Mr. Manneh, thanks once again for the clear rendition you gave of your experience with the electoral process during the last elections. Your insights are invaluable. As people like Bakary Kanteh have highlighted, there are tremendous problems inherent in the transportation of ballots from polling stations to counting centers. So, the Opposition must hand-combat Gabriel Roberts to ensure that he does NOT assist Yaya in his dubious enterprise to steal the elections. We MUST ask for counting on-the-spot. Once the ballots are counted, your narration of the certification also shows that there are loopholes that a dubious Gabriel Roberts in cahoots with Yaya and his cronies can take advantage of in order to steal the elections. The votes from Janjanbureh might have been announced just the way you sent them to the PIEC. But how about the votes from areas in CRD where Gabriel Roberts knew that some shenanigans already took place? Although you did NOT mention it, I would have thought that Party representatives would be at the IEC HQ as the faxes come in to ensure that the figures that were coming to the HQ tallied with the figures their representatives at the counting centers were giving them. If that is NOT the case, the Opposition MUST ensure that they have representatives with Gabriel Roberts at the IEC HQ (and NOT State House) as the faxes come in from the various counting centers. Before Gabriel Roberts is allowed to announce bogus results, Opposition representatives at the IEC HQ should liaise with their people in the constituencies to ensure that the figures sent through fax were the same ones the Returning Officers certified at the counting centers. If the Opposition are present with Gabriel Roberts at the IEC HQ as the faxes come in, then that also takes care of the problem we had in 1996 about Gamtel routing faxes to State House. Under no circumstances should the Opposition trust despicable vermin like Gabriel Roberts with the fate of the Gambian people. We should be breathing on Roberts’ neck this time around just like Yaya put a gun to the coward’s head in 1996. The Opposition should ensure that the results Gabriel Roberts is going to announce reflect the will of the Gambian people in every sense. First and foremost we MUST ensure that the ballots are NOT transported from place to place as per Gabriel Roberts and Yaya’s (UNILATERAL) decision. Secondly, Opposition representatives have to be present at IEC HQ when the results come in from the counting centers. Manneh, I thank you once again for your invaluable contributions. Yaya is finished. The hundreds of thousands of Gambians that were disenfranchised in the last election of Decree 89 are now going to vote for the Alliance in droves. People do NOT attend APRC rallies and the vermin know that they lost the elections. Now their whole hopes are pinned on Gabriel Roberts and intimidating the ordinary Gambians. As we speak/write, Opposition stalwarts are being arrested willy-nilly. Their crime: they are refusing to attend APRC rallies. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------