sneaked
>and went home.Did Yahya not dissociate himself from anything that had to do
>with the history of Mama Tamba Jammeh? Ofcourse yes! Yahya thinks that he
>dropped like a rain droplet when we all know that he is nothing but the son
>of a wrestler,period.
>It pains me so much when I see people trying to cover Yahya's behind by
>attempting to speak decency in the middle of stinking warambas!
>BABA JOBE'S MOBILE SET SNATCHED AND THOSE WHO CALL HIM THREATENED
>
>Why should the NIA tribalise Baba Jobe's case to the extend that they
>arrest only his mandinka folks and then allow him to talk to other
>friends.The NIA plainly stands by what mad Yahya says because he is the so-
>called SOS for defence.
>Believe me Gambians are the most tolerant people on earth.Anyway if Haiti
>of all places can catch flames then OPTV knows something and God also knows
>that thing.
>Was Haiti's president not brought back by external forces? Well when the
>people spoke everything turned the other way round.The USA and other
>democratic countries only listen to the people and not one mad man.Yahya
>cannot see the light because he only believes in his stupid dreams and
>witch craft.
>
>NIA should allow the courts do their job and return Baba Jobe's mobile
>set.Why is Yahya so scared of Jobe?
>
>Binneh S Minteh
>New York University
>NYU.EDU
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