Hey Barrow,
I think you are in the wrong forum...be reminded that this is Gambia-L not GRTS.
Mose.
>From: Mustapha Barrow <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: "White Elephant Projects" Why are they so important now? >Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:58:30 -0800 > >Folks, > I have been following the debate on line with >keen interest and I have been very glad regarding the >maturity that is "emerging" within this useful cyber >space, which can without doubt expand our base of >zero-tolerance to what the qur'an says at the end of >suratul Asr "haq wa sabr"-meaning TRUTH and PATIENCE. > >Please allow me to send in reminder to those of us who >are poncing on Mr.Saidy that projects that were >realised by the the then AFPRC "transitional Gvt" were >classified by the very opposition that is yearning to >use them now as "white elephant projects". This very >idea that came from the opposition was indeed >corroborated by some commentaries from certain lers >who are still spreading their contagious disease of >"Gambia sink into chaos at all cost in the name of >opposition". So interesting! to see these very faces >now saying to MR TOMBONG SAIDY to execise what? >fairness? In running a "white elephant project"? What >I, Mustapha Barrow would have expected was instead of >scrambling to use such projects that those very >people condemned is for them to say that in that >"mirage" gvt.they would plunge the TV,the Arch22, the >Kerewan bridge,the routes in URD,the Airport terminal >built by ATEPA-Senegal's architect, the high >schools,the kombo coastal highway etc into the sea and >then start new and better projects that have been >carved by the "protectorate degree holders". Where we >not told by the former Gvt. that the Gambia's economy >wasn't "strong enough" to sustain a TV? Some of us >with all the degrees and the rest of all the Cs and >Dees in the certificate-arena sat there blindly up to >1995! Wasn't that the insult of the century? Gambia >was the only country on earth up to 1995 without a TV! >But that was ok for some of us because it was >"buttering" some brains with cynical >smiles. We believe in styles and not smiles. >By the way I can provide some answers on behalf of Mr. >Saidy as a team-mate. > >The removal of Mr.Peter Gomez from his post could not >have been stopped by Tombong as a director of GAMTV >which is running the audio-visual part of the media >family while Peter is under the Radio Gambia which is >running only the audio part of the media family. >Lets then find out under whose jurisdiction Peter >directly falls before or after Tombong, prior to >making assertions or formulating the usual "porous >shields" you bear. Then even if it's Tombong or not? >Can any director or could any director have stood >before the PSC or the administering body and tell them > >that "by force" Peter is not going! Who amonsgt us >here "reasonably-speaking" would have done that? Who? >Some will tell me "they would have" but thats what >they are expected to say in a drowsy room in America >while kilometers away from knowing what the Go and the >psc regulations or any job regulation in >The Gambia embedds for that matter. Why only Peter >now? Were others not being dismissed since 1965 to >date? If Peter's case is revisited,then would we >entertain a spiral of revisiting certain dismissals or >so to start in the Gambia? I will ask all of you the >reason Why my own uncle was dismissed by the former >Gvt.for having transported a sick NCP patient to >Farafeni clinic as an ambulance driver!? The next >anwswer from you will be Shame on you Mustapha Barrow >because the PPP days are gone! I will then inturn say >shame on anyone who says so because the transcending >"infra-red political fights" are what that clique has >left in most of you on the L and the voice out. So >that was democracy because Yusu Ndour was always at >the Bakau stadium making us drink what the Pdois calls >"sangara noppa"? Folks you see debating is one thing >but castigating and disrespecting is another! > >I will try giving a version on the students issue when >next I come in. On the Jammeh Chicago trip. Why are >you guys wondering around asking for dates and time >bluffingly ha! Jammeh's trips if confirmed are >usually publicised so wait and see if its on, then the >GAMTV will send you the signals as appropriate. >Please act with Joe Sambou and stop talking because he >has called you guys to act. We will not ONLY act, BUT >act and react! > >Mustahpa Barrow. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! 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