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Cornelius
Sweden
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 Posted - 23 Dec 2006 : 23:28:46
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Still in a hurry:
On what grounds is His Excellency the democratically elected Yahya Jammeh the leader that Gambia has now deserved “morally bankrupt ”?
That was a glib statement.
Why all these overstatements of fact and opinion lumped together as the TRUTH of the matter?
Since he ( Jallow) is not talking about a certain stage of pre-Independent Sierra Leone, when the education of “provincials” was at an all-time low, I do not understand what“ the absence of provincial born citizens in any position of significance in his government” in today’s Gambia could mean. Having said that I am trying to understand ( from this distance, and will enlist the help of Jola friend Daniel Jatta of Banjo fame – like my father an auditor and accountant by profession ) to comment on “ the disproportionate prevalence of his fellow Jola tribesmen in most high office positions” (or of Mendes & Mandinkas in president Kabbah’s immediate vicinity in Sierra Leone – for that matter) in the Gambia’s case, given that Jolas of yesterday were a somewhat suppressed and uneducated Christian minority and every Uncle Tom, Dick and Harry’s boy-boy and now because of their many talents in open display on a level playing filed, I should expect – and so should you too – that the Jolas are gradually taking their rightful place with the other ethnic groups in positions of equality of opportunity and possibility of advancement based on ability: president Jammeh is not a Jola, accidentally.
There are people who will criticise Jammeh for the sake/love of criticising, and you will find that at the end of the day, after much verbiage, some of president Jammeh’s critics have not given any concrete ideas of their own , as to how his statecraft should be improved upon.
This is not merely a time about favourite writers, and hypocrisy can be measured by the distance between true intentions and the efforts to attain to that reality. In Islam a hypocrite is called a munafiq.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-51,GGLJ:en&q=a+munafiq%2e
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-51%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=+munafiq.&btnG=Search&meta=
hypocrite:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-51%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=hypocrite&meta=
"It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time."
( President Abraham Lincoln said that.)
"I'll let you be in my dream if you'll let me be in yours."
Bob Dylan, not Dr Martin Luther King, said that
…..isn’t that a very generous statement, some generous give and take. Surely all Gambians ( and even some Iranians) are in president Jammeh’s dream?
( In this Sabbath’s Torah portion, the Almighty uses Joseph to interpret the Pharaoh’s dream – surely this is a lesson to developing nations, whether Niger or Sierra Leone or the Gambia have to be on a constant alert about the food security situation…..
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-51,GGLJ:en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Parashat+Miketz&spell=1
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp
( When I have time I intend to convey the Israeli blueprint for the Twelve tribes and their working together as ONE NATION)
I myself as a Swedish citizen and thereby as a non-Gambian but nevertheless, one who is truly interested in the well-being of all her citizens in that sliver of Africa, I’d like to comment on a few items that on the surface at least, grace Mathew K. Jallow’s ”Hypocrisy & Propaganda” and invite further penetration.
Forgiveness is mostly positive although unlike Archbishop Desmond Tutu who assures us that “God loves your enemies”, we the most directly affected are not about to “forgive” Heil H or Saddam H and as Bob Marley says, “ He who feels it knows.”
Having just read the article through, let me say that since I am neither omniscient nor at base with Gambian political or social psychology, still, as a non-illiterate, I have neither the intention nor the ability of picking out the “meaningless” the “falsehoods” unsubstantiated definitions of “ open tribal and regional politics” etc that Jallow alleges. But I do have some broad sympathy and understanding for what I perceive as the good-natured intentions conveyed by president Jammeh’s good words, which do not sound as if he is inebriated by an excess of what everyone calls the holy Kanilai water, which Lemon Time promises can cure even “my” madness.
President Jammeh has every freedom and RIGHT, as head of state to talk about any dimension of NATION BUILDING, and it is his task to spearhead and lead - that “geographically defined space” called the Gambia - that’s why he was voted into office. In speaking thus, the president does come across as sound and very sensible. I do not equate the words that he has thus spoken with “ talking loud and saying absolutely nothing”: this his speech is impressive and makes absolute sense:
http://statehousenews.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=9
Is this not the speech under review? :
http://www.thepoint.gm/headlines1504.htm
(a) A well-intentioned short ( twenty minutes) policy speech and pep talk to his nation, delivered by a president whose popularity exceeds a 67.2% showing at the last election need not - unnecessarily be faulted for “insincerity” or “hypocrisy” in the same breath with which we recognise the desired intentions ( and effects) of some of its tenets:
Jallow agrees ( with Jammeh) and he assumes, so do we, that nation- building also implies the fusing of the multi-faceted ethnicity into a cohesive national identity working in harmony and even singing like a choir, if need be ( the National Anthem.)
