Yusupha, thanks for this forward. When I saw the measly amount (D155, 000)
the Dictatorship was ‘giving’ to Gambia High, I thought it was a typo. Like
my compatriot, Hamjatta, would have done, I removed my glasses, robbed my
eyes and looked again. Then I realized that it was apparently NOT a typo.
Matter of fact, the ridiculous amount (D155,000) has been CUT to D137,004. I
still CANNOT believe that this is true. This is double the amount of money
Yaya ‘gave’ to his sycophants in New York. By the way, I understand that the
mental midgets were meeting last Sunday to distribute the loot (the infamous
$20,000). These people are just shameless.
Did we not tell them that an ‘EDUCATION PLAN’ was different from a
‘CONSTRUCTION PLAN’? Buildings do NOT teach children. The mental midgets
will NEVER get it. These people simply do NOT have the wherewithal to move
the country forward. Gambia High (the premier public High School in the
country) is now a BANKRUPT institution. Simply put, it owes lot more than it
is getting from the government and the POOR parents that pay for this dismal
‘education’ in the country. You think a school that CANNOT pay its teachers
will attract stellar teachers like it used to? These morons should be really
grateful to PPP. Without PPP Yaya would be tapping palm-wine in Kanilai.
Why? He would NOT be able to afford going to High School.
And mind you, all you hear from AFPRC/APRC sycophants and mental midgets is
the ‘strides’ they made in the Education field. Next time, let us correct
them and tell them to cite the ‘Construction field’ instead. Even when you
break down the ‘Construction Field’, what you realize is that NOT much
building took place. Sometimes, the morons just go and take an already
existing institution and renamed it. These people are just laughable.
If the criminals returned to us the money they stole and stash away in Swiss
Banks, we would be able to build 10 well-equipped schools with well-paid
teachers; 10 hospitals, well-equipped with high-trained staff and ambulances
with all the bells and whistles; we would be able to electrify the whole
country; have paved roads from Banjul to Basse; No one would wake up in the
urban areas and would be unable to take a shower because there is no water
from Nawec. In other words, the millions of dollars the criminal stole from
us could have been put to better use (like educating our children), rather
than have child murderers using the money to buy private plans, take their
wives on spending sprees in America or giving some sycophants $20,000 (at
least D300,000). This is just pathetic.
KB
>From: "Yusupha C. Jow" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Gambia High in dire straits Principal Carr appeals to gov’t
>Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:25:34 EDT
>
>According to him, until 1997 the school was receiving D155, 000 as grant in
>aid, but that was reduced to D137,004 in the intervening years. By the same
>token he said, tuition fees, which used to be D250 was also slashed as the
>school was mandated to subsidize students’ WAEC examination fees. ‘All
>these, have interplayed to confine the school to a tight financial corner,
>so
>severe to the extent that it owes about half a million Dalasis to its
>bankers, NAWEC, and WAEC, among other institutions’ he revealed. He said
>for
>the first time in the history of the school, staff salaries were being
>delayed.
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