Professor Hamjatta, you can fool the gullible but you cannot fool the
enlighthened. It is clear that you have developed the art of distortion, in
fact you have taken it to a completely new level. As is the case you seem
to run out of issues of substance that can further the polimics, hence you
resort to fishing for a topic and all you can come with is this twisted
logic of yours. Your assertions and pretence was to make an analysis of the
political configuration and the dynamics of the present inter-relationships
between the different political groupings, but the basis of your theory is
completely flawed, one moment you talk about MOJA, the next moment you come
with your usual antics and attacks on PDOIS, you seemed so obsessed with the
party so much so that the head and tail of you discour becomes jagged and
completely out of context.
What is it really you want to say?, because if it is the case that you are
trying to establish a link between PDOIS and MOJA you have failed quite
abysmally, [with all due respect to MOJA] and if it is the reverse you want
to link APRC to PDOIS that would be even ridiculous and laughable. After
all, the entire country has witnessed, in two occassion, when Jammeh
offered two ministerial positions to the party and they made it abundantly
clear that they will never be a party to a regime, that has usurped power
behind the people. If this is not clear to you, for you to play mischief
then it is apparent that you have for obvious reasons dragged PDOIS just to
slander the intergrity of the party.
In your irrelivant subject, you should have had the audacity to sight the
relatioship between the dyfunct PPP the APRC and UDP, for it is obvious that
the vast majority of the APRC are either former members of the PPP or
disaffected, disillusioned UDP. The relationship between the UDP and APRC is
best epitomised by former sos DR. SEDAT JOBE. You may try to play this down
but to genuine observer, the glowing tribute paid by TWO FACED Darbo
testifies to this fact.
If you had been objective in your analysis this obvious fact should not have
escaped you, but with a devious mind like yours you would always try to
distort reality, hence arrive at erronious conclusions. The fact that you
have a phobia against PDOIS testifies to the fact you are dogmatic, for
PDOIS has never for once threatened, coerced, intimidated or induce anybody,
all they are doing is telling the people as it is, that power belongs to
them and the resources of the nation should be used for everybody and not
just for the comfort of a few, well this is perfectly legitimate, unless you
have a different motive as it appears.
As the case appears people like you do not hate PDOIS but you fear what it
stands, because all you want is to mystify the people that you are the only
ones with the answers therefore the people should subdue to your kind whiles
you dominate them and squander the resources of the nation. This type of
mysticism is what PDOIS has come to combat and that is the reason why in
their campaigns people leave it with more awareness. As oppose to UDP
rallies which are characterised with rhetorics, insults, platitudes and
empty promises. PDOIS is making waves it is only a matter of time before
people will realised that DARBO, YAYA AND JAWARA, drink from the same
fountain of the peoples blood and sweat. If the people come to realise this,
which many are beggining to,then DARBOS AND JAMMEHS would be history.
In fact the only thing that is helping the perpetuation of Jammeh is the
confusing role the UDP is playing. They spend their campaigns distracting
the people with their misleading and insincere messages, and this at times
befoggs their understanding ,but the people are not fools, it is becoming
apparent that the UDP ESSENTIALLY IS THE PPP AND APRC, for after all they
would just impoverish the people as Jawara has done for decades and Jammeh
is doing now. Further onto that they are seeing the same people that were
the technocrats under PPP in the APRC. So nothing has change, one group of
oppressors replaced by another that is all there is, and that is why their
confrontation is always violent none of the two groups have come to serve
the intrest of the people. PPP under Jawara left the people as destitutes
under Jammeh the people are still destitute, essentially not much has
change.
These are the facts you should be talking about but instead you bent on
playing mischief, coming with a very cheap shot on a very irrelivant
subject.
In fact it is all lies to accuse MOJA as going to bed with APRC. I happen to
know many MOJA members they are dignified people who are very resolute and
consistent with their believes, and we have to judge them for their
individual actions, just because some members went to work with Jammeh does
not make the organisation guilty, just as you cannot arrive at such a
conclusion because DR JOBE was an APRC MARRIONETTE.
