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salimina
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 Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 20:51:44
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| yeah, but through our discussions i understand that you live abroad. am just being inquisitive. |
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salimina
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 20:54:07
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| i know a kondorong can only be a gambian(laughter) |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 21:13:52
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Originally posted by salimina
i know a kondorong can only be a gambian(laughter)
It could be Senegalese or malian. Honestly i have only been away from Gambia during my student days. The roost always comes home. Some are not meant to be overseas and i am among those. Just like Morgan Freeman said in one of his movies about an escaped prisoner who was an accountant by profession, " .. that some birds are not meant to be caged...", that not all of us should leave home. Its a sacrifice that few will choose but that is what makes life spicy. When you talk about emancipation in Africa only few names come up. These thing can be said of African Americans. Just a handful will emerge short enough to be compressed into two paragraphs.
We need you brother Salimina at home.
I will leave you with this Jamaican musician when he said:
" come home, come home, come home;
we wanna come home to africa come home,.."
May be Sister Omega will remember the name. |
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salimina
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 21:25:16
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Bro kon, i will be back one day. am on a mission and i have to complete it.I meant f0r that impoverished country and i know i can make a difference if given a chance.
But if my memory serves me well, i think through our discussions you have stated that you live in the states( HALIFA once stayed in your apartment whilst on tour). Is possible that you ve completed your mission if am right. Just pray for me i will join with you in not so distance future. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 21:27:39
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| Yeah i have completed and busy on the ground. I am learning the ropes for now. I dont think i am competent yet. May be in ten years. Be sure to see me in 2021 all being well and God sparing our lives as Mr Carr the Principal of Gambia High used to say to us. I will have learnt politics and hopefully supporting the candidature of some new brand of politicians and many current candidates would have all been disqualified due to age limit. |
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salimina
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 21:37:26
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| kon i admired your strength and i hope one day we will meet and further our causes for the betterment of our beloved country. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 21:44:03
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kon i admired your strength and i hope one day we will meet and further our causes for the betterment of our beloved country.
WE WILL MEET AT THE TABLE OF BROTHERHOOD AND DRINK FROM THE WISDOM OF PASSED GENERATIONS WHO HELPED SHAPE THIS COUNTRY. THE LIKES OF EDWARD FRANCIS SMALL WHO STOOD FOR REPRESENTAION IN THE GAMBIA. HE CHALLENGED THE BRITISH THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT PAY TAXES IF THEY CANNOT HAVE REPRESENTATION JUST LIKE BAI BUREH OF SIERRA LEONE WHO ALSO FOUGHT AGAINST THE HUT TAX.
OOPS. ALSO AT THE TABLE OF SISTERHOOD. ONE HAS TO BE GENDER SENSITIVE. THEN AGAIN I AM NOT SURE IF YOU ARE A HE OR A SHE |
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salimina
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 21:49:29
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| Kon, i will chat to you tomorrow when the dust is settled down and the new chapter unveiled. Thanks and good night. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 22 Sep 2006 : 22:35:01
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| good night guys. i will share with you the results tomorrow. May there be peace in the Gambia |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23 Sep 2006 : 01:39:41
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| Why sudden break Kondorong? You have not done justice to Bantaba pre-elections in the interest of TRANSPARENCY. Ypu were lurking behind for WHAT? Don't know your true colours pre-election debates? By the way HAPPY NEW ERA and EXPLOIT THE OPPORTUNITIES! |
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Dalton1
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Posted - 23 Sep 2006 : 02:00:31
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Sir Kobo,
i suspect he was actively on campaign, and he did say that here before. If so, his time on the ground is really appreciated. But we expect to hear more from him, not just the few lines he came back with-
-violence & tensions
-Constitutional violations
-what the people said
-what next for the Gambia ???
That's what i will honestly expect he will put online for us. |
"There is no god but Allah (SWT); and Muhammad (SAW)is His last messenger." shahadah. Fear & Worship Allah (SWT) Alone! (:
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jambo
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Posted - 23 Sep 2006 : 20:02:49
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Kobo, Dalton1 Kons and other Gambians, 3rd terms for aprc, what now for the country  |
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 23 Sep 2006 : 20:54:39
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| Development and unity with no nonsense.Boy Jilanka is ready and this time as all Gambia voted for him collectively,I am sure this comming years will be bright. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 25 Sep 2006 : 18:45:18
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Kobo, Dalton1 Kons and other Gambians, 3rd terms for aprc, what now for the country
I will come to this issue before the end of the week. I am just waiting for response from NADD quarters, which is hopefully due today or tomorrow.
