Abdoulie,

This is an interesting article and your analysis of the situation is very good. This case of Baba is an interesting development. In paper and in the courts, he is charged of owing Government about D97 million, but this is not enough to to detain some one in police for 24 hours. Besides, it is not him personally who owes Government but THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE LTD (YDE), the YDE is a limited liability company. He is not a share holder according to the papers at the registrer of companies, however he is the chairman of the board. They (YDE) have also made a payment plan to settle the amount and have issued a some posted cheques some of which have already cleared. He was charged along with the Managing Director of the company, Baba Kanteh.

Most people believe there is more to this. With what is presented in court, he will work and pay (pay when able), something he is already doing.

We are all waiting for more developments to come so that we can make some sense out of this case. There are all kinds of rumours and guess work, but only President Jammeh knows what going on and what he is doing.

Any how it is an inetersting political issue to debate and analyse and as you can imagine all political pundits in are trying to make something out of this. Time will tell.

 

PEACE

 

Tombong Saidy



 

>From: Abdoul Njie <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: NEWS FLASH : Baba Jobe Under Arrest- LEKBI
>Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:45:22 +0000
>
>Regardless of whether or not the arrest of Baba is a ploy or
>appeasement,
>one thing that is clear is that there seem to be a high degree of
>ambiguity
>as to the exact reason why this once revered and supposedly
>invincible man
>has been arrested.
>
>On one hand, we hear Tombong’s mild and cautionary explaination
>indicating
>that he is being questioned and indeed HELPING the police, which in
>my
>opinion reminds me of the Wollof saying that “ KU YARR SA MBOR, BALA
>MO DAN
>KEN, DAAN LA in translation “ When you train your fighter, before he
>challenges anyone, he will challenge YOU.
>
>This clearly means that, whether Yaya Jammeh need to first audit
>himself as
>highlighted by his opponents in numerous postings on both the G-L
>and
>Gambia Post is just one issue amongst many. One thing is for sure-
>Jammeh
>has now realized that this same person could cause him his
>presidency if he
>does not do something about him.
>
>
>We also see the anti-Jammeh camp jubilating this arrest and as usual
>dispensing rumors without toroughness and substantiation ,and in
>some cases
>inaccurate such as the recent publicized resignation of Isatou Njie
>Saidy
>and Singateh, but yet fail to pay attention to the pattern, which
>for years
>has been the modus operandi of the Jammeh regime.
>
>One thing for sure is that Jammeh could very well be given an award
>for
>mastering the revolving door policy, which in my opinion ensures
>infinite
>loyalty from his administration. Because if one knows that all he
>has to do
>after he/she is sacked from him job is to sit around and wait to be
>reinstated in some other similar position then why should the
>sophisticated
>observer even bother to take heed?
>
>I therefore think that, on one hand Baba Jobe could very well be
>COLLATERAL
>damage in the administration’s quest to supposedly find a solution
>to the
>poor and deteriorating economic conditions under pressure of the
>World Bank
>if indeed this exists, which clearly lead me to also lend some
>attention to
>his OPERATION NO COMPROMISE which he says knows no boundary
>regardless of
>whether it is credible and fair, because it seem to put some on the
>WHO’s
>NEXT ALERT list.
>
>If one has been following the forum carefully, is this not the same
>person
>who is accused of human rights violation and diamond trafficking,
>criminal
>acts and widely regarded as the one and only bold enough to face
>Jammeh
>without fear? Therefore, if Jammeh is an astute and a wise
>politician, it
>is NOT unreasonable for him to quickly discard him either this time
>or the
>next time around and he better remember the seemingly accurate
>wollof Saying
> that “ SA MBANGI DOW, DU DON SA SOPE REN” in translation “ once a
>FOE,
>often times a FOE.
>
>
>In conclusion, it is my opinion that similar to the cases of many
>government
>officials such as Jatta, Deen, Sillah Bai , the recent Central Bank
>electric
>broom exercise and many others, this too will soon and quickly be
>regarded
>as a misunderstanding, particularly when there already seem to be
>insinuation that these bounced( Dishonored cheques) written by Baba
>Jobe
>were postdated and to be presented at a later date- HIS DEFENSE.
>
>
>Best Regards,
>Ablie Njie- Lekbi
>Atlanta
>
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