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 Posted - 15 Sep 2006 : 18:36:00
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AMIE SILLAH IGNITES BASSE WOMEN
Fabakary B. Ceesay
The women of Basse have unanimously called on the NADD Executive to allow Amie Sillah, to mount the podium at a mass rally at Basse Manneh kunda.
These Basse women, claim that they have been hearing Amie Sillah, speak on radio and advocating for women’s rights and equality; that because of this, they want to know and see her. Addressing them, Amie Sillah told the Basse women, that President Jammeh and his APRC party has no programme for Gambian women. She told them that the APRC Government is using women against their husbands and in turn using the women as a political tool. She pointed out that, Jammeh has organized a wrestling contest between women and men at kanilai and told the women to divorced their husbands and that he Jammeh will provide them with husbands. She also said that, Jammeh gathered the women to work for him at his farm for his personal interest only.
She noted that, Gambian women have no market to sell their vegetables, while Jammeh’s farm produce as sold at hotels with huge interest. “If Jammeh loves Gambian women, he will not have married a foreigner. We have beautiful and hard working women in this country,” she said. At this juncture, there was a big applause and some women started to chant and dance praises to her.
She told the Basse women that NADD has high regard for the women who can also assume the presidency under a NADD flag. She reminded them that, Duta Kamaso; a woman parliamentarian was put in custody for more than two months now without being charged. She finally told the women that she sympathized them for the lost of their sons, who tried to reached Europe just to support their mothers. She told them to vote Jammeh out and vote in NADD, which she said shall reconcile Gambian women and their husbands for the good future of the country.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 78/2006, 15-17 September, 2006
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