Thank you guys for sharing this valuable information with the sensible
people of the world. I love hearing people talk sense. This is the type of
information sensible Gambians on the L need to hear. Please consider me a
member in this organisation. I am ready to contribute anything to support
this organisation. May ALLAH bless our mission!
Jimo Kejera


>From: Pasamba Jow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: The Establishment of a PDOIS  Support Group
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:07:56 GMT
>
>              THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PDOIS SUPPORT GROUP
>
>Drawing lessons from Halifa Sallah's speeches in Washington D.C and New
>York
>  that as member of the PDOIS leadership that; the Gambian people must not
>surrender their sovereign rights to determine the affairs of their country
>to a small group they called politicians as if it is the birth right of a
>few to lead the country but must accept that they have a voice and power to
>dictate where  their country is to head to;
>    that keeping  the people ignorant has enabled a few people at the helm
>to subject them to inducement  and intimidation in order to seize their
>birth right to determine how their country is governed;
>    that economically the Gambia is sinking and what is seen as development
>in the Gambia is a by product of heavy borrowing amounting to 1800 million
>dalasis between 1994 to date;
>    that with an inherited debt burden of 3000 million dalasis, Gambia  now
>has to settle 4.8 billion dalasis worth of loans;
>    that the state employs  less than 15,000 employees while the private
>sector employs approximately 20,000 in a situation where the 132,000
>children in our primary schools in 1996 would be seeking employment within
>the next ten years;
>    that democracy must be more than mere voting every five years to retain
>or change faces;
>    that it should be a tool of empowering the people to gauge the
>programmes  of political parties and make informed choices;
>    that PDOIS aims to provide a new kind of leadership to the Gambian
>people;
>    that its concept of democracy is that the people  must both be
>enlightened and empowered to select committees at the village and ward
>levels to take part  in monitoring  the development projects at that level
>as well as safeguard the rights of the residents;
>    that the income of representatives must be proportional to the income
>of
>other professionals in the public service and should be required  to put
>the
>national interest  before their personal interest;
>    that constitutions and electoral laws and other instrument  of
>governance  or representation should be made known to the people so that
>political leadership will not be mystified.
>    That PDOIS aims to promote awareness for each Gambian to refuse to be
>any ones tool to get to power; that it strive to eradicate politics base on
>ethnicity, religious bigotry, gender chauvanism and any other form of
>sectionalism; that it hopes  for the emergence  of a Gambian who is
>conscious  of ones worth and the importance of being a part of a nation,
>Africa and progressive  humanity;
>    that in the economic sphere PDOIS calls for the management of public
>finance and public corporations  in such a way that they facilitate the
>growth  of productive base of the national economy;
>    that foreign investment will compliment and not be a substitute for
>self
>reliant initiatives, that all economic actors and actresses would be
>encourage to corporate to enhance production  and greater welfare and
>security;
>    that loans and aid will be a supplement to self reliant initiatives
>rather than a basis of indebtedness and conditionality;
>    that PDOIS calls for a government which can earn the respect  of the
>African  and international community because of enlarging the awareness of
>the Gambian people and ensuring their complete control of the Gambia
>through
>various forms of peoples participation schemes that could serve as an
>example of a country where leaders are humble servants of a people;
>     that PDOIS calls for a government  where the leaders  would prefer to
>resign when they are confronted with  conditionalities  that will not serve
>the interest  of the people;
>
>
>   We the people who are convince of these opinions have decided to
>established a PDOIS  SUPPORT GROUP with the following objectives;
>  To ensure;
>  1. That we give the widest dessemination of all information  produced by
>PDOIS so that the disinformation regarding  PDOIS policies , positions and
>programmes would be eliminated.
>
>  2. That Gambians  in the US are informed of all developments  in the
>country irrespective  of party affiliation or political  opinion or
>otherwise so that they can make informed choices.
>
>  3.  That resources are mobilised to support the Nursery schools, Adult
>literacy programmes, Civic education initiatives, Disaster relief projects
>and other activities designed to strive or enlighten the people to be free
>from ignorance.
>
>  4.  That Gambians take part in struggling for standards of governance to
>be established irrespective of party affiliation so that we can always act
>in common to combat human right abuses and other and other abuse of
>authority.
>
>  5.  That the Gambians abroad can come together to influence the
>independent electoral commission to implement the powers given to it by
>section 141  of the Election decree to facilitate the participation of
>Gambians abroad as voters in presidential elections.
>
>  The group has the following contact addresses at the moment  to
>facilitate
>coordination  of activities pending its further restructuring by those who
>will become members.
>
>
>Contacts:
>
>Pa Samba Jow                       Mbye Ceesay
>(763)531 8216                      (614) 818 9474
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