Gambia-L: The e-mail below came from a source in the Gambia. Because of a very busy schedule, I am sending it as received - unedited. So just ignore the typographical errors in my source's e-mail. Ebrima >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Baba Jobe and Yahya Jammeh: The parting of ways >Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 > >Ebrima, >The relationship between Yahya Jammeh and Baba Jobe is increasingly getting >strained. I reported that Baba Jobe has refused to accept his posting to >Qatar because he sees this as a way of being removed from the center of >things in Jammeh's crumbling government.(See related story on Baba's >brother) He sees his increasing isolation as an initial step by Yahya to >get rid of him. Yahya is also increasingly distancing himself from the 22nd >July thugs (which will not safe him from the wrath of the Gambian >electorate come November next year anyway). At the APRC Bakau Rally on >Friday, Yahya heeped praise on Abdoulie Conteh, Major of KMC and requested >youth to see Conteh whenever they encounter difficulty. Baba Jobe was not >mentioned once despite his last ditch efforts, together with Saja Taal, to >woo the Bakau youth last week. Although Baba Jobe is in trouble, Yahya is >also equally in trouble because Baba will see to it that he has it rough >before they are both kicked out by the Gambian people. >NB: Did you guys ever wonder whatever became of Fatumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay? >Since her return from trip to the UN with Yahya, she has been silenced not >by any body but by what Yahya said in a Cabinet meeting immediately upon >his return from New York. He convened Cabinet specifically to express his >disappoint/disgust at the failure of the mission when he was totally >humiliated by the Gambian living in the US. He proceeded to remind Cabinet >Secreatries and those who were responsible for organising the trip that >they, not him, were at the mercy of the Gambians should something happen in >the country. At least for him, he has somewhere to hide, so he thinks. It >was only when told of Jammeh's remarks that Fatumatta Jahumpa realised the >mess she is in, after insulting, detraying her own people all in the name >of Yahya Jammeh who is prepared to abandon them, even his most sycophantic >supporters like Fatoumatta jahumpa. > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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 and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------