Wow, one person holding a whole country hostage and all sit pretty quiet. It is the many many "Small Things" that we ignore that form the BIG PICTURE. The politicians who say they are there for the people and are with the people are quiet and make it quite easy for this to continue, loosing the confidence of their supporters in the process. The teachers say they have the interest of their students, yet, they twitch not a muscle. The parents whose sons and daughters bear the brunt of the mediocrity see it a waste of time to fight for their own offsprings under the pretext - Nakalanor Def. The students who are on the receiving end are not educated on their rights as citizens and to demand what is rightfully their's. In front of all of them is the King and his Go Fors conniving and colluding to intimidate, maim, or kill those who refuse to obey the imposed slavery conditions. Twenty years is way too long for us to entertain this nonsense. Why is it that we, as a people, refuse to accept that the conditions imposed on us are not normal? Mark my words Gambians, this man will be right here for another twenty years if we continue to think that "Something Will Happen" and he will be out. Naheh Mbowe! The Village Idiot is eating well; has access to the Best Foreign Medicine money can buy, even as he murders sick Gambians daily; has armed himself to the teeth with his very few loyalists, which is good news. For just like his mentors, these folks will abandon him when we, the people rise up.
So, it is quite baffling for some politicians to make the calculation that they will just hang around on the side and pray that someone from the Army will take Yaya out for them, so they can catapult themselves to the top, forgetting that, that same wish did not work for them when Yaya came to the scene. This man does not intend to leave because you are educating him, love him, or show him that you are a Democrat or believe in Democracy. He is using any means necessary to keep on keeping on, while the politicians on the outside continue with their stale and outdated one track plans of educating him; appearing in court just to look like they are doing something; waiting for Jessey Jackson, just like they put all hope and waited for Obasanjo Olusegun for zilch; ask for permision to peacefully assemble; lands being annexed for the King; Imams to be shaped to obedience, and on and on. I am yet to see a modern day Dictator and Murderer to die a natural death at say 50. It can happen, but it is one of those things that one may witness once in a lifetime. So, we can double up on prayer and wish, while Yaya uses any and all means necessary to deal with US. This has long ceased to be something about Yaya, but more about US. No more Football during the rains; no football after After Koriteh, Tobasky, or any day the King ordains. No summer classes for government schools; no sex on Wednesdays, etc. It is only his imagination that will limit him and he has a pretty screwed up mind and that means we are all screwed until we relieve him of his misery.
Joe
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:55:25 +0100
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Mustapha Jallow
Following the confirmation of a Circular from the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education which states that “no public or grant aided school should use its premise to conduct commercial study classes at any time in the academic year”, this reporter, on the 14th August 2013, visited three of the affected schools in the Kanifing Municipality to find out from teachers and students alike how this decision is received.
Visiting Latrikunda Upper Basic School (LKUBS), this reporter met with three students who said they were there for the summer classes, but were told that there shouldn’t be any private studies in the school. According to Haddijatou L. Jammeh, a Grade 9 student, they had their classes on Monday, but that when they came on Wednesday, they were told that summer classes are banned in the school.
“When we asked the teacher why, he told us that the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education sent a Circular to the school banning the conducting of summer classes in schools in the country,” she said. She said the summer classes are very useful to her as a student in Grade 9 who is preparing for exams and that banning it would really affect her academic performance.
Haddijatou said the ban came after they have already paid and had classes for few weeks. Another student at LKUBS, Isatou Faye, also a grade 9 student, explained that when they came for their summer classes on that day, a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) member came to the school with a police officer and told them that there are no more summer classes in the country.
“All the students who were there felt very disappointed when they told us that summer classes are banned as this was going to affect us in our exams,” she lamented. Awa Manjang, another Grade 9 student, said stopping the summer classes would really affect them as some of them do not have the means to pay for a private teacher to teach them at home. She said her parents are only managing to pay for the summer class which is cheaper than having a private teacher.
At St Therese’s Upper Basic School, the Vice Principal confirmed to this reporter that there will be no summer classes in the country from now on as communicated to them through a Circular from the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education. The Vice Principal of Tallinding Upper Basic School, however, declined to make any comment when asked whether summer classes will be conducted in her school or whether the school administration has received the Circular from the ministry. When this reporter visited the Regional Education Directorate at Kanifing, the Director was said to be busy and could not grant an interview on the issue.
