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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:57:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: A 10-Year Agenda (By 2024) – Make Gambia A Functioning Institutional Democracy
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Good one, Malanding. You had me chuckling there...
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:55:46 -0500
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Subject: Re: A 10-Year Agenda (By 2024) – Make Gambia A Functioning Institutional Democracy
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Burama,
Some will argue that Mr. Jammeh's hold on the Gambia is no
different from a lone guy holding hostage a bus load of
passengers. It's all about "hedging one's bet". When life is
threatened some prefer to "play dead" or "surrender the cash
box" so to speak until they are sure what the future holds. Yes we
can blame the "enablers", "collaborators" or the Almighty God who
created mankind that raised the knife-wielding thug? Most
people will want to first subdue the knife wielding maniac, "
jump on the guy when the chance is right" before putting in place
controls to avoid another incident.
Malanding
On 11/10/2014 4:35 PM, Burama Jammeh wrote:
Your rationale at best is flawed and worst is wrong.
You said bunch of smart people but one person (Yahya) trampled on
is all. You may be right many smart people but our problem has
nothing or little to do with smartness. After all of our political
problems are the creation of these supposed smart people and not
the farmers, vendors and tax drivers, etc. More importantly
though, if your characterization of Yahya holds did you ever told
other efforts such as contesting elections against Yahya is
futile?
I mentioned that in fact our laws weren't too bad but the
implementation - that until enough requisite capacity obtain
amongst our people functioning democracy will never show up at
our shores. These problems started long before Yahya and likely
to continue if we should succeed with the current election
agenda. The only difference is - it will be another person.
Let me agree with you for a moment - let the smart people
come out and tell us what we can/could do. Is not enough to say
Yahya is so bad that about 2 million population has not solution
with all that smart people.
I will submit that the supposed smart folks are our problem - they
created everything that's wrong in country. Fifty years and
counting - cut a check at the office of accountant general - 5
minutes later no one can trace its route with documentation.
I salute the farmers, vendors, masoner, carpenters, tax
drivers, etc. who pay their taxes and/or royalties and in
return not loot the public coffer.
This is not insinuating that every learned Gambian is bad -
am only saying amongst them we grow all these problems.
Burama
On Monday, November 10, 2014, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Burama,
To answer your question at the end, this is pure
poppycock to put it mildly, as long as Mr. Jammeh
calls the shots in Banjul! The Gambia's problem is
not about lack of smart people, or lack of good
ideas or good laws. The problem is twenty years ago
someone decided to take the government BY FORCE!!
During these years he removed long-term civil
servants at will and without compensation for their
service, incarcerated citizens for refusing to give
up their properties and businesses, executed
military officers for "conspiring against him"
without the right to a fair trial, and even denied
the remains of opponents to be interred in the
Gambia. Go read the current constitution and tell me
where such acts are condone.
Now how do you re-write the constitution, create
environment and mechanisms to uphold the
constitution when Mr. Jammeh is calling the shots in
Banjul? Really?
Malanding Jaiteh
On 11/10/2014 1:32 PM, Burama Jammeh wrote:
1) Rewrite the constitution:
- that recognizes The
Gambia as a republic and the people have
collective responsibility to manage it (the
constitution didn’t create the republic)
- that numerates our
rights as a recognition but not creation hence
guarantee their maximum protection
- create a limited,
separated and decentralized governance structure
with clearly defined authorities
- free the constitution
of matters are should be legislated such as
parastatal divesture
- limit the role of the
presidency to half a page (font 11) and the
whole constitution 25 pages or less
- etc
2) Create environment and
mechanisms to uphold and defend the
constitution. This is difficult than writing
one. This is where we have always failed. Our
constitution as is not terrible but the
adherence is almost 100% none existence. To
ensure such will not be a one off activity but
multiple level and task efforts.
3) Rule of law the
dictator of everything state
4) Due process of law
dictator of everything state
5) Maintenance of basic
social data for inform decision making and
accountability
6) Capacity building – a
people can’t sustain democracy if they do not
acquire the requisite capacity to live a life of
a democrat
Numbers 2 is the most
difficult task here. Numbers 6 is the most
important and is only possible with a tangible
republican environment.
This is the(a) only
common agenda. This is the only agenda that
guaranteed equal opportunity Gambia for all of
us.
Giving the current
political and socioeconomic environment in The
Gambia and our disjointed struggle – how do we
do this?
The first essential
step is communication…lets begin the discussion
of what really matters.
Burama
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