WOW Maareme Abdoulie Jallow (BambaLaye),
I am speechless.
Did you use "Allah Jabi Jabani" remote control to suck your wise words out of my brain? I saw myself between your lines. Hahaha.
You said it all. Thanks for the wonderful New Year Feast. I have nothing more add.
You made feel so good that I will be very generous and lovely to the sweet Tuculor girls. I just hope they will not give me "Nyamu Joddo" so that I crazily marry one of them!
I am not enterting The Gambia and attending the Diaspora Meeting as it is just a kind of New Year Party for Diaspora holiday makers. The real final decision makers like my humble self are missing it for obvious reasons.
Djarama Maareme.
I pity all those who are not spending the first week of this great New Year 2012 in the arms of a hot Tuculor girl!!!!
Cool New Year to everyone.
HSH Prince B.A. Sankanu
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Datum: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:20:04 -0600
Von: Laye Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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Betreff: [G_L] Diaspora Engagement –The Epitome of Mediocrity in Governance
Diaspora Engagement –The Epitome of Mediocrity in Governance
The idea that grown, men and women of well to do Gambians abroad
gather in work-groups to “harness the potentials and talents of
Gambians in the Diaspora…..” is the most absurd. This is the clearest
manifest of mediocrity in governance and public policy.
The proper role of government is to create a lawful and secure social
environment to ensure each person survives and flourishes based on
their ability to exercise and use their reason to enhance their lives.
For this to happen, everyone must have the protection of their
individual rights to exercise reason. A proper government must be
proper for all citizens at home or abroad, and members of every
society are beneficial to that society to the extent that they are
free; the reverse holds in that a society is in turn beneficial to
each member to the extent that they are free – their rights are
upheld. A proper government, that which allows man to live his life to
the fullest according to his nature as a rational being, is a
government that upholds individual rights and does not violate them in
any way.
Where the system of governance we have in Gambia today is in fact a
Capitalist system – as far as I know it is – then calling Diaspora
Gambians to sit around and come up with ways to improve their own
participation in the system is the dumbest, most ridiculous idea.
Where there is separation of economy and state, Gambians at home and
abroad will participate to the fullest extent possible under the
circumstances out of necessity and reason. They are doing so even when
there is no proper separation of economy and state.
A free market is what is needed to stimulate the enhancement of
Diaspora Gambians’ participation in enhancing the means to produce and
distribute privately or corporately. The best incentive for such
participation is to ensure individual rights and specifically property
rights. If there is a political system that ensures the rights to
property, there will be no need to gather grown men and women for such
silly talks. Yaya Jammeh and his government have the moral and
political duty to be dedicated to the protection of rights, which is a
requirement for human survival and flourishing of economic activity.
Yaya Jammeh must understand that this fact is the purpose of
government.
In order to stimulate Diaspora Gambians’ economic participation to
help restore economic stability, people like Njogu Bah, Momodou
Tangara and others must focus their energies on restoring the
institutional role of governing. Yaya Jammeh must be advised that his
government must provide a stable environment for economic growth by
making sure he can be depended upon to enforce and defend property
rights and provide proper oversight that assures citizens within and
outside Gambia that their transaction partners are held accountable.
The government must be seen to be providing the best entrepreneurial
opportunities for Gambians at home and abroad.
If given the a stable foundation and an enhancing environment, private
citizens at home and abroad can and will invest and produce the
vibrant standard of living that meet the changing needs of society.
Just provide the basics and let the citizens do the rest!
However, so called policy makers and technocrats within the Jammeh
government are jumping in the fray only to prove themselves to be the
epitome of mediocrity. Is it not obvious that the reason why there is
no proliferation of Gambia Diaspora owned businesses in Gambia is
because of ridiculous interference and infringement of rights of
property by none other than Yaya Jammeh himself? Is it not obvious
that Yaya Jammeh wants to own or be part of any and all high value
enterprises in Gambia? Haven’t we seen enough examples of executive
interference to the detriment of free enterprise involving Diaspora
Gambians?
Now that they are gathered at the Kairaba Hotel breaking bread and
singing praises, will Yaya Jammeh, Momodou Tangara and Njogu Bah allow
those participating to freely express to them that what is wrong and
what is holding back citizen participation in free enterprise is the
way they are running government? Will they allow them to tell them
they are incompetent? Will they give them the guarantee to freely
express their views even where it to be pointing out the wrongs done
to other Gambian entrepreneurs? Will they let them tell them they are
involved in a farce and pure abdication of duty and responsibility?
Will these ladies and gentlemen be allowed to freely express their
views? If Yaya Jammeh were to allow a climate of ideas and free
expression, Tangara and Bah will not need a circus of clowns at
Kairaba Hotel to tell them how to do their jobs.
Yaya Jammeh and his government must seek the balancing act; how to
find the maximum liberty for Gambians as a whole, while limiting the
freedom of individuals only up to where is infringes upon others’
freedom. It is the purpose of government to balance power, to prevent
the weakness and the vulnerability of an individual from being overrun
by the powerful. It is the purpose of government to safeguard the
interest of the powerful from wreaking havoc on the helpless. Fact is
without the provision and the use of this balancing act, majority of
Diaspora Gambians will continue to seek enterprise where these safety
nets are provided – abroad. What we want from Yaya and his government
is to promote the general welfare and improve the lives of citizens,
and citizens will contribute to the best of their ability at home or
from abroad through direct or indirect participation in business. It
is that simple.
Whatever comes out of the circus at Kairaba, one thing is certain:
Gambians at home and abroad will receive value from the government’s
role in making and enforcing laws that give Gambians the opportunity
to freely pursue opportunities at home. Having an orderly governing
body allows private citizens to make long-term investment decisions
about their personal resources. A credible government contributes to
the economic growth of a nation and provides the best opportunity to
accomplish its national investment and growth goals through the
entrepreneurial spirit of its citizens at home and abroad. Making
basic and fundamental changes to the policies, agencies and curbing
the tendencies that are detrimental to free enterprise will provide
the economic stability and give opportunity for the potentials of
Gambians to be realized at home and from abroad. Simply put, Yaya
Jammeh needs to curb his lust for wealth and quit being jealous of
hard working enterprising Gambians to the detriment of the Gambian
economy.
This is a simple fact that requires no circus parade at Kairaba to be
made obvious to so called policy makers like Njogu Bah and Momodou
Tangara, who are in fact the epitome of mediocrity in governance.
Abdoulie Jallow (BambaLaye)
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-Laye
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