Gambia-L:

The e-mail below came from a source in the Gambia. Again, I am sending it
unedited and in a rush. As I said before, just ignore the typographical
errors.

Ebrima

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Passprt Shortage : Blame Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa
>Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000
>
>Ebrima,
>The Immigration Office has finally come out in the open to admit to the
>general public for what has been known to the travelling public for more
>than a year. Less than a year after the introduction of the new
>"computerised" passports, the lamination machine and the computer used to
>store the details of each passport have broken down. This break down
>occured not six months ago as claimed by Fabouray but twelve months ago.
>All those issued with passports for the past year have all been issued with
>the old passports which were manually prepared causing a lot of
>difficulties for those travelling with Gambian passports.  Immigration
>Authorities around the world are questioning the authenticity of the two
>sets of passports that Gambians carry. These immigration authorities cannot
>be blamed for yet another "scheme" devised by Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa
>to further line their pockets at the expense of the ordinary Gambian. First
>they demand D250 per passport from D100 and then they reduce the number of
>passports under the contract. No wonder the new passport supplies have been
>exhausted causing undue hardship to those Gambians who travel abroad. Try
>presenting the manually prepared passport in say Brussels and see how you
>will be treated:like a criminal. Thanks to Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa.
>Even the so-called new and computerised passports have been know to be
>faulty because of the quality of the passport book itself and the
>lanimation machine both of which are not up to international standard set
>by the reputable security printers. Yahya has been doing everything within
>his means to steal our hard-earned dalasi for his own benefit and his
>cohorts. No wonder he is now bragging that he is a rich man for life and
>his children will never be poor in their life time.  That is the Gambian
>president for you. Yahya and those who prop him up for personal self
>interest will one fine day pay for all their misdeeds which are being
>catalogued for the day when they are called upon to answer to their
>criminal activities.
>Yahya has brought the level of corruption in The Gambia to new heights
>never before seen, not only in The Gambia but in Sierra Leaone. Yahya
>Jammeh's Gambia is more corrupt than the late Siaka Steven's and Momoh's
>Sierra Loene. That is how bad the Gambian situation is.
>A Note of Warning to Gambian travellers: Expect delays, harrassment and
>humiliation at airports because of these two sets of passports which were
>brought to us coutesy of Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa.
>

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