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Larry Jano <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:36:00 -0700
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Yous,
     It hurts really bad to hear what this fool utters
to our people,it is a shame for one to be called a
president and be so ignorant.I wonder if Tombong is
giving him lectures anymore.


--- Yusupha Darboe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Folks i cannot understand the way Yahya Jammeh talks
> to the Gambians when he
> tells them that anybody or region that does not vote
> for him will not
> benefit from any developments from him. Is this man
> telling us that he owns
> our country now and forever. This is stupid, and
> annoying to hear. I feel
> insulted anytime i read such crazy statements on
> papers. Yahya Jammeh thinks
> that he is talking to kids who are as naive as he
> is. I think it is only
> Yahya Jammeh as a president who would say this, and
> say it only in the
> Gambia. If Gambians are pollitically well aware of
> their rights, this man
> should not have even reached this stage in our
> country's politics. Our
> National Assembly Members would have been the very
> first people to condemn
> and stop him from saying such irrational statements
> and later remove him by
> moving a vote of no confidence against him. But due
> to the very bias and
> selfish nature of the majority of these members also
> as APRC members, they
> will never take such a move. Are our politicians not
> telling the Gambian
> people that Yahya has no power or right in the
> constitution to isolate or
> deny any person or region of any development from
> the government, support or
> not support him. They should not allow Gambian
> people to be intimidated into
> thinking that Yahya Jammeh being the president has
> the constitutional power
> to do that.It is their (Tax Payers')money that is
> used to develope the
> country, and not Yahya Jammeh's money. It is the tax
> payers who are paying
> him and his family, he just deliberately ignores it
> but that must be pointed
> out to him. People of Yahya's calibre have no place
> in any civilized
> society. I cannot just imagine this man saying this
> to Gambians and they
> feel frightened and believe him when as electorates
> they have the
> soverignty, they are the king and can decide on
> their own. Nobody can
> dictate to them. Their votes and their voice are
> more powerful than Yahya
> Jammeh and his army with their guns.
>
> Yahya Jammeh robs Gambians of their wealth and is
> now turning around dishing
> out money to them as if it is not the same money
> that he keeps stealing from
> the tax payers. Is he doing a favour for the
> Gambians by developing every
> region of the country if he can surely do that as
> expected of any genuine
> leader. Any person with this type of thinking is not
> the list fit to rule
> even a househould much more a country. I think
> Gambians are just unfortunate
> to have a president of his type. But no rational
> person behaves or talks
> this way, especially when you are entrusted with the
> leadership of a nation.
> May God who has the POWER, free our country, the
> Gambia from this
> unfortunate moment and bless us with a leader with
> good leadership qualities
> and sound mind to rule our country.
>
>
>
>
>
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