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Thank you guys for sharing this valuable information with the sensible
people of the world. I love hearing people talk sense. This is the type of
information sensible Gambians on the L need to hear. Please consider me a
member in this organisation. I am ready to contribute anything to support
this organisation. May ALLAH bless our mission!
Jimo Kejera
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>Subject: The Establishment of a PDOIS Support Group
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:07:56 GMT
>
> THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PDOIS SUPPORT GROUP
>
>Drawing lessons from Halifa Sallah's speeches in Washington D.C and New
>York
> that as member of the PDOIS leadership that; the Gambian people must not
>surrender their sovereign rights to determine the affairs of their country
>to a small group they called politicians as if it is the birth right of a
>few to lead the country but must accept that they have a voice and power to
>dictate where their country is to head to;
> that keeping the people ignorant has enabled a few people at the helm
>to subject them to inducement and intimidation in order to seize their
>birth right to determine how their country is governed;
> that economically the Gambia is sinking and what is seen as development
>in the Gambia is a by product of heavy borrowing amounting to 1800 million
>dalasis between 1994 to date;
> that with an inherited debt burden of 3000 million dalasis, Gambia now
>has to settle 4.8 billion dalasis worth of loans;
> that the state employs less than 15,000 employees while the private
>sector employs approximately 20,000 in a situation where the 132,000
>children in our primary schools in 1996 would be seeking employment within
>the next ten years;
> that democracy must be more than mere voting every five years to retain
>or change faces;
> that it should be a tool of empowering the people to gauge the
>programmes of political parties and make informed choices;
> that PDOIS aims to provide a new kind of leadership to the Gambian
>people;
> that its concept of democracy is that the people must both be
>enlightened and empowered to select committees at the village and ward
>levels to take part in monitoring the development projects at that level
>as well as safeguard the rights of the residents;
> that the income of representatives must be proportional to the income
>of
>other professionals in the public service and should be required to put
>the
>national interest before their personal interest;
> that constitutions and electoral laws and other instrument of
>governance or representation should be made known to the people so that
>political leadership will not be mystified.
> That PDOIS aims to promote awareness for each Gambian to refuse to be
>any ones tool to get to power; that it strive to eradicate politics base on
>ethnicity, religious bigotry, gender chauvanism and any other form of
>sectionalism; that it hopes for the emergence of a Gambian who is
>conscious of ones worth and the importance of being a part of a nation,
>Africa and progressive humanity;
> that in the economic sphere PDOIS calls for the management of public
>finance and public corporations in such a way that they facilitate the
>growth of productive base of the national economy;
> that foreign investment will compliment and not be a substitute for
>self
>reliant initiatives, that all economic actors and actresses would be
>encourage to corporate to enhance production and greater welfare and
>security;
> that loans and aid will be a supplement to self reliant initiatives
>rather than a basis of indebtedness and conditionality;
> that PDOIS calls for a government which can earn the respect of the
>African and international community because of enlarging the awareness of
>the Gambian people and ensuring their complete control of the Gambia
>through
>various forms of peoples participation schemes that could serve as an
>example of a country where leaders are humble servants of a people;
> that PDOIS calls for a government where the leaders would prefer to
>resign when they are confronted with conditionalities that will not serve
>the interest of the people;
>
>
> We the people who are convince of these opinions have decided to
>established a PDOIS SUPPORT GROUP with the following objectives;
> To ensure;
> 1. That we give the widest dessemination of all information produced by
>PDOIS so that the disinformation regarding PDOIS policies , positions and
>programmes would be eliminated.
>
> 2. That Gambians in the US are informed of all developments in the
>country irrespective of party affiliation or political opinion or
>otherwise so that they can make informed choices.
>
> 3. That resources are mobilised to support the Nursery schools, Adult
>literacy programmes, Civic education initiatives, Disaster relief projects
>and other activities designed to strive or enlighten the people to be free
>from ignorance.
>
> 4. That Gambians take part in struggling for standards of governance to
>be established irrespective of party affiliation so that we can always act
>in common to combat human right abuses and other and other abuse of
>authority.
>
> 5. That the Gambians abroad can come together to influence the
>independent electoral commission to implement the powers given to it by
>section 141 of the Election decree to facilitate the participation of
>Gambians abroad as voters in presidential elections.
>
> The group has the following contact addresses at the moment to
>facilitate
>coordination of activities pending its further restructuring by those who
>will become members.
>
>
>Contacts:
>
>Pa Samba Jow Mbye Ceesay
>(763)531 8216 (614) 818 9474
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