Hey Ams, 

Yes you better go to sleep. I was, during the last twenty-fours, unable to decide whether I should sleep with a light or heavy heart.

Perusing through a book by Wole Soyinka, I came across a severe case of ..well...intellectual decadence.
A certain Dr. Omulolu Olunloyo, a mathematician turned politician, won through massive rigging, elections for the governorship of a certain Nigerian state. He was the candidate of the ertswhile President Shehu Shagari's party, the NPN, the National Party of Nigeria.

The national treasury was emptied during the election campaign, so that no funds were forthcoming from the federal government for the newly-elected governor to run his state. So after two months, he got so angry and went on national television and declared that HIS OPPONENT WAS THE ACTUAL WINNER of the elections and threatened to resign if funds do not arrive within a week!! 
Can you imagine my sisters and brothers? Should one laugh or cry? Democracy - made in Nigeria.

Momodou S Sidibeh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ams Jallow" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Guinea-Bissau president resigns


In a message dated 9/18/2003 7:12:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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> A statement issued by the visiting delegation - including ministers from
> Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, Gambia and Cape Verde - said coup leaders
> had pledged the transitional government would be exclusively civilian.

What on earth is wrong with Africans. Could you imagine, the Gambian 
delegation, amongst coup makers, shouting, Yea...we will not tolerate coups? Let me 
take a nap and get this out of my angry-self.  




"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are 
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change 
the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead 
"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear 
the government, you have tyranny." 
- Thomas Jefferson
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" 
- Edmund Burke 

    
    

    

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