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These sit-tight self-styled African leaders are afflicted by a disease called longetivitis. Myopia is also one of their devastating ailments. Dementia is lurking in the corner ready to deal them a deadly blow. Question of time!
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Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008 2:26 pm
Subject: Re: Is that so!
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> Well, I really do not think this situation should be about what the west
> say or what their position is. If Jammeh believes that Africans should
> control the destiny of their nations that is fine but at the same
> time I
> do not think we are allowed to do that because of people like him. I
> think the situation with the west is like you cannot eat your cake and
> have it - If African leaders continue to depend on the west economically
> then they must be ready to take political gifts too some how. If we are
> to be independent then that has to include economic independence. The
> situation in Zimbabwe and many other African countries is unfortunate
> but the reality is at the end of the day the west do not have much to
> lose either ways. African leaders must learn to respect their citizens,
> allow them to freely express themselves and be their servants instead
> of
> kings and dictators. Just because Mugabe and others fought for
> independence and apartheid that does not mean still they have the right
> ideas/policies also why is it so difficult or impossible to have a term
> limit for Jammeh and Mugabe and many others. I think these are some of
> the problems that Jammeh should be addressing. Also the fact that Jammeh
> can sit there and say sanitation is Africa's problem and not water says
> a lot about his doctorate degree and why we should pay less attention
> to
> his many empty ranting.
>
> Jammeh is a different issue all together...
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> A classic case of relativity theory. One reality but multiple
> perspectives. Read on....
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> Zimbabwe Election Valid , Says President Jammeh
>
> The Daily Observer (Banjul)
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>
> NEWS
> 3 July 2008
> Posted to the web 3 July 2008
>
> By Pa Malick Faye
>
> President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, has given the june 27
> Presidential election run-off in Zimbabwe a clean bill of health, saying
> "Zimbabwe's election is valid". The president, in addition, branded the
> leader of the main opposition mDC, morgan Tchangarai, as a "blue-eyed
> boy" and "puppet" of the West, emphasising that Zimbabwe will never be
> colonised again.
>
> The plain speaking Gambian leader made these remarks in an
> interview with newsmen at the airport, upon his arrival from the 11th
> AU
> summit in the Egyptian Red Sea Resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, which lasted
> for two days.
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> According to Dr jammeh, the summit was not diversive on the
> Ziimbabwe issue but rather showed African leaders working for the
> continent's interest and those who are for West. He added: "The
> pronouncements of major Western media before the summit was what those
> representing Western interests came with, but they have regretted
> it'.
>
> The Gambian leader made comparison to an election recently held
> in an Eastern African country, which was described as not free and fair
> by all institutions involved in the process, yet the West decided to
> be
> mute about it. the aftermath of that election was marred by violence
> during which many were killed, thousands displaced and the end result
> was a unity government.
>
> To him, Africans accept mugabe's re-election, because it was
> lawful as the country's laws do not ban elections if a party decides
> to
> boycott.
>
> Hypocrisy
>
> Dr jammeh again made reference to an event in a country in the
> Horn of Africa, where opposition protesters were shot and killed with
> impunity. he added that the government went to the extent of refusing
> to
> release the dead bodies unless the relatives paid for the bullets, but
> yet still the West made no noise, because that government was serving
> their interests.
>
> "Why Zimbabwe?" he asked. "Because the whites are involved," he
> said, answering his rhetorical question. he observed that the suffering
> of the people of Zimbabwe was not Mugabe's making, but the West's just
> because they want to effect a change of goverment, which will be ruled
> by their puppet.
>
> Dr jammeh wondered why the West during the first round of the
> election decreed the process foul only to endorse it when the MDC
> emerged as the winner.
>
> He agreed with President Museveni of Uganda that elections
> cannot be free and fair, when the opposition are backed by external
> forces to destablise a country by launching attacks on ruling party
> supporters and use NGOs to induce the electorate.
>
> Inclusive Government
>
> To Dr jammeh, president mugabe can accommodate "nationalists"
> and "patriots" who have divergent views with him but have the country's
> interest at heart. But the decision for that mechanism to be in place
> lies with the government and people of Zimbabwe.
>
> Prosecuting Mugabe
>
> The Gambian leader called the Western ploy to prosecute
> President Mugabe on the pretext of misrule as "free, fair and fine".
> But
> questioned why they are not calling for the prosecution of the then
> white minority government in Zimbabwe and South Africa, where they
> carried out mass killings of Blacks, which was stopped by Mugabe and
> his
> fellow nationalists.
>
> He added that today, the perpetractors of those crimes are
> living freely and no one is calling for their prosecution.
>
> "We Africans should learn a lesson from this. They (the West)
> think they can dictate to us (Africans) and this is not acceptable.
> Africans should stand for Zimbabwe. After all what did the West did for
> Africa?," he rhetorically asked.
>
> The Theme
>
> Commenting on the theme of the summit, which was "Meeting the
> Millennium Development Goals in Water and Sanitation", Dr Jammeh said
> sanitation is the problem in Africa and not water. "Leaders have realise
> that collective approach at continental level will enable the continent
> to meet the MDGs in 2015," he added.
>
>
>
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> Copyright (c) 2008 The Daily Observer. All rights reserved. Distributed
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