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Ebrima

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>Subject: Rep. Johnny Ford  and the World Conference of Mayors
>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001
>
>Ebrima,
>
>Why is it that the World conference of Mayors (WCM)insists on settling for
>pariah states to hold their Annual junkets? At least the partern supports
>the view of the Sierra Club from the posting I sent you on WCM's 1997
>Annual Meeting in Abuja with Abacha as the Key Note Speaker; after Ken
>Sara-Wiwa and dozen Ogoni human right activists and environmentalists were
>murdered by none other than Abacha.
>
>A tremendous amount of work is going on which will likely produce statling
>results. What triggered my curiousity is, if you look at my last posting, I
>said that I have communicated privately in Banjul and by e-mail yesterday
>(now day before yesterday) with Rep. Johnny Ford. Well, my message has been
>returned undelivered and after several searches using every engine
>imaginable, I cannot find a web site for an Organisation with such high
>sounding name as World Conference of Mayors. I find that strange. Alabama
>State Legislature web site has no e-mail addresses for State Reps. unlike
>the US Federal Government and many other State Goverments.  Come on
>Alabama, you can do better than that for your citizens to have immediate
>and easy access to their representatives, inexpensively too.
>
>Another strange thing is that in the Sierra Club piece, the WCM seems to be
>in the habit of not revealing the names of those US polticians who do
>participate in these junkets, sometimes at taxpayers expense, to help prop
>up dictators like Yahya Jammeh, Omar Bongo and Sanni Abacha.
>The WCM have held meetings in both Abuja and Libreville. That former lady
>African-American Senaor from Illinois lost her seat, afetr omly one term,
>because of her cuzzying up to Sani Abacha.  Johnny Ford and his colleagues
>in State and Local Government should be careful  The federal legislators
>are smarter now after the experience of the former lady Senator from
>Illinois.
>
>The struggle against holding the World Conference of Mayors in The Gambia
>has bearly begun. I am soliciting the assistance of the State Department
>mandarins which I hope will bear fruit so that George Sarr can get to work.
>

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