You see in trying to distort the facts will entagle your self, for PDOIS IS
AN INDEPENDENT PARTY that owes no obligation to any group or persons. You
would always expose yourself because of your dogmatic oppostion to such a
sincere party. I hope with MR cement head you will deal with what your part
has to offer the Gambians which only you two happen to know about, do not
distract PDOIS, they are writing and putting their vase before the Gambian
people without insult or smears. You lot should grow up and move away from
such infantile childish gibbering gives us your parties literature post it
in the net for us to talk and analyse objectively and please, please do not
give us the skeletal manifesto you adopted the last. It was so devoid of
substance one would believe that it was written by a political novice.
May be professor Hamjatta you can delve into the archives and produce those
bombastic, tautological theories. In the mean time PDOIS IS MAKING WAVES,
PEOPLE ARE COMING IN THEIR THOUSANDS TO HAVE DIALOGUE, SO THAT THEY CAN GIVE
AND TAKE.
POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE, I KNOW YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Is MOJAG Now In Cahoots With The APRC??!!
>Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:03:36 EDT
>
>I've always said that there is something inherently unsettling and
>disreputable about the relationship between the AFPRC/APRC and MOJAG - or
>whatever is left of it nowadays. What at best describes this unsettling and
>disreputable relationship is a deep-seated ambivalence towards the record
>of
>Jammeh along the same wave-lengths of - oh dear, not them again! - PDOIS'
>own
>deep-seated ambivalence towards the question of Jammeh. For now, i shall
>shelve the parallels that make these two parallel cousins, i.e., MOJAG and
>PDOIS correspond together: fanatically anti- Jawara/PPP and a "furious
>hatred" of everything and or anything bourgeois and liberal.
>
>If during its heydays MOJAG was to be believed, it opposed the PPP and
>decried Jawara's autocratic-cum-capitalist order because of the damages it
>inflicted on liberty and freedom. The themes are familiar: from the
>debilitating effects of the democratic deficit inherent in the body politic
>to the gross and intolerable inequalities that "the system" inflicted on
>the
>Gambia's poor and underprivilege, MOJAG waxed indignant and lyrical at all
>sorts of social justice themes that leftists liked to invoke during the 70s
>and 80s. And so MOJAG represented progress whilst those that opposed them -
>notably the PPP and Jawara - were political decadents or reactionaries. Or
>they would imagine and even led us to believe. MOJAG's apparent believe in
>their own pose led to a more romantic and subversive revolutionary
>existence
>in the emerging urban areas of the Gambia, where their political agitation
>is
>the stuff of legend and subsequently earned them political exile abroad -
>notably in Scandinavia. This tour de force of an historical bravado is what
>we are made and led to believe about MOJAG's history in Gambian politics.
>
>Let me - with the hindsight of late modern Gambian history - offer a
>dissenting view. I strongly believe that the ripples discontinuity and
>ambivalence in MOJAG - or whatever is left of it - of late to a very large
>extent discredits and places a huge question mark over the achievements or
>lack thereof of their heady and romantic revolutionary existence before
>they
>were forced into exile. Stuff happens: if MOJAG was selflessly motivated in
>agitating against Jawara on such social justice issues like political
>liberty
>and socio-economic equality for all Gambians, then in the AFPRC/APRC, they
>have such themes in plenitude. Whichever you feel like slicing the
>AFPRC/APRC
>cake, themes of nefarious politics and injustices are there for you to
>choose
>to your filling. Many a commentator - and i mean commentators who never
>hesitated to denounce Jawara - were in agreement that Jammeh makes Jawara
>look saintly. More to the point, with Jammeh, it ought to be personal:
>Jammeh
>has more than a year ago illegally incarcerated a prominent founding member
>of MOJAG - Dumo Sarho. With Jammeh, MOJAG ought to have gone into the
>trenches. The man literally provides them with all the ammunition needed
>for
>political mutiny. Yet, to date, i have as of yet to see, read, hear or hear
>of through third parties MOJAG unequivocally denouncing Jammeh along the
>same
>lines as they did with Jawara. I'm all ears.