b) We ought not forget the astounding progress that Jammeh and governments have made in the last twelve years, compared with 30 years of – some say lethargy and inertia under Jawara. In this spirit I’d also like to suggest ( freedom of speech) that Singapore is a relevant point of comparison – the BBC’s Zainab Badawi did compare - briefly mentioning Singapore and Sierra Leone as being on a comparatively same level of development in 1962 .When I heard this, my immediate reaction was one of incredulity and disbelief ( in non- religious sense) followed by a strange sadness and nostalgia / like listening to E. T. Mensah’s “ Ghana Guinea Mali – Africa’s strong foundation “ followed by a determination which I hope is also yours to be inspired and follow the stimulus from that comparison and to get to work to catch up and even surpass Mr. Jammeh’s dreams.
Also compare not Sierra Leone - Singapore or Sierra Leone, Singapore, but Ghana -Malaysia :
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-51%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=BBC%3A+GHana+and+Malaysia+and+the+Cocoa+&btnG=Search&meta=
All we have to do is to put our shoulders to the wheel and to work towards attaining that level of development that is Singapore’s – high, high, high, starting with what Mr. Jallow enumerates: “ a high literacy rate, transparency in government, high degree of freedom of the press and civil society, a democratic system supported by laws that demand public accountability and the rule of law.”
All this is easier said than done, and it is most of all, Gambians ( and people like black is beautiful Gambia Bev) that will have to do it.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-51%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=+Yahya+Jammeh+says+let%27s+work+together+to+build+the+Gambia&meta=
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-51,GGLJ:en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=+Yahya+Jammeh+has+a+dream+for+his+country&spell=1
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Aku_pickin
Christmas Island
162 Posts |
Posted - 24 Dec 2006 : 18:07:26
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Then how come Gambia has been ranked 155 out of 177 in the annual Global Human Development Report for the third year in a row. This is nothing to be proud of:
http://www.thepoint.gm/Commerce%20&%20In.HTM.HTM |
Justice must be served as impunity brings more repression and corruption! |
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Aku_pickin
Christmas Island
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Posted - 24 Dec 2006 : 18:07:26
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Then how come Gambia has been ranked 155 out of 177 in the annual Global Human Development Report for the third year in a row. This is nothing to be proud of:
http://www.thepoint.gm/Commerce%20&%20In.HTM.HTM |
Justice must be served as impunity brings more repression and corruption! |
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Cornelius
Sweden
1051 Posts |
Posted - 25 Dec 2006 : 16:45:39
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quote:
Originally posted by Aku_pickin
Then how come Gambia has been ranked 155 out of 177 in the annual Global Human Development Report for the third year in a row. This is nothing to be proud of:
http://www.thepoint.gm/Commerce%20&%20In.HTM.HTM
Bantaba brothers and sisters, this morning when the sad news came in, I just realised how much I love you all, and my son too was weeping……
SOUL BROTHER NUMBER ONE is GONE: and we all MOURN our soul brother who means so much to all of us.
THE ONE WHO SAID, and so said all of us who still say " Say it LOUD: "I'M BLACK AND PROUD!" and ain't no hockey-donkey or monkey, Kraut, Klux or Klan who's got exactly maximum 4 (FOUR ) more "German" ancestors than me, who's going to tell me otherwise, here on an African forum and get away with less than hell fire. Still fully ready, willing, able, and only waiting for one wrong or right move, any move at all. No impunity.
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=German+citizenship+laws&meta=
Indeed Aku Pikin, 155 out of 177 is nothing to be proud of (even though we know that half a loaf is better than no bread) and how do you think that I feel about OUR once war-ravaged Sierra Leone, land of the free & diamonds - the best in the world - BLACK DIAMONDS, gold, bauxite, rutile, iron ore, piassava, arable land & plentiful rainfall with lots of other agricultural produce ( but still importing exorbitantly priced rice) fish by the 1000s of METRIC tons captured within territorial and river waters - mostly exported, untold human and other natural resources, being at the bottom of the Human Development ladder at position 176 out of 177, slightly above Niger, who because of drought and famine are at the very bottom?
