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mbay
Germany
1007 Posts |
 Posted - 08 Jul 2006 : 15:45:41
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Is not a wonderful how great we mad it success of AU meeting?
Now a big brother will have also a respect of little brother
Thank you brothers and sisters at home real a great job you have done
And thank you Mr. President. And don’t mind those with big mouths without teeth in it. Go on with your great deed as you used to do. May Allah all might give you and our true patriotic Gambians who always wish to see this tiny country in progresses not those who are hungry for self interest to filed they pocket.
we as patriotic always wants a leaders as you.
GO GO GO ON MR TRUE AFRICAN SON
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lavaground
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Posted - 08 Jul 2006 : 21:31:38
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
1350 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jul 2006 : 22:20:22
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Oh lavaground,
You have no right to shut our dear brother mbay up! He/she is entitled to his opinion as a Gambian.
The real thing is we are a nation and some people support Jammeh no matter what good or bad he does,they don't mind that all they want is Jammeh and they are ofcause entitled to their opinion.Thats what democracy we are crying for is all about,ie for people to have their free choice of opinion.
I only wish Jammeh to allow criticism as he allows praises.
Brother mbay knows he can say these things in Banjul and every where in the Gambia but can I also be free to criticise Jammeh as I wish?
If Bro.mbay thinks His Excellency Jammeh is doing a fine Job,well so be it but what brother mbay should underdstand is Jammeh is a public fugure and should be praised where it is due and criticised where it is due.I only hope mbay would understand that as a country,with difference in beliefs,we will always be of different opinions.Some of us who criticise Jammeh don't hate him at all.
The Gambia belongs to all and some like you/others,may like what President Jammeh does and some like me/others may disapprouve of it.That does not mean I should be beaten by the NIAs just because I don't support Jammeh.Think about that if you are human and think whether that is doing a good job?If you can go scotfree by criticising or even insulting the opposition without being arrested and I,your fellow countryman/woman or even your brother/sister(for In the Gambia,we are all a family:everybody is related in one way or the other)should be beaten for voicing out my disapprouval of Jammeh policies.
Is that doing a good job?
President Jammeh is a leader, a brother and commander of our country.We want him to addhere to his July 22nd promise.
...."POWER TO THE PEOPLE"....
(1)If Jammeh could stop the beatings,tortures,many disappearances of his opponents,
(2)Stop the NIAs intimidating people,respect the rule of law,
(3)Stop blaming the oppositions for the failure of his government,
(4)Allow free press even if their views goes against him,
Then I will support him for I have nothing against him being president of our country .
We are all Gamnbians and any Gambian who can afford it to stand for elections ,present his/her ideas to the people,if the people willingly decide to vote you in freely without any intimidation,Who am I to say no to the choice of 100s of thousands of my fellow country men/women?That person should be president regardless of who she/he is.(MY BELIEF)
Not everyone can love him even if he build the whole country with skyscrappers.
Thats human nature and even himself,does love each and every Gambian equally.There are ofcause some people he does not like.That doesn't make him unpatriotic?No,thats human because he is human and not otherwise.
GOD, WHO CREATES EVERYTHING,SOME PEOPLE HE CREATES DON'T CARE WHETHER HE IS ALIVE OR DEAD AND HE HAS NOT KILLED THEM FOR NOT WANTING HIM.SOME STILL ALIVE DON'T EVEN BELIEF GOD EXIST AND THEY EAT,SLEEP DRIVE AND DO THEIR LIVES THE WAY THEY WANT WITH GOD SEING THEM.He doesn't even mind them.
AND THAT IS GOD ALL MIGHTY
If our president is doing a good job and as you said he should continue,I belief if we share the same belief,oppositions should also have their say as the country belongs to all and the POLICE,NIAs, ARMY who are public servants should treat all these citizens with equality no matter what politicaly party they belong.
They should all be equal before the law and any other way round would be seen as siding with one party over another and that kind of thing makes a leader becomes a dictator.Because he can always have his way through the state security who get paid like him through the public funds
I am not political but I belief in Equal Rights.With everybody equal b4 the law including Jammeh.Infact it starts with him because he swore to defend the law.
What Jammeh promised when he came to power 10 years ago, is he doing exactly that?
peace,
Janyanfara |
Edited by - Janyanfara on 08 Jul 2006 23:09:16 |
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mbay
Germany
1007 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 11:19:55
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quote:
Originally posted by lavaground
Shut up you mobb head.
says it as much as you want and as you like!
but you cant change NOTHING! |
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
1350 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 13:50:22
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mbay,
you dodged my questions why?Come-on lets talk about our country and Yaya at the helm.
peace
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
1350 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 15:08:52
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Hi brother mbay,
is this what you called doing a good job?
Is this the type of country you and your childreen want to live in?
Is this the future Gambia you have been aspiring for since Jawara was in power?