It could be recalled that in the Foroyaa issue of 1 August 2013, the Regional Director stressed that there will be summer studies for all schools.
hDate: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:49:33 +0100
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By Alhagie F.S. Sora/Abdoulie G. Dibba
Reliable information received by Foroyaa has it that 25 young people, including children, have been arrested by the Police Intervention Unit (PIU) in Sukuta, in the Niani District of Central River Region (CRD), on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 August 2013, purportedly for playing football to mark the end of the Muslim “Koriteh” feast. They were taken to the Governor’s office and later to the remand wing in Janjanbureh.
According to sources from the village, it is a tradition now that after every feast, the villagers would organize a football match between the young people and the middle aged. The source claimed that after this “Koriteh” feast, while the villagers were at the field, the Alkalo of the village, J.J. Kanteh, called the district Chief and informed him about the football match taking place at his village and the chief in turn informed the Governor.
According to sources, the villagers were surprised by the fact that when these people were arrested, they were first taken to the Governor’s office instead of the police station. When contacted, Commissioner Ebrima Cham, the Police Commissioner of the Central River Region, confirmed the arrest of the 22 young people in Sukuta Niani, adding that they were arrested for playing football. According to him, there was an executive order that there should not be any football match during the rainy season and that these young people disobeyed the executive order. He said this is the reason why they were arrested and detained.
Commissioner Cham, however, disclosed that nineteen of those arrested are now released, but the ‘ring leaders’ namely Lamin Barrow, Jarumending Ceesay and Kan Fandey are charged for disobedience to lawful order.
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:02:31 -0700
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Right Joe. Pertinent questions and strange dilemmas indeed. Considering the kind of "leadership" we have in Black Africa (Tony Daabaa, Robert Ayegaaf, etc), we are very far from putting a stop to abuses inflicted on Africans by institutional dudes like Maroc. Personally, I now treat racists (who are generally ignorant and intellectually myopic, whether Phd or No School) exactly the way they treat me, on a case by case basis. Good for you that you insisted on the downtown hotel. As for the so-called AU or our individual caricatures of governments, well, they simply are too dumb to even think straight about anything. Not even how best to cling on to power! So let them enjoy the Hotel Africas of the world!!
Baba
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Baba, we are empowered to address the racist individual or state. Morroco is one place among many others that Africans should target for boycott. I was in-transit there twice before and vowed never to use their Airline or pass through Maroc. If you take air Maroc, they have a place by the airport I call "Hotel Africa" - Atlas Hotel. That is where they will ship the Africans in-transit, that is if the police will not try to fleece them at each inch of the way with some having to spend their entire 10 or so hours at the airport. You get to the hotel it will be sometimes four or five hours of your 7 hour transit without a room and the lunch hour is madness. A white colleague hip me on where they were sent while in-transit. They were sent to a hotel downtown Casa. Since then, I refuse to lodge in Hotel Africa and insist on Downtown. I take it a notch higher and to boycott the dogone place. I will travel via Paris or Dakar, but NEVER Maroc. Africans cannot just claim to be victims and you get nothing just playing the victim. African countries, particularly French West Africa buy a lot of produce and vegies from Maroc. They can transfer their business elsewhere. Besides, why in hell shoud these African countries buy onions, oranges, garlic, carrots, etc. from elsewhere when they can produce these things cheaper and in abundance. Senegal spent the entire Ramadan period foaming about lack of onions, potatoes, carrots, etc. What is wrong with us? Senegal can produce these things cheaper than Maroc for example. They have the land and inputs to be food self sufficient, but are still stuck on complaining. Now they are leasing thousands of hectres to the Arabs to grow stuff for their populations while Senegal continue with their gift of the gab.
All these Africans in Maroc came from some where and their governments can nib this on the bud and do the same to Morrocans in their countries and hit them on their wallet - Airline, exports, etc. businesses. Unless I bend over, none can ride me! We need to stop bending over. As to the AU, if they cannot do for their own country citizens, what can they do for others, or what have they ever done? How many were elected based on what they can do for their countries? Most are there because of the tribe they belong to or took power through the barrel of the gun.
Joe
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It is a sad fact that Black Africans are targets of racism in every white-skinned country of the world. Many Arab speaking white-skinned persons are just as racist as many Caucasians and other white-skinned peoples. One is often tempted to think "the curse of the black skin"; However, it is perhaps more appropriate to think of the curse of the racist heart and racist mind because ultimately, racism is a painful, misery-inducing disease afflicting the racist individual, not the target of racism. Thanks for sharing Fye.
Baba
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 02:32:10 -0700
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[log in to unmask]Yes its a fact.I stayed in Morocco for three months in 1990 on attachment with the Moroccan Tourism Board and it was hell. I even wrote to the B.C.C network Africa about my experience.
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Well the AU is kissing their oily behind .
You are right brother Hous...But i wonder what the AU is doing about this...
Niamorkono...
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