Mr Jobe,
I have to agree with you on this one--- I said before
that what goes around comes around...I lived probably
no more than 100metre from Chongan & I totally agree
with most of what you've put down here.

Ngai
--- Kebba Jobe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> God Damn it, what the hell is wrong with the lot of
> you? Narrow minded
> bigotry will not bring about salvation to the common
> man in the Gambia. Some
> of you can never bring yourselves to accepting the
> truth for what it is.
> Chogan is potentially as big a murderer as they
> come. I hear everyone
> saying, I know him from here, I know him from there.
> What the heck? Ebrima
> Ceesay perhaps knows him more than most of you
> talking rubbish. Ebrima lived
> not more than 130 metres from Chongan. He knows that
> Chongan was an absolute
> brute. Ask Ebrima if he knows Pa Jatta. He lived
> less than 30 metres from
> Chongan and was atleast a good 15-20 years his
> senior. Chongan ordered his
> arrest, detention and torture to the point that Pa
> Jatta, for three days,
> just wanted to eliminate him. His crime? Just
> calling him "Suma rakka". I
> Know very well that both Joe Sambou and Ebrima
> Ceesay know Pa Jatta. For
> those who don't know him, he once used to run
> Pontinetto bar and restaurant
> and was as good a fella as they come.
>
> I have tried to ignore all that is going on, but I
> just can't stomach it any
> more. It makes me wonder what sort of democracy you
> people are fighting for
> if people can no longer speak their minds. As much
> as I abhor what was
> metted out to Chongan and Ebou Colley, there is no
> doubt in my mind that
> Chongan was also very brutal and terrorised many
> people under, a seemingly
> human rights oriented government. It horrifies to
> think what he is God damn
> capable of if he was in Singhteh's or Yankuba
> Touray's shoes. Pope John Paul
> said that "murder is murder whatever the motive" and
> I say that "torture is
> torture is torture what ever the circumstances". If
> you want, please
> sympathise with him and Colley but do not tell us
> that Chongan was a saint.
> In my book, he could have been even worst than Sana
> Sababbly or any other.
> Here is somebody who wilded limited power under "one
> of the most democratic
> of African nations" terrorising his own people; how
> about if he was part of
> the ruling junta? For God and heaven's sake do not
> hate Yahya to the extend
> that you are blinded from reality. The Gambia
> belongs to us all and we
> deserve better. To say that getting rid of Jammeh is
> so important to you
> that you don't mind what idiot comes after him is
> very dishonest and down
> right stupid.
>
> Kebba Dampha, Hamjatta Kanteh and Ansuma Kujabi,
> please calm down and listen
> to what others are saying. If you've never witnessed
> the guy's brutality,
> please keep your cool. For all intents and purposes,
> Chongan is potentially
> worst than anything you've ever known. I am sure
> Ebrima Ceesay like me, does
> not want to be drawn into this fruitless debate.
> However I know that of all
> the people on the L that I know, he is in a better
> position, than most, to
> tell us about Chongan's thuggery/savagery. Ebrima
> Ceesay lived less tha 150
> metres from Chongan.
>
> It is so disheartening when people try to
> "accedemize" every God Danm thing
> to the point point that common sense does not matter
> at all. Just pathetic,
> if you ask me.
>
>
> Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.
>
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