Gassama Jabbi who build Gunjur , Sukuta , Mansa Konko , Farafeni and Kaur Junior secondary Schools in the 1970's ?You are shameless that is why but think what people will tell your kids in the future . Luntang ----- Original Message ----- From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: Re: FWD:European Union/ACP Courier Magazine's Exclusive Interview With President Jam > Dampha wrote: > > "As we move to the campaign season all these AFPRC/APRC lies about > education, health etc. 'projects' will be debunked. What the APRC stalwarts > did NOT bank on when they were alienating all those Permanent Secretaries > was that the latter know everything about these 'projects'". > > Dampha, are you for real? How on earth can you find much fault with Jammeh's > education policy? You know more than anyone else that the former PPP regime > did almost nothing to educate its citizens. As our population grew from > under 400,000 in 1973 to over 1,000,000 in 1993, the former PPP regime DID > NOT BUILD A SINGLE SECONDARY SCHOOL, STOPPED BUYING ORDINARY DESKS AND > CHAIRS, REDUCED THE NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS, DISCOURAGED TEACHERS and > INVESTED VERY LITTLE OR NOTHING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR. Some of us may have > been lucky to get whatever education we managed, but to give credit to a > regime, that for decades did not see the corrolation between education, > health and national development is very dishonest of you, if you ask me. > Where you not around when we used to have double streams, morning and > afternoon shifts? Where you not around when less than 10,000 kids were > enrolled a year even though our population was more than 1,000,000? Where > you not around when less than 3,000 kids made it beyond primary six? How can > you find any fault in Jammeh's interview? For God's sake, if you cannot give > credit when credit is due just shut up! Any honest Gambian will acknowledge > Jammeh's effort in the fields of education and health. For your information, > the Jawara regime that you are willing to die for did very little for the > country in terms of putting in policies for the socio-economic development > of the country. > > Have a good day, Gassa. > > >From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]> > >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list > ><[log in to unmask]> > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: Re: FWD:European Union/ACP Courier Magazine's Exclusive Interview > > With President Jam > >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:11:14 -0400 > > > >Beran, thanks for forwarding Yaya's interview with Marcel Thomasi (who at > >one point was appointed briefly to replace Tombong). It has been ages since > >I saw such magnitude of unadulterated rubbish. Yaya's handlers tried all > >they could to package the vermin and make him sound intelligent and > >moderate. But the bottom-line is that you can take Yaya from the bush but > >you can NEVER take the bush out of Yaya. The real Yaya is the one that > >stands on national TV without any handlers and threatens NAWEC personnel > >with death if they 'sabotage' his regime. The real Yaya is the one that > >stands on national TV without any handlers and boasts of being the richest > >man in Gambia. > > > >Did these people for one moment believe that we are going to buy this > >garbage Yaya was spewing about corruption and morality? I do NOT know what > >these Yaya handlers think of Gambians. Yaya is the MOST corrupt person The > >Gambia has ever seen. As he was giving that interview, he had stashed away > >in Swiss Banks millions of dollars stolen from the Gambian poor, and the > >vermin preach about corruption and morality. Rather than saying that they > >were interviewing Yaya, Thomasi et al should have just said that they were > >publishing a self-serving statement written for Yaya by one of his > >despicable handlers. That is what this is. We know Yaya is a callous moron > >and a thief. The vermin thinks (according to the 'interview') that it is a > >bad thing to flaunt wealth. Yet, he sits on national TV and boasts that he > >is so rich that his upspring will never be poor. And just where did he get > >that money from? The savings he had when he was a lieutenant in the army? > >Let these morons give us a break. Ah! No, Yaya got his money from his farm. > >And just how did he get that farm? Inherited it from his dad? The vermin is > >stealing from the people willy-nilly. > > > >It is public record in Swiss courts that Yaya instructed The Central Bank > >of > >The Gambia to transfer millions of dollars to his PRIVATE Swiss Bank > >Account. Yaya CANNOT deny this. The then Attorney General of The Gambia > >knows that the records exist. What real journalists (interested in the > >truth) would have asked Yaya was for him to account for the 'wealth' within > >the past seven years and tell us how he can explain being richer than > >Jawara > >who was the president for thirty years. That's how you know whether the > >vermin is telling the truth. > > > >Yaya's conciliatory language towards the EU and Europeans in general is > >just > >lip-service and everyone (including the EU) knows it. Is this man not the > >same moron who was few weeks ago castigating the British for allegedly > >masterminding the proscription of Baabaa Jobe as an international criminal? > >Doesn't he know that Britain is part of the EU? Such unedited statements > >about the British, are the real Yaya. We know the vermin does NOT mean more > >than ninety person of what was ascribed to him in this 'interview'. If > >AFPRC/APRC supporters doubt this, let them unleash the moron on national TV > >and see what will happen. Let him not hide behind speechwriters and see > >what > >will happen. We will soon start hearing the 'six feet deep' infantile > >rhetoric that is characteristic of the vermin. > > > >As we move to the campaign season all these AFPRC/APRC lies about > >education, > >health etc. 'projects' will be debunked. What the APRC stalwarts did NOT > >bank on when they were alienating all those Permanent Secretaries was that > >the latter know everything about these 'projects'. These former civil > >servants that are mainly UDP supporters should go to the grassroots and > >inform them about these 'projects' and the AFPRC/APRC lies. We should > >reveal > >the limited input Yaya's government put into these projects. The vermin > >attributes the first 'feeder road' to Kanilai to the EU and NOT to the > >Jawara government. But when it comes to the roads that are sponsored by the > >donors but constructed during the AFRPC/APRC regime, it is Yaya's > >achievements. Is this man well? Does he know that ninety percent of the > >development budget of the country comes from loans and grants? He has no > >input whatsoever in attracting these funds. On the contrary, thanks to > >their > >illegal usurpation of power in July 1994, our people lost half of those > >grants and loans. Couple with that what the vermin are stealing and putting > >in Swiss Bank Accounts. No wonder our people are POORER today than they > >were > >seven years ago (ACCORDING TO FAMARA JATTA'S FIGURES). But you read Marcel > >Thomasi's interview, you think the whole country is 'educated' now and our > >'hospitals' are well-equipped, and people are happy earning a living. > > > >No amount of packaging can erase the truth. Let Marcel Thomasi go and tell > >what Yaya said to the poor farmers up country that have to wait two months > >to see fifty dalasis. Let Marcel Thomasi tell Yaya and his cohorts about > >the > >'excellent' state of our hospitals. Maybe he can convince them to stop > >sending their wives to America to have babies and in the process looting > >taxpayers' money. We know this 'interview' does NOT reflect the reality in > >the country. The reality in the country is a breakdown in law and order > >(where citizens are abducted and illegally incarcerated incommunicado). The > >reality in the country tells us about the slaughter of defenseless and > >innocent children in broad daylight in order to perpetuate a tyrant. The > >reality in the country tells us about farmers crying that prices of basic > >commodities such as rice and cooking oil have gone up while the government > >of the day CANNOT guarantee farmers (even) a conducive environment to earn > >a > >living. The reality of the country tells us that dollars are virtually > >nonexistent in the country. Even banks do NOT have foreign currencies. > > > >Gambians are NOT interested in this type of packaging for Yaya to gain > >international respect. I do NOT know where Marcel Thomasi was when The > >Gambia was implicated in the 'Blood Diamond' saga and Baabaa Jobe was > >proscribed an international criminal. How can anyone argue that Yaya and > >his > >gang brought respectability to the country? The morons have brought nothing > >but shame to us. > >KB > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > > >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. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > 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. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------