I think if you do then you should have been born two hundred years ago.(My opinion)
READ CAREFULLY
Gambia is a tiny English-speaking West African state of 1.5 million people, sandwiched by vastly larger French-speaking Senegal.
President Yahya Jammeh has ruled the country since seizing power in a coup in 1994. Originally promising to stay in place for no longer than two years, in 1996 Jammeh pushed through a new constitution transforming his military dictatorship into a nominally civilian administration. But he won elections in 2001 that were described as generally free and fair.
CONFIRMATION
"People flock into this area because of the war in Casamance or from Guinea-Bissau for economic reasons. Then they are mobilised by the ruling party to go and register so they can mobilise them again during the election to vote for them."
Sarr said by the time the elections come he expects tens of thousands of foreigners will have been registered to take part in Gambia's unique elections process, which involves voters dropping a marble into a barrel rigged with a bell at the bottom.
The bell is supposed to stop multiple voting. Bicycles are banned from polling stations to avoid confusion with their bells. Despite the unusual system, national and international election observers said in 2001 that there were no major problems on voting day.
Nonetheless, "you cannot say the election is free and fair," Sarr said.
"Really, there is no level playing field here," he said.
In previous elections, the government has denied allegations that the registration process has been manipulated, and pointed out that legal checks and balances do exist.
In the 2001 presidential poll, Yammeh won with just 20,000 votes to spare, garnering 53 percent of the vote.
Since then, the rules have been changed to make the first person to get a clear majority over another party the winner, even if that is by just one vote.
Before, a party had to get a clear 50 percent of the vote, meaning elections often ran to more than one round and hastily-constructed coalitions were common.
Gambians, the 27th poorest people in the world according to the UN, have seen the price of their staple food rice rocket from 125 dalasis a sack in the mid-1990s to 750 dalasis today, while wages have stagnated at around 1,500 dalasis per month (US $5.50).
NO CRITICISM
A clampdown on the media means that criticism, especially in the local Mandinka, Fula and Wolof languages, is likely to remain next to non-existent.
One of the country's two broadsheet English-language newspapers was closed down in March and its editor thrown in jail for three weeks.
Madi Ceesay, the editor in question, who is also president of the Gambia Press Union, told IRIN he thinks he was arrested for publishing details of a coup attempt. It was his third arrest as a journalist in Gambia.
Ceesay has refused to flee the country but does not want to go back to prison, which is why he prefers to remains silent about his 22-day stay there. "My experience is not a pleasant one," he said.
Although he was harmed physically, Ceesay might consider himself to have gotten off lightly. In December 2004 the editor of The Point newspaper, Deyda Hydara, was shot dead in his car. The hitman has never been found.
A correspondent for the BBC received death threats in 2004, and his house was burned down while he slept, when he kept reporting. A broadcaster with the Voice of America radio station fled the country after being continually harassed, and a member of the National Assembly was thrown in jail for contributing to a political website in the United States.
The Gambia has been flagged as a hotspot for attacks on journalists by all the major press freedom watchdogs, including Reporters Without Borders, Article 19, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Press Institute.
"It has become very difficult to work here," confirmed a journalist with The Observer newspaper, the only remaining broadsheet newspaper in the country, who said he was afraid he would be arrested if his name were used by IRIN.
"Now our writing is mostly about society but never the government," he said.
TOUGH CHOICES
According to the journalist, men from the Ministry of Communications come to The Observer's office every night to pore over the next day's pages. Stories deemed sensitive are pulled out and replaced with adverts. Grave offences might get the journalist a visit from the feared National Intelligence Agency officers.
"We are frustrated and confused, we do not know what to include and what to leave out. At most we can describe problems, but never criticise the government or make it look bad," the journalist added.
Those who do not speak English will not hear much news on the radio, as the only station that dared to translate into the Mandinka and Wolof languages was closed down.
In the run-up to the last elections, opposition politician Darboe said campaigners for his party were harassed and beaten. After that poll, many of the candidates and their supporters were arrested.
We think we have to love our country with all her people.Even if any of these oppositions become head of state,We will say the same things about them if they do what Jammeh's Government is doing now.
Peace
Janyanfara
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MJT
Germany
45 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 17:39:04
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Janyanfara!
you are right Mbay have no right to shut any Brohters,the only thing what we have to do is to love our Country and love the peoples of the Country.
Abaraka-thanks. |
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
1295 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2006 : 01:23:45
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| YAya is full of bullsh### |
There is no god but Allah |
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2006 : 03:59:04
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quote:
Originally posted by mbay
Is not a wonderful how great we mad it success of AU meeting?
Now a big brother will have also a respect of little brother
Thank you brothers and sisters at home real a great job you have done
And thank you Mr. President. And don’t mind those with big mouths without teeth in it. Go on with your great deed as you used to do. May Allah all might give you and our true patriotic Gambians who always wish to see this tiny country in progresses not those who are hungry for self interest to filed they pocket.
we as patriotic always wants a leaders as you.