My belief is that the Gambian people have spoken and chosen APRC as their party. I sincerely respect that and i believe we should all be ready to work with them for the betterment of our country. Take it or leave it, they were better organized and focused on the ballot box.
As to human rights records, well the Gambian majority is the judge and since they chose to give them the other cheek, who are we to say otherwise. He who feels it knows it.
I am a democrat who goes by the will of the majority and since they have spoken, they must be respected. I am not interested in what the international observers say. I am only listening to Gambians period. We do not need outsiders to borrow our watches and tell us the time. We have to be competent to run the affairs of our nation or call it quits. What can Abubakarr Salami tell us about elections? Nigeria is no better than the Gambia and in fact having spent the most part of their post independence life under military rule, they are the least qualified to talk about democratic rule nor can they show us the way. Recently we nearly saw the hijacking of their constitution for a third presidential term.
Voter apathy is not the responsibility of the APRC. Every Gambian of voting age is, under the constitution, considered matured enough to decide for themselves and vote at approved elections. They have the right to vote at any such elections, but they also have right to not vote and that should be respected. However, people don’t have to be coaxed to vote or be given candies or transport fares. Any one who expects so does not see his duty to vote as important. Yet we must not give up on them. Democracy is about patience and education. Political education and awareness should still continue.
Perhaps, those who failed to vote never saw any candidate that impressed them be it APRC, NADD or UDP Alliance. What this tells me is that the country is looking for a fresh breed of politicians. If almost 41% of registered voters did not vote, then we have a big problem and civic education should once again be revived. I don’t believe the rain is a factor. We go to our farms during the rains, go to work, or at least found way around the rains to keeping life going on. If the rain is so important that it affected the turnout, then it just tells me that we never valued the national pride to participate in our civic duties. Voting is in fact the most sacred duty of a citizen because everything else flows from organized and representative government. At least in a democracy.
Gambians have chosen how they will be governed for the next five years and any change must be through a democratic process and controlled by the Gambian people. Anything short of that will amount to hijacking of our sovereignty and independence. The internal capacity must be improved to enable us control any change process. That can only happen if both the technical hardware and human software are synchronized to give way to a matured, educated and determined populace ready to take their destinies in their own hands and for the betterment of the its masses.
What we need is to work with the Government for the next five years to improve its human rights records and be tolerant to divergent views. After all, we are all Gambians and rightly so must not be denied our civic duties to make elected leaders accountable to the people. Right now, Yaya is not the President of the APRC but the whole of the Gambia.
I am of the conviction that to be able to influence change, one has to do that from within and not from the outside. Which means the opposition must cease to be active only during elections and then not seen at any national events. There are of course times when they are not invited, but they must not let the APRC steal all the limelight for the next five years and then want to be heard. Out of sight is out of mind.
My other observation is that whilst there were alleged complaints from the opposition that non-nationals did vote, I am not sure how much that has influenced the outcome of the elections. It may have had impact in Foni or the kombos but certainly not in Jarra, Wuli, Sandu, Kantora, Sami, Niani, Upper and Lower Saloum, Nuimi, Fulladu East or West Jokadu and so on unless if they were dispersed across the country. I will leave that to competent persons to determine that.
Like I said many times, national pride is very low and people must be encouraged to take civic duties as sacred. That is a responsibility for both the opposition and the government.
My congratulations to the APRC for the victory and hope they will understand that those who may not share similar political ideas are not necessarily enemies but partners in the search for alternative means to provide descent standard of living to all Gambians within a conducive environment for growth, and peace. They should extend invitation to the other parties to participate in this sacred cause we have set for ourselves since 1965 hitherto championed by the likes of Edward Francis Small
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 Sep 2006 : 19:05:56
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Thanks Kondorong for your interventions. I sincerely respect your views for PEACE AND PROGRESS and do hope that all parties concern LISTENS!
HAPPY NEW ERA! |
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