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=Sierra+Leone+National+Anthem&meta=
I'd just like to add one more clarification for you and soul brother Karamba, about some of what has clouded and is still clouding our definition of Hypocrite... in this C.E. year:
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2641#comments
About what now appears to the excesses of that man Jammeh’s high handedness - those mysterious disappearances etc whereas the Government’s duty is to ensure the protection of each and every Gambian citizen’s life and limb under the sovereignty of God, I’ll just like to let you know, that I myself am afraid of no man – certainly not of Jammeh and his army and intelligence, so once all this is confirmed, don’t be surprised that in wishing him a happy new year, our one demand is: Peace and happiness for every man, failing which we must mount an unabated critique of such excesses that he commits or has committed until we all get better democratically sanctioned treatment: after all, Jammeh is the president ALL Gambians – and lastly I should like to add that what I will have to say when I take my gloves off, will in no way reflect any connection with best friend Demba Conta who I have talked to once by phone in the Gambia, since he arrived there several months ago, and then we only exchanged pleasantries, I greeted his beloved mother who I have met several times here in Stockholm and a lovely mother she is indeed – just like mine - and we ( Demba & I ) talked a little about Music.
The Gambia is a part of God’s Africa and it is also my responsibility – just as Jonathan Charles of the BBC asked James Brown’s manager about why it is that James Brown was so concerned about equality and Social Justice, I’d say that every black man and woman has that duty to say it loud if and when we can: JUSTICE FOR ALL
http://www.jazzsupreme.com/pharoah.sanders/creator.html
Have a merry Christmas everyone!
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Edited by - Cornelius on 25 Dec 2006 17:09:38 |
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Cornelius
Sweden
1051 Posts |
Posted - 25 Dec 2006 : 16:45:39
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quote:
Originally posted by Aku_pickin
Then how come Gambia has been ranked 155 out of 177 in the annual Global Human Development Report for the third year in a row. This is nothing to be proud of:
http://www.thepoint.gm/Commerce%20&%20In.HTM.HTM
Bantaba brothers and sisters, this morning when the sad news came in, I just realised how much I love you all, and my son too was weeping……
SOUL BROTHER NUMBER ONE is GONE: and we all MOURN our soul brother who means so much to all of us.
THE ONE WHO SAID, and so said all of us who still say " Say it LOUD: "I'M BLACK AND PROUD!" and ain't no hockey-donkey or monkey, Kraut, Klux or Klan who's got exactly maximum 4 (FOUR ) more "German" ancestors than me, who's going to tell me otherwise, here on an African forum and get away with less than hell fire. Still fully ready, willing, able, and only waiting for one wrong or right move, any move at all. No impunity.
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=German+citizenship+laws&meta=
Indeed Aku Pikin, 155 out of 177 is nothing to be proud of (even though we know that half a loaf is better than no bread) and how do you think that I feel about OUR once war-ravaged Sierra Leone, land of the free & diamonds - the best in the world - BLACK DIAMONDS, gold, bauxite, rutile, iron ore, piassava, arable land & plentiful rainfall with lots of other agricultural produce ( but still importing exorbitantly priced rice) fish by the 1000s of METRIC tons captured within territorial and river waters - mostly exported, untold human and other natural resources, being at the bottom of the Human Development ladder at position 176 out of 177, slightly above Niger, who because of drought and famine are at the very bottom?
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=Sierra+Leone+National+Anthem&meta=
I'd just like to add one more clarification for you and soul brother Karamba, about some of what has clouded and is still clouding our definition of Hypocrite... in this C.E. year:
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2641#comments
About what now appears to the excesses of that man Jammeh’s high handedness - those mysterious disappearances etc whereas the Government’s duty is to ensure the protection of each and every Gambian citizen’s life and limb under the sovereignty of God, I’ll just like to let you know, that I myself am afraid of no man – certainly not of Jammeh and his army and intelligence, so once all this is confirmed, don’t be surprised that in wishing him a happy new year, our one demand is: Peace and happiness for every man, failing which we must mount an unabated critique of such excesses that he commits or has committed until we all get better democratically sanctioned treatment: after all, Jammeh is the president ALL Gambians – and lastly I should like to add that what I will have to say when I take my gloves off, will in no way reflect any connection with best friend Demba Conta who I have talked to once by phone in the Gambia, since he arrived there several months ago, and then we only exchanged pleasantries, I greeted his beloved mother who I have met several times here in Stockholm and a lovely mother she is indeed – just like mine - and we ( Demba & I ) talked a little about Music.
The Gambia is a part of God’s Africa and it is also my responsibility – just as Jonathan Charles of the BBC asked James Brown’s manager about why it is that James Brown was so concerned about equality and Social Justice, I’d say that every black man and woman has that duty to say it loud if and when we can: JUSTICE FOR ALL
http://www.jazzsupreme.com/pharoah.sanders/creator.html
Have a merry Christmas everyone!
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