Folks
Kebba Jobe has once again misinformed us by saying;
"DO YOU KNOW THAT HON ALMAMY TOURAY WAS RETURNED TO
PARLIAMENT UNOPPOSED?"
Mr Jobe, please try and get your facts right before
attacking us in the opposition. Mr Almamy Touray was
first elected as MP in April 1992 as an Independent
Candidate. He had to contest this seat with 4 other
candidates. In fact Mr Touray suddenly joined the
National Convention Party and started sitting
alongside the opposition members of parliament. At no
time did Almamy Touray entered Parliament unopposed.
Any queries on this, I await your response.
--- Kebba Jobe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > What a
load of bull**** from Lamin Manneh. Lamin,
> analysis of the reasons
> why Hon. Almamy Touray won in Niani is total bull.
> You know it, I know it
> and so does most right thinking Gambians. Any body
> or party that hopes to
> exploit the ethnic or religious card to be elected
> to office will not only
> loose, but will be humiliated.
>
> For the benifit of others, I'll throw more light
> into why Lamin Manneh's
> analysis is rubbish. Like I said earlier, to say
> that tribalism influenced
> the outcome of the last elections is absolute
> rubbish. Look at the
> background of the various candidates.
>
> Mr. Almamy Touray comes from a very respectable
> family who initially hailed
> from Kayai village. His father was one time a deputy
> imam of Kuntaur wharf
> Town. Mr. Manneh hails from Mackah Saderr about 5 Km
> from Kuntaur. Mackah
> Saderr was named after Saderr Manneh, his father who
> was Chief of Niani
> district until he retired of old age giving way to
> the election of the late
> Dodou Ndow. The NRP candidate, Boury Jawo hails from
> Kuntaur Fulla Kunda and
> was the son of the late Noperry Jawo a renown and
> respectable islamic
> scholar and elder.
>
> Until his retirement due to ill health, Mr. Koita
> Cham represented Niani
> district for the best part of post independence
> Gambia. The Cham family
> originally hailed from Chamen, Nianija. The present
> upper Fuladu NAM, Mr.
> Churchill Falai Baldeh was a ward of the late Koita
> Cham. Incidentally,
> Niani district has never elected a wollof to
> represent them in parliament.
> Therefore Lamin Manneh's assertion that tribal
> affiliation should be
> considered when seeking the mandate of our peoples
> for representation is not
> only bull, but a very backward way of looking at
> things this day and age.
>
> To say that Talib Bensouda was unpopular in Niani is
> also absolute rubbish.
> Talib Bensouda, whose ancestors originally hailed
> from Morroco was the son
> of one of Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara's sisters. He was
> a successful
> businessman who went into politics after the
> retirement of the late Koita
> Cham. He left politics of his own volition, when he
> was dropped from being a
> parliamentary secretary under Sir Dawda and was
> employed by Bimex. Right now
> he lives in the US with his family.
>
> I know all the above people intimately as I grew
> among them. Your posting in
> Janjanburray for a brief spell does not in any way
> qualify you to make such
> derogratory statements. How dare you suggest that
> the people of Niani vote
> on tribal lines? Do you know that Hon. Almamy Touray
> was once returned to
> parliament unopposed? It is very important that
> people take their time to
> find out about things that they don't know rather
> than just speaking for the
> sake of speaking. George Washington once said that
> "it is better to keep
> quite and be thought a fool than to speak and remove
> all doubt".
>
> When I first posted the resignation of Hon. Almay
> Touray, it was quickly
> followed by another from Ebrima Ceesay allegedly
> from one of his sources.
> What that source failed to say was that I posted the
> news as soon as it was
> broadcast on GRTS. It was already known throughout
> the Gambia by the time I
> posted that information. The impression given by the
> counter post was that
> it was breaking news. It was not. It is very
> interesting reading other
> papers or to listen to any of our local radios
> stations to get the facts. If
> the allegations levelled against Hon. Almay Touray
> are the sole reasons for
> the UDP to "expel him" from the party, is the timing
> right? What good will
> it do to the party coming soon after the party
> suffered a most humiliating
> defeat in the recent bye-elections? People should
> ponder over this rather
> than speculating about Almamy's expulsion or
> resignation from the UDP.
>
> Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.
>
> To those wondering what my next move is, you don't
> have to wait long.
> Kujabi, Jeng, Dampha, Hamjatta, Sanusi, Barrow,
> Saul, Mboge, I'll get back
> to you very very soon. I am a bit busy these days
> and Colly's recent post
> really upset me. I could not, however resist the
> temptation to respond to
> Mr. Manneh's nonsence.
>
>
> >----Original Message Follows----
> >From: Lamin Manneh PF <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> > ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: UDP EXPELS HON. ALMAMY
> TOURAY/INDEPENDENT
> >Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 13:09:01 -0700
> >
> >Mr. Conteh, let me add my little thoughts on this
> issue. Hon. Touray >was
> >sitting on a hot UDP chair in parliament. His
> victory in the last >National
> >Assembly Election was mainly due to the fact that
> APRC failed to >select
> >the
> >candidate of people's choice. The majority of
> Nianinkas were in for one
> >Sainey Manneh whose candidature was rejected by the
> APRC National
> > >Committee.
> >Over 3000 supporters of Mr. Manneh in that district
> change their
> > >allegiance
> >from APRC and voted for Hon. Touray. This was the
> same way he came to
> >parliament in 1992 when PPP selected Talip Bensouda
> who was widely
> > >unpopular
> >in Niani.
> >Please allow me for the sake of political analysis
> only to talk about
> > >tribal
> >representation in Niani, how it help Hon. Touray to
> victory and the >dire
> >consequences it have on his next election campaign.
> First here are the
> >polling stations of last NAM election in Niani.
> >1. Nyaga Bantang mainly Wollof
> >2. Gingori Mustapha Fullas & Wollof
> >3. Kass Wollof maily Wollof
> >4. Jukul Ndawen Mainly wollof
> >5. Dinkirai Fulla, wollof
> >6. Wassu mandinka, fulla
> >7. Kuntaur mixed but more mandinka
> >8. Sukuta mainly mandinka
> >9. Kayai mainly mandinka
> >10. Kataba Alh. Omar Fulla and Wollof
> >11. M'bayen Wollof mainly wollof
> >It is therefore a blunt fact that for anybody to
> win in Niani, the >person
> >MUST have the Wollof majority(the same is true fot
> upper fulladu >west).
> >You
> >don't have to campaign on tribal line but you need
> to addresss specific
> >needs of these people and must deploy tactics that
> will shift their
> >confidence and support to your party. What really
> happened in Niani >last
> >NAM
> >election was that this Wollof majority was grossly
> dissappointed with >APRC
> >when they rejected Mr. Manneh. Two days after
> nominations in >Janjanbureh,
> >a
> >delegation of five prominent people with 3500
> voter's cards and D5000
> > >cash,
> >stormed my office to nominate Mr. Manneh as
> Independent candidate. I
> >rejected the application because nominations were
> closed at that time.
> > >After
> >an intensive conversation on the election degree,
> these ardent APRC
> >supporters left with an ire in their eyes but
> strong in principle. >Their
> >last word to me was "we will do to Jammeh, what we
> did to Jawara", >which
>
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