Folks, sorry for sending the below comment to the L (the last couple of
sentences that is).  It was meant a lone ranger on the GPost on a smear
campaign against this effort.  My apologies.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou


>From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Opposition to Form Coalition
>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:56:44 +0000
>
>Folks, yet another example of the wisdom of coming together to root out
>tyranny.  That is the only hope for many countries in Africa, Gambia
>included.  Currently, your fellow citizens in Atlanta are working on
>bringing us together to give Gambians a fresh start at progress and we need
>to support their efforts.  I urge all that can attend to come and share
>your
>thoughts with your people.  Those that cannot make it we understand, and I
>hope that you support the effort from afar.  However, to those that are
>bent
>on destroying this initiative, I say you'll have to go through all of us to
>be able to do that, and from the support expressed, you'd be a fool to try
>any foolishness.  It's your right to not participate, but we will be damn
>to
>let any try to sabotage this goodwill.  We shall be free.  Please read
>below
>the Ugandan attempt and the Kenyan experience.
>
>
>Opposition to Form Coalition
>
>
>The Monitor (Kampala)
>
>February 16, 2004
>Posted to the web February 16, 2004
>
>Mwanguhya Charles Mpagi & Isaac Mufumba
>Jinja
>
>Seven opposition groups met here at the weekend and agreed to form a
>coalition to fight the Movement government in the 2006 general elections.
>
>The secret meeting at Crested Crane Hotel that ran from Friday to Sunday
>attracted representatives from seven opposition groups popularly called the
>Group of Seven or G7.
>
>
>A statement issued yesterday after the talks said: "We have recognised the
>need for co-operation in our search for genuine multiparty democracy in the
>country and agreed that that co-operation should be enhanced and
>formalised."
>
>A key opposition official who attended but declined to be named told The
>Monitor: "It is part of a series of strategic meetings we shall hold
>countrywide to dislodge the dictatorship."
>
>The G7, which is currently involved in talks with government about the
>roadmap to multiparty politics in the run-up to the 2006 general elections,
>includes the Democratic Party, the Uganda Peoples Congress, the Reform
>Agenda, The Free Movement, the National Democrats Forum, the Conservative
>Party and the Justice Forum.
>
>Kenyan lessons?
>
>An official at the talks said the coalition, while still subject to
>modifications, is likely to resemble the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc)
>that brought Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki to power in December 2002, ending
>Mr Daniel arap Moi's 24-year reign.
>
>The recommendations from the Jinja retreat, which was attended by mainly
>middle-cadre leaders, are to be tabled before a summit of senior opposition
>officials to discuss and possibly adopt.
>
>Terego MP Kasiano Wadri, who attended the meeting, called on his fellow
>politicians in the G7 to swiftly identify a candidate to contest for the
>2006 presidential elections under the banner of the coalition.
>
>Relevant Links
>
>East Africa
>Uganda
>
>
>
>In 1996, DP, UPC and CP formed the Inter Political Forces Committee that
>jointly backed the candidature of DP chief Paul Ssemogerere for that year's
>presidential election.
>
>He lost to President Museveni, who won by more than 75 percent of the vote.
>
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