Lamin Manneh PF

I have to agree with you on this issue. With only few
months to ago Mr Sherriff Dibba and others  should
start asking themselves whether their decision not to
join forces with the Opposition Coalition is in the
nation's interest. You are right to say that Sherrif
Dibba kept quiet for 7 years  and just started
speaking up  recently. The sad thing about the whole
issue is that his latest outburst is primarily
focussed on the UDP/PPP coalition. I doubt what he
intends to benefit from this strategy. A man of such
political experience, should have played the
Statesman's type politics and consider Ousainou Darboe
as an Independent Person and not a Political pawn of
the PPP. Lets face it Ousainou Darboe was closely
associated with NCP during the First Republic, He was
their legal adviser, as he represented them in all
their law suits against the PPP regime-The Trial of
Sherriff Dibba in 1982, The 1987 General Election
Petition Cases. The 1992 General Election Petition
Cases and other miscellaneous cases. Judging from
these, one could honestly say Ousainou Darboe was
destined to be the first Attorney General and Minister
of Justice under a NCP regime. Unfortunately NCP were
denied that opportunity when Yahya toppled the PPP
regime in 1994 TOGETHER with the introduction of
Decree 89 in August 1996.

The only way forward is for the likes of Dibba,OJ and
all the unbanned politicians to come together as BORN
AGAIN POLITICIANS and forget about their grievances.
If SM Dibba could contemplate forming alliance with
the PPP in 1991 how about now? What is so special
about the leadership of the Coalition ? Why can't he
accept Darboe as leader for the opposition alliance?.

It is therefore on those basis that we  should
continue campaign for a united opposition as Gambians
are desperate for change,

