Brothers, please quit this indecent language and personal acts on each
other. It is important to respect each other's political affiliation and
private life. I don't think non of you is a silly brat! You are all good
people and admitt your mistakes.
Cheers
Lamin PF Manneh


>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Attn: ESSA BOKARI SEY
>Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:29:42 EDT
>
>Mr Ousman Jallow Bojang,
>
>I'm not surprised you came out to defend Essa Bokarr Sey. Of course, i knew
>all along that you and Essa are friends. What, however, surprised me is the
>despicable manner in which you distorted certain parts of my piece in the
>name of defending Essa. Calling your defence of Essa dishonest would be to
>put it mildly.You were either extremely ignorant or downright dishonest
>when
>you wrote some of the false things you wrote in your defence of Essa.
>Anyway,
>having read your pathetic attempts to rebut my piece, i think you are the
>wrong person to defend Essa on this. Besides, my quarrel is not with you
>but
>with Essa and all corrupt APRC apparatchiks and it would be counter
>productive to take you on that primarily doesn't concern. Or are you now
>officially an APRC apparatchik on Gambia-L? Can you answer why APRC
>functionaries like Essa are class obsessed and plundering Gambia's scarce
>resources in the vain pursuit of class and social status? If you can't
>answer
>this question, then i'm afraid it would be a total waste of my time to take
>you and your objections seriously.
>
>Then as now, Essa is in this forum writing under the nom de guerre of
>"Lamin
>Ceesay" - why hasn't he DIRECTLY refute the gist of what i've written? Then
>as now, who is in a better position today than Essa to refute all that i've
>written? He merely and indirectly raised a few demurrers about private
>ethics
>and foolishly tried to convince himself that the alibi he has created for
>"Lamin Ceesay" is still intact. See the other problem i've noticed about
>your
>friend is that when he is caught in the act, he behaves like an ostrich on
>the run that believes that by burying its head in the sand it would in
>effect
>be remain hidden from its pursuers. In other words, whilst people are
>staring
>at its butt, the ostrich tries to persuade itself that it still remains
>invisible from the eyesight. You just couldn't make it up!
>
>As it is, i stand by what i have written in my last piece. Since the piece
>in
>question is satirical, it is bound to be laced with hyperboles. Other than
>that, i stand by everything i said in that piece. If the veracity of the
>piece is still the case, none is in a better position than Essa himself to
>refute what i have said. As i have said in the piece, the story i narrated
>was neither intended to be malicious nor was it personal. Believe me if i
>wanted to be personal with Essa, you would be surprised about the things i
>know about Essa's private life that i can mischieviously parade around. But
>those things are irrelevant to my agenda. Even if they are relevant, my
>liberal inclinations tell me that there is a private sphere as well as a
>public one; and what is private ought to be respected as private and vice
>versa. What i narrated is very crucial to understanding the mess Gambians
>currently find themselves in. I had deliberately left out family names to
>avoid being personal. And believe me there were juicy bits and pieces that
>i
>could have added to the story but refused to do so on the grounds that it
>would tantamount to being vindictive and personal.
>
>I will repeat again: insofar as the objections are not related to the
>hyperboles invariably inherent in satirical works, i stand by everything
>i've
>written in my piece. In conclusion, i challenge Essa Bokarr Sey to DIRECTLY
>refute all that i've written about him in that piece.
>
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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