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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 21 Sep 2007 : 19:28:53
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Kon, I agree but he could have just drove-pass us like the other ministers would do. School bus service, being a residue of Jawara's legacy, was avalaible at the time but we could not catch them because we used to stay at the library till 5PM. If we were to catch a bus, then we would have to wait till 6pm when the afternoon shift buses would depart for the Kombos.
Like I said above, I only meant to balance things here. Nothing more.
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I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 00:11:37
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I was expecting that you would say that he could have chosen to pass by without giving a lift. That does not solve the problem either and would be equally culpable like his peers who pass by. I have also stood at BPMRU waiting for lifts when i close from the library in the evenings.
We did not appoint them to give us lifts but to design policies and programmes to enhance our well being.
Dont get me wrong. I have nothing personal about any of them. I am more concerned with policy administration. Whilst i commend for the gesture, i am equally harsh on them for picking and choosing whom they will shower virtue. |
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shaka
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Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 02:00:56
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| Much as i hate to say this but Edward can easily ellude the justice we so much yearned for. From my point of view there are only two crimes that would qualify as genocide in an international tribunal since the emergence of the AFPRC/APRC government in 1994. TThese are the student massacre and the Ghanian migrants massacre. Edward Singhateh so far has not been implicated in these crime. The November 11 coup massacre of our noble soldiers in the Army and other crimes alledged to have been commited by "butcher" Singhateh have had their replica and even worse in the sub-region and accross the globe and their perpetrators are yet to be banged up in The Hague.I can site can cite former military rulers like Rawlins, Obasanjo, Babangida, Ould Taya, Valentine Strasser, Blaise Campaore and the list goes on and on. Some of these characters are still enjoying their loot and proceeds of crime right in front of our eyes and laughing in our face. To say that Singhateh(a british citizen fot that matter) cannot join this list of "butchers" in their merriment is unfortunately wishful thinking. If he leave Gambian jurisdiction any time soon, he is a free man. The only people who can try Singhateh is the gambian people according to gambian law. Unfortunately the very people at the helms of power in the Gambia are his partners in crime. Prosecuting Singhateh will open all sorts of cans of worms which this regime regretably cannot afford. In these times of paranoia within the regime the last thing they will do is to test the loyalty of the state security aparatus by prosecuting Singhateh on any of his alledge crime. SO in my humble opinion Singhateh is a free man. Cry Gambia!!! |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 13:19:09
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Originally posted by Nyarikangbanna
As the saying goes ' give the devil his due'. In that respect I would like to say he used to give us lift in his official car when I was at Gambia High School.
This is just to balance things here. It doesn't mean anything.
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Nyaring! Am very impressed with your potentials and vibrant contributions. I can't believe that you are a very young person and even younger than the kids that are in power (HEAD OF STATE, EDWARD & CO.).  
Hope that you maintaiin that balance as a grown-up |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 17:49:39
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This is culled from 'TheGambiajournal'
Edaward Singhateh Detained By The Gambia Journal
Sep 22, 2007, 17:39
Banjul,September 21st The Gambia Journal
Another unconfirmed report say the recently dismissed Secretary of State for Forestry and the Environment, Mr. Edward Singhateh has been arrested and detained. The yet to be confirmed report did not say when and why Mr. Singhateh was arrested. He was the only remaining one of the three men who together formed the post-coup military junta that ruled The Gambia between 1994 to 1996.
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dbaldeh
USA
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Posted - 23 Sep 2007 : 00:49:09
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Originally posted by jambo
congrats to a new life, dbaldeh health, happiness, wealth and long life to the new addition, do we have a name yet.
Jambo, the new baby's name is Haddy Jatou Baldeh named after my wife's grand mother Haddy Jatou Joof, kuntaur Ndow Kunda. She was the wife of late Seefoo Dodou Ndow.
Unfortunately, she passed few months ago so we are honored to remember her legacy by naming the new baby after her. She died at age 89 if you can believe it.
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Baldeh
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ylowe
USA
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Posted - 23 Sep 2007 : 03:42:13
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Originally posted by dbaldeh
Jambo, the new baby's name is Haddy Jatou Baldeh named after my wife's grand mother Haddy Jatou Joof, kuntaur Ndow Kunda. She was the wife of late Seefoo Dodou Ndow.
Unfortunately, she passed few months ago so we are honored to remember her legacy by naming the new baby after her. She died at age 89 if you can believe it.
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Baldeh
dbaldeh, i might be related to your wife cause am related to the ndows in kuntaur. i once visited Kuntaur in the eighties. i also remeber meeeting a lady from seattle visiting Alaska about a year ago might be your wife. |
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dbaldeh
USA
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Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 07:37:30
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dbaldeh, i might be related to your wife cause am related to the ndows in kuntaur. i once visited Kuntaur in the eighties. i also remeber meeeting a lady from seattle visiting Alaska about a year ago might be your wife.
Ylowe, anything is possible. Gambia is certainly a very small country and our people are pretty close.
We have some relatives living in Alaska and we visit them once in a while. It is possible that you met my wife over there last year at a weeding...
Many people from Seattle also visits Alaska so I can't say for certain it was her. Feel free to contact us if you so desire.
