Quintessential "opposition" with an attitude...your last is nothing new
Mr. Joof.  Your lot always resort to regurgitating old rumors,
innuendoes, lies and fabrications like a mad beast on a rampage- how
predictable!  The fact is glaringly clear:  Thank G-d to the AFPRC,
Gambia is now on the threshold of a genuine democracy and self-
determination.  The APRC progress towards good governance is slow and
incremental but never reactionary.  Regardless of  all the shortcomings
and lapses in the historic process of transforming a parochial polity of
30 years of Jawara Mansahood, the APRC still has a genuine case for
jubilation.  Of course the passionate APRC detractors will never give
credit to any obvious progress lead by Jammeh, and that is regrettably
understandable.
Mr. Joof their is no academic instution in this planet that can certify
leaders.  The skill of leadership is a talent and a gift from God
regardless of any paper qualifications.  If academic credentials was
ordained by G-d to be the only factor for leadership then Arnold would
never have been elected Governor, George Bush can never be president,
much more Obasanjo, John Major et al.  It is only in the Gambia where
pseudo-intellectuals rest on the oars of academic credentials and expect
to be scions of political power- how arrogant and short-sighted!  What
use is your academic "credentials" if you all have been reduced to
second class citizens, and ruled by a high school graduate for the past
9 years and much more in the foreseeable future?  Your "credentials"
should be your badges of dishonour and disgrace, the last thing you
should brag about because they have been proven meaningless for the past
10 years.  In fact Halifa Sallah failed to see the irony when Prez.
Jammeh ridiculed his "sociologist" fudge.  Instead he frenetically
reacted by calling a press conference to display his laurels...he
totally missed the point.
Mr. Joof, tell this to your "coalition leaders"; perhaps another food
for thought for their "mental development" as you rightly suggested
earlier:  Rule No.1-  you do not proove your intellectual competence by
brandishing a paper qualification but through a generous demonstration
of your mind by articulating the relevant issues, representing ideas to
the public and humbly accepting dissent from any one.  I recall Gramsci
once said that everybody who can speak his/her mind is an intellectual;
however, few have the function of an intellectual in society.  The name
and the function are two different things.  Real intellectuals do not
brag about their paper qualifications...They project their minds into
the public arena for every one to see and challenge.
Finally, Mr. Joof how can the APRC be "anti-academic excellence" when it
created the only ever institution of higher learning in the history of
the Gambia.  Please give the devil its due and don't degenerate into
another bigot.


Ebo

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