Compatriots

1) Stay in your party. Propagate the cause of your party. Ally with any
party you can agree with. Contest elections individually/collectively as
you wish. CAUTION - lets alliance a central strategy of our cause. Our
problem is a Gambian problem and not a party organizational problem. We
would need the party leaders and the weight of their party to deliver their
people on stage when/where needed while they can still maintain their
desire to be the next ruling party - no conflict there and purely
democratic.

2) Let's work with the home political leaders/activists to create a
group/organization (A National Face - give it a name) that works on
ensuring we're a republic we were supposed be and
functionally democratically govern. We can discuss what that means and the
kind of works needed. The group/organization should be predominately home
base, certainly home base led either with the politicians themselves or
their trusted/influential/charismatic agents. That's important because
because this is a job of projecting a vision, ideas and rally many skeptic
to a cause that elude our land for 50 years and counting. Also important is
to have the organization functionally separated from parties to minimize
conflicts of interest but more importantly to reduce the clutter of dirt
our party politics.

3) Develop 'A National Republican/Democracy' agenda. Numbers 2 & 3 could be
interchangeable in pecking order or be done simultaneously. This agenda may
end with elections but will definitely not start with it and most
definitely not trying to collapse the parties into one. The basics of such
program will be to push governments excesses back, ensure laws are enforce
accordingly, bad laws are repeal and good democratic laws promulgated and
enforce and court orders are enforce, etc. Any progress in these areas will
begin to create an enabling environment for rule of law, abilities if
citizens to freely express/associate that are conducive for better
elections and democracy as a whole.

4) Campaign to sell these programs to Gambians and international community
alike. Raise the requisite funds and other resources. Build the necessary
'Political Leverage'

5) Engage government on this reform/overhaul agenda. Use the political
leverage as the bargaining chip. Here the parties and their followers can
be very handy at some stage to demonstrate showing public opinion

6) Education/enlightenment, organization and mobilization of citizens both
inside and outside Gambia. Here the idea is to grow an inform and vibrant
civil society that will be the ultimate safeguard of our gains and
democracy as a whole. Government of any kind and anywhere is dictatorship
if citizens are not feared or they're not watching

7) Revisit our programs and repeat them over and over ...... This is a
continuous task....

8).........

9) ..........

10) Somewhere along the way we will be able to organize and conduct a truly
free and fair elections that all and any can participate as wish (candidate
or voter). Regardless of the number of candidates the free citizens will be
able to express who they prefer more.

This is the most practical, viable and most enduring option. In this we can
all participate materially and the outcome is a gain for the whole and not
some group. The eventual administrations after these efforts are most
likely to continue the reforms knowing the know-how exist how the people
can bring them down.

"This is leaving the cart behind the horse". The currents efforts are
largely "placing the cart ahead of the horse". They are not as good at pushing
as they are in pulling.

Regard

Burama


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