Well said brother. Yes, the ignorant in our midst need education and
enlightenment. But the Kebba Jobes of The Gambia need to be horse-whipped.
These people are educated and enlightened, all right. They know all the
facts: the murders, the rapes, the thefts, etc. They are engaged in self
preservation, cronyism, sycophancy, and pure old cowardice. As we work on
the ignorant in our midst, we should also work on the Kebba Jobes of The
Gambia: the seemingly educated Gambian that knows evil and voluntarily
partakes in it because he is scared of reprisal from Yaya.
KB



>From: Hamadi Banna <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Yahya Jammeh is indeed a LIAR!
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:30:46 -0500
>
>Ebrima Ceesay's summarized account of President Jammeh's record since the
>young men in khaki toppled the PPP government in 1994 cannot be more
>damning.  The catalogue of crimes and criminal activities of the AFPRC/APRC
>government looks like pages uplifted from a crime best-seller.  The
>difference is that we're dealing here with fact and not fiction.
>
>The APRC fact sheet is pretty alarming.  It is incomprehensible how African
>leaders such as Yahya Jammeh can behave so callously towards their people
>almost four decades after our nations broke off from colonialism.  It is
>indeed insulting that our societies are still left behind due largely to
>the
>wanton destruction of our economies by childish and irresponsible leaders
>such as Mr.  Jammeh.
>
>Almost every leader who comes to power, whether through the ballot or the
>bullet, utters the same empty promises and nonsense to his people only to
>reduce them to mere beggars.  They plunder their economies and loot the
>national treasuries in a fraction of a second.  I, therefore, believed
>President Jammeh when he reportedly said that his family will never again
>be
>poor.  Most people have either joined in the looting and murder or closed
>their eyes to the crimes with the argument that: "man bokuma chi polotic
>(sic)", i.e. "I'm not interested in politics".
>
>Yet politics, in my opinion, is when you as a farmer do not get paid for
>your agricultural produce, cannot afford to pay your children's school
>fees,
>cannot purchase aspirin for a headache or when you have to go all the way
>to
>Banjul just to uproot a tooth.  I've been just been told that there is no
>dentist in the Bansang and Basse hospitals.
>
>Of course, politics is more than the simple gesture of casting a vote or
>attending a political rally under the scorching sun.  It is the senseless
>death of pregnant women due to acute anemia and under-nourishment.  It is
>the shooting down of a child who dared raise his voice against injustice.
>Whether we make our political options in the closet or at the 'pencha',
>we're the sum total of the decisions made by our governments.  A person
>either takes part of the credit or part of the blame.
>
>Looking at the current situation closely, it is the very children of some
>of
>these destitute families who are today shamelessly aiding and abetting the
>corrupt APRC government destroy The Gambia.  The very children who
>yesterday
>spoke against PPP economic debacles and castigated ex-President Jawara
>through vapor and verse are now the henchmen of the Jammeh hegemony.   I am
>overwhelmed to see people who yesterday engaged in revolutionary cant and
>who would have sacrificed their lives against falsehood and thuggery join
>the camp of thieves and murderers.
>
>African societies have been so much abused by their leaders that it is
>almost resorting to 'everyone for himself and God for us all'.  The
>strategy
>of the leadership is simple, but effective: impoverish the people,
>intimidate them into submission, and occasionally give them some incentives
>(e.g. hajj tickets, utility vehicles, scholarship, etc.) out of the very
>money you stole from them. Simply, a carrot and stick policy. This is no
>doubt one of the reasons for the increase in voter apathy in most African
>states.  The incessant wars and civil strife are nothing but an indictment
>of these leaders and their governments.
>
>It is heart-rending that President Jammeh is slowing pushing our country to
>mayhem through his quest for power and self-aggrandizement.  Those who
>stand
>by him today should wait for the day when it will be said: "look ye how the
>mighty have fallen". Unless the Gambian electorate frees itself from the
>shackels of ignorance we will see many more Yayha Jammehs in our political
>history.
>
>
>Hamadi.
>
>
>
>
>
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