>
>Instead, what we have now from MOJAG is a treacherous, disreputable and
>deplorable trend that will in all essence end up denigrating any sense of
>achievement MOJAG may lay claims to. From a very prominent MOJAG activist -
>Sarjo Jallow - serving the brutal regime that illegally continues to
>incarcerate a former comrade to a splinter group from MOJAG milking State
>funds through the conduit of an NGO, remnants of whatever it is that is
>left
>of MOJAG are in cahoots with the APRC. How did we figure all this out? Now
>during the weekend, i had a very interesting conversation with a source -
>who
>happens to know very well some of these MOJAG operatives and what they are
>up
>to in Banjul these days. The unimpeachable source put it to me that not
>only
>do we have a prominent MOJAG operative serving in Jammeh's gov't but in
>fact
>a splinter group formed around Ousman Manjang is very much informally
>involved with the APRC and Jallow is their contact man. How does it all
>work
>out? According to my source, Manjang operates an NGO call GAMSEM which
>supposedly helps out the unemployed young; and Sarjo Jallow sits on the
>board
>of this outfit. When the NGO runs out of cash or needs new contracts to be
>in
>business, Sarjo uses his position of influence as a Secretary of State to
>hand Manjang gov't contracts and so the NGO becomes the trough for
>cementing
>the old revolutionary network. And so the vicious circle goes ... More to
>the
>point, another source of mine once told me that whatever it is that Sarjo
>is
>up to within the APRC, he is in it with Manjang: on several occasions, he
>chanced upon Manjang at Sarjo's office looking for gov't contracts to fill
>the trough. All of which should help explain why a year ago - together with
>my compatriots, Brothers Saul Khan and Kebba Dampha - i was not able to
>make
>Manjang denounce Sarjo's involvement with the APRC. What i didn't know
>then,
>of course, was that Sarjo's involvement with the APRC is, in extension,
>Manjang and his splinter MOJAG group's involvement with the APRC.
>
>This is not the end of the story. As my source puts it to me again, Manjang
>and his group - like many anti- Jawara/PPP fanatics - have taken up a more
>unbecoming and disreputable position vis-a-vis the current political
>atmosphere. My source tells me that members of MOJAG or whatever is left of
>it - especially the wing of it that aligns with Manjang and his Marxism -
>is
>arguing that in this presidential election, whatever keeps Jawara out is
>better than what brings him back. Here they are merely saying that the
>anti-
>Jawara votes are best served by going to the candidate and or party with
>the
>clout to win the elections and resolutely opposed to a Jawara come-back -
>as
>it happens, the APRC. A while ago, my able compatriot, the indefatigible
>Kebba Dampha, warned of a mentality which gives succour to the corrupt
>dictatorship: the "we hate Jawara more" mentality, as he put it then. Now
>more than ever this disease is everywhere: from inside the Gambia to
>Gambia-L, this nonsense is the genesis of the current anti- Jawara
>hysteria.
>
>The question becomes relevant: is MOJAG - or whatever it is that is left of
>it - in cahoots with the murderous and corrupt fascist APRC? Recent events
>suggest that there indeed exist a very disreputable relationship between
>certain influential MOJAG operatives and the APRC that is deeply unsettling
>and ambivalent. Whatever our hesitation to denounce everything MOJAG stood
>or
>fought, there is no doubt in the minds of many decent Gambians that MOJAG -
>or whatever it is that is left of it that aligns with Ousman Manjang and
>Sarjo Jallow - is a disreputable force; whose integrity has been left in
>tatters by their association with the APRC. In this list of dishonoured
>political forces, they've joined their parallel cousins - the PDOIS.
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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