Well Jabou what can i say you don't disappoint me you have hit the nail on the right spot,people might probably feel that am anti Jammeh but am not i just like to see people giving us the benefit of their intellect unlike some so called educated peoples who are hell bent on defending the indefensible they just can't bring themselves to realise that some of the key polices of this government are simply not working how some who claimed to so clever can defend actions like are just beggars belief to me,might be too much American Hamburgers all mixed in the brain.
My God i supported this Gov once but there should be a time when a you should stand and be counted,remember is not what Gambia can do for you is what you can do for your country i sign off now till 2 moro
Jabou please keep putting on the truth squeeze on am on your side on this
Paps.
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From: Jabou Joh [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 December 2003 14:26
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Jammeh: YDE/Omar
In a message dated 11/29/03 10:26:30 PM Central Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
President Jammeh's government presided
over the summary execution of officers and men of the Gambia national army
without going through the due process of the law; it presided over the
inhuman murder of a state minister; it presided over the brutal murder of
peacefully demonstrating students; and it continually presides over the
looting and dislocation of our national economy, yet president Jammeh has
the audacity on the occasion of the blessed feast of Eid Mubarak, to blame
our woes on Islam and Muslims?
Omar Joof,
Yaya Jammeh knows that his economic misdeeds of using state funds as his own
personal invenstment fund are out in the open now, not only beforeGambians
who have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know this by now, but also before the
Bretton Wood institutions from whom he has borrowed untold amounts of money
in the name of our country to squander on himself and his cohorts. He is being
called to account for these funds and he has to do something to unload the
blame on any scapegoats he can find.
No one in a dictatorship like that run by Yaya Jammeh does anything without
his knowledge and consent, and Baba Jobe's handling of the YDE could not have
happened without the consent and blessing of Yaya Jammeh.
Baba Jobe and anyone else he can find any blame to lay on are the fall guys
in Jammehs' attempt to appease those who are calling on him to give account for
the gross financial mess that our country is in at this moment, and which he
is directly responsible for.
The EID happened to provide an opportune momemt for him to try to present his
excuses to the people, and he saw the gathering of religious leaders as a
safe place to publicize what he knows he cannot keep hidden anymore, that indeed,
it was Gambian state funds, borrowed funds that he uses for his own
investments that were used to set up this so-called YDE which is nothing but another
personal financial venture for him. He clothed the ugly fact in a nicely
wrapped package called " doing it for Gambian youth" He was doing nothing of the
sort. The cat is out of the bag, and he had to own up to it, and so he included
the usual smattering of insults to our religious leaders while dropping this
bombshell.
Close scrutiny of this mess will reveal that Yaya Jammeh set up this venture
to monopolize the sale and purchase of commodities in the country, and if the
venture succeeded, he would be laughing all the way to the bank and finding
other areas he can monopolize at the expense of the Gambian people. Yaya Jammeh
is now poised to put small vegetable sellers out of business by under cutting
prices with vegetables he grows at his own farm. Gambians have to be fools to
believe that he is doing this for their economic well-being.
What this revelation has done more than anything else is to make it
abundantly clear to Gambians that Yaya jammeh indeed uses state funds for his own
private ventures. Just ask yourselves where Yaya Jammeh would have gotten the
amount of money invested in this venture? Did he get it from the annual salary of
the President? If he has private ventures from which he earns money, where did
the initial investment for all of those come from if not from state funds? Was
Yaya Jammeh a wealthy man before he came to office or did his family posses
wealth, or land or anything else before that?
What this revelation should do is to make Gambians and whoever else Jammeh is
trying to appease realize that this revelation is ample proof that those
being used as scapegoats are emissaries of the person trying to offload the blame
on them. It is a move that incriminates Jammeh rather than vindicating him or
supporting the false claim that his intentions were to help Gambian youth.
Yaya Jammeh is learning the hard way that tyranny and fraud does not pay,
and that running a country demands competence that the APRC regime does not
posses and that brute force cannot and will never be a substitute for competence
and the good character that leadership demands. That he can plot to get rids
of his scapegoats, but in the end, he will have to render account to the people
and to the international institutions alike.
Let not Yaya Jammeh's tirades against Islam and his disrespect of our
religious leaders perplex anyone. His character and actions have nothing in common
with that of any muslim who fears Allah and follows His directives. The
religious leaders he is blasting know this more than anyone else, it is just that they
are living under tyranny and challenging a tyrant may cost them their lives.
Jabou Joh
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