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somita
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 06 Jan 2006 : 16:14:43
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I'm I the only person impatient with NADD leadership regarding choosing flag bearer. As each day roll pass, I cannot help it but use my precious time to browse all websites with the hope of hearing the flag bearer's name.
Like many Gambians, I expected difficulties, huddles, but with the memorandum of understanding in place, I expected a matured political debate, devoid of personal politics and centre on national interest. We must remember the job at hand is not to remove Jammeh and creat another tyrant rather the objective is to creating "a people concious political environment, a leadership accountable to its people and a responsible soceity". This objectives will not come by accident, we have to make the right choice to attain them.
I'm not sure i a higly secretive, behind close doors meetings has any place in open, democratic society particularly when no updates are available to the public. I have every right to be pessimistic considering the very little information available in public domain from NADD. Are we concious of the fact that we might be creating a 'Kibaky style' in Gambia, where memorandum becomes toilet paper after election. It seems to me we are all getting carried away and not asking the right question?
I want to step away from status quo, King Jr remarked "Our lives begin to end the day that we become silent about things that matter". I asked the question, how democratic is NADD leadership, when will the ordinary folks going to be asked about our choice? Will ordinary folks ever have a say on who represents them.
I'm seriously concern about NADD operational apparatus, clearly they are not very open, whether this level of 'secretivity' can yield an open democratic government is very questionable. Keep the peace
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