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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 17:11:10
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It is alarming the scale of corruption in Africa especially West Africa. This part of Africa is the poorest and the most unstable maybe only second to central Africa in terms of both corruption and instability. The Gambia's neighbour Senegal one of the 'best' democracies in Africa is gradually sinking under the leadership of the super intellectual Wade. Problems ranging from credit buying of peanuts to the increase in butane gas(use for almost all domestic cooking) etc. Now corruption has hit the chart of its problems. Few days ago Wade was quizzed on the issue of corruption, he simply replied ITS EVERY WHERE to the surprise and anger of many senegalese. The Senegalse situation is quite interesting, Senegal has one of the highest literacy rates and an enviable level of highly trained and educated human resources. This is noted in the number of Senegalese holding high positions in international organisations. What i find intriguing is how on earth could such a democratic country with all its instrunments allow such a malaise to take such deep roots? While comtemplating about this, i stumbled on the issue of Guinea under Lassana Conteh who is presently on his dead bed but Willy-nilly cling on to power.
The article in the following link compares corruption in Guinea as in Senegalhttp://www.seneweb.com/news/article/7857.php
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 19:38:44
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Did you not here the west african saying: WHERE YOU TIE THE COW, NA DEY HE GO EAT. |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
1275 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 21:18:28
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Originally posted by kondorong
Did you not here the west african saying: WHERE YOU TIE THE COW, NA DEY HE GO EAT.
IT IS DAT ONE SERAHULEH ONE? WAS DAT UR PRINCIPLE IN KONO SALONE? |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 21:25:13
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| I should like to have read the piece about Guinea in the link provided by madibar but its in french,so I couldnt,ah well, I can imagine what it said! |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 21:37:55
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quote:
Originally posted by MADIBA
quote:
Originally posted by kondorong
Did you not here the west african saying: WHERE YOU TIE THE COW, NA DEY HE GO EAT.
IT IS DAT ONE SERAHULEH ONE? WAS DAT UR PRINCIPLE IN KONO SALONE?
Well not mine but atleast its an accepted principle in many countries. Even local vernacular has such sayings.
The Fulani too also do the same with their RITI. The RITI player enjoys all the music by putting his ears close to the instrument. |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
1275 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jan 2007 : 18:41:06
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Originally posted by toubab1020
I should like to have read the piece about Guinea in the link provided by madibar but its in french,so I couldnt,ah well, I can imagine what it said!
toubab 1020, i will attempt to translate the exercpt, though excuse my rusty French
Translation:
CORRUPTION IN SENEGAL: Like in Guinea!
Yesterday in Guinea Conakry, a large demonstration as been orgainsed against corruption and agianst the authoritarian rule of President Lanssana Conteh. Opposition parties and trade unions have played their part in saying no to the moribund(dying) president who defied everybody and everything to free a friend who was involved in corruption 'up to the neck', the guy was involved in a big financial scam. The local press gave it a wide publicity.
Where we live(senegal) the corrupting and the corrupted are a team. The President(senegalese) is aware of it but the press coverage of it does not match the size of it( meaning the senegalese press is not blowing the whistle enough as their Guinean counter parts have done).....................
I hope this helps |
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Cornelius
Sweden
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Posted - 13 Jan 2007 : 18:31:43
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The all-pervasive cruel corruption that bedevils our collective progress and enslaves our collective progress by mortgaging it in the criminals’ accounts in foreign banks, will always be there to spoil things until the human conscience, armed by the law, and a strict and fearless interpretation of Justice, takes away their power of impunity. Who is there setting the bright example apart from a few, like Mo Ibrahim offering some of his carrots?
The rest of your pertinent observations need the attention of the Senegalese government and all those super human brain resources that you refer to as manning so many international organisations, and this goes back to the Senghor period and the period when Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal was head of UNESCO. The effect of his tenure of office on Africa is similar to Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s tenure of office as minister of education in Nigeria – as a result of his introducing universal free primary education – the base and basis of all further education – there was the awakening of Nigeria,”the sleeping lion” and this upsurge in education, among the Yorubas for example who – like my Yoruba uncle John Jeffrey Coker of Ikoyi, Lagos, excelled in law....etc etc.
