Brother Sidibeh,
I agree with you. Lack of a united opposition plus all the other factors you
have mentioned are why the people have been failed and we indeed ought to
scrutinize the politicians and that is precisely what some of us are doing, from
the lack of commitment to agreements signed to the refusal to cooperate
behind a united front that would have encompassed both the necessary numbers to
unseat the APRC as well as the know how to propel our people towards true
liberty. So we are just following through with the necessary scrutiny of our
leaders and in that effort, we will point out all the places where they are
wanting every time this is manifested and in order to move forward, we can never
afford to rationalize any of their short comings because then we become part
of the problem..
Sister Jabou Joh
In a message dated 9/8/2006 2:37:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Sister Jabou Joh,
Not that there should be no policy documents or election manifestoes
authored partly to win sympathy or support from the literate constituency.
But rather, to question and even provoke a rethinking of the ways we look at
and judge political processes in our polity.
Because the efforts for a broader coalition of the Opposition has failed,
supporters of different alliances are now busy demonising one another, even
though it is clear as noon day that neither NADD nor the UDP/NRP are the
major obstacles to social reform. So my position is that those who should
place these policy documents and their presenters under scrutiny ought
temselves be the initial objects of some such scrutiny.
Independent-minded journalists whose critique would have been most
welcomed are now almost effectively silenced. When once the respected corps
of journalists demonstrated in paying tribute to Deyda Hydara, gunned down
by thugs, not a single politician - unless I am grossly mistaken - joined
their ranks to vent their anger at such brazen political assasination. But
perhaps of even greater import, is the fact that ordinary people again,
managed to remain unmoved by yet another outrage. Just as all the anger
fizzled away after the April 2000 massacre, as a great number of Gambians
voted the APRC into office after 18 months, inspite of the made-in-Gambia
election gimmickry.
My point is that ordinary tired workers, poorer peasants, angry students,
tried journalists, pauperized women, brutalised civil servants, taciturn
intellectuals and disgruntled politicians all constitute a national
community of descent that since independence in 1965, never found a common
historical mission to pursue with relentless zeal.
I say it is time we rethink the entire dynamics of political processes in
Gambia and how to alter them for the better. The divisions within the
Opposition is reflective of the divisions within the larger community of
descent.
When the politicians failed to cobble a coalition after so much work by
many Gambians, especially diasporan Gambians I should say, some documents
for regime change will prove to be little more than academic material. There
is great probability that the Opposition will fail to unseat the APRC. Yet
again.
Cheers,
sidibeh
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