Yaya Jammeh who in 1994 inidicated that even ten years is too long is intoxicated and blinded by power and he get liars like Joseph Joof and a sorry and rubber stamp national assembly whose members feel their longevity is assured by passing anything that the executive presents.  I put it to Mr. Joof that it is a balatant lie that abolishng the second round voting would ensure peace and stability.  We are surrounded by conflicts yet the leadership remains complacent and think that they can get away with whatever they want.  I suggest that the oppostion mount a legal challenge to the latest assult on Gambians by the criminal gang.

Sanusi Owens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Folks

This is just evidence to show that Jammeh is running
scared about the Opposition.

Please read through;



Constitutional Amendment For Peace – SoS Joof

The amendment to Section 48 of the 1997 Constitution
abolishing second round voting is geared towards the
maintenance of peace and stability in the country,
according to the Attorney General and Secretary of
State for Justice, Joseph Henry Joof.

SoS Joof made those remarks on Monday at the National
Assembly during his introduction of the amendment bill
which was unanimously passed into law by the majority
of the Assembly members.

He said the decision to amend that section of the
constitution followed a thorough study of the
situation in other countries.

A second round voting, in his view, is not practised
in big democracies and The Gambia wants to follow the
same norm so as to cut cost of elections and to united
the people.

The NRP leader and member of Upper Saloum, Hamat Bah,
dismissed the notion that the amendment is geared
towards the maintenance of peace and stability. "This
is the opposite because it could be dangerous to have
a minority president in office, and against the wishes
of the majority of the electorate. The fact is that
the APRC government already knows that they have
miserably failed the Gambian people and have lost the
support of the electorate and that is why they want to
manipulate the process in order to stay in power," he
alleged.



Culled from Gambianet.


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