The Point

Wednesday, October 10, 2001


  Women Tell Hamat Bah “We Still Have Groundnut For Sale”

The women of Sutukonding in Wuli constituency revealed that their nuts were
still with them unsold adding that pests have destroyed almost half of it.
They made this starting revelation at a mass political rally with the NRP
leader on Sunday. The women while further consolidating their testimony,
showed the NRP leader a sample of infested groundnuts which they claimed was
all they were left with in the last trade seasons. “This is very sad. We
toiled very hard and it meant nothing the next day. They did not provide us
with a market for our produce and some of us went to Senegal where they sold
the nuts for poor prizes ,” woman fumed.

Muhammed Jabbie speaking at the rally deplored what he termed the bad
governance of the APRC and brandished them as inexperience bunch bringing
hardship and untold misery to the Gambian people. He urged the people of
Wuli to vote massively for the opposition NRP.

Mariama Kijera assured the women of Sutukonding that an NRP government would
give women a big share of the national cake. A total of one hundred and
ninety three women “Kaffo” adopted the NRP leader as their father.

Hamat Bah in his speech vowed that the wind of change that blew in West
Coast of Africa would not spare The Gambia. He noted that people were sick
and tired of Jammeh’s rule adding that youths were no longer employed,
prices were escalating and trade was ineffective. Bah accused the government
of spending extravagantly adding that they buy cars for huge amount of
money.

He lamented that drug shortages in the health sector is still around and
school bills were alarming as the people continue to live in dare poverty.
Picking on the NRP manifesto Bah said he would assist the youths to gain
skills and improve the non formal sectors and improve the lot of Daara
teachers. He advised them to accept any money given to them but to never
never, he emphasised, vote for the APRC.

While responding to a speaker who decried the lack of information regarding
the party, he promised to open an NRP bureau in Basse .

The NRP continued its campaign in the Sandu’s where they held meetings in
Kuraw-Arfang, Kuraw-Kemo and Diabuyu Sarehgubu and Nandeh. At a rally in
Diabugu fifty three young people defected from the APRC to the NRP. In
Nandeh, the villagers pledged their support for the NRP and appealed to the
NRP leader to help revive their windmill.







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