Have a wonderful day

Sanusi



--- Lamin Manneh PF <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Kelvin, We all know that SM is a respectable and
> hard working person. His
> records were undoubtedly clean. But the man with all
> due respect, have
> forgotten Gambian people in their struggle against
> tyrants and oppressors
> for seven years. His voice would not break no peace
> in the country because
> there were people equally fame like him who
> denounced this government
> publicly and no chaos or public disorder happen. In
> fact he could have used
> his impressive elliquency and pomposity, influence,
> diplomacy and bravery to
> lead the nation in our struggle to bring change in
> country.
>
> Most importantly, this is not about NCP, PPP, PDOIS
> or scratching any old
> wounds or grudges. It is a salvation struggle for
> our people. We should be
> willing to sacrifice anything and work for the
> advancement of our nation.
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
> Lamin PF Manneh
> >From: Kebba S Ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Fw: MR.SHERIFF MUSTAPHA DIBBA,"THE MAN WHO
> HAS SACRIFICED A LOT
> >           FOR HIS NATION"
> >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:58:26 -0500
> >
> >--------- Forwarded message ----------
> >From: Kebba S Ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:07:27 -0500
> >Subject: MR.SHERIFF MUSTAPHA DIBBA,"THE MAN WHO HAS
> SACRIFICED A LOT FOR
> >HIS NATION"
> >Message-ID:
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> >Full-Name: Kebba S Ceesay
> >
> >FELLOW L-MEMBERS AND GAMBIANS AT LARGE,
> >
> >Since the fall out in the effort to form an
> opposition alliance by the
> >various opposition parties in the Gambia,some
> subscribers have engaged in
> >making some unkindly remarks against Mr.Sheriff
> Mustapha Dibba,leader of
> >the National Convention Party (NCP).I believe that
> those who made remarks
> >such as; "he puts his own interest above the
> nation's or he has vendetta
> >against PPP and therefore saw the current situation
> as pay back time" did
> >not make those remarks out of malice for Mr.Dibba
> but rather their
> >ignorance of the biography of the latter. Having
> read a few postings, I
> >felt obliged to engage in the current political
> discourse by going back
> >to some of the events that occurred in the
> political life of Mr.Dibba.
> >The purpose of doing so is to dismiss some of the
> misgivings as stated in
> >some postings and also to paint a picture of
> Mr.Dibba as the man he has
> >always been since the founding of PPP in 1959. I
> will begin from after
> >when Mr. Dibba and his colleagues founded the PPP
> party in 1959. Mr.
> >Dibba was working at CFAO, Banjul Branch as
> accounts clerk. He resigned
> >his post at the CFAO, Banjul Branch, to become an
> active player in the
> >newly founded party,PPP. That indeed was a
> sacrifice because there was no
> >promise of any income in the subsequent months that
> he would be
> >criss-crossing the length and breath of the Gambia
> campaigning for the
> >PPP. No body including SM, knew how long it would
> take for PPP to the win
> >the hearts of the Gambian people from a well
> established and stronger
> >party,United Party(UP). Let us examine the action
> that Mr.Dibba took in
> >this case; was this putting his own interest above
> the nation's or
> >sacrificing for the nation that he loved so much?
> Indeed it is the
> >latter.
> >
> >When PPP gained power, SM held numerous ministry
> portfolios, and made
> >exemplary performance at each of those ministries
> hence his promotion to
> >the second highest portfolio in the nation, Vice
> President. At this
> >portfolio, SM made another sacrifice by putting the
> nation first and
> >himself last. I belive most of you will recall the
> "BUTUT CASE". This was
> >a case where his brother Kutubo Dibba along with a
> driver at Number one
> >Marina Parade, the resident of the Vice President
> (residence of SM at the
> >time) were accused of trafficking to the Republic
> of Senegal a particular
> >denomination of the Gambian currency, the  BUTUT.
> Mr. Dibba in view of
> >this accusation of a member of his familly who at
> that time was also
> >residing at the Vice President's residence, #1
> Marina Parade, wrote a
> >letter of resignation from both posts of Vice
> President and Minister of
> >Finance and Trade and sent it to the President, Sir
> Dawda K Jawara. In
> >this letter, SM told the president that he had no
> knowledge nor
> >participated in the action, that his brother had
> been accused of but
> >lamented the fact that a member of his family had
> been accused of such
> >illegal trafficking of a Gambian currency, he could
> no longer continue as
> >Vice President and Minister of Finance of the
> nation. He told the
> >President that he would resign to allow the
> investigators of the case to
> >carry out their functions without fear of any
> interference. It should be
> >recalled that the President acknowledged that he
> had no doubt what so
> >ever that S had no involvement and expressed regret
> that he had to
> >resign. However the President in his response after
> accepting SM's non
> >involvement in the BUTUT case, told the latter that
> he would accept his
> >resignation from the post of Vice President but
> would not accept his
> >resignation from the post of Minister of Finance
> and Trade and therefore
> >SM would have to continue as Minister of Finance
> and Trade. Folks, this
> >is  another example of SM putting the nation first
> and himself last. You
> >will all recall the allegations made by Sana Manneh
> in his news paper
> >against former Vice President Saihou Sabally,
> former Minister of Tourism,
> >Dr.Lamin K Saho, former Minister of Local
> Government and Lands, Landing
> >Jallow Sonko and former Managing Director of the
> Gambia Co-operative
> >Union,Momodou Dibba. These public officials, not
> only did they fail to
> >resign their positions to allow an investigation
> free of any interference
> >but used their offices to ensure that they do not
> become casualties when
> >the dust settled down. They used their offices to
> make sure that Sana
> >Manneh was punished for the publication. What we
> have seen in this latter
> >scenario is a bunch of public officials who cared
> more about themselves
> >than the people that entrusted them with the
> positions they held. These
> >are totally the opposite of SM.Dibba.
> >
> >Subsequently after a World Bank meeting in New
> York, SM made a brief stay
> >at the Ministry of Finance before he made his final
> exit. He was
> >appointed the Gambian Ambassador to the European
> Union and had his office
> >at Brussels. After a long tenure at the European
> Union, SM was recalled
> >to Banjul and asked to open a new ministry,
> Economic Planning and
> >Industrial Development. It must be recalled that
> during his tenure at the
> >European Union, he was the only Ambassador among
> all our overseas
> >representatives who was also a cabinet member. SM
> did
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