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Musa Jeng <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:53:01 -0500
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Mr.Edi Sidibeh:

If you just drop the pretence(intentional broken english), some of us
will definitely take you much more seriously.I think you do have heck of
arguement.

Edi Sidibeh wrote:

>
>
>
> Better now than ever > cooperation and understanding featuring better
> Gambia and willingness of her people to commit intellectually[Image]
>
> Well My friend Joe, I can see you were looking for an elite to reply
> to me. However, Forget about what others say but what you think about
> issue back home and what should done about them. You have however put
> your points without any strategic way out for the better
> Gambia.Because revising the trade issue does not say a thing. If for
> example, You have a key and I the padlock, we need to lock a box. I
> gave you my padlock and you lock the box and there was only one key,
> do you need me and my opinions to open the lock? The key represent
> industry and padlock resources the box agreements. think about that
>
> However the case, The ordinary gambians were and are still the victims
> of the so called political champions. On the whole, They have been
> politicizing for their own good, and when going get thougher, they
> blame the ordinary people of being lazy of not taking the few boxes of
> cigarrette and matches and hit the road or go and fetch firewoods to
> sell like other foreigners do. If since, education was affordable for
> all people, interdepency will by now be at it’s minimal.
>
> So let us stop blaming the ordinary gambian for what the politician
> mandated on them. However, everyone is a politician upon our own
> rights but I for one, am not a kin politician neither will i even try
> to think of becoming one especial African politic were everyone is
> eager for the power by fooling the people that they are with them, but
> if it is just a short course running , will hardly prove the last
> runner on the track.
>
> Let us look into the west who are more industrilised then us, most of
> the cleaning jobs and dish washings are for foreigner no matter how
> educated you might be, and from the income we are able to help our
> folks back home and travel there ourselves. I think it is normal if
> the citizens reject doing certain jobs, and that do not proof their
> laziness but the laziness of the system that govern them.
>
> In this Forum, some People are just tawdrily expressing thier fews
> against or for the government, who is thinking on behalf of the
> welbeing of the people on the ground ? for example my friend joe have
> being arguing on the ground of the US relationship with Gambia
> lifting, all at a sudden he change to blame the people for been lazy,
> is that not double standard course. Please people let us fight for the
> course of the people and the poors of our little country to be better.
>
> To be honest, if i will politically choose from two governments of our
> nation, I will prefer the present one even if it have a little
> difference from the previous, My stance on that are, the progresses
> they made by building hospital and schools, letting the ordinary
> people to see what is happening outside there country by improving the
> media standards, better airport etc. You might argue that there are no
> teacher and docters, and I will not disagree. But if the next
> government comes, should they devort their time to building hospital
> or schools rather tan feeding them with teachers and docters.
>
> People are confronting me of been on the side of the government, But
> they will never know my stance if they don’t read  my mails and see
> the details of my broken english expressions Shit why don't we have
> Mandinka as a written language?, Don't get me wrong, it is because
> Mandinka is my mother tongue. However, I am neither for the government
> nor for the opposition, because they are all going to disappoint the
> people. I am and will remain for the voice of the people on the
> ground.
>
> If Yaya is spending money on donating tractors whether from his own
> pocket or from the tax payers money, as far as it is helping ordinary
> people to improve their lives, is okay to me, hemce he is not spending
> it in Senegal or Guinea Bisau. Business development and country
> development are almost the same on one hand, then again, different in
> a form that, one person can develop the whole business structuer but
> on like country development, it can take maybe two or more government
> to do the development completely. I wish we can be patient and be
> reason with the government, "am not saying that we should not be
> argementative on things that does not fit for our money" of course
> that is normal and right thing to do hence the entire scope of the
> plain connot be zoom at one shut.
>
> Power to the people
>
> Good day
>
> Edi
>
>
> Better now than ever > cooperation and understanding featuring better
> Gambia and willingness of her people to commit intellectually[Image]
>
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