Malanding,Jabou,and Elhajj thanks for your input. Beran >From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Break-down of VOTERS/Beran >Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:34:48 EDT > >In a message dated 10/25/2001 10:01:43 PM Central Daylight Time, Gunjur >writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 10/25/2001 10:25:43 AM Central Daylight Time, > > [log in to unmask] writes: > > > > > > In the Observer: > > > > >> Speaking to journalists at a press conference held at his Pipeline > >> residence > >> Wednesday afternoon, Mr Darboe who also presented a Senegalese ID Card >of > >> one Ebou Coli and a Gambian voters card of the same man said “there >was an > >> indiscriminate issuing of voters cards to anyone who presented a >national > >> identity card” without questioning and investigating qualification of > >> claimants by registering officers. > >> > >> As a result, according to Mr Darboe, many aliens who secured Gambian ID > >> cards before were able to obtain voters cards lamenting that revising > >> courts > >> were in some cases established as a matter of formality. > >> > >> Arguing that some magistrates presiding over the revising courts were > >> corrupt and incompetent, Mr Darboe alleged that APRC’s Baba Jobe and >the > >> Youth Action Group effectively controlled the proceedings in the > >> Mansakonko > >> Revising Court and “determined the outcome of any objection.” His >party’s > >> protest to the chief justice, he added, produced no results. > >> > >> He said they had material evidence that the IEC had registered > >> non-Gambians > >> and a voters card of a Senegalese national was produced at a meeting >held > >> October 16, 2001 at the Kairaba Beach Hotel between the IEC, >international > >> observer group, the press and the political parties. He further said it > >> was > >> only after long protest that the IEC chairman distributed the head > >> register > >> two days before election. “Although the ruling APRC,” he said, >“had the > >> head > >> register issued to them before the other opposition parties at least in > >> Upper Fuladu West.” He added that the IEC once took a decision of not > >> allowing those whose names did not appear on the register to vote which > >> was > >> reversed before elections “by Gabriel Roberts who appeared to be >working > >> under the directives of the APRC. > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > Well, this was no doubt very good reason to boycott these elections, and >I > > am not exactly sure why this did not happen, and now is too late a time >to > > reveal all of this information if they had it before the voting. > > > > Jabou Joh > ><<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> > >To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > ><<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>