Jabou,
You pointed out a very serious concern. But you know what, our Gambian
leadership is very, very dormant to realize what you are trying to alarm
them.
I doubt what type of people show support for them.
Ahmad Bamba
>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: President Warns Armed Opposition Elements
>Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:21:35 EDT
>
>wow, that's some pretty strong language and threats. does the aprc really
>think that this will help their plight in the international community or in
>gambia.
>
>jabou joh
>
>n a message dated 10/15/01 10:19:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > President Warns Armed Opposition Elements
> >
> >
> >
> > The Independent
> >
> > October 15, 2001
> > Posted to the web October 15, 2001
> >
> > Lamin Dibba
> > Banjul, the Gambia
> >
> > President Jammeh has made a thinly veiled threat to members of the
> > opposition who wield dangerous weapons during and after the election,
>saying
> > they will be shot on sight.
> >
> > In the first public speech since his return from a trail blazing
>campaign
> > tour of the countryside, President Jammeh told Brikamarians Friday that
>his
> > administration would apply zero-tolerance to elements of the opposition
>who
> > take to the streets armed with cutlasses and other weapons capable of
> > disrupting the pre and post election period.
> >
> > "You will be shot to death" he said apparently referring to supporters
>of
> > his main challenger Ousainou Darboe who have been blamed by the APRC for
> > sporadic skirmishes that resulted in injuries and material damage.
> >
> > The president said he was aware that opposition elements have bought
> > cutlasses in readiness to disrupt the election. But he warned that
> > heavy-handedness would be applied to deal with anybody seen holding a
> > cutlass and other weapons.
> >
> > In an angry tone the president also came down hard on the perpetrators
>of
> > the election dog ritual in Brikama three weeks ago, saying that if
> > discovered they would "suffer from a very bitter lesson than they have
>ever
> > experienced in their lives".
> >
> > President Jammeh berated Brikamarians for allowing the sacrifice of a
>dog in
> > their town to influence the outcome of the October 18 polls, which he
>was
> > sure of winning. "Where on earth have you heard of a dog sacrifice the
> > marabout who advised you to kill a dog for the election has fooled you"
>he
> > pointed out, underlining his disappointment with the people of Bojang
>Kunda
> > for what he called their hypocrisy and double standard. A dead dog was
>found
> > wrapped in a white satin sheet along a busy street straddling the Fire
> > station, apparently killed as sacrifice for the election. It drew an
>angry
> > protest from thirty starkly naked women who cursed and swore against the
> > perpetrators of the ritual killing. The nature of the protest also
>caused
> > shock and disbelief among not only Brikamarians but Gambians in the
>Greater
> > Banjul Area.
> >
> > President Jammeh bluntly dismissed the Bojang kunda kabilo of Brikama as
> > averse to progress by undermining themselves and identifying with the
> > opposition. "You the indigenous people of Brikama cannot fool me. You do
>not
> > want progress. You said I rescued you from buying water, but you will
>buy
> > it" he posited, straining in anger.
> >
> > President Jammeh also pointed out that the coalition was launched in
>Brikama
> > "and you were clapping for them I know you all".
> >
> > He outlined that the free education enjoyed by the daughters of some
>Western
> > Division residents excludes daughters of members of the opposition and
> > criticized what he referred to as the double standard of the
>beneficiaries
> > and warned them to be mindful of the imminent consequences.
> >
> > In his contribution, Yankuba Touray the APRC campaign mobiliser took a
> > brutal swipe at the ruling party's main challenger Ousainou Darboe,
>saying
> > he was the fool of the millennium "because his father Numukunda Darboe
>was
> > jailed to death by the PPP regime".
> >
> > Mr. Touray argued that if Darboe was not a fool why did he associate
>himself
> > with those responsible for unlawfully jailing his father to death.
> >
> > Mr. Touray was also unsparing on Dembo Jatta a PPP politician from Kombo
> > Central who he said had disguised as a woman to escape the clutches of
>the
> > 1994 coupists. "Even if he plaits his hair and put on ear rings with the
> > latest ladies fashion he will be arrested and jailed" Touray remarked.
> >
> > Sifia Hydara an APRC lady councilor disclosed that the women of Brikama
>have
> > vowed to stake their lives for Jammeh's victory in the election. She
>said a
> > flood of people have joined them in their "crusade to flush" the
>opposition
> > out of Brikama forever. "Anybody who for reasons known to them do not
>want
> > to see President Jammeh and his government should die and get to hell"
>she
> > said.
> >
> >
> >
>
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