Back to the topic of discussion. Any clear news on the rumors that Edward has been arrested? There are conflicting information and the journalist can't seems to get some info from the ground.
Something certainly must have transpired. I would speculate it is either a dangerous fall out with Jammeh or a secret deal between the devils.
I just can't make a lot of sense Edu enroling at a Gambian university knowing the kind of security threat he faces. It might be all part of the plot. Time will tell...
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Santanfara
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kayjatta
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Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 22:06:05
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Lt. Col. Samsudeen Sarr (Rtd.) needs to stop portraying himself as an innocent by-stander in the post-July 22nd scheme of things. I do appreciate the revealations in his recent book , but this guy is part and percel of the military that oppressed Gambian people for a long time. He held several important posts in the military setup and is remembered parading the Farafenni attackers(many of whom were tortured to death) on tv. He has been comfortably keeping quiet until he was fired from previledge. Am I missing something here?
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shaka
996 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 22:39:13
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| If any one can make a good story by trying to fix pieces like a jigsaw puzzle from a web of rumour mills then Samsudeen Sarr is an expert. Even though he at time use squares were a rectangular figues make a perfect match and triangles were circles are the answer. Reading from variuos excerpt from his book and material he shared online i can only see a fantasist and conspiracy theorist not an eyewitness account or the truth of what really occured from july 1994 to date. The first impression that strikes you about Sam's stories is that he is never anywhere when it matters. For some reasons he is always in the background somewhere or pearched up in a tree like a crow watching from a safe distance as the scenery unfold on the ground. Yet still he is selling us an eyewitness account of the story. It is allways somebody said this to me and somebody said that to me and if you ask Sam have you got the permission of these persons to transmit their accounts and opinion into a book he will scratching his head. And still we are buying an eyewitness account. If want my opinion, Sam's book is just a lazy attempt to document an account by pretending to think and speak for the actors without their permission to make a quick buck they (the actors) will never benefit from. It is simply a con job and idle fantasism. Reading from his material i came to find out that it was devoid of any painstaking research that any such eyewitness material will require. Such a material wuold have have required the permission and well researched account of the actors as well as their acknowledgement. Hence you will find dates, names and accounts that never fit the jigsaw all over Sam,s book. Even shrinks who claim to master the ways of the human mind have no permission to speak on behalf of any human. I know there is a desperate craving for gambian litterature by Gambians and friends of the Gambia but don't insult our intelligence by thinking you can flog any junk to "unsuspecting dim wits" like us, especially when it comes to sensitive matterial that tend flare up social and security tensions in our midst. The real actors of "july 22 1994 to date" are still out there sitting real tight on their account and even when some them do eventually speak we don't even get half the story. Just take a look at eyewitness accounts on the internet about how the late lieutenant Dot Faal and other others were alleged to have been murdered by Singhateh and co and seen how much they vary. From Sam Sarr, Binneh Minteh and others, none of them seem to tally with the other even though it is the same scenario. Why should the Gambian people be reduced to feeding on rumours when we know the truth is out there? Will these soldiers and ex-soldiers ever tell us the truth about what really transpired "from july 22 to date". Yet still we are desperately waiting for the day we will prosecute and hang Singhateh and co. On what rumours? God help us. |
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Santanfara
3460 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 23:48:10
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this may interest you .peter singhateh also removed from his commanding position .hmmmmmm .culled from gambiajournal
http://www.thegambiajournal.com/artman/publish/article_1323.shtml .where is brother karamba ? as yahya taken him over ? |
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shaka
996 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 00:18:02
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| there is an interesting article on the Edward Singhateh saga by Musa Saidykhan of HANA newspaper in Allafrica.com. Maybe someone can cull it from there(i am a dumdum when it come to these "tricky" computer stuff), then maybe we can start shaping the Singhateh character. |
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ylowe
USA
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Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 02:05:36
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Originally posted by dbaldeh
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dbaldeh, i might be related to your wife cause am related to the ndows in kuntaur. i once visited Kuntaur in the eighties. i also remeber meeeting a lady from seattle visiting Alaska about a year ago might be your wife.
Ylowe, anything is possible. Gambia is certainly a very small country and our people are pretty close.
We have some relatives living in Alaska and we visit them once in a while. It is possible that you met my wife over there last year at a weeding...
Many people from Seattle also visits Alaska so I can't say for certain it was her. Feel free to contact us if you so desire.
Back to the topic of discussion. Any clear news on the rumors that Edward has been arrested? There are conflicting information and the journalist can't seems to get some info from the ground.
Something certainly must have transpired. I would speculate it is either a dangerous fall out with Jammeh or a secret deal between the devils.
I just can't make a lot of sense Edu enroling at a Gambian university knowing the kind of security threat he faces. It might be all part of the plot. Time will tell...
One of my grandmothers was Kendaka Ndow of Kuntaur and does Fatou Ndow ring a bell. You are right it was during the wedding. Thanks and bye |
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jambo
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Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 10:52:34
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| stupid question , with so many people in the top hierarcy having blood on their hands, how have they managed to stay in power, he could have got rid of them long ago, who will be next the VP. |
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