Sister Jabou Joh,

If you "think that even the moles under the rocks were aware of this sad
fact" I should become all the more miffed by the fact that intelligent
humans like your good self are busier with the forensics of who said what
when in the trivial procedural search for a fitting Opposition leader -
demonising or crediting individuals in the process - rather than enhancing
knowledge abount doing everything humanely possible to ensure that the
democratic contents of said revolution are carried out in a post-Jammeh
Gambia, irrespective of who is president!
Details and generalities are important here. But the key question is about
what? Should we deal with the trivial and langourous search for Mr. Uriah
Heep or should we use our time to debate the singular failure of
progressives to cease the best opportunity since independence(!)to be not
only part of a government through a democratic process, but one that is also
equipped with a minimum programme carrying some national democratic content?

At this point, am afraid, we differ in thinking. For instance, your
"...checks and balances ... in order to avoid the possibility of any leader
perpetuating themselves in power" generates the illusion of attainability as
soon as the ink dries. This and other democratic gains, in my view, come
about as a result of popular mass struggle especially enhanced greatly by a
vanguard with a foothold in government. Well now, as you and Edie Sidibeh
would have it, we have a Titanic and its scruffy captain. And the checks and
balances, debris on the shore, long ago tossed overboard as flotsam and
jetsam.

Till later...

Many thanks,
Brother modou sidibeh  



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 Brother Sidibeh,
 
 Thank you for giving credit where it is due.
 However, for you to label me as someone who fails to realize that our
nation was on the brink of a democratic revolution and what demolished those
hopes and dreams was the pathetic fight over who should lead the opposition
is doing me disservice. I think that even the moles under the rocks weree
aware of this sad fact.
 However, here again, we must give credit where it is due by examining all
the exchanges between all the parties in the process of trying to forge a
unified opposition coalition and we will find that some of the players were
not going to stand in the way of progress while others did exactly just
that. This is why I say that we need to dissect the situation so that we do
not just deal in generalities and lump blame where it may not belong. That
will not help us in this process.
 
 An important point is that even at the last hour when the people still held
hope that something can be forged between NADD and the UDP/NRP alliance,
invitations that were extended were turned down so we will never know what
could have transpired and who would have made sacrifices for the good of the
nation, will we?
 However, we must not deny those whose words and actions throughout the
process showed their courage and willingness to do whatever was necessary
for the sake of the nation their due credit.
 
 There was also the issue that it was imperative to make sure that with any
agreement that was reached, checks and balances were part and parcel of it
in order to avoid the possibility of any leader perpetuating themselves in
power. To work all that out required patience, selflessness and putting the
interest of the people and the nation first and the sad fact is that some
people in both their actions or inaction and words failed us miserably in
that process and we have to be willing to identify and accept that in order
to be able to move forward.
  
 Jabou Joh
 
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 Subject: SV: SV: CALL for THE RESIGNATION of ALL Opposition leaders
 
  Sister Jabou Joh,

Yes, this time I failed to credit Mr. Halifa Sallah for what he has done.
But Mr. Sallah knows, and I guess you probably know, that for a good part of
twenty years, that is exactly what I did: praising and crediting Sallah and
all PDOIS for their historic, self-effacing sacrifices towards national
liberation. Not only that. Since the mid-eighties, I, together with many
other Gambians, on several occasions, have worked (physically, both
individually and as a member of an organisation) to raise funds on behalf of
PDOIS. Twice in those twenty years, I publicly criticised PDOIS.

What you and others seem not to see is the fact that here was a nation on
the brink of a democratic revolution(!) and all that demolished that
historic project is nothing more severe than pathetic, petit bourgeios
trivia: who should lead the Opposition! 

Many thanks,
Brother modou sidibeh

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