We need to check the Adams Barrow Foundation for Inclusive Development and the Fatou Bah Barrow Foundation. What are they made of? Something is not adding up.
Good intentions they may be. But even the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And Shaitan is also a professional.
And yes, we, people and institutions, must exemplify the qualities and characteristics of the name we go by: New Gambia. Anything different would be cheating or deceit or make belief or smokescreen.
“Lu whye di wuyour defko nuuroo” Thione Secka
And lest I forget, no law is broken by establishing foundations, so long as due processes are followed in their establishment. The establishment of Jammeh Foundation for Peace and Save the Children Foundation were legit too.
If we look beyond the law, the scales may fall off our eyes.
Once upon a time, in July 1994, a nondescript army lieutenant came on the political scene of The Gambia. With sanctimonious platitudes, sonorous phrases and highfalutin statements, he mesmerized a “tired” masses who lined the streets when he passed by.
He knew the people, their psyche and what songs they love to hear. He won their trust and they thought he meant well. They heaped praises on him and sacrifices lambs for his longevity…… With time the village champion’s head swelled and he went after the villagers, eating them up one at a time.
Time is the only arbiter. Don’t pronounce a person good or virtuous until you have walked 4 moons in their mocassin.
Njundu,
Come on. What do you have to check about those Foundations besides the rise in siphoning our monies to perpetrate corruption?
What do you know about this Adama Barrow before he took over the responsibilities of administration?
One undeniable attitude about most of our real estate dealers is their corruptible and dubious nature in treating any financial affairs. This man comes from the same background. He is not immune to corrupt practices. The mistake was in selecting an UNQUALIFIED and CORRUPTIBLE person to a responsible position. He should be flushed out. This is what our patriotic, incorruptible and learned citizens have to braze themselves for.
Bax, Jollofnews 30th January 2018
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Let’s take the discussion a bit further, Bax. I think you have somehow outstretched your comparative analysis between the benefactor British policy processes and implementations with the Gambia’s under Ex-President Jawara.
The British politcal and financial policies were always under close scrutiny which was always absent in Jawara’s Gambia. There was no accounting and accountability and everything was laid in the hands of Jawara’s close Banjul buddies who formed the cream of his government.
Which “big fish” was ever jailed for fraud in the PPP era? I presume you were there. I was there as well and we all know what Gambia we lived in during the PPP bonanza era.
It is ludicrous to say that a process that was initiated in 1963, 1965 through the 60s, 70s and 80s until 1994 couldn’t be implemented because…….NO TANGIBLE REASON, brother Bax!
The only reason they/you could give is, they have to be praised for laying the blueprints/foundations. Nothing else. But do we “eat” from blueprints/foundations without effective implementation?
“This is my father cleared the bush and that’s all adage”. But I did the construction work, ploughed the fields and put the land into its use and purpose.
Who deserves what? My dad and me? Why are our people calling on your present WEAK, CORRUPT and INEPT administration to do SOMETHING positive now or face consequences, in one year? Because they lived the bonanza aura of the President Jammeh regime, that constructed roads on both banks of the River Gambia, bridges, rural electricity and portable water, primary/seconday/tertiary schools/institutions, The UTG, the TV, the metropolitan economic BRUSIBI zone, empowered our female population……..
to be continued………………..
Babu, I’ve told you very clearly that I am not a cheerleader for the PPP Administration and I will not waste my time commenting on corruption and underperformance of the administration. I think many can agree that the PPP Administration either lost focus, or eventually became exposed as an administration that had no idea on how to address the challenges of the country.
Notwithstanding, they did register some achievements during their time in office and it is my view that these, overall, were far more than what Jammeh achieved during his time in office.
Your view of development is very, very simple and that’s the problem I’ve got with you. You have cited roads, UTG, TV, etc, as “bonanza aura of the (ex) President Jammeh regime”, but do you seriously believe that the former PPP Administration has got absolutely nothing to do with the roads, UTG, TV, portable water, etc, you are crediting to the Jammeh regime? Do you seriously hold that view?
Take the TV for example: Which government body was relied on to establish the TV? Wasn’t it GAMTEL? Which administration established, equipped and resourced GAMTEL? Which administration built the infrastructure ( including the first phase of laying down of fibre optic cables across the country ) that made GAMTEL a successful Public Corporation? Wasn’t it the PPP? How then can you seriously exclude their efforts in the development process whose outcome became the TV?
Similarly, whether it’s roads, schools, portable water, rural electrification, etc, there was something left behind for the A(F)PRC to build upon. Jammeh entered and lived in the State House but he found it more developed than the Government House Jawara entered, and Barrow found more additions left by Jammeh. That’s “Development”: its both a process and an outcome.
Most importantly for Jammeh and you, Jawara created both the Gendarmerie and the Army, which gave him (Jammeh) a job. At least, you should acknowledge that development.
Bax,
I take you seriously on your no cheerleader position of the PPP administration, and I sincerely accept it. We are giving our individual view points, aren’t we? That’s the essence in debating. You might convince me, that’s the true nature of democratic engagement. Just allow me to say my bit.