In a message dated 8/4/02 8:41:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> As a matter of fact the majority of the Gambia-l members are now APRC
> supporters.

Tombong.

Please post a list of the majority of G-L members that are now members of the
APRC.
This is utter nonsense, and yes, those who join do so out for survivial
reasons because even the civil servants who are not members get preyed upon.
It is a matter of coercion for the helpless, but for those who know the truth
and still choose to join this murderous regime, they do so to feed their own
greed.
You and the others keep talking about these sturctural improvements and the
hospitals and schools. Well, these are good, but they are part of what a
government does with the people's money. It is just that in Africa our
leaders tend to sprend the dough on themselves so that if they direct it
where it belongs sometimes, they then present this as major accomplishments.

In the case of Yaya Jammeh, the hospitals and the schools are empty, and even
his wife flies to Washington for a routine pediatric visit for her child, so
what is the point?
Surely she should be able to partake of the wonderful improvements in our
medical care to stay home these visits.
These empty structures you  and others constantly point at goes to prove the
poor planning skills of the APRC government because some of the resources to
erect these structures should have gone to improving the existing schools and
hospitals and equiping them, with perhaps additions of a few new ones.

However, for the APRC regime, the emphasis is on visual effects, i.e, as many
new structures as possible so they can be pointed at for the gullible to be
impressed.
Structural improvements are not the only issue in the development of a
country. Even as you and other s continue to try to sell this garbage about
the APRC, there are more and more decrees designed to by-pass our
constitution,  and journalists are being detained by the NIA for printing a
story that the VP got married for heavens sake among other stupid reasons?
Paranoia is the order of the day, and people who are confident in what the
yare doing and who know that they are competent and are serving the people
well do not display this kind of paranoia,  nor do they employ devious
tactics to divide the people.
Here si a fact that everyone with a brain cannot miss. HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS ARE WORSENING BY THE DAY IN GAMBIA, WHILE WE HAVE MORE NEW
STRUCTURES? WE WANT IMPROVEMENTS ON BOT HFRONTS, AND WE WANT THOSE WHO HAVE
COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AND WE WANT THE UNSOLVED
MURDERS AND THE POLICE STATE TO STOP.
WE WATN OUR CONSTUTUTIONAL RIGHTS NOT TO BE ABBROGATED AND DONE AWAY WITH BY
THE APRC REGIME. THEN WE WILL AGREE THERE IS REAL AND TRUE PROGRESS

We have the structures while people are starving in The Gambia,  farmers who
depend solely on their crops being unable to sell those crops for years now.
Civil servants are being fired illegally daily, and even the Judiciary is
under the grips of the APRC. The saddest part of it is that people like you
who know the truth are still  trying to sell this garbage to us.
Perhaps we over-estimate the APRC and assume that when we complain about the
human  rights violations, they are intelligent enough to understand that we
are trying to tell them that the improvements have to be in all areas, not
just the structural improvements. That we want the murders solved and the
human rights violations stopped.Tombong, how do you and the rest of the APRC
gang explain the human rights violations that continue even today? Will you
tell us that the Gambian people deserve that and that we are to substitute
our freedoms for structures?

PEOPLE, UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TACTIC OF STATING THAT MANY HAVE JOINED THE APRC
BUT ARE SILENT ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER DEVIOUS TACTIC EMPLOYED BY THESE THUGS.

Those of us who used to write amost daily about this regime  but do less of
that now realize that these are not people to reason with simply because they
were not motivated by high ideals to serve their country,  but were and are
motivated by what they can do for themselves in the guise of serving their
country.

However, rest assured that this does not mean that we will ever compromise
our principles and join those whom history will not laud as the best amongst
us,  but rather those  amonsgst us who will always choose their own interest
over the truth,  and there is nothing honourable or even sensible in that,
,and time will prove this. Rest assured that not writing about this regime
daily translates to selling our souls and joining the devil or that we have
given up exposing this regime for what they are.

To the  statement about silent members of the APRC, I say,  if someone joins
a political party and feels a need to hide that fact, then something is
wrong, ,and if it was my party,  I would not want such membership unless if I
was desperate for members or simply engaged in a false campaign to sell the
nonsense that people are joining the APRC by the drones. To anyone who joinss
he APRC, I feel a deep sense of sadness not just because of the character
trait it unfolds, but also because the yhave    that day given up their self
respect and their ability ot hold their head high in our society in the long
run.

Why? Because joining the APRC is not just exercising the constitutional right
to join a party which would have been fine if the party was not one with the
record of the APRC. Joining the APRC is signing on to be identified with the
present regime who have the blood of Gambians on their hands and are
flaunting this fact before us daily by refusing to investigate these criminal
acts, ,and who also violate our rights daily and have turned our country into
a police state. Who have incarcerated Gambians without any charges they can
prove and who refuse to let these people have their rights under our
constitution., and who engage in silencing anyone who dares to complain about
these illegal acts they are engaged in. Who have tured our country into a
place where even members of the judiciary cannot make  rulings in a case
according to the law without being harassed or terminated from their
positions. Man, I would say anarchy has come to be the rule of the day in The
 Gambia, and yet, Tombong Saidy and company come daily to tell us we shoudl
be dancing the jig because the government of  Yaya Jammeh has built some
structures while they continue to also built an ever worsening police state?

THIS ALLEGATION OF PEOPLE JOINING THE APRC IS JUST ANOTHER TACTIC OF DIVIDE
AND CONQUER. TOMBONG AND HIS LIKES WHO MAKE THESE STATEMENTS HAVE AN AGENDA
TO PLANT DISTRUST AND CHAOS EVEN AS THEY APPEAR TO BE PEACE MAKERS AND JUST
ANOTHER WELL MEANING MEMBER OF THE LISTS.

Tombong, produce your list of APRC members or cease and desist from your
devious tactics.

Jabou Joh

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