Beran, thanks for forwarding the various messages you sent from the Point
Newspaper. The battle lines have been drawn. The Opposition wants a
TRANSPARENT and FAIR and FREE system of vote counting and Yaya, the APRC
government and the IEC want to STEAL the elections by TEMPERING with ballots
while they are being TRANSPORTED to a CENTRAL location. As Waa Juwara
stated, the Opposition is NOT going to accept this form of RIGGING. It will
NOT happen. But the Opposition should NOT just stop at communicating this
impasse to the moron. We should tell them in no uncertain terms that come
October, Yaya is going to be evicted from the State House. Even if APRC
shenanigans prevent us from having an election, the Opposition should
mobilize its supporters and storm the State House and get rid of the vermin.
Enough is enough.

As has already been said, the whole world knows that the reason given for
centralized counting is a bogus reason. The Gambians know that. The
diplomats in the country know that and have already communicated such to
their governments. So even before we have started, the international
community has declared the elections (held under the circumstances Yaya
wants), as NOT FREE AND FAIR. In common parlance this declaration translate
to NO AID and LOANS from certain places. This means more suffering to the
Gambian people. This means our farmers will go another five years without
their groundnuts being sold. This means by 2006, instead of 61% of the
country being destitute, 81% of the population will fall under that
despicable category. If we allow Yaya to rig the election (and our nation
branded as a Dictatorship), it means our people will be poorer in 2006 than
they are in 2001, which has registered poverty numbers only better than
war-torn countries like Sierra Leone.

In other words, these vermin should NOT be allowed to enslave our people
further while they charter private planes to go abroad and shop with their
families. Some Gambians are so poor that they CANNOT even recognize it when
someone is stealing from them and giving them back the money. All they see
is the money being given back to them. They will kill their own children to
get that money. The Opposition has to communicate with these Gambians to
inform them that they do NOT have to pay such a hefty price for their
resources. They need not trade the lives of their children for some bogus
‘developments’. The only price we need to pay, is get rid of that callous
moron that is driving our country down. One Yaya Swiss Bank Account can
finance a whole groundnut trade season and still have change to buy
generators to electrify the country and build news hospitals and equip them
and build new classrooms and man them with qualified teachers. The vermin
will NOT talk about the Swiss Bank Accounts. They know they are all thieves.
What Yaya has in Kanilai is only the tip of the iceberg as far as AFPRC/APRC
corruption is concerned. Yankuba Touray wants to deflect attention by
talking about only that when he talked about Yaya’s corruption. Kanilai was
the product of CSE bribes from contracts to build roads etc. We are NOT
talking about dalasi bribes. We are talking about tens of millions of
dollars in Swiss Bank accounts. To lay the matter to rest and in the name of
transparency, let Yaya reveal what happened in the Ebou Jallow case. Let the
Attorney General’s Chambers publish the papers in that case.

Yankuba Touray’s empty threats against OJ and Jawara should be treated with
the contempt it deserves. OJ and his supporters should just be ready for
war. The coward (Yankuba Touray, who was NOT even part of the ‘coup’) can do
NOTHING to anyone. The vermin is NOT even Gambian and now he has the nerve
to have soldiers and thugs around him and go around threatening Gambians
that have contributed immensely to Gambia even being a reality. This
foreigner comes to the country and wants to belittle Gambians that helped
get the country independence from Britain. Who does this vermin think he is?
Just 1994 the low-life did NOT even have a home to call his own. Today he is
running around as if his parents own the country. Isn’t this the vermin I
heard naturalized to become a Gambian in 1996? These shameless nonentities
are out of their minds.

Fancy the super-moron (Yaya) inviting people for a debate on the merits and
demerits of having ‘on site’ counting. This is someone who CANNOT construct
one coherent sentence without threatening people’s lives. The coward is
always trying to use force to enslave people. Now, he wants to debate. Does
he realize that debate is about ‘brain-power’ and convincing people? This is
NOT about AK-47s and using vermin like Baboucarr Jatta and Ousman Badjie to
intimidate people.

The Opposition should stand its ground against these bunch of low-lives. The
bandits have nothing to offer our people but misery. We should NOT allow
them to attract sanctions to the country and render our people poorer than
they currently are.
KB


>From: Beran jeng <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: FWD:Counting on the Spot Is Just A Mere Dream - President Jammeh
>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:44:02 -0400
>
>Culled from The Point
>
>
>Friday, August 10, 2001
>
>
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>  Counting on the Spot Is Just A Mere Dream - President Jammeh
>
>President Yahya Jammeh, has said that there wouldn't be any counting of
>votes on the spot in the coming Parliamentary and Presidential elections
>and
>the oppositions should not ever dreamt of such electoral practice. The
>Gambia Leader made this declaration on Saturday, before the state
>television, during an interview with a Senegalese journalist. "There is no
>provision in the constitution which says there should be counting on the
>spot. We have 800 polling stations. Can the Police provide Security for all
>the polling stations. Even without security consideration we are not going
>to do it. For 30 years there has not been counting on the spot. Said
>President Jammeh who maintained that there would be centralise counting
>explained that after the voting process the IEC will sealed all boxes and
>would be escorted by Security Personnel and party agents to counting
>stations.
>
>Explaining how counting is done in this country President Jammeh, said
>after
>all votes are counted party agents who are present at the counting centres
>usually certify the results signed. "What is more free and fair than this?
>Asked President Jammeh pointing out that it would be difficult for the
>Police to contain an aggrieved crowd that is engaged in quarrelling and
>insulting. "We will need 8000 police for counting on the spot" said
>President Jammeh. Jammeh added that his opponents would always alleged
>electoral fraud when they are defeated and that the GRTS cannot provide 800
>Cameras to cover the whole country on the polling day. He conceded that
>counting on the spot was done in Uganda but a similar situation would not
>be
>done in The Gambia, because according to him "other countries in the
>sub-region might want to emulate the Gambia if that happened and it might
>created problem for Africa on the issue of democracy, President Jammeh
>argued that there is no democracy in the world and he challenged any
>Western
>head of state, who is disputing his claim to a public debate.
>
>President Jammeh said he is prepared to engage anybody for debate to prove
>his assertion. According to President Jammeh the west who have been
>advocating for democracy had in the past enslaved Africans. He described
>the
>west as crazy. Commenting on his sad moments President Jammeh made
>reference
>to the Farafenni Army Barracks and Kartong armed attack, in which some
>soldiers were killed. The Gambian leader also cited the past foiled coup
>attempts. President Jammeh also made reference to the April 10 and 11
>student unrest, claiming that the students were used to revolt against his
>government. He also highlighted the achievements recorded by his government
>especially in the areas of health, education and agriculture.
>
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