The Point Published at 12:00pm G.M.T January 10,
2000
Jammeh Govt, And
MPs Should Resign,
Says Juwara
Lamin Waa Juwara, propaganda secretary of the United
Democratic Party (UDP) has said that president Jammeh, his
secretaries of state and members of the national assembly
should
resign immediately.
Speaking in an exclusive interview, Mr Juwara said that
president
Jammeh's involvement in the crude oil deal without the
knowledge of the Gambian people is clearly untenable and
unacceptable.
Mr Juwara further said that the president's regime create
an
exaggerated fanfare on transparency, accountability and
probity,
and it set up commissions of enquiry to probe members of
the
former PPP regime was deeply involve in corruption.
Mr Juwara said that national assembly is being used as a
rubber
stamp parliament and talk shop. He charged that the
secretaries of
state should resign, since Jammeh has committee an
impeachable
offence..
Mr Juwara said "If the parliament fails to move a motion
of
impeachment; if the government fails to set up a commission
of
enquiry, the UDP an the Gambian people will take the matter
to
court."
He said the present political dispensation in the country
is a
disgrace to the Gambian people, and that he feels ashamed
to be a
Gambian.
He further said president Jammeh 's regime is no longer the
type
of government that any decent Gambian, who loves this
country
and who has any morals, even belief in any religion should
serve.
Mr Juwara pointed out that president Jammeh's government
set
up courts and commissions of inquiry and confiscate
people's
properties, houses whilst president Jammeh's name is now
being
associate with clandestine corrupt practices.
Mr Juwara declared that president Jammeh has treated the
Gambian people with contempt , and has done a great
disservice
to the country.
He said at a time when president Jammeh's regime was
shouting
thief thief, and that it will recover every Butut, his
government
was busy helping itself. Mr Juwara asked whether Gambians
are
less than human beings to serve in Jammeh's regime, after
he had
called members of the former PPP regime dioramas, when
corrupt
practice like the now-revealed crude oil deal were in the
making.
He pointed out that if Helmut kohl, for example who
unified
Germany can face a possible charge and imprisonment for
allegedly receiving unclear funds for his party , then the
national
assembly must move a motion of impeachment against
president
Jammeh .
Mr Juwara wondered why GRTS hastened to make an
announcement after the involvement in the crude oil deal
was
already made known to the Gambian people. "We are not
interested in your TV address for he will tell us what he
wants,
Waa stated. He called for a commission of enquiry to be set
up
immediately to probe into the crude oil saga. .
Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
____________________________________________________________________
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L
Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
