Thanks Mr. Bojang. 

The opposition cannot participate in electoral registration and yet call the outfit that registered them to victory, illegitimate. Call them to task now and cry bias and corruption and not independent if they deviate from their raison d'etre, but legitimacy, that will be shooting our own feet. These arguments lead to issues like whether the opposition should participate in elections, eventually and that is the bone of contention here. What do you think, Mr. Bojang? Should they 'legitimize' the IEC by participating in election under the IEC?

Cheers, 

> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:39:09 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [G_L] IEC on the upcoming elections
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> The opposition would have won despite the corrupt and biased nature of the IEC against them. That would make the opposition even more legitimate. They can then go on to clean house and give us a real IEC that would be independent and care about all the stakeholders; not just Jammeh and APRC.
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> Ansu
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> Kejau said:
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> Thanks LJ.
> Independence of IEC is matter of opinion and not of fact. Either way independence is not the same as legitimacy.
> My concern is if the opposition wins and the legitimacy is of concern how are they going to legitimise that government.
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> Sent from Kejau's iPhone
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> On 5 Oct 2011, at 16:54, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Kejau
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> How say you to our good brother Haruna?
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> Do you think the IEC is independent?
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> If not independent, then may be constitutionally deficient?
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> Assuming the IEC's deficiency is of deliberate design, what does that say for its legitimacy?
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> LJDarbo
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> From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 16:02
> Subject: Re: [G_L] IEC on the upcoming elections
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> Brother Kejau,
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> I understand you are a luminary legal scholar.
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> 1. Illegitimate is a bit different from Illegal. It is generally context that determines the meaning of some words.
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> 2. In a dictatorship and a criminal enterprise, NOTHING is ILLEGAL or ILLEGITIMATE.
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> Illegitimacy of institutions gives dictatorships and criminal enterprises life and sustenance. That is where the terms: aiding and abetting came from in cannon and tort law.
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> Thank you for your concern and query in this matter Kejau. I hope I have explained amply.
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> Haruna.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 6:44 am
> Subject: Re: [G_L] IEC on the upcoming elections
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> How is the IEC illegal. You cannot just throw words around. Tell what is illegal about them and how their illegitimacy can affect Yayas defeat.
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> Sent from Kejau's iPhone
>
> On 5 Oct 2011, at 02:55, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thank you Ansumana for sharing the Freedomnewspaper and the IEC. It is comforting to learn that Carayol is efforting in due-diligence in bringing us the november elections. My baseline contention is that the current Carayol IEC is illegitimate and Carayol ought to consider resigning and insisting on a representative IEC. However, should his conscience not accomodate such sobriety, I applaud him for efforting to conduct good elections. It will never be good in these circumstances. I encourage all opposition parties, united or not, to boycot the november polls unless a legitimate IEC is constituted.
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> Haruna.
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