George, don’t worry about Gassama’s ‘selective amnesia’. I am by now used to his shenanigans. It is all good if he conveniently misses my post and responds to Joe. Fine with me. I will still ‘follow’ him BEHIND Joe’s posting and ‘whup’ him. What he does when he ‘responds’ to certain postings just goes to reaffirm a point I keep making to him; i.e., he is in DENIAL. He sees things and pretends not to see them. He hears things and pretends not to hear them. We will continue to ensure that he continues to SEE and HEAR the TRUTH. What he PRETENDS after seeing and hearing things, is beyond our control. People like Gassama are an exhibit of all that is bad in Gambia. Their despicable behavior taints some of the very good and hardworking Gambians that are still in that country trying very hard to make ends meet without resorting to these gorilla tactics sycophants engage in. The Gassamas of Gambia use praise-singing to promote mediocrity in the country. Gassama’s biggest asset now is NOT his ‘engineering degree’. No! It is the impression he gives his peers at Gamtel that he has the ‘ear’ of the AFPRC/APRC. That is what makes the Gassamas of this world ‘untouchable’. This aura of invincibility makes his bosses at Gamtel to ‘fear’ him; in the sense that they do not want Gassama to LIE about them. More competent people at Gamtel will also not want to ‘shine’ and expose Gassama’s ineptitude. At the end of the day, you have the empty barrels (making the most noise and PRETENDING to be AFPRC/APRC insiders) lording over more competent talent. Those hardworking Gambians that are more competent than the Gassamas (sycophants) of the country should stand their ground and expose the Gassamas of this world for what they are. Gassama does NOT speak for all the young, intelligent and honest civil servants in the country. Most of the things he talks about, he does NOT even have a clue about. I just saw how Mr. Nyang (a veteran in the tourist industry) just ‘corrected’ him. Rather than taking the rectification in good faith and with class, he tried to finesse his LIES. When Yusupha tried to inculcate some sense in his clearly irrational exuberance about the tourism sector, the man rudely stated that the ideas touched on by Yusupha were already being implemented by the mental midgets. This is the man that constantly yap here that people do not give them ideas. But when you try to give them ideas, he is curt with you because he does not want to hear anything ‘negative’ about the morons ruining our country. Yusupha is right that Gassama (as usual) blames everyone else except the real culprits. If the government lets the human rights situation in the country deteriorate, Gassama would rather blame the tour operators that caution their tourists than blame the people that PROMOTE the human rights abuses. Does this make sense? The ILLEGAL usurpation of power by trigger-happy thugs on July 22, 1994, is the single most important reason for the problems in our tourist industry. That problem was compounded by fielding inept family members and fellow junta members to a position they had absolutely no idea how to run. This is why the morons only focus on micro issues like ‘bumsters’ and condescendingly telling taxi drivers to take a shower before going to work in the morning and telling women at tourist market not to bargain with their customers. Instead of tackling the ‘big’ problems about law and order in the country, developing parks like Yusupha suggested, properly marketing our vantage position as the ONLY English-speaking country in the neighborhood with the MOST developed tourist industry PRE-1994 – instead of doing that – you have the Gassamas of this world and morons like Yankuba Touray telling people about ‘personal hygiene’. See why I keep saying that the inmates are running the asylum? Now the latest weapon in the APRC arsenal is to EXAGGERATE the criticism people mete on them to make it sound so ridiculous that people should criticize them. Here’s what I mean. Lately I have noticed that Gassama will tell goofy stories mocking the AFPRC/APRC just to covertly insert (‘porohal’) some AFPRC/APRC ‘achievement’. I just noticed the IEC/APRC ‘spokesman’ Usuf employing the same slimy tactic by misrepresenting Opposition criticism of the October Election in order to score points for the IEC/APRC. In one of Gassama’s postings he talked about ‘planes without passengers going to Banjul’. Needless to say, it is ONLY the moron (Gassama) that is talking about such a ridiculous proposition. But, he is attempting to ridicule the AFPRC/APRC critics and blunt their criticism of the illegal outfit ruining our country. But we see through his gimmicks. Let the record show that Gassama is the ONLY one saying that tourist planes go to Gambia without passengers. Let the record also show that Usuf from the IEC is the ONLY one saying that over 30,000 ILLEGAL voters were housed by the APRC at Yundum College. This is a DISTORTION made up by APRC sycophants and apologists. The Opposition saying that MORE than 30,000 ILLEGAL voters partook in our elections is very DIFFERENT from saying that more than 30,000 Casamance people were camped at Yundum College at the same time. But, EXAGGERATION is the forte of APRC mental midgets. Finally, George, I would ask you to take solace in the fact that although I had said here that Gassama was an incorrigible LIAR, I take that back somewhat. I think we are getting somewhere with Gassama now. If you noticed his latest postings, he is not giving the government credit for the sweat of PRIVATE citizens. Apart from the gibberish he wrote thanking Yankuba Touray (for what I do NOT know), the man is at least not reporting about roads that do not exist and taking ownership for the government of things that the government has nothing to do with. Thanks again George for your contributions. And about the petition regarding Gassama purloining Gamtel time, I am sure you mean that in jest. These people do NOT have anything better to do than sing praises in order to keep their jobs. Gassama defiantly told you that he will never be fired for singing the praises of the ‘president’. You know what? The guy is exactly right. Down in the asylum, the winners are the people that sing the most praises and kiss up to the ‘president’. It is NOT about who is the most competent engineer and who is the most conscientious worker. No! Remember! It is the inmates running the asylum. 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