Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] Full-name: Ousjb Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:06:05 EST Subject: Conteh.. To: [log in to unmask] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 126 Conteh, It is nice to hear you in your usual mood again. I am glad you are back in good spirit. I WILL never endorse the killing of our school kids. I will never endorse even the random arrest of the opposition and that is why whenever it happens my voice is well heard. I am tired of people who think that all they could do to affect changes is coming to the Gambia L and buy cheap popularity. These are the same people who will not join you and I to demonstrate against some of the ills this government does to our people. I am sick of people who all that they think of is themselves when it comes to national development. Conteh, if we all mean that we need our people to go fwd., why marginalize anyone, and even Jammeh? You just said all the reasons why I also WILL never endorse Jawara. Yes, he might not have killed tens of students, but he denied some of us our basic rights to even a court date. He fired some of our parents for they were alleged oppositions. My dear comrade, Jawara jailed +60 year old uncles and dads of some of us and they died in prison without trials. Jawara jailed our fathers for three consecutive times or more without trials and even denying us family visitations. Conteh, Imagine going for an interview with the government for a job and have Kebba Ceesay, NIA director now, Pa Jallow and Munir Darboe all of NIA then NSS to tell you that you cannot work for the government because your father is an opposition to Jawara. Conteh, imagine as a student in Form Three at high school and have the CID kidnap you from school campus without even letting your school teacher know more over your parents at home because your father is an opposition. Please, do not let me continue. I say it now and always will. To hell with anyone who will suppress my people like that. I do not care for ANY one who will treat me like that. A lot of us here keep saying that the "dictator" must go and sit on the side line and will not do a damn thing about it, but just to shout on the L. We could cry for democracy forever if we are not free in our own minds. Jawara sat on our heads by denying us the simple education to better ourselves, and here come Jammeh playing with the few we had. And here in cyber space, we have some of us who failed to achieve any of our personal goals calling for national goals. Why don't we all face the reality and know that the Jawara days are gone, we are in the Jammeh era? And look for ways to make a better future for our people as a nation and one Gambia. I see your desperateness calling for prayers. It is always the case. We say, God will help us. Why don't we help ourselves first? You know as much as I do that the Jammeh government is illegal, but we still have the opposition taking salaries from him, sharing the same house of chambers with him and blankly endorsing him. If they think the guy leads such an illegal government, why be part of the House who passes bills? If they had all listen to the calls some of us made to them NOT to contest for the elections if they knew they were going to be reaped anyway? They failed to yield to the reality thinking that they were going to fill the gap Jawara left. Conteh our house had been destroyed already by Jawara years ago. Calling him back to Gambia will certainly be a good gesture. The guy certainly did some good things and just like Jammeh. However, he owe the whole nation an apology. If he failed to do that, he also deserves to be in exile just as some of us here choose to be. Ousman Bojang.