Lamin,
 
Thanks for spelling it out for the benefit of those who must have dozed off in class. Just what part of this editorial can be described as Monday morning quarter-backing beats me. Foroyaa has been consistent in its message of civic education and enlightenment since its birth and I dare say the political consciousness of a large segment of the youth, and even adult population at home is owed to this untiring work.
 
Regards,
 
Kabir.



> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:05:35 +0100> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: questions and more questions> To: [log in to unmask]> > “A much greater question in my view is how do we translate the wealth of knowledge in-house about one's right, the constitution, social justice as that demonstrated by this FOROYAA article from being "after-the-fact commentary (aka Monday morning quarter-backing)" to one that empowers the ordinary man or union leaders to know how to deal with situations like this?”> Malanding Jaiteh> Malanding:> > We are not dealing with a “Monday morning quarter-backing” situation in FOROYAA’s analysis of some of the law pertinent to organising industrial action in the Gambia. > > I am in no doubt the leadership of the Maritime and Dockworkers Union are fully aware of the legal parameters within which they must operate in industrial disputes. In similar vein the proprietors of Citizen FM when the media house was closed down pursuant to a perverse judicial order some eight years ago. So too Baba Galleh Jallow when his Independent was shut down eighteen months ago without a legal shot. I can hazard a guess that these outfits, as legal entities, and the human personalities behind them, were, and are still fully aware of their legal rights and obligations. > > But what do legal rights and obligations count for when a nation and its entire laws are embodied in one person?> > What FOROYAA, and you, and countless others are doing is discuss our public life as it should be, not as it really is. The State, aka the Executive, aka Dr. Yahya AJJ Jammeh, embodies the law of the Gambia. I am not advancing this statement as opinion, but as fact grounded in a public pronouncement by our good Doctor that he is unpersuaded about the merits of an independent Judiciary. Such a mindset is spectacularly embodied in the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of the Gambia. And there are no prizes for guessing the intended and actual beneficiary of such legally mandated public chaos! > > Unless you are on the side with armed thugs protecting all corners of a field, would you like to waste energy in a football contest devoid of independent match officers?> > In the Gambia, process is ousted in all facets of public life. There is rule, not of law, but of man. And one man for that matter! > > Is it realistic - in the unmistakable climate of our public life - to envisage an outcome different from the one that befell the leadership of the Maritime and Dockworkers Union? They probably left each other at the NIA when they were forgiven for succumbing to temporary lunacy and allowed to return to their families. > > Are they likely to come back for more any time soon?> > Your guess is as good! > > > > > LJDarbo> > > > 
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