Guys, you have to realize that Gassama is shameless. No amount of incontrovertible EVIDENCE will open the man’s eyes to the REALITY in the country. I told him several times that he himself is among the Famara Jatta statistics of POOR people. But, the man is in DENIAL. Gassama himself CANNOT make ends meet. All these newspapers articles we are showing to him, he ALREADY saw them. The misery does NOT just stop at these articles. In Serrekunda (an urban area) classrooms do NOT have adequate furniture. Forget about remote villages. But to talk about schooling while ignoring people’s empty stomachs, is putting the cart before the horse. This inept government CANNOT even guarantee that Gambians (farmers) that work hard throughout the year will have three square meals a day to show for their sweat. Right there, the mental midgets have no business living on taxpayers’ money as ministers and civil servants. We are dealing with a bunch of morons that do NOT have the wherewithal to deliver on ‘ground-zero’; the basics. I witness how Gassama tried to rewrite Gambian history by LYING about the PPP ‘Education Record’. In his garbage, he conveniently forgets that morons like Yaya were ‘educated’ during the PPP era. I don’t know the knucklehead (Gassama), but I can safely guess that he was NOT ‘educated’ during the colonial era. Did Gassama stop to ask himself where Yaya came from to go to Gambia High School? Was Yaya a ‘privileged kid living at Fajara’? Here we have Gassama trying to introduce a ‘class warfare’ insinuating that poor rural kids were disenfranchised by PPP ‘Education’ policies. As usual, nothing can be farther from the truth. MOST prominent Gambians are NOT urban dwellers. If I wanted to name prominent Gambians that came from remote villagers and worked HARD through the education system in The Gambia, we would NOT leave here today. Compared to AFPRC/APRC that believes in ‘mass-production’, the PPP Education System was more quality oriented. I hasten here to add that in 2002 we should be aspiring for an Education System that is superior to BOTH the ones delivered by PPP and AFPRC/APRC. Gassama in his ludicrous ‘analysis’ conveniently forgets about ‘Secondary Technical Schools’. He hallucinates that in yesteryear’s Gambia if you ‘failed’ the ‘Common Entrance’, that was it. See why I said that the man is trying to rewrite history? Clearly we all know that Gassama is LYING again in order to score points for this illegal government. There is NOTHING wrong in High Schools setting high standards for the limited positions they have. That is such a simple point that it is amazing how Gassama seems to miss that. Harvard University does NOT admit every person that applies there. ‘Primary School’ children can figure that out. To call those standards ‘schemes’ for defrauding poor people, is preposterous, to say the least. But trust Gassama to come up with the most bizarre arguments one can think of. With AFPRC/APRC there is NO ‘Education Plan’. The ONLY ‘plan’ they have is to erect a school building to fool gullible Gambians and give sycophants like Gassama something to talk about. When you ask them for an ‘Education Plan’, they show you a ‘Construction Plan’. You ask them for a ‘Health Plan’, they show you a ‘Construction Plan’. Like the African Dictators they are, the mental midgets are obsessed with ‘buildings’. The last thing on their small minds is figuring out how to utilize those ‘buildings’ for the benefit of the poor people. That is why we have all these HUGE LOANS in the country while our people are getting POORER. A serious government would have figured out how to make the schools efficient before building them. In other words, a serious government would have made its priority the QUALITY EDUCATION of Gambians. But to this illegal government, their priority is NOT quality education. Their priority is to erect buildings they can talk about and MASS-PRODUCE low-quality education. Need I tell the morons that it is NOT about the number of schools that are built. It is about the number of children that have QUALITY EDUCATION. I thank you guys for your efforts to keep Gassama honest and report what is ACTUALLY going on in the country. Left to the man alone, he would tell tall tales and hope that we do not call home and read reliable newspapers to find out the reality on the ground. KB >From: Ngorr Ciise <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: The reality in The Gambia today. >Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:36:09 +0000 > >Brothers Sanusi & George, > >Words alone can’t describe the extent of my delight in the Independent >article you forwarded, which graphically buttresses all the salient points >we’ve been trying to make Gassa see as the ugly reality facing the average >Gambian under the APRC’s misrule. 'Course, Gassa will remain in denial; >even >posit that this Independent story is an isolated case, and everything is >rosy about Gambian education. _________________________________________________________________ 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 To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~