This so-called APRC manifesto is nothing but a piece of toilet paper recycling garbage we have heard several times from gullible APRC stalwarts. Nothing new. LIES about PPP, STOLEN ‘projects’, meaningless rhetoric about ACCOUNTABILITY and TRANSPARENCY. Of course the Gambians do NOT take them seriously and that is why people are jumping by the droves from the APRC bandwagon to the Alliance. APRC can LIE about PPP, but they CANNOT lie about their record. Gambians are LIVING the APRC record. Gambians SAW what happened to our children on April 10 and 11, 2000. Gambians SAW what happened to Ebrima Barry. Gambians SAW what happened to Dumo et al. Gambians SAW what happened to Koro Ceesay. Gambians SAW what happened to Gibril Saye and the soldiers buried behind latrines at the Yundum Barracks. There is no sugar-coating of this AFPRC/APRC record of murder, mayhem and blatant abuse of human rights. You move from those abuses and just witness Yaya’s rags to riches story. In 1994, the vermin did NOT even have a ‘Post Office Savings Book’. Now he boasts that he is the riches man in the country. In seven short years, the man has looted from us more than anyone can possibly imagine. And he has the audacity to stand up and talk about corruption, accountability and transparency. The mental midget does NOT even know the meaning of those words. Is this NOT the man that intimidated his stooges in Parliament to NOT discuss his corrupt activities vis-à-vis crude oil coming from Nigeria to the Gambian people. Does this sound like someone interested in accountability and transparency? Of course Gambians know that this so-called manifesto is just empty rhetoric. All the ‘projects’ they are bragging about were initiated by the PPP government. Government officials in the old regime drew out all these project proposals and got promises of funding from our development partners. What Yaya and his cohorts did (in the main part), is just take credit for work done by other people. What can the High School drop-outs do? The vermin decries politics of inducement and patronage, and yet all he does is parade poor Gambians before GRTS ‘giving’ them tens of thousands of dalasis he stole from them in the first place. He decries nepotism yet if you look at all our sensitive security apparatuses in the country all you see are Kujabis and Jattas. His longest serving minister (Susan Waffa) is a relative of his. Is this man well? Of course Gambians that are poorer today than they were seven years ago will NOT fall for these gimmicks. The morons have NO plans for our sick economy. They have NO plans to put our groundnut farmers back on their feet. They have NO plans about repairing the battered image of our country in the international community in light of the dismissal of a prominent British diplomat and Baabaa Jobe’s proscription as an international criminal and Gambia’s proscription as an international outlaw dealing in ‘Blood Diamond’. There are NO measures to eradicate lawlessness and human rights abuses in our country. Left to Yaya and his cohorts, our children were slaughtered in vain (‘ci merci’). ‘We have to thank Yaya and his trigger-happy thugs that more children were not massacred’. These people are sick. Gambians now see the emptiness of this ‘Party’. APRC has NOTHING to offer the Gambian people. They stole power and impose themselves on us for seven years. At the end of the day, only Yaya and his cohorts can say that they are better off. They all have millions of dollars stashed in foreign bank accounts. They illegally seized property belonging to hardworking Gambians and took those properties for themselves and their families. Meanwhile our people are poorer. There are no medicines in hospitals. Parents are so poor they CANNOT afford to put their children through school. What does Yaya care about our hospitals? The vermin can simply charter a private jet for his wife to come to America and have a baby. These people do NOT care about Gambians. If you care about Gambians, you do NOT go around slaughtering innocent and defenseless children ad denying their families justice. I hope Gambians look at what this ‘manifesto’ did NOT say. We all already know that most of what it says are LIES and false promises. On July 22, 1994 the vermin could have fooled Gambians with empty words like accountability, transparency and lies about PPP corruption. In 2001, there is NO CHANCE for the vermin to fool the people. APRC now have a record to run on. That record (of murder, mayhem, corruption, nepotism) is INDEFENSIBLE. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------