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Amadou+Mahtar+M%27Bow+&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
The tenure of office of the Senegalese (and Sierra Leoneans such as Dr. Kandeh Yumkella who is
Director General of UNIDO) should impact directly on their mother countries with whose blessings they attained their higher status anyway – (to work for the UN you are nominated or seconded by your home government) – it is not enough that Africans perhaps become more self-confident by pointing at the Kofi Annans, the Davidson Nicols , the Yumkellas and the M’Bows or Muhammad Ali – who also personally did a lot for his people with his name, his fame and his wealth - by such success, all Africans have to be raised - that’s my opinion, even as I read from the rabbinical commentary to Shemos, today’s Torah portion and REAL Jewish ancestry goes back to the twelve tribes –
” the twelve stars are compared to stars because they correspond to the twelve constellations, in that both the tribes and the constellations are composed of many individual units that complement one another. Just as the combination of stars forms the constellation, so too the combination of tribes creates the nation” ...
And as for people who are living in another country
,” as long as they are conscious of their true roots, they are only in geographic, but not spiritual exile.”
If Africans recognised such God-given truths, then what we lament as the strain of brain-drain (more Nigerian Doctors in Chicago than in the whole Nigerian Federation, more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than in the whole of Ethiopia) would not be the reality of our nightmare, Sierra Leone has 168 doctors and five dentists in the whole country of 5 million people, Algeria has some 39,000 doctors in Algeria. You would never believe the number of Egyptian and Sudanese doctors and scientists who are out of their countries, living a greater life of research success and some in luxury and undreamt of ease..... but there are personal home remittances and that too is part of the story of those who flee the kinds of oppression which cause lack of progress) - Moses himself remained the son of Amram and Jochebed when he fled Egypt to the land of Midian somewhere between the age of 12 and 20 and returned at the age of 80 (eighty) ……….
I fail to understand why “the increase in butane gas (use for almost all domestic cooking)” should be included in the category of problems facing Senegal, and would like more enlightenment about that problem. We could of course import coal from Enugu.....
"the increase in butane gas (use for almost all domestic cooking)" must surely be to counter the very serious problem of deforestation and the fact that the Sahara desert is moving so many kilometres every year - Southwards (desertification) even faster than Islam - to counter which (the desert movement) trees have to be planted (ask Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Lady who won the Noble Prize) and not only that, the chopping down of trees for firewood has to stop and a new tradition introduced in all Sahel countries. More power to the Green Belt. Movement. 75% of Sierra Leone’s timbre has been chopped down by unscrupulous loggers.
Reciprocity consists in replacing that which is taken……
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Wangari+Maathai&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
In Nigeria, we used butane gas which came in affordable containers (if most of the gas wasn't being flared in Nigeria, since oil was discovered, Nigeria could be able to supply very cheap gas to all West Africa. As things are now, it's still being flared. Tens of millions of dollars gas is flared every day of the week, in Nigeria - I've seen it with my own eyes and it’s still going on without any interruption, day and night.
Since West Africa has been blessed with so much Sunshine, it’s time that SOLAR ENERGY replaced dirty fuels and even nuclear energy…
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Solar+energy+for+Africa&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
As for me, I’m still planting as many trees as I can, in the Negev desert. It’s a feasible project and I believe in it. You could do the same.
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Tree+planting+%28+Israel%29&meta=
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Edited by - Cornelius on 13 Jan 2007 18:42:49 |
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Cornelius
Sweden
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Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 15:08:06
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One good piece of news to come out of all this is that Muhammad Buhari who along with his partner Tunde Idiagbon initiated the WAI ( War Agaisnt Indiscipline) has a clean record and a clean name:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6338017.stm |
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