Well said Harun ! I wish the APRC folks to read your article.

Haruna Darbo skrev:

>
>
> Malanding,
>
> Your concern about why "educated" folk get mired in incomprehesible
> relations is not misplaced. The answer lies in the fact that being
> "educated" is not simply being schooled in an institution. Far from
> it. It involves being cultured and having received valuable parental
> guidance in one's formative years. Lacking that, one could garner all
> the institutional education available but not be able to synthesize it
> or properly use it among their fellows.
>
> We have too often mistaken schooling for education or intelligence. If
> we agree that no one person can absorb all the information available
> in education, then everyone to an extent is semi-literate. This means
> that additional training in the utilization of what education one has
> experienced, is required to approach a semblance of humanity. Witness
> their difference from animals. A semi-literate therefore lacking the
> this dose of culture and parental guidance is ill-educated and useless
> to society. This phenomenon is contagious and chronic. So the buyer of
> literacy beware.
>
> I declare therefore that not only Tombong but the APRC government is
> sorely bankrupt of civilized individuals. They may have acquired
> education in schools but not educated or cultured or appropriately
> trained to utilize the chump change of a schooling.
>  >From: "Malanding S. Jaiteh"
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: I AM NO LONGER THE DG OF GRTS
> >Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:29:43 -0500
> >
> >I must confess, I was going to ignore Mr. Tombong Saidy's report that
> he is
> >no longer DG of GRTS but will remain a Pro-Jammeh and Pro-APRC. My
> reason is
> >that summary dismissal of apparently "loyal" civil servants without
> reasons
> >is nothing new in the Gambia to be surprised about. Also it nothing
> new that
> >the morning after, we read reports that the dismissed officer who,
> days
> >before could be linched by a mob for his/her obnoxious display of
> loyalty
> >and blind support for Jammeh would be discredited by the media to be
> >corrupt, disloyal, power hungry and even treacherous. And that often,
> this
> >seemly able civil servant who gets the boot would come out saying "I
> was
> >fired but I remain a loyal servant to the all-powerful Jammeh".
> >Whatever makes seemly educated and well-to-do adults live this kind
> of life
> >is my concern. I think there is more to it than the eye can see. If
> we are
> >to believe what we hear, something is seriously wrong here. I do not
> know
> >how someone who has gone through the struggle of school, college and
> life in
> >general could after being fired and accuse of felony can come back
> say "I
> >still support my boss". For logic has it that until the brain is
> wrongly
> >wired, if it looks like pain, acts like pain, you don't have to go
> through
> >it to know that it is pain. But then sufferers of "Battered Woman
> Syndrom"
> >often claim that their spouses are the most caring and loving ever!
> The
> >tragedy is that some people would have to be "battered to death" to
> accept
> >that their relationship is not all-loving and all-caring.
> >
> >I suggest we wish Mr Saidy and all those Gambians in the civil
> service
> >caught up in this all the best and pray that they find an easy way
> out of
> >it.
> >
> >Malanding
> >
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