Dampha wrote:

"As we move to the campaign season all these AFPRC/APRC lies about
education, health etc. ‘projects’ will be debunked. What the APRC stalwarts
did NOT bank on when they were alienating all those Permanent Secretaries
was that the latter know everything about these ‘projects’".

Dampha, are you for real? How on earth can you find much fault with Jammeh's
education policy? You know more than anyone else that the former PPP regime
did almost nothing to educate its citizens. As our population grew from
under 400,000 in 1973 to over 1,000,000 in 1993, the former PPP regime DID
NOT BUILD A SINGLE SECONDARY SCHOOL, STOPPED BUYING ORDINARY DESKS AND
CHAIRS, REDUCED THE NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS, DISCOURAGED TEACHERS and
INVESTED VERY LITTLE OR NOTHING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR. Some of us may have
been lucky to get whatever education we managed, but to give credit to a
regime, that for decades did not see the corrolation between education,
health and national development is very dishonest of you, if you ask me.
Where you not around when we used to have double streams, morning and
afternoon shifts? Where you not around when less than 10,000 kids were
enrolled a year even though our population was more than 1,000,000? Where
you not around when less than 3,000 kids made it beyond primary six? How can
you find any fault in Jammeh's interview? For God's sake, if you cannot give
credit when credit is due just shut up! Any honest Gambian will acknowledge
Jammeh's effort in the fields of education and health. For your information,
the Jawara regime that you are willing to die for did very little for the
country in terms of putting in policies for the socio-economic development
of the country.

Have a good day, Gassa.

>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: FWD:European Union/ACP Courier Magazine's Exclusive Interview
>             With President Jam
>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:11:14 -0400
>
>Beran, thanks for forwarding Yaya’s interview with Marcel Thomasi (who at
>one point was appointed briefly to replace Tombong). It has been ages since
>I saw such magnitude of unadulterated rubbish. Yaya’s handlers tried all
>they could to package the vermin and make him sound intelligent and
>moderate. But the bottom-line is that you can take Yaya from the bush but
>you can NEVER take the bush out of Yaya. The real Yaya is the one that
>stands on national TV without any handlers and threatens NAWEC personnel
>with death if they ‘sabotage’ his regime. The real Yaya is the one that
>stands on national TV without any handlers and boasts of being the richest
>man in Gambia.
>
>Did these people for one moment believe that we are going to buy this
>garbage Yaya was spewing about corruption and morality? I do NOT know what
>these Yaya handlers think of Gambians. Yaya is the MOST corrupt person The
>Gambia has ever seen. As he was giving that interview, he had stashed away
>in Swiss Banks millions of dollars stolen from the Gambian poor, and the
>vermin preach about corruption and morality. Rather than saying that they
>were interviewing Yaya, Thomasi et al should have just said that they were
>publishing a self-serving statement written for Yaya by one of his
>despicable handlers. That is what this is. We know Yaya is a callous moron
>and a thief. The vermin thinks (according to the ‘interview’) that it is a
>bad thing to flaunt wealth. Yet, he sits on national TV and boasts that he
>is so rich that his upspring will never be poor. And just where did he get
>that money from? The savings he had when he was a lieutenant in the army?
>Let these morons give us a break. Ah! No, Yaya got his money from his farm.
>And just how did he get that farm? Inherited it from his dad? The vermin is
>stealing from the people willy-nilly.
>
>It is public record in Swiss courts that Yaya instructed The Central Bank
>of
>The Gambia to transfer millions of dollars to his PRIVATE Swiss Bank
>Account. Yaya CANNOT deny this. The then Attorney General of The Gambia
>knows that the records exist. What real journalists (interested in the
>truth) would have asked Yaya was for him to account for the ‘wealth’ within
>the past seven years and tell us how he can explain being richer than
>Jawara
>who was the president for thirty years. That’s how you know whether the
>vermin is telling the truth.
>
>Yaya’s conciliatory language towards the EU and Europeans in general is
>just
>lip-service and everyone (including the EU) knows it. Is this man not the
>same moron who was few weeks ago castigating the British for allegedly
>masterminding the proscription of Baabaa Jobe as an international criminal?
>Doesn’t he know that Britain is part of the EU? Such unedited statements
>about the British, are the real Yaya. We know the vermin does NOT mean more
>than ninety person of what was ascribed to him in this ‘interview’. If
>AFPRC/APRC supporters doubt this, let them unleash the moron on national TV
>and see what will happen. Let him not hide behind speechwriters and see
>what
>will happen. We will soon start hearing the ‘six feet deep’ infantile
>rhetoric that is characteristic of the vermin.
>
>As we move to the campaign season all these AFPRC/APRC lies about
>education,
>health etc. ‘projects’ will be debunked. What the APRC stalwarts did NOT
>bank on when they were alienating all those Permanent Secretaries was that
>the latter know everything about these ‘projects’. These former civil
>servants that are mainly UDP supporters should go to the grassroots and
>inform them about these ‘projects’ and the AFPRC/APRC lies. We should
>reveal
>the limited input Yaya’s government put into these projects. The vermin
>attributes the first ‘feeder road’ to Kanilai to the EU and NOT to the
>Jawara government. But when it comes to the roads that are sponsored by the
>donors but constructed during the AFRPC/APRC regime, it is Yaya’s
>achievements. Is this man well? Does he know that ninety percent of the
>development budget of the country comes from loans and grants? He has no
>input whatsoever in attracting these funds. On the contrary, thanks to
>their
>illegal usurpation of power in July 1994, our people lost half of those
>grants and loans. Couple with that what the vermin are stealing and putting
>in Swiss Bank Accounts. No wonder our people are POORER today than they
>were
>seven years ago (ACCORDING TO FAMARA JATTA’S FIGURES). But you read Marcel
>Thomasi’s interview, you think the whole country is ‘educated’ now and our
>‘hospitals’ are well-equipped, and people are happy earning a living.
>
>No amount of packaging can erase the truth. Let Marcel Thomasi go and tell
>what Yaya said to the poor farmers up country that have to wait two months
>to see fifty dalasis. Let Marcel Thomasi tell Yaya and his cohorts about
>the
>‘excellent’ state of our hospitals. Maybe he can convince them to stop
>sending their wives to America to have babies and in the process looting
>taxpayers’ money. We know this ‘interview’ does NOT reflect the reality in
>the country. The reality in the country is a breakdown in law and order
>(where citizens are abducted and illegally incarcerated incommunicado). The
>reality in the country tells us about the slaughter of defenseless and
>innocent children in broad daylight in order to perpetuate a tyrant. The
>reality in the country tells us about farmers crying that prices of basic
>commodities such as rice and cooking oil have gone up while the government
>of the day CANNOT guarantee farmers (even) a conducive environment to earn
>a
>living. The reality of the country tells us that dollars are virtually
>nonexistent in the country. Even banks do NOT have foreign currencies.
>
>Gambians are NOT interested in this type of packaging for Yaya to gain
>international respect. I do NOT know where Marcel Thomasi was when The
>Gambia was implicated in the ‘Blood Diamond’ saga and Baabaa Jobe was
>proscribed an international criminal. How can anyone argue that Yaya and
>his
>gang brought respectability to the country? The morons have brought nothing
>but shame to us.
>KB
>
>
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