Brother, I got to tell you that this is the biggest provocation I have seen
so far in this election season. I NEVER thought that I will say that some
one was ‘dumber’ than Yaya. But Joseph Joof has just broken a record. The
irrational rattling coming from this man is simply mind-boggling. This is
what the Gambian taxpayer got for giving Joseph Joof the opportunity to get
a scholarship (during the Jawara regime) to go and study law in Britain at a
time that daughters of cabinet ministers like Sheriff Sisay were denied
scholarships. At least Yaya can say that he did NOT finish his education.
All he got was what the ‘poor’ Jawara ‘education’ could offer. Joof was
given the BEST opportunities one can get. The vermin CANNOT say that his
parents worked to put him in school in Britain. He used his connections in
the Jawara regime to get a scholarship. This Wallace Grant he is citing
played a part in who Joseph Joof is today.

Like you said, this is the surest way the vermin can plunge our country into
turmoil. Under no circumstances would these elections be stolen. Since the
Opposition does not have an agenda and AFPRC/APRC does, I wonder why the
cowards are so scared of a fair fight of agendas and ideas. Let Yaya run
even though there are questions about his citizenship. We are NOT afraid of
him. We know the vermin CANNOT be elected if he was running for class
president in High School. All the AFPRC/APRC apparatus has is character
assassination, hate, threats, and lies. Without their AK-47s, they are
NOTHING.

If they are NOT lying about Jawara, they are threatening people. If they are
NOT lying about SM Dibba, they are trying to pit PDOIS against NRP or UDP.
That’s all the vermin are good at. Check the Observer (the APRC mouthpiece)
and see whether you will see plans about the future of our country. All you
see is lies upon lies about SM Dibba, Dembo Bojang, ‘Jawara is coming home,
let us hide under the beds’ and all sorts of silly tales. You go to GRTS,
all you hear is ‘defections’. According to the morons, the whole country has
‘defected’ to the APRC. Yet they are scared to death to contest elections.
Well, they just came up with the silliest one. Joof is now taking Yaya from
the frying pan to the fire. Banning Darboe is far more catastrophic than
banning the Decree 89 politicians. If they think that they were under some
pressure to ‘un-ban’ the Decree 89 people, they have seen nothing yet.

Joseph Joof has gone mad again.
KB



>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Joseph Joof and APRC Pulls another one
>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:24:55 EDT
>
>Now Joof and his paymaster, Jammeh, have really gone bonkers. Fancy now
>spurrious charges/rulings by a kangaroo court that is illegal - by all
>sense
>of definition of that word - suffices to legally rule out Mr Darbo as the
>Alliance's presidential candidate. Has the APRC leadership really thought
>through the logical implications of what they are trying to hatch here?
>Have
>they considered the political impasse that will ensue when they try to
>stymie
>the Gambian people's peaceful and polite efforts - through democratic means
>-
>to ask Jammeh to go? Any astute political observer would not fail to
>recognise the potentiality of Joof's declaration or veiled threat to the
>Alliance to draw Gambia into the political territory of violence and
>uncertainty. To avert such a scenario, the goofballs "running" our country
>should stop using and or invoking these legalese subversions as a
>masquerade
>to force through their illegal political agenda.
>
>The APRC, still reeling from the after-effects of the Alliance's Brikama
>rally, know fully well that if they don't go about subversively meddling
>with
>the electoral process, their days are definitely numbered; and the
>countdown
>may have well started last Sunday in Brikama. So they decided to get their
>consiglieri -  i.e., a mafiosi legal adviser to make underhand tactics look
>legal and normal - Joof to get to work on possible means to legally rule
>out
>the Alliance's endorsed candidature of Mr Darbo. They are in for a rude
>shock
>if they imagine they can subvert the Alliance's legitimate endorsement
>candidature of Mr Darbo. For all that it is worth, if the APRC presses
>ahead
>with this legalese sleight of hand, the first consequence would be a
>complete
>disarray of the presidential elections; and from there, things can only go
>downhill. I hope Joof was honest enough to tell that to his paymaster.
>There
>are no ifs, buts and maybes here: any legalese subversion that seeks to
>undermine the Alliance's legitimate democratic pursuits, will result to a
>complete political disengagement and in extension political choas. We are
>talking about a total boycott of the elections if the APRC goes ahead with
>its underhand tactics. There is no middle course here.
>
>As far as things go with the Alliance, i strongly recommend that this new
>legalese nonsense from the APRC be given the contempt it deserves. This is
>nothing but a legalese sleight of hand the APRC intends to invoke when the
>going gets tough vis-a-vis the current presidential elections. The Alliance
>ought to out come with a strong condemnation of this current legalese
>sleight
>of hand from the APRC and say that under no cirmcumstances would this
>illegal
>regime dictate to them how they pursue their inviolable democratic
>freedoms.
>It must be made unequivocally clear that no executive meddling of the
>current
>electoral process would be tolerated. The Alliance should never dither when
>the APRC illegally try -  through its executive powers - to subvert the
>political process: it must resolutely condemn such actions and or threats
>and
>appropriately deal with them. Which takes me to the question: since was
>Joof
>as AG empowered to police who is eligible and ineligible to stand for
>elective office in the Gambia? I thought their toilet paper constitution
>has
>divested those powers away from the executive and they reside with the IEC?
>Is Joof doing his homework these days? Signs of a man losing his grip?
>
>  Knowing fully that their goofball of a candidate - Jammeh - is going down
>come October, the APRC resorts to these underhand political shenanigans to
>subvert the wishes of the Gambian peoples. The Gambian peoples would under
>no
>circumstances acquiesce to these underhand tactics; these illegal tactics
>shall be met headlong with the contempt they deserve from the Gambian
>peoples. And if the goofballs don't get it this time around, it won't be
>just
>a case of people merely bewailing corrupt electoral shenanigans; but
>marching
>all the way to State House. That is a warning Jammeh and his acolytes ought
>to heed. If they think for a minute that they can bully the Gambian peoples
>into submitting to their underhand tactics and bullying as they did in
>1996,
>they are in for a rude shock in October. This time around, it is a totally
>different ball game. The gloves are off!
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L
>Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html
>You may also send subscription requests to
>[log in to unmask]
>if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your
>full name and e-mail address.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L
Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html
You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask]
if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------