Mr. Conteh,

You wrote:

"The Gambia does not export any major product, and its groundnut trade has
been seriously damaged by the efficient administration of the military
junta.  As we speak, the illegal government of the day owes numerous Gambian
farmers over D3 million.  The irony of the whole
thing is that The Gambian dictator is donating tractors to rural farmers
without giving them resources to plough their crops with".

This is good information that is very relevant in an election campagne. The
declining Dalasi affects everybody especially those who are unemployed and
the very poor of our society.

Unfortunately, the UDP campagne was dominated, for the most part, by issues
like where did President Jammeh get the tractors, where did he get the money
to send people to Mecca, the crude oil saga, accusing the government of
misplaced priorities, calling these projects irrelevant and continuously
harping on the April 10 and 11 issues. Mind you, I am not saying they should
be issues. It is just that He who complains always gets little sympathy.

Now that you have given us this analysis, the challenge for all is to figure
out how things can be done differently to address this problem. Whatever
strategy or change of policy that anybody feels will be useful to the
ordinary people could be proposed to the UDP directly if one feels that the
APRC or its supporters may steal these ideas.

Bye 4Now, KB Jobe.

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"There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see,
yet small enough to solve"

                  (MIKE LEAVITT)
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