Yero Mama,

Don't worry about whether some of them talkback or not. Fact of the matter
is that, while some have recovered fully from their shock defeat, others are
still dazed. They are however hearing us loud and clear.

The next few weeks will be very important as we see whether the same
negativity is going to take centre stage on the L it will be replaced by
reason and possitive engagement. I am going back to Gambia this weekend, God
willing, and will be posting more possitive things as they happen. Others
may wallow in negativity if they so desire.

When the APRC builds more schools, I'll report it and let them report that
the schools have no furniture. When they furnish them, I will report it and
they will report that the schools have no teachers or books. When the
schools have teachers and books, I'll report it and let them will report
that the teachers are unqualified or the books are second hand. Remeber the
collapsing Arch has not collapsed yet and and the farmers whose produce have
not been bought for three years in a row can still farm, produce and
repeatedly trust the government with their produce. In other words while
they are looking for news to depress themselves and others, we will endevour
to report the other possitive things also happening; but unlike them we will
admit our mistakes when they occur. Aren't you wondering why for the past
few days they are not posting reports from the Gambian papers but intead
rely on other media outlets? May be life is too normal in Banjul to report.

Imagine the poor farmers in Gambia who have not sold any of their produce
for three years in a row still voting for the president in their hundreds of
thousands. Those hungry farmers struggling to eat two square meals a day or
don't see a D50.00 note for two months still deciding to vote for Yahya.

I am still trying to figure out why gambians, who are so disillusioned with
Jammeh's administration, find their solace in the NRP and not the merged
UDP/PPP. Why is it that Gambians who would not vote for Yahya decided to
vote for Hamat Bah instead. Could be that he has an agenda that the people
are interested in or he has a better and more effective strategy? It makes
you wonder what his supporters find appealing about his politics to enable
him gain votes from both the APRC and the merged UDP/PPP. Imagine this guy,
who has the least resources, manages to do so well where others have
apparently failed to make much improvement. In my honest opinion the biggest
winner in this election after the Gambian voter is Hamat Bah, and I extend
my congratulations to him and his party too.

Yero  Mama, am getting real homesick. I don't know anyone, but I am looking
forward to going back home; I have had enough of this miserable British
weather.

Have a good day, Gassa.

>From: YERO MAMA <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: JUNGLESUNRISE SNOB NOT THE SNOBBISH!
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:31:40 +0000
>
>Jnglesunrise,thank you for focusing on our nation'S priorities.You see it
>makes me laugh when i see some on this "noisy" forum advocate for people to
>be deleting mails from us!
>
>I have a friend who told me that,such advocates are just bluffs but they
>instead scroll through all our mail and pretend to be deleting them.Thats
>true! because my bait has been catching many on this forum.
>IE:I do send in certain messages with special headings and many do read
>them
>because of the terminology from one "deporian-Fieldforce" "aseh sah
>daa one deh na by cangn't helpu it mai!"
>The pretencious sophistication from some of those who call us sycophants is
>not only nerve-DRAINING for just people,but  laughable!
>
>Deleting messages is a frustrated way of engaging people in political fora
>like this one.No serious democrat will resort to escaping debates by being
>snobbish,rude and angry!
>
>THE MORE SOME ADVOCATE FOR OUR MESSAGES BEING DELETED, THE MORE I WILL BE
>READING THEIRS!
>
>Being thick-SKINNED and lending one'S EARS to those that one does not agree
>with IS A RARE VIRTUE IN GAMBIAN POLITICS!Especially those amongst the
>self-CROWNED political science lecturers on this cyber space!
>The more you delete the more we will bleat!
>
>                    ON THE ARRESTS IN THE GAMBIA!
>
>"Dr.Manneh and co have been picked up"...Yes or no? I believe those of us
>who are self-appointed UN sanction committee members, should bear in mind
>that states arrest for reasons, whether IT IS considered plausible or not
>by
>you guys. When lawyer Swareh was arrested,so many of you made angry remarks
>but one intelligent person from the states intervened via certain
>channels,and sent a positive version on the guy to those who held
>him.Whether that freed him or not it was not also going to leave him there
>for long! Do you think yelling and spanking can free THOSE arrested?
>Even whereas i disagreed with Dr. Saine in certain instances i believe you
>should pay heed to his appeal, as far as engaging us peacefully is
>concerned!
>
>Do you people know why Manneh and Sillah were arrested? Most likely you do
>not!Do you know where they are now? Most likely you do not!
>The UNHCR,UN or any other body that gives assylum status to someone,warns
>him or her to avoid travelling to the country that has warranted the person
>fleeing from being persecuted(based on the stories given by such
>applicants).Now if some of you are threatening HERE with very empty
>rhetoric
>that, this gvt this or that! then what do you expect from us? To sit and
>watch those who carry such stories ABROAD, come home with "glittering and
>attractive" refugee passports? Campaign within that very country they
>originally ran away from and then after losing the elctions travel back to
>base?!
>How about the system also, justifying to the embassies concerned that,
>these
>refugees were economic ones and not the least political?!
>What is much better an evidence than showing them MANNEH and co in live
>videos campaigning within the Gambia?!
>As Patrice Lumumba once said to the colonialists;"IF YOU DO NOT STOP MID
>WAY
>BY PLANNING TO DESTROY US,WE WOULD NOT ALSO STOP HALF WAY IN TRYING TO
>JUSTIFY OUR ACTIONS!"
>Go ahead and send all sorts of destructive material against this gvt but
>remember that the gvt also has long arms that it can utilise. so lets play
>on!
>
>None amongst u would have believed that the commonwealth was going to come
>out with the statement it issued on friday! NONE!
>Some shamelessly said here that they were in a hurry to leave the country
>before any uprising! HOW ABOUT THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER BEING A SON
>OFTHE COUNTRY THAT BEARS THE SACRED CRADLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH GROUP?-
>Did he go?
>
>How about the Bush allies who were there in Banjul? Ask Tombong...
>Going to the state dept with letters to justify your assylum files isn't
>new
>to us!
>Take my word,this time it will be very tough for any to penetrate the INS
>with fabricated stories!
>Why did those of you who came to Abuja and other countries only to WAIT FOR
>AN UPRISING IN THE GAMBIA,run back?!
>
>WE MUST TEACH YOU HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS and the lesson cannot be short!
>
>
>
>"YEROMAMA PULORI GALO HAAWA BAROGEL N'DIMOU"
>"Speak the speeches and let the speeches not spit you."
>
>
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