Halifa Sallah is back again working for Yaya Jammeh . 
Readers, it should not be a surprise for anyone who
knows Halifa Sallah to see him going to work for Yaya
Jammeh and the APRC regime one more time.  I have
always said it in many internet forums that Halifa
Sallah is as arrogant, selfish,stained, deceptive as
Yaya Jammeh.

Frankly I was astonished to read Halifa Sallah's
letter to NRP/UDP Alliance repeating himself over and
over again without making any point.  Most people
would recall I have always challenged Halifa on this
particular forum about his role in installing Yaya
Jamme.  He never responded to those facts that I
presented until on or about May 20, 2006 when he
attempted to justify NAAD's humilliating performance
in the recent Kombo East by-elections.  In that
irresponsible and self deceiving statement, Halifa,
just as typical of him, went on hiffing and hoffing
again, contradicting himself and exposing his
arrogance and insensitivity about the political wishes
of the Gambian opposition electorates.  Halifa claimed
that the NAAD candidate was from Pirang Village, that
NAAD was frequently seen in that by-election campaign
than UDP and APRC parties,that NAAD suffered most from
the APRC vote buying, that there was no basis for
measuring of gaining or losing popularity in that
election, and that there was someone in the United
Sates who sent money to the people of Kafuta to
discourage them from voting for NAAD, among many other
deceptive claims.  I did not have time to respond on
time to these irresponsible statements aimed at
keeping his NAAD sponsors in the United Staes and
elsewhere.

First and foremost, Halifa did not even know that the
NAAD candidate (Lamin Touray) is not from Pirang, but
Berending Village.  

Secondly, I truely wonder if there are sound minded
supporters of NAAD?  I would have expected some
reasonable person to quickly ask Halifa why NAAD
performed so badly in an election that his party was
"more visible, more involved with the grass roots, and
above all as Halifa claimed, "their candidate was more
confortable explaining NAAD's programs than UDP".  

Third, as far as UDP is concerned, we did not have any
evidence to suggest that APRC had engaged in vote
buying.  Halifa did not present any evidence including
ther number of votes APRC bought from potential NAAD
voters.  I hope this article will lead us to having
those facts presented on this forum. 


Fourth, Halifa fooled himself and of course those
blind followers by arguing that the by-election was
not the basis for measuring gaining or losing
popularity.  Halifa and his comrades in The Gambia,
and of course SINK THE GAMBIA PROJECT(SAVE THE GAMBIA
PROJECT)based in the United States have painted a
false picture to the people in the diaspora that NAAD
is the popular party in the Gambia, and that it has
the backing of most if not all oppostion supporters. 
Unfortunately, Halifa and his comrades' persistent
lies did not save them from the hummilliation NAAD
suffered when the Kombo East by-election results were
announced.  If politics is not about measuring
popularity I don't know what it is about.

Fifth, Halifa's allegation that someone in the United
States sent money to discourage Kafutarians from
voting for NAAD is as baselss and irresponsible as his
allegations have always been.  As far as I know, there
was no Kafutarian in the United States or elsewhere
who had sent money directly to Kafuta to induce
voters.  I am from Kafuta and Halifa very well knows
that.  Therefore, I will never hesitate to set the
records straight here.  The votes that were counted
for NAAD as in most all the polling stations were
Lamin Touray votes and not NAAD as a party. 
Kafutarians in particular, were receiving mixed
message before they got the facts.  There were others
who did not change their positions even after they
came to know the truth that UDP had nothing to do with
NAAD.  The Lamin Touray campaingn introduced
themselves in the name of UDP and in many of his
supporters in Kafuta used my own namke to attract
voters.  I personally had high regards for Lamin
Touray for many reasons, but most importantly as a
citizen of The Gambia, and Kombo East District.  You
better be adviced that we in the Kombo East are
closely related just as in all parts of The The
Gambia.  NAAD can only be remembered for being the
only custodian of the SPOILER VOTES that effectively
helped APRC narrowly carried  seat in the Kombo East
by-election.  I would like assure Halifa that NAAD's
two humdred votes in Kafuta has long been shattered.

I have repeatedly reminded Gambia-L readers about the
role Halifa played in installing Yaya Jammeh.  When
the military overthrew the Jawara regime, they
immediately put a ban on all politica parties and
persons with the exception of PDOIS, Halifa Sallah,
Sedia Jatta and Sam Sarr.  During the entire military
two year transition period, Halifa was the only
politician who had openly and aggressively promoted
the AFPRC programs.  I argued several times in this
forum that had Halifa's arrogance and selfishness did
not gripped him, the Draft Constitution as bad as it
was, would not have been passed through his arrogant
and selfishness campaign.  Those fair minded readers
of my contributions would recall all the facts I
presented about Halifa's deeds.  Halifa aggressively
campaigned for the adoption of the badly diluted and
ommitted Draft Constitution even before it was debated
on. He was the only politician who occupied The
Gambian air waves through radio one FM, in addition to
the thousands of audio cassettes that he made and sent
across the country urging Gambians to accept the draft
constitution by voting "YES" in the 1996 Referrendum. 
The original Draft Constitution seeked not only for a
two five-year term limit for the presidency,it also
seeked for a fourty-year age limit.  But the diluted
draft that Halifa promoted did not contain these most
important clauses.  

