This is for Joe Sambou, could you for once be happy, or even, just pretend
and stop yapping about Yahya Jammeh for a second. No ill intended, I think
all Gambians no matter what your affiliation is, should be prideful of the
little accomplishment the "Baby Scorpions" have at this point. I just want
to enjoy this and I think am speaking for a lot of Gambians on this list.
Joe you used to be a great soccer player in my book, so let enjoy this one.
Bakary Dembo
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>From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: SAY NO JAMMEH'S ILL GOTTEN WEALTH- AS WE CONDEMN THE UNRULY
> BEHAVIOUR OF JAMMEH'
>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:39:06 +0000
>
>" if PRESIDENT JAMMEH'S MONEY DONATION TO OUR SOCCER HEROS has anything to
>do with their success,then so be it"
>
>Being one of the baby scorpions more than 20 years ago, I agree they need
>the encouragement and support to perform at their best. However, that does
>not justify Yaya stealing from our coffers to lavish it to whom ever he
>pleases. The funding of the baby scorpions should be with the approval of
>the National Assembly through the budgetary appropriations process.
>
>With the above quote, we should also not complain when Yaya funds his ZOO;
>sends hundreds to Mecca; steals Crude Oil I and II in excess of half a
>billion dollars; buys himself a jet; tens of fleets of cars; lavishing
>millions of dollars; hiding our loans in secret bank accounts with Ebou
>Jallow; giving his supporters in the US tens of thousands of dollars; and
>the list goes on. All this, while teachers salaries are stagnant for the
>past decade; farmers crops are not bought; non existent electric supply;
>sporadic water supply; marginal funding of our education system; poor
>health
>care; crumbling infrastructure; a bankrupt state, etc. And so, do Gambians
>really care or understand the nature of the patron-client relationship they
>are fostering with Yaya and the APRC? I don't think we really care or
>understand what we champion. The average Gambian lives up country, is
>poor,
>uneducated, and bears the brunt of the excesses of the state, and it is
>their progress that the true condition of our people is measured, not mine
>or the urbanner, even though the urbaners are just a blink apart from the
>massive poverty and degradation.
>
>If Yaya inherited his wealth, or patented a product to justify his
>accumulation, this would not be an issue, for he earned it and can spend it
>as he pleases. However, he did not earn it with his less than $1,500 a
>month salary. Unless you know something that Gambians don't know, but Yaya
>came to the scene poor and malnourished and could not even cure his mouth
>sores (ratatoi). With our coffers, he has done well for himself at the
>expense of the nation and none that is honest can fail to see that. How
>can
>Yaya or anyone justify the wealth he is sitting on? No one can even
>attempt
>at that ridicule. So, I really feel sorry for our state of mind, that
>Africans would continue to turn the blind eye to their own ruination for
>God
>knows what reasons. Forget the countless folks that he murdered during the
>past decade.
>
>What obtains in our country today is Gambians have resigned themselves to
>getting whatever from whom ever, and at any cost. The pillar all lean on
>is
>survival. They know that what Yaya gives them is stolen but that is not
>their interest. What they care is getting something, anything. But we all
>know that the overwhelming masses are suffering and do not have access to
>anything.
>
>So, does the below quote still obtain?
>
>" if PRESIDENT JAMMEH'S MONEY DONATION TO OUR SOCCER HEROS has anything to
>do with their success,then so be it"
>
>I support the baby Scorpions and they are an extension of my past, however,
>that does not mean any endorsement of Yaya's looting our coffers and making
>slaves out of us in the process. What ever Gambia we support or create we
>(all of us) are going to live in it whether directly or indirectly. The
>choice is ours.
>
>
>Chi Jaama
>
>Joe
>
>
>>From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: SAY NO JAMMEH'S ILL GOTTEN WEALTH- AS WE CONDEMN THE UNRULY
>> BEHAVIOUR OF JAMMEH'
>>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:26:56 GMT
>>
>>First let me begin by saying sorry to Mr Mballow[whom i don't even
>>know]whatever might have transpired between him[mballow]and president
>>Jammeh's GUARDS is unknown to me,secondly my main reason for this reply
>>is
>>based on the VICTORY of our new found HEROES OF SOCCER TODAY,THE YOUNG AND
>>ABLE SCORPIONS.My heartfelt joy and prayers goes out to each and everyone
>>of them and if PRESIDENT JAMMEH'S MONEY DONATION TO OUR SOCCER HEROS has
>>anything to do with their success,then so be it and i hope they continue
>>to
>>get more and more financial and moral support to continue putting big
>>SMILES on every GAMBIAN'S face because their success is and will always be
>>GAMBIA'S JOY AND PRIDE.
>>
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