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From: Lamin Manneh PF
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Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 22:11
Subject: ATTACKS ON IEC AND PA ROBERTS-MR. DAMPHA
Mr. Dampha, you wrote
They focused on Gabriel Roberts and the IEC and when they
realized that it will be difficult to use IEC to steal the elections, now
they are resorting to the army ........
Mr. Dampha, I really welcomed your positive attitude towards Gabriel Roberts and IEC. Giving the impression to Gambians that Pa Roberts and the IEC as an independent institution are working closely to rig the voting and counting may backfire on the oppositions because people will lose confident in the whole voting process and refuse to vote. They will not waste their time and energy, waiting in long queues to vote because IEC and Pa Roberts will make APRC win anyway. As we speech right now, some people are considering not to vote because they strongly assumed that IEC will rig votes.
The opposition should closely monitor all the activities of IEC and respond to all irregularities and potential favors swiftly and in a manner that will not jeopardize their victory. They should help restore confidence in our electoral system and at the same time not compromise any wrong doing the IEC will be/is doing.
Folks, I am not saying that Gambians should not criticize the IEC or Pa Roberts but we should avoid unfounded speculations and unrealistic reasoning.
Cheers
Lamin PF Manneh
>From: Dampha Kebba
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Yaya --- Gambia's Marie Antoinette --Give people 'Wonjo'
>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:23:04 -0400
>
>People familiar with French history will remember Marie Antoinette's
>storied
>contribution to the brainstorming that was going on in Louise's
>court as the
>King and his men find SOLUTIONS for feeding the French peasants
>right before
>the French Revolutions. When Marie Antoinette heard that the
>peasants were
>complaining about lack of bread to eat, the Queen suggested that the
>peasants should eat cake if they cannot find bread. This just showed
>how out
>of touch the monarch was with her subjects. The woman did not even
>realize
>that peasants that could NOT afford to buy bread were in no position
>to buy
>cake.
>
>Brings us to how vermin like Yaya and Sarjo Jallow view Gambians.
>The other
>day, it was with amazement that I read that despicable low-life
>calling
>herself Sarjo Jallow's niece boasting about Sarjo Jallow attempting
>to bring
>a soft-drink factory to The Gambia. Gambians are having problems
>getting
>adequate, clean drinking water, and the vermin are talking to us
>about
>'wonjo' (soft-drink). Just goes to show these people's priorities
>for the
>Gambian people. People CANNOT eat two square meals a day with their
>families. Hospitals are without medicine.
>
>Yaya and his cohorts boast about a TV Station when the overwhelming
>majority
>of the Gambians have NO electricity. Just so Yaya can come on TV and
>make a
>fool of himself, the vermin risked bankrupting one of the most
>productive
>institutions brought to The Gambia by PPP (Gamtel). The AFPRC/APRC
>government is a government of misplaced priorities. They stole
>enough money
>from the people to be able to lead 'flamboyant' lifestyles. Yaya
>does NOT
>care if the rest of the country is electrified or our roads are
>good. The
>vermin already electrified Kanilai. He also stole from the people to
>buy
>four-wheel-drive vehicles that will make him not feel the poor road
>conditions. All the road network in the country was either
>constructed by
>the PPP government or funding for the road project was obtained by
>the PPP
>government. There is NO road project in the country that first came
>to being
>after Yaya took over.
>
>As we speak/write Gambians are being informed on the ground how
>AFPRC/APRC
>did NOTHING for the country in terms of development apart from
>stealing PPP
>projects and taking credit for things they did NOT originate. Even
>the
>'University' Yaya cronies boast about is just a mere amalgamation of
>tertiary institutions PPP ALREADY built in the country. All these
>morons
>have done is steal from the people. They are all filthy rich thanks
>to the
>dollars they stole from loans given to Gambia by Taiwan. But the
>vermin are
>NOT satisfied with the tens of millions of dollars they stole from
>those
>loans. Yaya makes sure that he has a BRIBE from any important
>contract
>involving the government. CSE bribed Yaya for the road projects by
>building
>his villas (including a bunker) in Kanilai. Even the generators that
>were
>just delivered to the country earned Yaya some bribes. This is NOT
>talking
>about the drug dealing and 'blood-diamond' and gun-running Yaya is
>involved
>in with thugs like Baabaa Jobe. There is ample proof that the
>airplane
>Baabaa Jobe manages and which lists Tarik Musa and Amadou Samba as
>owners
>actually belongs to Yaya. Yaya is the most corrupt person our
>country has
>ever seen. And he is surrounded by the most corrupt people in the
>country.
>None of them can legitimately account for the assets they obtained
>in the
>last seven years.
>
>That is why they are prepared to kill innocent Gambians in order to
>stay in
>power. But enough is enough. Gambians will no longer be intimidated
>by these
>thugs. I just read somewhere how Ousman Badgie and Baboucarr Jatta
>are
>touring the military installations in the country. In Farafenni they
>met a
>fellow going by the last name of Keita (probably another Jola). What
>I see
>going on here is the nepotistic Yaya surrounding himself with Jolas
>to use
>the army to perpetuate him in power. Yaya is the most despicable
>tribalist
>in the country. But what he does NOT realize is that he might put
>Jolas in
>high-ranking positions in the army, but that will NOT save him come
>October
>18, 2001. There is no way Gambians are going to let a bunch of thugs
>like
>Ousman Badgie and Baboucarr Jatta steal power from the people. On
>October
>19, 2001, ordinary citizens numbering in their hundreds of thousands
>are
>going to escort Darboe to the State House. If vermin like Ousman
>Badgie and
>Baboucarr Jatta want to put their lives on the line for a fellow
>Jola, let
>them be my guest. There is no way we are going to allow a child
>murderer to
>steal this election.
>
>These people CANNOT fail the Gambian people and then continue to
>impose
>themselves on us. Everybody knows that Yaya has lost the confidence
>of the
>Gambian people. APRC have to literally force people to attend their
>rallies.
>Local politicians that oppose APRC are being dismissed from their
>posts
>willy-nilly. Only the few Gambians that are benefiting from APRC
>corruption
>are following these morons like slaves. APRC is doing everything to
>steal
>the elections. They focused on Gabriel Roberts and the IEC and when
>they
>realized that it will be difficult to use IEC to steal the
>elections, now
>they are resorting to the army and Yaya's Jola clique. Well, let me
>tell
>them that the clock is still ticking. The Jola clique in the army
>that is
>benefiting from this diabolical regime will be met with anything
>they want.
>KB
>
>
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