Lovers of The Gambia and truth, HOW CAN WE EXCUSE
HALIFA AND HOLD YAYA JAMMEH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS
IN THE GAMBIA?
Halifa is equally responsible for the predicament we
find ourselves in today.  Halifa's response to NRP/UDP
proposal was embarrshing and futher exposed his total
insensitivity about the common saying that "what goes
arround comes arround".  When Halifa was campaigning
for AFPRC, Ousainou Darboe and UDP were not dreamt of.
 PPP was the enemy then.  Halifa and PDOIS thought
that the coup de tat was a blessing for a PDOIS rule
in The Gambia.  You must remember that by that time
PDOIS was already fifteen years old, repeating the
same unconnected idiology which as Waa Juwara put it "
they don't understand themselves".  I can only
conclude that Halifa is an arrogant, selfish and slow
to read the lips of The Gambian people.  Imagine, it
took Halifa ten years to confess that any draft
constitution should be debated on by the constituents
first bebore they adopts it in a referrendum.  Now,
will any honest NAAD supporter kindly urge Halifa "
the greatest mind in The Gambia" to issue an appology
statement to the people of The Gambia for the mess he
put us in. If the electorates could successfully force
Yaya Jammeh to cut the military transition period from
four years to two, which sane mind on earth would not
belief that we could have had a debate on this present
tailor-made constitution that was clearly intended to
suit Jammeh alone.  If the electorates had the chance
to debate the contitution, you would not have been
pointing your wrong fingers at Ousainou Darboe in your
desparate bid to make him a scape goat for Halifa and
Yaya Jammeh's mess.  It is absolute nonsense for
Halifa to suggest now, ten years after his current
constitution served its purpose that any draft
constitution should be brought before The Gambian
people for ratification.  Halifa is the last person to
understand that, and I we could understand why.  

I read many irrational comments on this and other
forums about Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah as though
they are the only obstacle to Halifa presidency.  Some
of you labelled Ousainou and Hamat as two power hungry
politicians who would do evry thing to rule The
Gambia.  I hope you will not argue that Halifa was
preparing for a PDOIS rule immediately after the AFPRC
two year transition.  It was only when that failed, he
eyed for majority leader position in the National
Assembly which he eventually snatched from Sedia who
was already serving a second term, now in his third
term in the House.  We asked Halifa to coordinate the
opposition alliance, but to most people's surprise, he
ended up being the flag bearer.  By all accounts
Halifa and Yaya Jammeh are the same.  Yaya also
succeeded himself from military transition to a so
called democractic rule.  

The executive members of NAAd have found themselves
held hostage by Halifa's arrogance and selfishness,
with only him serving as the Spokesman, Party Leader,
Secretary, you mane it.  None of the other so called
Executive members have any innitaiative to redirect
NAAd to answer to the call of  TRUTH and TIME.  I feel
embarrashed when Halifa says " he answered to the call
of duty".  I wonder whose duty has he answered to? 
Certainly Yaya Jammeh again.

I strongly disagree with Phoday Samateh's views on
Darboe and Hamat.  Phoday, like his fellow Halifa fans
clearly does not understand what the political
atmosphere in The Gambia.  He charged that Ousainou
and Hamat joined NAAD to use its ladder to acheive 
their presidential ambitions.  Phoday simply cannot
join the dots.  Even one of my close friends who is a
life time strong PDOIS supporter was the first to
disagree with his allegations.  If there any
politicians who joined tha Alliance purely to sell
their unsellable programs they are certainly Halifa,
Waa Juwara, and OJ.  Unfortunately Phoday as in many
of his stories, even though he refered to them as
"facts" failed to read the writings on the wall that
politics is all about popularity, numbers, and
programs, but most importantly numbers.  We all know
that one has climb the steps of any ladder to reach
the top, and in the process you are talking about
numbers here.  Ousainou Darboe and Hamat are the only
opposition politicians with the numbers.  Therefore,
only Ousainou Darboe and Hamat Bah could easily climb
that ladder.  Even the MOU that Halifa and Phoday
cited as the tool for choosing the NAAD flag bearer
suits Ousainou and Hamat than Halifa, Waa Juwara, and
OJ if the selection process were to be exhusted.  I do
respect Phoday's opinion and right to criticise
Ousainou and Hamat objectively.  However Phoday
claimed that his article was based on facts, but it is
apparent thatlittle a fact if any at all can one find
in his very first of the ten articles to come about
the  subject.  Lets wait and see.
  
Yes Hamat Bah was absolutely right that his party(NRP)
and Ousainou's UDP made a great mistake by agreeing
share power equally amongst the parties even though
they are far from being equal.  NAAD simply lacks the
trust of The Gambian people and no amount of
carrecature of Ousainou and Hamat can turn the Gambian
electorates against them.  Ousainou was the one who
stood his ground to take Yaya Jammeh head on in 1996
when Halifa Sallah was still defending Jammeh.  The
new conspirators Halifa rallied now against freedom
will go down in history for being trators serving the
interest of Yaya Jammeh once again under the
leadership of Halifa Sallah.  Halifa better know that
he cannot equate himself to Ousainou 
Darboe.  By all standards, Ousainou is not Halifa's
match, and is about time he prepare face the
consequences of his treacherous deeds.   The results
will tell the strenght of NAAD come september.  If any
body thinks that NAAD can distract NRP/UDP votes on a
national scale is just hallucinating.

I have long decided that I will never trust doing
business with these NAAD traitors.  In the open they
talk against Yaya, but behind the curtain, thay go to
walk for him. Here comes Halifa again ready to go to
work for Yaya Jammeh aftre twelve unfortunate years of
his of his treacherous, and arrogant acts that put us
in this predicament.  How soon he forgot.  The
Gambians today and generations to come will never
forgive you for your urgly face twelve years ago and
this present day.  We cannot excuse Halifa and hold
Yaya Jammah responsible for anything.  We will
continue to hold your feet to the fire that you set.

Pa. Saikou Kujabi.

To be continued. 













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