Sorry for the spelling and other errors. Here is a corrected version of my
previous posting.
Jabou Joh
> In a message dated 8/4/02 8:41:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> >> As a matter of fact the majority of the Gambia-l members are now APRC
>> supporters.
>
> Tombong.
>
> Please post a list of the majority of G-L members that are now members of
> the APRC.
> This is utter nonsense, and yes, those who join do so for survivial
> reasons because even the civil servants who are not members get preyed
> upon. It is a matter of coercion for the helpless, but for those who know
> the truth and still choose to join this murderous regime, they do so to
> feed their own greed.
> You and the others keep talking about these sturctural improvements and the
> hospitals and schools. Well, these are good, but they are part of what a
> government does with the people's money. It is just that in Africa our
> leaders tend to sprend the dough on themselves so that if they direct it
> where it belongs sometimes, they then present this as major
> accomplishments.
>
> In the case of Yaya Jammeh, the hospitals and the schools are empty, and
> even his wife flies to Washington for a routine pediatric visit for her
> child, so what is the point?
> Surely she should be able to partake of the wonderful improvements in our
> medical care and stay home for these visits.
> These empty structures you and others constantly point at goes to prove
> the poor planning skills of the APRC government because some of the
> resources to erect these structures should have gone to improving the
> existing schools and hospitals and equiping them, with perhaps additions of
> a few new ones.
>
> However, for the APRC regime, the emphasis is on visual effects, i.e, as
> many new structures as possible so they can be pointed at for the gullible
> to be impressed.
> Structural improvements are not the only issue in the development of a
> country. Even as you and other s continue to try to sell this garbage about
> the APRC, there are more and more decrees designed to by-pass our
> constitution, and journalists are being detained by the NIA for printing a
> story that the VP got married for heavens sake among other stupid reasons?
> Paranoia is the order of the day, and people who are confident in what they
> are doing and who know that they are competent and are serving the people
> well do not display this kind of paranoia, nor do they employ devious
> tactics to divide the people.
>
Here is a fact that everyone with a brain cannot miss. HUMAN RIGHTS
> VIOLATIONS ARE WORSENING BY THE DAY IN GAMBIA, WHILE WE HAVE MORE NEW
> STRUCTURES? WE WANT IMPROVEMENTS ON BOTH FRONTS, AND WE WANT THOSE WHO HAVE
> COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AND WE WANT THE UNSOLVED
> MURDERS AND THE POLICE STATE ATMOSPHERE TO STOP.
> WE WANT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS NOT TO BE ABBROGATED AND DONE AWAY WITH
> BY THE APRC REGIME. THEN WE WILL AGREE THERE IS REAL AND TRUE PROGRESS
>
> We have the structures while people are starving in The Gambia, farmers
> who depend solely on their crops being unable to sell those crops for years
> now.
> Civil servants are being fired illegally daily, and even the Judiciary is
> under the grips of the APRC. The saddest part of it is that people like you
> who know the truth are still trying to sell this garbage to us.
> Perhaps we over-estimate the APRC and assume that when we complain about
> the human rights violations, they are intelligent enough to understand
> that we are trying to tell them that the improvements have to be in all
> areas, not just the structural improvements. That we want the murders
> solved and the human rights violations stopped.Tombong, how do you and the
> rest of the APRC gang explain the human rights violations that continue
> even today? Will you tell us that the Gambian people deserve that and that
> we are to substitute our freedoms for structures?
>
> PEOPLE, UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TACTIC OF STATING THAT MANY HAVE JOINED THE
> APRC BUT ARE SILENT ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER DEVIOUS TACTIC EMPLOYED BY THESE
> THUGS.
>
> Those of us who used to write amost daily about this regime but do less of
> that now realize that these are not people to reason with simply because
> they were not motivated by high ideals to serve their country, but were
> and are motivated by what they can do for themselves in the guise of
> serving their country.
>
> However, rest assured that this does not mean that we will ever compromise
> our principles and join those whom history will not laud as the best
> amongst us, but rather those amonsgst us who will always choose their own
> interest over the truth, and there is nothing honourable or even sensible
> in that, ,and time will prove this. Rest assured that not writing about
> this regime daily does not translates to selling our souls and joining the
> devil or that we have given up exposing this regime for what they are.
>
> To the statement about silent members of the APRC, I say, if someone
> joins a political party and feels a need to hide that fact, then something
> is wrong, ,and if it was my party, I would not want such membership unless
> if I was desperate for members or simply engaged in a false campaign to
> sell the nonsense that people are joining the APRC by the drones. To anyone
> who joinss he APRC, I feel a deep sense of sadness not just because of the
> character trait it unfolds, but also because they have that day given up
> their self respect and their ability to hold their head high in our society
> in the long run.
>
> Why? Because joining the APRC is not just exercising the constitutional
> right to join a party which would have been fine if the party was not one
> with the record of the APRC. Joining the APRC is signing on to be
> identified with the present regime who have the blood of Gambians on their
> hands and are flaunting this fact before us daily by refusing to
> investigate these criminal acts, ,and who also violate our rights daily and
> have turned our country into a police state. Who have incarcerated Gambians
> without any charges they can prove and who refuse to let these people have
> their rights under our constitution., and who engage in silencing anyone
> who dares to complain about these illegal acts they are engaged in. Who
> have tured our country into a place where even members of the judiciary
> cannot make rulings in a case according to the law without being harassed
> or terminated from their positions. Man, I would say anarchy has come to be
> the rule of the day in The Gambia, and yet, Tombong Saidy and company come
> daily to tell us we should be dancing the jig because the government of
> Yaya Jammeh has built some structures while they continue to also build an
> ever worsening police state?
>
> THIS ALLEGATION OF PEOPLE JOINING THE APRC IS JUST ANOTHER TACTIC OF DIVIDE
> AND CONQUER. TOMBONG AND HIS LIKES WHO MAKE THESE STATEMENTS HAVE AN AGENDA
> TO PLANT DISTRUST AND CHAOS EVEN AS THEY APPEAR TO BE PEACE MAKERS AND JUST
> ANOTHER WELL MEANING MEMBER OF THE LISTS.
>
> Tombong, produce your list of APRC members or cease and desist from your
> devious tactics.
>
> Jabou Joh
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