Sister,

What was the Tep or the Bloodp.?dont take such so seriouly,the Gambia is too
small.

For Freedom
Saiks








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>In a message dated 8/4/02 8:41:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
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>> As a matter of fact the majority of the Gambia-l members are now APRC
>> supporters.
>
>Tombong.
>
>Please post a list of the majority of G-L members that are now members of the
>APRC.
>This is utter nonsense, and yes, those who join do so out for survivial
>reasons because even the civil servants who are not members get preyed upon.
>It is a matter of coercion for the helpless, but for those who know the truth
>and still choose to join this murderous regime, they do so to feed their own
>greed.
>You and the others keep talking about these sturctural improvements and the
>hospitals and schools. Well, these are good, but they are part of what a
>government does with the people's money. It is just that in Africa our
>leaders tend to sprend the dough on themselves so that if they direct it
>where it belongs sometimes, they then present this as major accomplishments.
>
>In the case of Yaya Jammeh, the hospitals and the schools are empty, and even
>his wife flies to Washington for a routine pediatric visit for her child, so
>what is the point?
>Surely she should be able to partake of the wonderful improvements in our
>medical care to stay home these visits.
>These empty structures you  and others constantly point at goes to prove the
>poor planning skills of the APRC government because some of the resources to
>erect these structures should have gone to improving the existing schools and
>hospitals and equiping them, with perhaps additions of a few new ones.
>
>However, for the APRC regime, the emphasis is on visual effects, i.e, as many
>new structures as possible so they can be pointed at for the gullible to be
>impressed.
>Structural improvements are not the only issue in the development of a
>country. Even as you and other s continue to try to sell this garbage about
>the APRC, there are more and more decrees designed to by-pass our
>constitution,  and journalists are being detained by the NIA for printing a
>story that the VP got married for heavens sake among other stupid reasons?
>Paranoia is the order of the day, and people who are confident in what the
>yare doing and who know that they are competent and are serving the people
>well do not display this kind of paranoia,  nor do they employ devious
>tactics to divide the people.
>Here si a fact that everyone with a brain cannot miss. HUMAN RIGHTS
>VIOLATIONS ARE WORSENING BY THE DAY IN GAMBIA, WHILE WE HAVE MORE NEW
>STRUCTURES? WE WANT IMPROVEMENTS ON BOT HFRONTS, AND WE WANT THOSE WHO HAVE
>COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AND WE WANT THE UNSOLVED
>MURDERS AND THE POLICE STATE TO STOP.
>WE WATN OUR CONSTUTUTIONAL RIGHTS NOT TO BE ABBROGATED AND DONE AWAY WITH BY
>THE APRC REGIME. THEN WE WILL AGREE THERE IS REAL AND TRUE PROGRESS
>
>We have the structures while people are starving in The Gambia,  farmers who
>depend solely on their crops being unable to sell those crops for years now.
>Civil servants are being fired illegally daily, and even the Judiciary is
>under the grips of the APRC. The saddest part of it is that people like you
>who know the truth are still  trying to sell this garbage to us.
>Perhaps we over-estimate the APRC and assume that when we complain about the
>human  rights violations, they are intelligent enough to understand that we
>are trying to tell them that the improvements have to be in all areas, not
>just the structural improvements. That we want the murders solved and the
>human rights violations stopped.Tombong, how do you and the rest of the APRC
>gang explain the human rights violations that continue even today? Will you
>tell us that the Gambian people deserve that and that we are to substitute
>our freedoms for structures?
>
>PEOPLE, UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TACTIC OF STATING THAT MANY HAVE JOINED THE APRC
>BUT ARE SILENT ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER DEVIOUS TACTIC EMPLOYED BY THESE THUGS.
>
>Those of us who used to write amost daily about this regime  but do less of
>that now realize that these are not people to reason with simply because they
>were not motivated by high ideals to serve their country,  but were and are
>motivated by what they can do for themselves in the guise of serving their
>country.
>
>However, rest assured that this does not mean that we will ever compromise
>our principles and join those whom history will not laud as the best amongst
>us,  but rather those  amonsgst us who will always choose their own interest
>over the truth,  and there is nothing honourable or even sensible in that,
>,and time will prove this. Rest assured that not writing about this regime
>daily translates to selling our souls and joining the devil or that we have
>given up exposing this regime for what they are.
>
>To the  statement about silent members of the APRC, I say,  if someone joins
>a political party and feels a need to hide that fact, then something is
>wrong, ,and if it was my party,  I would not want such membership unless if I
>was desperate for members or simply engaged in a false campaign to sell the
>nonsense that people are joining the APRC by the drones. To anyone who joinss
>he APRC, I feel a deep sense of sadness not just because of the character
>trait it unfolds, but also because the yhave    that day given up their self
>respect and their ability ot hold their head high in our society in the long
>run.
>
>Why? Because joining the APRC is not just exercising the constitutional right
>to join a party which would have been fine if the party was not one with the
>record of the APRC. Joining the APRC is signing on to be identified with the
>present regime who have the blood of Gambians on their hands and are
>flaunting this fact before us daily by refusing to investigate these criminal
>acts, ,and who also violate our rights daily and have turned our country into
>a police state. Who have incarcerated Gambians without any charges they can
>prove and who refuse to let these people have their rights under our
>constitution., and who engage in silencing anyone who dares to complain about
>these illegal acts they are engaged in. Who have tured our country into a
>place where even members of the judiciary cannot make  rulings in a case
>according to the law without being harassed or terminated from their
>positions. Man, I would say anarchy has come to be the rule of the day in The
> Gambia, and yet, Tombong Saidy and company come daily to tell us we shoudl
>be dancing the jig because the government of  Yaya Jammeh has built some
>structures while they continue to also built an ever worsening police state?
>
>THIS ALLEGATION OF PEOPLE JOINING THE APRC IS JUST ANOTHER TACTIC OF DIVIDE
>AND CONQUER. TOMBONG AND HIS LIKES WHO MAKE THESE STATEMENTS HAVE AN AGENDA
>TO PLANT DISTRUST AND CHAOS EVEN AS THEY APPEAR TO BE PEACE MAKERS AND JUST
>ANOTHER WELL MEANING MEMBER OF THE LISTS.
>
>Tombong, produce your list of APRC members or cease and desist from your
>devious tactics.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
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