Gambia-L: The e-mail below came from a source in the Gambia. Again, I am sending it unedited and in a rush. As I said before, just ignore the typographical errors. Ebrima ____________________________________________________________________- >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Passprt Shortage : Blame Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa >Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 > >Ebrima, >The Immigration Office has finally come out in the open to admit to the >general public for what has been known to the travelling public for more >than a year. Less than a year after the introduction of the new >"computerised" passports, the lamination machine and the computer used to >store the details of each passport have broken down. This break down >occured not six months ago as claimed by Fabouray but twelve months ago. >All those issued with passports for the past year have all been issued with >the old passports which were manually prepared causing a lot of >difficulties for those travelling with Gambian passports. Immigration >Authorities around the world are questioning the authenticity of the two >sets of passports that Gambians carry. These immigration authorities cannot >be blamed for yet another "scheme" devised by Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa >to further line their pockets at the expense of the ordinary Gambian. First >they demand D250 per passport from D100 and then they reduce the number of >passports under the contract. No wonder the new passport supplies have been >exhausted causing undue hardship to those Gambians who travel abroad. Try >presenting the manually prepared passport in say Brussels and see how you >will be treated:like a criminal. Thanks to Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa. >Even the so-called new and computerised passports have been know to be >faulty because of the quality of the passport book itself and the >lanimation machine both of which are not up to international standard set >by the reputable security printers. Yahya has been doing everything within >his means to steal our hard-earned dalasi for his own benefit and his >cohorts. No wonder he is now bragging that he is a rich man for life and >his children will never be poor in their life time. That is the Gambian >president for you. Yahya and those who prop him up for personal self >interest will one fine day pay for all their misdeeds which are being >catalogued for the day when they are called upon to answer to their >criminal activities. >Yahya has brought the level of corruption in The Gambia to new heights >never before seen, not only in The Gambia but in Sierra Leaone. Yahya >Jammeh's Gambia is more corrupt than the late Siaka Steven's and Momoh's >Sierra Loene. That is how bad the Gambian situation is. >A Note of Warning to Gambian travellers: Expect delays, harrassment and >humiliation at airports because of these two sets of passports which were >brought to us coutesy of Yahya Jammeh and Tarik Musa. > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface ----------------------------------------------------------------------------