Malanding,
Thank you very much, for hitting exactly at the top of the nail.  You have said
the million dollar truth here. Arguements should be done at the suitable time,
and not after everything is over. These were the very questions i asked myself,
and came to the conclusion, that we have no case. Yaya has won the elections,
and he is now the democratically elected president of the Gambia. As Joe
correctly said, let us not only ask questions to the AFPRC, but also the people
we supported. They should help us answer our questions.
Elhajj.

"Malanding S. Jaiteh" skrev:

> Beran,
> I am not in anyway being personal but Mr Darboe and his team should be told
> that this is not the time to complain about the conduct of the IEC.
> Afterall, it was Mr. Darboe and his team who went to courts to claim that Mr
> Roberts appointment was illegal. It was Mr Darboe and his team who agreed to
> join the elections presided by the same Mr Roberts less than 2 months after
> they went to courts. It was the Mr Darboe and his team who decided to take
> part in last Thursday's election despite all the cries of illegal
> registration, intimidation and all sorts of apparently illegal decisions. It
> was the same Mr Darboe and his team who, after Mr Roberts flip-flopped on
> the counting centers and registration were quoted by reporters that they
> were happy about the conduct and optimistic about the results.
>
> The fact is that Yahya did not force any one party to run in the election.
> They decided on their own accord to play the game even though  Mr Roberts'
>  records were far from desirable. As much as I did not want
> another 5 yrs of Yahya, I say to all the opposition particuarly Mr Darboe
> and team you should have known better.
>
> Malanding Jaiteh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beran jeng" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Break-down of VOTERS / Tombong
>
> > Joe,
> >
> > This is what Mr.Darboe is saying per The Observer. I don't understand him
> > conceding defeat , praising the IEC for conducting the election in a free
> > and fair manner and then coming out with this press conference.
> > I'm confuse. Will someone help to clarify me!
> >
> > Beran
> >
> >
> >
> > Culled from The Observer
> >
> > Thursday, October 25, 2001
> >
> >
> > Despite conceding defeat Darboe attacks IEC
> >
> > The UDP/PPP coalition flag bearer, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe despite
> > telephoning president-elect, Yahya Jammeh to concede defeat after last
> > week's Presidential election has strongly attacked the Independent
> Electoral
> > Commission and its boss, Gabriel Roberts for what he called "inept and
> > corrupt" handling of voter registration exercise during which he alleged
> > that non-Gambians were issued voters cards.
> >
> > Speaking to journalists at a press conference held at his Pipeline
> residence
> > Wednesday afternoon, Mr Darboe who also presented a Senegalese ID Card of
> > one Ebou Coli and a Gambian voters card of the same man said "there was an
> > indiscriminate issuing of voters cards to anyone who presented a national
> > identity card" without questioning and investigating qualification of
> > claimants by registering officers.
> >
> > As a result, according to Mr Darboe, many aliens who secured Gambian ID
> > cards before were able to obtain voters cards lamenting that revising
> courts
> > were in some cases established as a matter of formality.
> >
> > Arguing that some magistrates presiding over the revising courts were
> > corrupt and incompetent, Mr Darboe alleged that APRC's Baba Jobe and the
> > Youth Action Group effectively controlled the proceedings in the
> Mansakonko
> > Revising Court and "determined the outcome of any objection." His party's
> > protest to the chief justice, he added, produced no results.
> >
> > He said they had material evidence that the IEC had registered
> non-Gambians
> > and a voters card of a Senegalese national was produced at a meeting held
> > October 16, 2001 at the Kairaba Beach Hotel between the IEC, international
> > observer group, the press and the political parties. He further said it
> was
> > only after long protest that the IEC chairman distributed the head
> register
> > two days before election. "Although the ruling APRC," he said, "had the
> head
> > register issued to them before the other opposition parties at least in
> > Upper Fuladu West." He added that the IEC once took a decision of not
> > allowing those whose names did not appear on the register to vote which
> was
> > reversed before elections "by Gabriel Roberts who appeared to be working
> > under the directives of the APRC.
> >
> > The decision to allow those in possession of voters cards but whose names
> do
> > not appear on the register of voters was not only a betrayal and reneging
> on
> > what was agreed to by the IEC and other stakeholders but a flagrant
> > violation of section 66 of the Elections Decree of 1996." In his own
> > constituency of Niani, Mr Darboe argued that a number of 413 more voters
> was
> > added to the 7464 people registered by IEC. "This point supports our
> > assertion that the IEC had actually carried out extra registration and
> these
> > extra registered voters were distributed to various constituencies
> > throughout the country in order to give the APRC an unfair advantage over
> > the opposition parties," he said. Mr Darboe outlined that despite the
> > irregularities, the UDP led coalition accorded victory to the APRC's
> > presidential candidate "all in the spirit of peace and stability of The
> > Gambia."
> >
> > He however drew the attention of all government authorities, the APRC
> > leadership and the diplomatic community of alleged harassment,
> intimidation
> > and physical assault of supporters of the coalition since the declaration
> of
> > last week's Presidential election results. "There were organised attacks
> by
> > APRC militants on the houses of Lamin Waa Juwara ... Alhaji Dembo Jatta
> ...
> > OJ, Hon Dembo Bojang for which the police made no arrests," he revealed.
> > According to Mr Darboe some of his supporters including his election
> agents
> > were arrested and detained by personnel of the NIA for no reason other
> than
> > they had been known opponents of the APRC.
> >
> > Contradicting the inspector general media information, Mr Darboe said not
> > less than 60 of his supporters had been arrested within less than 48 hours
> > of the declaration of the election results whom he said were presently in
> > police and NIA detention in Jangjanbureh, Soma, Bakau, Kairaba Police
> > Station, Brikama, Banjul and elsewhere. He said he had made personal
> > attempts at reaching the SoS for interior without success disclosing that
> he
> > could reach only the army chief of staff and the inspector general of
> police
> > all of whom, he said, did not appear to know about even one of his
> detained
> > men, Dr Momodou Lamin Manneh.
> >
> > APRC Government relationship with the West Mr Darboe said his advise to
> > Jammeh and his cabinet for a good relationship with the West is for them
> to
> > respect the rule of law. He argued that having a well-conducted election
> did
> > not entail that there is good democracy in The Gambia that could make the
> > West change its perspective of The Gambia.
> >
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