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Ebrima

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>Subject: Saja Taal and Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay at it again
>Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000
>
>Ebrima,
>Saja Taal and Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay are at it again. First, Saja
>informed us that the Local Government elections announced by the IEC will
>not, after all, be possible for the scheduled November date because the
>Assembly has not passed the necessary legislation. I ask Saja:whose fault
>is it? The APRC which is supposedly the Majority in the Assembly saw fit to
>drag its feet for almost five years which is deliberately designed to abort
>the elections for local councils which they, the APRC, know they will
>loose.  Why are they afraid if, according to Saja, the APRC will win?
>Gambians know better. APRC has lost credibility, trust and therefore the
>will to govern under the Constitution. Gambians have come to accept the
>fact that the APRC is afraid to face the electorate in the municipal, and
>eventually the Presidential elections. Saja accuses the opposition of
>"political gymnastics" but it is evident that it is the APRC and its few
>supporters are the ones playing "political gymnastics". Please Saja, our
>suggestion is for you to come out clean with the electorate. Where is your
>conscience? I suppose you have none and that is why to continue to make
>fool of your self.
>As for Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay, Yahya was only echoing what she said a
>few months back when she threatened opponents of the Butcher of Kanilai in
>similar fashion by telling us that we will find our bodies at the bottom of
>the sea. So, really what Yahya said was nothing new. The "six feet deep"
>statement made the headlines because it is unbecoming of a Head of State to
>threatened the governed with death. If Ousainou, Hamat or Sidia made
>similar statements, they will find themselves facing sedition charges.
>What double standards. Yahya cannot gain the respect of the Gambian people
>with irresponsible statements of the sort he utters whenever he is locked
>in a corner as he currently finds himself.  It beats the hell out of me why
>these two despicable characters continue to try to mislead the people.
>Fatou Jahumpa is accusing the press of selective reporting of Yahya speech
>to the 22nd July Movement at State House yet she finds fit to ignore
>another statement made by Yahya when he unashamedly boasted of being
>sufficiently rich not to worry about maintaining his family for the rest of
>his life. Fatou why did you not chastise the press for not reporting that
>aspect of his speech.  Yahya stole our money and stand before us to tell us
>that he is rich and the rest can go to hell.  That is the kind of President
>you have , you support and expect us to support him.  We will never do so.
>Yahya is a sick and corrupt man and unworthy of leading decent Gambia and
>Gambians. By the way, ask Yahya what he did with the money from the sale of
>the Atlantic Hotel. Hamat Bah asked the question and you conveniently
>side-stepped it. Please madam Director tell the Gambian people where the
>money for the Atlantic Hotel is rather than trying to explain away the
>threats of the Butcher. We have said before and we will continue to say to
>you, yahya and his cohorts that we will never cede the upper hand, which
>you are trying to regain, without a fight. And I mean a real fight.
>

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