Hamjatta and Saul, Halifa is not in the office today. He is preparing to travel to Abidjan tomorrow to attend a UNICEF Regional Consultation on Vision for African Children in 21st Century. He should be back on Sunday next which is the 5 December and I am sure he will find your questions very interesting. If anybody else has anything to ask or any contention to raise regarding the transition period, please raise those issues before he comes so that all contentious issues can be treated at one go. I wish to inform Hamjatta and Saul Khan that I was the one extracting from the publications Halifa's conduct during the coup. The work had become too much because of the competing use of the computer to produce a newspaper, school books, research and consultancy materials, etc. I did not think it was a priority, but as halifa had insisted before, I should have just completed the work. May be if I did, the questions which are being raised would not have been raised. I remember going up to the arrest and detention under Decree No. 4. I would reorganise myself and make it a point of duty to give anybody interested the whole history. I must say that I am enjoying the new wave of public discourse that is developing. We will now see which political figures in The Gambia are transparent or otherwise. All political figures should be subjected to the scrutiny you have started. Sheikh. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------