Gambia-L:

As usual, the e-mail below came from a source in the Gambia. Again, I am
sending it as received - unedited. Also, take note that it was sent to me on
Saturday.

Ebrima

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: We are getting there, Ebrima
>Date: Sat, 05 Aug
>
>Ebrima,
>The need for follow-up on the messages being sent to you has been amply
>demonstrated by the supplimentary information sent to the L through you by
>a concerned individual who has been following the discussion on the L. The
>IMF and World bank sites must be regularly visited to learn more about what
>our Government is doing. the Letter of Intent sent to the IMF in November,
>1999 is further testimony to the falsehoods the Jammeh regime and his
>Secretary of State for Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank have
>been feeding both the IMF and the Gambian people. The IMF was promised by
>Yahya and NFamara that BIVAC will be abolished by July.  We are in August
>and nothing has happened. As I predicted, they will drag their feet until
>November when the contract with BIVAC runs out before they terminate.
>Otherwise, they are liable to be sued by BIVAC for brigde of contract to
>add to their current list of scandals involving the Jammeh regime. A huge
>sum of under-the-table money has already been delivered to Yahya and
>Nfamara Jatta. They would rather play cat and mouse with the IMF than to
>keep their promise of abilishing this unfortunate "scheme" which has caused
>havoc to the economy. APRC is a Government of liars and the donors know
>this.
>The Letter of Intent has clearly shown that the economy has been in a tail
>spin since Jammeh took over power illegally in 1994. I cannot get into the
>many issues raised in the letter and I would therefore urge members to
>study it carefully and start asking relevant questions. The opposition
>parties should also study the letter and compare it with what the Secretary
>of State for Finance's statements in the National Assembly. They will see
>them as the liars they are.
>In paragraph 11 of the letter, what caught my eye is the admission by this
>Government that.."below-the-line"(BTL) accounts have proliferated over the
>years. Over the years means since 1994. The BTL accounts is where all their
>illegal, extra-budgetary activities of this irresponsible government take
>place. Yahya's travels, Yahya's unaccounted spending for non-governmental
>activities,fueling his plane to take his wife to the US to deliver a baby(
>by the way, baby Sambou is named Mariam, they returned to Banjul today and
>received by "that woman" instead of the Butcher) and so many dubious
>spending in the name of the Gambian people. The BTL does not take account
>of the other funds stashed away in New York and other foreign Banks in the
>name of developing the Gambia. Yahya controls these funds.  I wish to plead
>with members of the L to study the letter carefully and expose the
>Government for what it is: illegal, unprofessional, incompetent and
>corrupt. I will certainly be interpreting some of these revelations in the
>coming weeks and months including the issue I have raised so many times
>before about the misuse of revenue generated by the parastatals; now you
>see how much of the SSHFC's, GAMTEL's, GCAA's, NAWEC's monies have been
>sqandered by Jammeh and his cohorts in six years. A complete overhaul of
>both this illegal Government and the economy is our only salvation as a
>Nation.
>WE ARE GETTING THERE, EBRIMA. LET US CONTINUE TO BE VIGILANT BY DOING A
>LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH OF OUR OWN AS MORI KEBBA JAMMEH HAS JUST DONE. WE
>MUST FOLLOW UP. I wish to request Saul Khan to make all this information
>available at the next ADNA meeting. We must back our claims with FACTS
>which are in abundant supply these days.
>My next message will be on the reasons behind the Cabinet reshuffle which
>is partly due to the fine job of the Gambia-L on the Dumo Sahor case. So
>please let us stay focussed and resist the temptatation of being distracted
>by side issues. Those of us on the ground will continue to bring you the
>truth. I hope that the opposition is also doing their own home work.
>

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