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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Pasamba Jow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Reports Suggest Rambo Was Threatened to Defect
>
> <http://dailynews.gm/africa/gambia/article/reports-suggest-rambo-was-threatened-to-defect#map>
> africa <http://dailynews.gm/africa/news> » gambia<http://dailynews.gm/africa/gambia/news>
>    Monday, January 24, 2011
> The former national youth president of the main opposition-United
> Democratic Party, Ousman Jatta alias Rambo hasn’t after all defected to the
> ruling APRC party, by his free will, reports have it.
> “If you cannot beat the system, then join the system,” as terse a statement
> as this was all what he said last week Saturday in Banjul, in what was seen
> as announcing a swap of his political leaning.
> Detained for 365 days
> Born and bred in the coastal town of Bakau, very little was known about
> Ousman Rambo Jatta before his arrest and detention in 2006. According to
> reports Mr Jatta protested against a suspected misconduct in the
> presidential election in 2006.
> He was arrested September 23, 2006 and released over a year later – October
> 13, 2007. During his one year in detention he wore the same (tattered)
> clothes for over five months and his shoes burst up. His release came after
> rigorous media campaigns and a subsequent legal battle mounted by his party
> leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe.
> Elected national youth president
> Currently, Mr Jatta is considered a strong political figure in Bakau. His
> victory in 2008 local government elections makes him the only opposition
> councilor in The Gambia’s second most populated local administrative region,
> KMC, and the only elected opposition politician in the whole of the Greater
> Banjul Area.
> Last year, he was unanimously endorsed as the party’s national youth
> president at the party’s national congress held in the provincial capital of
> Jarra Soma, Lower River region.
> Flared debate
> Rambo’s defection has hit the headlines. It flared jubilation in the ruling
> party. “We are very much happy and we welcome Ousman Jatta to APRC. His
> defection is an indication that we have already swept the polls, due this
> year because he is a very influential person in the UDP,” said Yankuba
> Kolley, the ruling party national mobiliser.  According to pro-government
> Daily Observer newspaper, Rambo really has immense political clout in Bakau,
> and has a large following. Many of his supporters are likely to join him in
> the APRC.”
> However, according to UDP party leader in the Point of last week Monday,
> Ousainou Darboe, it is absolutely incorrect to state that his defection will
> shake UDP. “Rambo is being described as a strongman, but the question is who
> made him strong? It was the electorate and the UDP party that gave him the
> political clout that he has,” Darboe said.
>  This was buttressed by Rambo’s elder brother Dudu Kasa Jaata who is the
> head of the Jaata Kunda family of Bakau. “We remain loyal to UDP,” Kasa
> said. And the slogan some of the youths are using in Bakau in reaction to
> Rambo’s defection is “stagnant,” meaning they remain UDP.
> Rambo denies threats
> Amid the debate, Rambo himself is yet to explain the reason for his sudden
> move. He has neither met with his former party executives nor has he
> tendered his resignation, The Daily News can confirm.
> Reports have it that Rambo was threatened to switch allegiance to the
> ruling party, but it is unclear what sort of threat.
> “That is not a fact,” again another terse remark Rambo gave to The Daily
> News Saturday. He would not comment further but promises to call a press
> briefing. His wife, too, would not comment. None of the family members want
> to share with the public what Rambo told them. However an old woman, whose
> name we could not confirm hinted: “These people (certainly APRC) have been
> hounding him.” She refused to comment further after realizing that he was
> talking to a journalist.
> Author: *Saikou Jammeh*
>
>
>  "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of
> justice." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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