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--- Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I would suggest a thought experiment for the
> uncritical ditto-heads: Blindfold yourself and spin
> a globe and pick any sub-saharan country at random
> and I shall convince you with vital statistics that
> demonstrate "massive poverty, mismanagement, and
> abuse". Dr. Saine lived outside Gambia for the
> most part of his life, and I doubt whether he has
> ever casted a single vote in any elections in the
> Gambia. His so called 'research on Gambia politics'
> is nothing but low grade political journalism in
> order to survive the "publish or perish" rule in US
> academia. Prior to his new found passion for
> demonizing the "military boys" in academic journals,
> Dr. Saine has been occupied for years serenading
> Dawda Juwara in anticipation of the latter's
> patronage.
>
> Now what is the Doctor of Doom's metrics for the
> gravamen of 'authoritarianism', 'national-security
> state', 'leadership paranoia' and 'Gambia's crisis
> of unprecedented proportions"...? Nothing. Nothing
> but empty formalism and a passionate envy with an
> attitude that is constantly groping for reasons
> within the dark alleys of the malcontent. Even the
> "authoritative research" he cited to support his
> preposterous claims has been disgracefully
> embellished- The Gambia is far from being a "failed
> state" at an ordinal rank of 60 within a number of
> 70 something of minimal probability of turning into
> a rogue state. The Fund for Peace's report is NOT
> exhaustive but simply attempts to illustrate
> patterns which are inherent in almost all countries
> on this planet. It really does not do justice to a
> relatively stable Gambia which is surrounded by a
> country rife with political violence and a simmering
> secession.
>
> Finally, the Gambia is not at a cross-road but on a
> journey of success towards a 2020 vision which is
> perhaps Dr. Doom's worst nightmare and his marginal
> group of ditto-heads.
>
> Areos,
>
>
> Ebou Jallow
>
>
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> Pa Nderry M'bai <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> NEWS
> "Massive Poverty, Mismanagement, Abuse &
> Intransigence Put Gambia in
> Precarious Direction"-- Says Professor Abdoulaye
> Saine
> By Ebrima G. Sankareh
>
>
>
>
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>
> September 18, 2005
> Urges AU to Cancel 2006 Banjul Summit & EU, UK,
> Japan, US to Pressure APRC
>
> Gary, Indiana--Professor Abdoulaye Saine of the
> Miami University in Oxford
> Ohio and US co-ordinator of the National Alliance
> for Democracy &
> Development (NADD), has characterized The Gambia as
> a state "trapped in a
> vicious cycle of growing authoritarianism and
> harrowing poverty making it a
> potential candidate among 60 nations on the brink of
> collapse". The erudite
> Gambian born-US professor of Political Science &
> International Relations
> made this scathing remark as guest panelist at the
> annual conference of
> Gambians in the Mid-West.
>
> The 2006 Presidential Election
>
> In what could be described as a highly scholastic
> speech captioned: "The
> National Security Crisis in The Gambia & the
> Impending 2006 Presidential
> Elections", Dr. Saine paints a picture of doom and
> gloom and predicts
> further hardships unless NADD sweeps the polls come
> 2006. He insists that
> the forthcoming presidential election is a defining
> moment in the nation's
> history…one of the single most significant political
> events since
> independence in 1965 and the most important election
> since the 1994 coup
> that propelled Jammeh to power. In Saine's view, the
> election was pivotal
> for two reasons. On the one hand, it is a battle
> between a democratically
> poised NADD and a regime that has woefully failed
> Gambians and on the other,
> a race between deepening poverty and gross human
> rights abuses or a more
> peaceful and democratic future under NADD.
>
> Professor Saine in a passionate mood forcefully
> postulates thus; "eleven
> years after the 1994 coup…the state has for all
> intent and purposes failed
> and unable to deliver basic social services, justice
> and/ or security
> protections for citizens". He cited the
> authoritative research conducted by
> the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy, which in its
> maiden report on
> potential failed states, ranked Ivory Coast number
> one trailed by a number
> of rogue nations among them, DRC, Guinea, Sudan,
> Sierra Leone, Liberia,
> Somalia, Chad and The Gambia at sixtieth position.
> Thus "a 'national-
> Security State', leadership paranoia and
> intransigence" argues Saine, "have
> intensified the current security-deficit of growing
> militarisation and gun
> culture in our homeland". He went on to argue that,
> the vestiges of
> draconian military decrees with their concomitant
> limitation to civilian
> participation in government has compromised what
> little democratic
> pretensions and human rights promises Jammeh and his
> government(s) made to
> Gambians in 1994.
>
> On The Security Apparatus
>
> Shifting through the intricate details of The
> Gambia's worrisome security
> situation, Dr. Saine takes on the "Civil Management
> and Control of the
> Security Apparatus" in what could only be described
> as compelling. "The lack
> of democratic accountability, transparency and
> civilian control", he noted,
> "are the key futures of the post-coup apparatus in
> The Gambia". Thus "the
> continuing and growing presence of retired military
> personnel as heads of
> the Interior Department, Police and the NIA" he
> reasons, "leaves decision
> making exclusively in the hands of the President".
> This combined with
> Jammeh's constant circulation and/ or terminations
> of key personnel in the
> security sector rob these establishments of policy
> coherence and continuity,
> he said.
>
> On the Economy & 'Operation No Compromise'
>
> Dr. Saine told his countrymen that Operation No
> Compromise was the
> willy-nilly result of sustained pressure from the
> IMF & World Bank. In a
> fitting fashion familiar to academics, professor
> Saine gives a riveting
> testimony thus; "at its best, 'Operation No
> Compromise' is a lack-luster
> effort to salvage an already decaying economy and a
> tainted image of the
> powers that be". "At worse" he went on, "it is a
> cruel hoax that, in the
> end, does not deliver but scapegoats the most
> vulnerable- the poor, retail
> traders and the regime's political enemies".
> According to Saine, "Poor
> economic performance coupled with a combination of
> related factors that
> include low productivity, mismanagement,
> over-borrowing and spending, a weak
> currency, rampant inflation, a rising external debt,
> and endemic corruption
> are largely to blame" for what he calls "Gambia's
> crisis of unprecedented
> proportions".
>
> The Gambia at A Crossroads
>
> It is Saine's contention that Gambians are at a
> critical turning point in
> their chequered history with two options. Either
> vote the APRC in office and
> continue to suffer both politically and economically
> or elect a NADD
> leadership that will go back to the drawing board to
> create a new political
> culture based on relative economic prosperity,
> security and political
> stability. A post- Jammeh era and a NADD
> government's
=== message truncated ===
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