>From: "ebrima ceesay" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: SSHFC and THE BRUSUBI PROJECT
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:00:51 PDT
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>Sandra:
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>Please forward this e-mail to Gambia L for me.
>
>Ebrima
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>Gambia-L:
>
>As usual, the e-mail below is sent to me by one of my sources in the
>Gambia. I am however sending it unedited. By the way, let me apologise to
>you for the long silence. I was so busy helping out in the organisation of
>the this year's African Liberation Day which was held in Birmingham on
>Sunday and Monday.
>
>Ousainou Ngum: Thanks for your comments on the Sam Sarr issue. By the way,
>just ignore Matarr Njie's private e-mails. He even insulted me in the past.
>
>Elhajj Mustapha Fye: I got your private e-mail and thanks.
>
>Ebrima Ceesay
>Birmingham, UK
>
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>Hello Ebrima,
>
>I am sure you do remember when the Brusubi Housing Project started. It was
>conceived toward the end of the Jawara era and immediately taken over by
>the AFPRC as one of their transition projects. That was in 1994.
>
>The Social Security Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC) Managing Director,
>Andrew Sylva, told the Gambian Nation, in his GRTS interview of Saturday,
>that "phase one of the Brusubi Housing Project is virtually completed".
>
>What does phase one comprise of? It comprises 57 housing units, of which
>ONLY 3 units have been completed ( in six years) and "available for
>demonstration as samples to the public". I do not regard 3 completed units
>out of 57 as "virtually completed" even though we live in a virtual reality
>world.
>
>The second, third and fourth options (are you with me?) under the first
>phase comprise of empty undeveloped plots of which they have been able to
>dispose of a fraction. The project has been judged to be non-viable by
>several donors. Yet, Yankuba Touray (when he was in charge of AFPRC
>Projects) and Mr Sylva tried their best to peddle the idea to donors
>without success.
>
>They finally decided to finance almost the entire project out of the
>resources of social security - which is your Social Security payments (I
>assume The Daily Observer deducted social security from your meagre
>salary), my wife's and the ordinary person in the street.
>
>All of this in the name of promoting the cause of the AFPRC/APRC. In one of
>my earlier messages to you, I alluded to TAF CONSTRUCTION's competitors as
>partly responsible for his current woes. Well, the SSHFC is the most
>formidable competitor apart from that guy "Yahya Jammeh's business partner"
>who will remain nameless.
>
>The SSHFC has been opposed to TAF's project from the unset, and has written
>several letters opposing allocation of land to TAF. Andrew Sylva's claims
>in his interview, is to justify this Government's action against TAF and
>also to justify the continued involvement of SSHFC in such schemes.
>
>Mr. Sylva continues to nudge the SSHFC toward insolvency. Apart from
>non-viable and ill-conceived projects, he has been playing ball with this
>regime and using public funds in dubious transactions (arms, rice) which
>are outside the mission of the SSHFC for which he will be called upon to
>account one fine day.
>
>The housing finance arm of his organisation would have to be privatised at
>the appropriate time. Meanwhile, let us hope that the damage inflicted thus
>far will not render the SSHFC insolvent by then.
>
>Thanks as usual!
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