Ndey/Abdou,
 
It is indeed a sad day for our country. Yaya Jammeh and his agents in  
Parliament have hijacked our country and this is a government of criminals who  will 
no doubt have to pay for their crimes against the people when the time  
comes. They are also totally clueless as to what role they should be playing and  
the entire thing is one big tragic joke.
 
Jabou
 
 
In a message dated 8/18/2006 5:43:41 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
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Jabou  and Abdou,


I guess Abdou has summed it all “Constitutional Coup"  infact it is a 
constitutional robbery. Just listen to the kind of people  ruling our 
country. If you carefully read Hon Fabakary Tombong Jatta's  defence is just 
laughable. Can you imagine the kind of people seating in  our national 
Assembly? This is really a choke.




The  Struggle Continues!!!
Ndey Jobarteh






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>Subject: Fwd: National Assembly amends  Section 63(2)
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:59:59  EDT
>
>
>More evidence that we are dealing with  people  who have no regard for any
>laws!!
>I think sister Ndey Jobarteh  mentioned  the necessity for electoral reforms
>if these were  undertaken in a  timely manner but one has to be dealing  with
>people who respect and abide  by the constitution instead of  people who 
>shape the
>constitution to  satisfy their  needs.
>
>Written by Alhagie Jobe
>Thursday, 17 August  2006
>Members of the National Assembly, on Monday amended  Section  63 (2) of the
>1997 Constitution Bill, consitutionalising the date   for the Presidential
>elections in September, instead of   October.
>Presenting the Bill, Sheikh Tijan  Hydara,  Attorney-General and Secretary 
>of
>State for Justice said the  new  amendment proposes that the elected 
>President
>shall  take the prescribed  oaths and assume office on the exact day, when  
>the
>term of office for the  incumbent President comes into  expiration.
>
>SoS Hydara then told the members of the National  Assembly that “the  only
>requirement that must be satisfied is  that of Section 46 of the  
>Constitution,
>which provides  that elections can be held within three  months, before  the
>expiration of the incumbent President’s term of office.   With this 
>proposed
>amendment, the IEC will no longer be  restricted to hold  Presidential 
>elections on a
>particular  date within the last three months,  before the expiration of  the
>incumbent’s term,” he said.
>
>SoS Hydara pointed  out that this  amendment to Section 63 necessitated the
>amendment  to Section 96 of the  Constitution, adding that “the latter  
>provides
>that elections to the  National Assembly shall be  held three months, after 
>the
>date of the  Presidential  elections”.
>
>He then observed that the proposed amendment to  Section 63  indicates that 
>Nat
>ional Assembly elections  may fall on the date that the  “President elect
>takes his or her  oath of office, and also the word three  in section 96 be  
>changed
>to four”.  According to him, this will  give  provision for the National
>Assembly elections to be held the  following  month, after the President 
>elect takes
>his, or  her prescribed oaths to the  office.
>
>However, SoS Hydara  noted that Section 63(1) is an entrenched  clause that
>must go  through a “special procedure, before it is amended.  This 
process  
>has
>commenced since April 2006 and it is now time for it  to  be tabled before 
>the
>National  Assembly”.
>
>To back up the amendment, Hon Sellu Bah, NAM for  Basse described  the Bill 
>as
>preventive to imminent  “problems. It will rectify and  safeguard any  
>possible
>confusion in both the Presidential and any  National  Assembly elections”.
>
>Hon Halifa Sallah, NAM  for Serrekunda Central said the amendment  was
>suggestive of an  inditement made by the IEC, saying the scheduled date  for 
 
>the
>Presidential elections is not in line with the required  Section of  the
>Constitution. “What we are amending today  reveals the shortcomings of  
>the IEC. Today, if
>we pass  this Bill, then the date will be unlawfully  legitimised,”  he
>asserted.
>
>According to him, the IEC Code of Conduct  requires fair play and  integrity
>in an election. “Therefore, I  have every right to say that this  
officers 
>are
>not  capable and effective. We do not need people, who do not  or  cannot
>administer such an office like the IEC,” he   said.
>
>At this jucnture, Hon Fabakary Tombong Jatta, NAM for  Serrekunda  East
>expressed his disappointment with the opposition  bench of the  National 
>Assembly,
>saying “I was expecting  the opposition to congratulate  Shiehk Tijan  
>Hydara,
>Secretary of State for Justice, instead of being   controversial to the 
>Bill. Is
>it that the oppositions are not  ready for an  election, or less confident  
>about
>themselves?”
>
>Hon Jatta asserted that the  IEC was operating according to the  
>Constitution,
>adding  that “if the ruling party did not complain of the  scheduled date 
 
>by
>the IEC for the election-which really shorten the term   of the incumbent
>President- then I see no reason why the opposition  should  complain.”
>
>He said the date did not fall in the  Ramadan and during the period  of 
>heavy
>rains. “This  means that it satisfies everyone. No one should  complain  
>about
>it,” he said.
>
>He then impored his  counterparts to “unanimously amend the Bill to   
>ensure
>that the election take place as  scheduled.”
>
>Hon Netty  Baldeh, NAM of Tumana, expressed  similar  sentiments.
>
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