GO GO GO ON MR TRUE AFRICAN SON
Do you think that Gambia is owned by Jammeh These views amongst others shows the plight of Gambians and answer some of foolish remarks under http://allafrica.com/stories/200607070616.html Those are the realities on the ground and the cycle of state merry, larvishness and suandering of funds you support without caring for the hardships of average Gambians. For the first time in Gambian political history have we seen the Diplomats of internatinal community petitioned Gambia government on good governance and rule of law. What is your position on the letter released by them with honest to yourself and conscience You don't appear to be even highly educated to comprehend Gambian political issues and very biased to always state everything is going well all the time. That shows that you can lie to survive and can kill to survive without caring others. Do you think that your prayers will be answered as a hypocrite and ignoring the truth because of obssession, selfish reasons and mockery of those families who cannot even got staple food and dying of hunger at the moment. TIME WILL TELL!! |
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mbay
Germany
1007 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2006 : 09:23:49
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Originally posted by Janyanfara
mbay,
you dodged my questions why?Come-on lets talk about our country and Yaya at the helm.
peace
janyanfara
hi bro
i didn't ignored your questions but time was closed for me for Little while.
i have had studied your letter with care and i fully agreed with you if it comes developing of our mother land.
but if i didn't mad a mistake of understanding you is that of put a yahya on hot put.yes bro yahya may be the brutal leader we have at moment in Africa according to his criticiser including me criticising him?why not? he is human and every man have side of credit and yahya is not any exception.
but why most of us are closing our eyes of what good things he has also done?if you get my letter well you will see that i didnt put a single political move of yahya on trac no do i Manson an oppositionally to it.i was talking only good did hi has done
bro pls catch me well that i have this country in my hart.
and i wish that the opposition could come up with more light than we have now but to me they are still fight for and with their own lunge to breath and that is not good to any one of us.
so old man use to said hold on to the fish in your hand than thinking of the one under your feet will be the better one.
lastly let us not as Gambian leave the chance and change Ferd away while seeing ships are leaving the cost.
PS:and to some bro or sis know that we are here of talking and fighting for about democracy but on other side are saying to one another not saying what they are thinking. then whats the different between them and yahya?
and iam thanking you personal mr.Janyanfara of your democratically and wisnig.
i hope we will count on eachother as Gambia
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
2085 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2006 : 12:54:27
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Any host nation for the AU would be bigging up the AU Summit being held on its soil. Is it not just a case of sour grapes that a lot of negative comments have been expressed because the opposition tried to have the AU cancel the Summit in Gambia.
As for the opinion Kobo sent in isn't there a niche for Gambian civil society,NGO's Youth Organisations etc to educate Gambian people about the functions of financial institutions and the balance of payments?
peace
Sister Omega |
Peace
Sister Omega |
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jambo
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Posted - 10 Jul 2006 : 16:14:45
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i agree with you sister omega, you are right any other nation would have big up AU, read my comments, read Njucks. After reading some of the replies to the comments on Bantaba, why are people ashamed. So there was negative press so what if its true it happens. Any big event gets bad press, but it brought smiles to the locals, business to hotel, airlines made a fortune. i think its more than sour grapes.
In the past 6 weeks gambia has hosted two big international events that have been met with the exception of a few members with silence, moans and regrets.
Roots festival and AU. You might not have wanted them on your soil but they happened people came, stayed, enjoyed and left. money was made.
Surely the situation in Gambia right now has a bigger impact than the AU or roots. There is an election happening which by some accounts is rigged and is a done deal. Lets see what press this event gets.
Mbay is proud of his country and the historical event that happenen there.
Good yaya has done, now thats a different topic.
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jul 2006 : 08:00:10
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Mbay don't you agree that politics is very flexible and the individual has many options to adopt either by conviction (charm), idealism and realism. You chose to be with APRC and its despostic leader who institute terror acts to stay in power at al costs (no matter what, how, and to the extend of disregarding the law and constitution). You are one of those who don't care about "to tell the truth or ecxecute duties without fear and favour", state terrorisms, intinmidations, injustices, lack of transparency and accountability because of your hypocritical ways by not accepting constructive critisms of your fellow Gambians who have the same civic rights like you, who love their country and are more patriotic than you (as they don't condone corruption and enslavement). You cannot defend yourself or deny that in your ways of politics and impression; you are those promoting and selling the ideology of "Gambia belongs to one citizen to dictate and rule and all corrects for Jammeh"
The realism deal critically with the hard facts and realities exposed in good faith as the truth and nothing but the truth which hypocrites like you cannot appreciate but adopted praise singing roles and rubber stamping any policy, word and action. If you believe in GOD and your religion just tell the truth Mbay. The ball is in your court! |
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