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Thanks guys for your thoughtful reactions

As for Karim, I think you answered your own query. In The Gambia, what we have is not governance but brutal power play. As they say, no politician presides over his own destruction and in a free and fair contest, Karim can defeat the Professor with only a month of unfettered campaigning. The point is that there will be no "widening of democratic space such as electoral reforms, constitution reforms including independent and transparent IEC" as long as Professor Jammeh remains President. I think you answered your foregoing by accurately stating that "the dictator have control all means", including all the police power of the state.

As for "mass demonstrations", the reality can paralyse even those Gambians with the bravest personal constitution. The Gambia is not the USA, not the UK, not any Western European country. The Professor is Assad, Mubarak, Ghadaffi and rulers of that ilk, meaning he will counter "demonstrators with life bullets". We are therefore faced with the mouse community's dilemma of who to "bell the cat". Herein the reason why I do not refer to those on the ground as cowards.

As far as I am concerned, my only issue with the opposition leadership is the failure to craft a united front, and that is why my advocacy is so restricted. Unless I am personally on the ground, I won't call anyone a coward. I won't even insinuate it from the safer shores of the UK. A proper united front can take on the Professor and win, electorally, and even on the streets.

LJDarbo

On Saturday, 8 February 2014, 2:40, dbaldeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I think CORDEG can only blame itself for the leak. In a 24hr news cycle you can only sit on information for so long. Even the Whitehouse does have leaks! Infornation sharing is definitely one area CORDEG needs to improve.

On LJD's concerns they need to take heed as well. There is a high risk of failure when a body like CORDEG's success and mode of operation is associated with an individual leadership. We Gambians tend to wash our hands off an organization once a leader is selected. This put unrealistic expectation on the leader. Am certain if highly competent people like Dr. Saine is given the support his committee needs he can craft policies and programs that can yield incredible results for our struggle.

The fear of CORDEG becoming a dominant political force has been expressed by some members of the opposition as Lamin alluded to. It is therefore critical that CORDEG's neutral stand and policy objectives be spelled out clearly as a broker and mobilizer of Diaspora Gambians to gather resources and support a politically viable force. They have to overcome some of the mistrust from the opposition leadership if they are to be effective as a mobilizing force.

Thanks

Demba

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From: Musa Jeng <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 02/07/2014 5:47 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [G_L] LJD on CORDEG

A very important distinction, and will allay whatever fears the opposition has as correctly highlighted in Lamin's piece.

Thank you Kejau

From: "kejau" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 8:21:05 AM
Subject: Re: [G_L] LJD on CORDEG

Thanks Yero.

LJD is erudite as usual. Always a pleasure to read.

CORDEG is not declaring a leader of the diapora struggle, though, but only a chairperson of the executive of the committee. The leak was also not as a result of cronyism at least not of cordeg but by a mole and it was condemned by members as peemature and unfortunate.

Cordeg infact has not concluded the voting process as such hence the release was regretable and unprofessional.

Be rest assured your concerns will be taken on board and are infact the xoncrrns

Sent from Samsung Mobile

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From: abdoukarim sanneh <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 07/02/2014 09:55 (GMT+01:00)
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [G_L] LJD on CORDEG

Yero thanks for sharing the piece. It is a good observation and the points raised are open for debate. My question to Lamin is how long can the diaspora organisations continue to facilitate the political process and in our case is it working for us? Lamin is talking about the opposition in the ground but have they put any strategies which making impact for widing democratic space such as electoral reforms, constitution reforms including independent and transparent IEC? Are the political parties even democratic? Are they not existing by names? I have not been following CORDEG and others of recently but ineffective opposition politics is the case the emergence of types of civil organisations. We have opposition politicians who form parties and want to be leaders but the dictator have control all means for. They don't want to change strategies, they want to listen, they have created divided memberships and many are not tolerant to criticism.We have a long way to go with Yahya Jammeh if the language is not change to mass demonstration for political reform.

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 19:12:27 -0600
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: LJD on CORDEG
To: [log in to unmask]

http://gainako.com/?p=4170

Best,

Yero.

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