Valid and powerful arguments from Sister Jabou. We should be weary of the
devils in disguised. Gambia's bigger problem today is Yahya Jammeh and we
should not lost track of this fact. We are bound to agree and disagree on
issues-but that should not divide us in our quest to effect democract
change in The Gambia. Pointing accusing fingers against one another will
not move us anywhere, but to give room to the dictatorship to further
misrule our dear ccountry. Our watch word for now should be how to salvge
The Gambians from Yahya's black mailing tactics and not otherwise. I must
add that it is healthy we agree and disagree on issues. It gives
credibility to our struggle. Just a thought..................
>
> Brother Modou Sidibeh,
>
> I think I have become paranoid after watching too many an exchange
> between
> differing viewpoints that could have given birth to even better ideas if
> only
> they did not deteriorate into personal attacks and accusations of
> personal
> attacks die.Not a good thing at all.
>
> I agree that this has become a rather precarious situation but the
> tragedy
> is that Jammeh will use it to his advantage and as a result, make an even
> worse spectacle of himself before the World even if these documents are
> forgeries. Even in the face of something like this, would any sane leader
> who respects
> the rule of law not have embarked upon a thorough investigation of this
> allegation before acting rather than swiftly arresting and incarcerating
> these
> people complete with the usual trademark violations of constitutional
> rights
> under detention etc?
>
> Jammeh would have found other means of making good on his threats against
> these men. He made the promise himself for all Gambians to hear and
> record. He
> stood before Gambians and dared to say that some people will not witness
> the
> 2006 elections.
>
> On the other hand, Senegal I am sure also sees this regime as one that has
> had designs to destabilize their own country for years by aiding and
> abetting
> an effort that if successful, would not only separate Casamance from
> Senegal,
> but which would result in the loss to Senegal of a very vital part of
> their
> country. Jammeh has been putting up some of the Casamance rebel
> leadership
> right there in Banjul for years now with rumours of supplying them with
> arms.
> If Senegal's intention was deliberate with intent to cause chaos, the
> Jammeh
> regime opened up the door of that possibility by their past actions. If
> you
> live by the sword...........but then it is always the people who suffer
> isn't
> it?
>
> Somehow though, our having come to this in our relationship with Senegal
> is
> amazing, and a tragedy of the worse kind that is a direct result of the
> APRC
> misrule and quest for more and more power. Idiots playing dangerous games
> to
> feed their small egos. With these two countries, we are talking about
> people
> who share a deep ancestral bond and how many families in Gambia have a
> good
> portion of the same family in the other country and vice versa? This is a
> foreign nation and yet, they are not foreigners.
> Accusations and counter accusations that may lead to more friction and
> even
> conflict as you pointed out would be a foolish venture on our part for
> many
> reasons too numerous to list but which I am sure all of us can name.
> Yaya Jammeh and his band of rogues are grasping at straws and any
> situation
> will do. Let the APRC regime tell the people how this government's
> stationery was used to send forged documents but I am afraid such an
> investigation if
> it were purported to be underway would end up like all the other ones
> that
> have become perpetual investigations so they will not catch themselves.
> Jabou Joh
>
> In a message dated 11/28/2005 1:19:41 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Sister Jabou,
>
> I agree that Yahya should be our focus now and all the time he remains
> seated on that sweet presidentail chair. Yet Ebrima Ceesay's third
> posting
> highlights yet again the probability that he has become a pawn in
> Abdoulie
> Wadd's geopolitical chess game. A former Cassamance rebel secretly
> records
> Jammeh's anti-Wadd eruptrions, submits the tapes to the Senegalese and
> eventually the said tape is rerun for Jammeh to expose to him that his
> public embrace of Wadd as brother and friend is nothing more than
> fraudulent
> doublespeak.
>
> At that point Jammeh was in the diplomatic grip of the Senegalese.
> Question
> is how high he would jump if they ask him to leap. Of course, the mansa
> of
> Kanilai brought it all onto himself. But our problem is that this mansa
> is
> also the President of the Gambia.
> Yes, he would have picked at any straw to tuck NADD leaders away, being
> the
> Dr.Yaahakat Komganarr he is (if Baaba Galleh Jallow would allow me). But
> should the Senegalese provide him the matchstick by which to set alight
> our
> nation? The harrowing nightmares of all democratic-minded Gambians, and
> the
> untold agonies of the families of the incacerated leaders, and the
> subsequential possibilities of violent confrontation seem all to have
> been
> put in motion by a forged document that the Senegalese in pursuit of
> realpolitik allowed President Jammeh to smell.
>
> It just seems to me that even in our quest to sweep away our national
> APRC
> rot, a line must be drawn between what is acceptable action instigated by
> a
> foreign power, and what is not.
>
> That I might take your response as a personal attack Sister Jabou? I am
> thanking the stars for my good fortune. Just as you spelled it out to
> Ebrima, I am only too glad to have been able to draw you into the mud
> once
> more. Your contributions are needed on this list much more so than ever
> before. I shall gladly welcome more "personal attacks" of that nature.
>
> Cheers,
> Sidibeh
>
> .
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