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kobo
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 Posted - 04 May 2013 : 17:08:57
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Originally posted by sankalanka
"Nyari, I will come to this point and your closing statements next. I am off to work right now.
These are the facts, Rene and your ideological spinning is doing nothing to change them for they are incontrovertible. The constitution was not voted on the basis of its merits but for some extraneous reasons which the Junta backed Yes Campaign thought were more important than anything else and now we have one of its leaders, Halifa Ababacarr Sallah, blaming all but himself for the trouble the flaws of the constitution have brought to bear on the governance situation in the country. This is despicable!!!
Most of your forwards and comments here are irrelevant to the subject of this discussion and I have decided to ignore them. I know you only do that just to try to confuse the readership hence, my reason for laying out the facts in a more succinct way.
While you cling on Halifa's wishful and rudimentary ideology, I will continue to concern myself with facts.
Thanks
1. SANKALANKA!WHERE ARE YOU TO FINISH CHEEKY "SOUNDS LIKE A TONGUE ON THE CHEEK" DUDE AND "LEARNED FRIEND MY LORD"  
2.WHEN GAINAKO PUBLISH THE LETTER TO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, IT'S OBSERVED THAT EDITOR MADE A RIDICULOUS COMMENT AND HOPEFULLY DEMBA (DBALDEH) CAN HELP EXPLAIN THIS QUOTE AND WAS IT NECESSARY OR RELEVANT IN A PRESS RELEASE; ACCORDING TO ETHICS OF JOURNALISM
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SOURCE INFORMATION HERE: GAINAKO "Editor’s note:
With all due respect to Halifa, the question to Jammeh should be when does his administration NOT violate the constitution?"
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sankalanka
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Posted - 05 May 2013 : 07:40:15
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"Sine that was not going to happen, he (halifa) should have recused himself from leading the 'yes' campaign as matter of morality and political ethics especially given that a 'No' campaign is completely and utterly outlawed."
My question is: why do you want to control the activities of a fellow citizen even when you do not share the same predisposition? Why would you want Halifa to recused himself from carrying out his sovereign and civic responsibilities? The fact that you are making these claims tells us more about you than Halifa.
"The fact that he hasn't done this is morally reprehensible and that also means he has no moral standing whatsoever, to advise govt about the lapses or lacunas exhibited by the constitution much to the expense of good governance because his fingerprints are all over them."
Nyari, you are the one who can be accused of having no moral standing to question Halifa. Why? Because out of more than one million citizens of the Gambia, you Mr. Daffeh, out of utmost respect, confidence and acknowledging the intellectual competence and superiority of Halifa Sallah, deposed that he was the only person who could have made the Junta to rescind the ban on political parties.
And if you can turn around and accused the same person whom you have placed on a high pedestal of being morally reprehensible because he couldn't do something that you wanted him to do, the question of morality could impinged your conscience more than it does that of Halifa's. There is no factual basis for you to say all the things that you are saying.
"The constitution was not voted on the basis of its merits but for some extraneous reasons which the Junta backed Yes Campaign thought were more important than anything else and now we have one of its leaders, Halifa Ababacarr Sallah, blaming all but himself for the trouble the flaws of the constitution have brought to bear on the governance situation in the country. This is despicable!!!"
And for you to say that the draft constitution was not voted on the basis of merit but on some "extraneous" circumstance is insulting to all those who put so much energy in that exercise.
In essence you are saying that the National Consultative committee, the Constitutional Review Council, and all the suggestions and proposals that had been gathered to form the core of the draft constitution should not have been taken seriously, because you believe that most of the things in the draft were IRRELEVANT.
In trying to castigate Halifa, you have succeeded to insult all the people who sat in those committees, and all the people who voted for the draft constitution that the whole exercise was worthless. This is what you are saying.
"These are the facts, Rene and your ideological spinning is doing nothing to change them for they are incontrovertible."
You and your incontrovertible facts. How convenient.
"Most of your forwards and comments here are irrelevant to the subject of this discussion and I have decided to ignore them."
It doesn't surprise me for it neither serves your purpose or intentions.
"I know you only do that just to try to confuse the readership hence, my reason for laying out the facts in a more succinct way." Well done!
"While you cling on Halifa's wishful and rudimentary ideology, I will continue to concern myself with facts."
Halifa's rudimentary ideology! Nyari, are you just writing stuff just for the sake of saying nothing. What is Halifa's ideology? I dare you to come back and define his ideology for us. Since it is rudimentary it wouldn't be difficult for you to take up this challenge. I will be waiting.
It is a mark of intellectual dishonesty for someone who has not written anything of qualitative substance on the political, economic and social conditions of the Gambian reality, to ridicule someone else who has written a lot with substantive quality on the political, economic and social conditions of the Gambian reality.
And to make matters worse, you have never identified any aspect of Halifa's political ideology that you are in disagreement with or critical of, let alone give a thorough analysis of its ideological shortcomings. |
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2013 : 09:19:28
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DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IN BANJUL
SOURCE: FOROYAA NEWS: EDITORIAL EDITORIAL PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY 07 MAY, 2013
"THE APRC CONCEDES TO THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE Prior to the Local Government Polls many APRC members who were accused of supporting the Independent Candidate were expelled from the party.
The campaigners of the APRC candidate told the voters that the President will not work with an Independent candidate. The polls were held and the Independent candidate won. The public was informed that the APRC would hold a victory celebration in Banjul.
To the surprise of many the elected Mayor of Banjul was on National TV to talk about the victory celebration. Instead of being marginalized, he was increasingly pushed into the forefront of events. Amidst fanfare and pomp, the voters of Banjul gathered at the July 22nd Square with the Independent Candidate celebrating his victory along with the APRC Councillors. It was difficult to distinguish who deserved to celebrate.
The festive mood and the dishing out of packets and Dalasi bills finally culminated in the transformation of the victory celebration into a reconciliation ceremony with the elected Mayor and the unseated Mayor holding hands with the president amidst the jubilation of the crowd. All said and done, the only victor was the people who expressed their will without allowing themselves to be cowered by intimidation or their sovereign will to be corrupted by inducement.
Finally, the President has publicly acknowledged the sovereign will of the people. Power belongs to the people and no leader could go against the will of the people and remain a leader. When the combined voices of the people speak, leaders must listen. This is the verdict of history and it is irrevocable. After the festive mood, the people of Banjul went back to their neighbourhoods to come face to face with the realities of Banjul.
Where do we go from here? That is the real question." |
Edited by - kobo on 08 May 2013 10:02:45 |
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