Gassama Jabbi who build Gunjur , Sukuta , Mansa Konko , Farafeni and Kaur
Junior secondary Schools in the 1970's ?You are shameless that is why but
think what people will tell your kids in the future .
 Luntang

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From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: FWD:European Union/ACP Courier Magazine's Exclusive Interview
With President Jam


> 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
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >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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