Mr. M. Barrow: While I totally disagree with your versions in protecting the dictatorship, I commend your decency in portraying inconsistencies in diplomatic tantrum. You are one member of the dictatorship that I can visually understand. I will always reply to your satire. Please remember that priorities have to be set for the entire Gambian population to enjoy. What resources is the TV station providing the economy of The Gambia? Is it not another propaganda tool for the dictator to further oppress The Gambian people? On road construction, you've missed the point. It is expensive to maintain roads than to build them. What are the road conditions? What are the conditions of all the schools that were built by your hero? Are most of them not abandoned. Mr. Barrow, please do not get confused with quantity. Our interest is furthering quality at the benefit of The Gambian people. Naphiyo, Comrade ML Jassey-Conteh ------Original Message------ From: Mustapha Barrow <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: February 17, 2001 4:58:30 PM GMT Subject: "White Elephant Projects" Why are they so important now? Folks, I have been following the debate on line with keen interest and I have been very glad regarding the maturity that is "emerging" within this useful cyber space, which can without doubt expand our base of zero-tolerance to what the qur'an says at the end of suratul Asr "haq wa sabr"-meaning TRUTH and PATIENCE. Please allow me to send in reminder to those of us who are poncing on Mr.Saidy that projects that were realised by the the then AFPRC "transitional Gvt" were classified by the very opposition that is yearning to use them now as "white elephant projects". This very idea that came from the opposition was indeed corroborated by some commentaries from certain lers who are still spreading their contagious disease of "Gambia sink into chaos at all cost in the name of opposition". So interesting! to see these very faces now saying to MR TOMBONG SAIDY to execise what? fairness? In running a "white elephant project"? What I, Mustapha Barrow would have expected was instead of scrambling to use such projects that those very people condemned is for them to say that in that "mirage" gvt.they would plunge the TV,the Arch22, the Kerewan bridge,the routes in URD,the Airport terminal built by ATEPA-Senegal's architect, the high schools,the kombo coastal highway etc into the sea and then start new and better projects that have been carved by the "protectorate degree holders". Where we not told by the former Gvt. that the Gambia's economy wasn't "strong enough" to sustain a TV? Some of us with all the degrees and the rest of all the Cs and Dees in the certificate-arena sat there blindly up to 1995! Wasn't that the insult of the century? Gambia was the only country on earth up to 1995 without a TV! But that was ok for some of us because it was "buttering" some brains with cynical smiles. We believe in styles and not smiles. By the way I can provide some answers on behalf of Mr. Saidy as a team-mate. The removal of Mr.Peter Gomez from his post could not have been stopped by Tombong as a director of GAMTV which is running the audio-visual part of the media family while Peter is under the Radio Gambia which is running only the audio part of the media family. Lets then find out under whose jurisdiction Peter directly falls before or after Tombong, prior to making assertions or formulating the usual "porous shields" you bear. Then even if it's Tombong or not? Can any director or could any director have stood before the PSC or the administering body and tell them that "by force" Peter is not going! Who amonsgt us here "reasonably-speaking" would have done that? Who? Some will tell me "they would have" but thats what they are expected to say in a drowsy room in America while kilometers away from knowing what the Go and the psc regulations or any job regulation in The Gambia embedds for that matter. Why only Peter now? Were others not being dismissed since 1965 to date? If Peter's case is revisited,then would we entertain a spiral of revisiting certain dismissals or so to start in the Gambia? I will ask all of you the reason Why my own uncle was dismissed by the former Gvt.for having transported a sick NCP patient to Farafeni clinic as an ambulance driver!? The next anwswer from you will be Shame on you Mustapha Barrow because the PPP days are gone! I will then inturn say shame on anyone who says so because the transcending "infra-red political fights" are what that clique has left in most of you on the L and the voice out. So that was democracy because Yusu Ndour was always at the Bakau stadium making us drink what the Pdois calls "sangara noppa"? Folks you see debating is one thing but castigating and disrespecting is another! I will try giving a version on the students issue when next I come in. On the Jammeh Chicago trip. Why are you guys wondering around asking for dates and time bluffingly ha! Jammeh's trips if confirmed are usually publicised so wait and see if its on, then the GAMTV will send you the signals as appropriate. Please act with Joe Sambou and stop talking because he has called you guys to act. We will not ONLY act, BUT act and react! Mustahpa Barrow. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! 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