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“Mr. President.....You are right to criticise your Ministers for lack of initiative or ambition whilst receiving tax payers wages. I applaud your honesty and commitment to your people. God knows on many occasions, you have been wrongly accused and hideously maligned. The failure to promote the free services of International Doctors recently into The Gambia is in my view. ... criminal negligence. I applaud your expression of concern in this.”said the British born business tycoon.

An open letter to His Excellency President Jammeh

 of The Democratic Republic of The Gambia.

Dear Mr. President,

 As someone well known to members of your family, your Government and your people, may I extend my special birthday wishes to your son Muhammed. May I also wish him good health and happiness. Remarkably, he looks a copy of my Gambian son, Arthur. As fathers, we share a common bond through this connection.

I have admired your career with interest. It would be fair to say, that here on The pages of Freedom Newspaper, I have perhaps been the one most supportive of your efforts and certainly less critical than most. I am after all, a Whiteman and a Westerner, with a different perspective. Nevertheless, I remain appreciative of your efforts towards the development of the Great Gambian Nation and her people.

May I applaud your stance on Agriculture and the drive towards self sufficiency in food production. May I also extend my admiration for your Finance Minister the Honourable Musa Balla Gaye. I believe the changes in infrastructure, especially towards Banking, the Civil Service, the emancipation and empowerment of women and the call for Education, especially in higher education as highly commendable. The higher priority of healthcare is making progress, especially in the construction of healthcare provision. In all these developments I applaud The Gambia and your leadership.

 May I agree with you that empowerment towards the obligations of Ministerial initiative and the innovation required by those holding the Ministerial portfolio is an area, that you have rightly highlighted. After 14 years of office through the progressive administration of the APRC government, this is certainly one area that has held back the progress of The Nation.

May I respectfully bring to your attention,  the failures in this area that I as an emissary and a "go between" from Britain, connected to your Ministers in the area of........

Bi lateral cooperation. These were fostered by your Honourable Mayor of Banjul.The Rt Hon.Samba Faal.

Firstly, I introduced to your Government, an Internationally renowned engineer, who conducted extensive research of The Gambia's Groundnut Industry and concluded in 2002 that The Gambia had a "sound" commercial farming infrastructure, which worked well in rewarding farmers for their labour and had a collective management infrastructure to discharge the produce to the International market for Groundnuts.

He further recommended that The Gambia should take heed of the change in the International trend towards refining oil and bi products, thereby creating a higher value and finished commodity within The Gambia. To this end he produced the 'blue print" to build a refinery allied to a bottling plant at a cost of 32 million U.S.dollars.Through my offices, I was able to provide a finance package for the development, tied over a period of years, which was in fact, self financing and contained guaranteed buyers for the production from The United Kingdom. The refinery was not only capable of refining groundnuts, but could be switched towards the processing of fruit juices. It further, could have encouraged and stimulated production from neighboring countries, with The Gambia becoming the Central reprocessing centre for West Africa.

This project was given to Gipfza for action. It did not progress. It was then given to all the Ministers as a separate circulation. It did not progress. In fact, in 2 years of knocking on the doors of your Ministers, it did not receive even an acknowledgement or a considered response.

May I turn to the introduction of the Agronomist {scientific farmer} from Suffolk England, who on your personal request, through Mr.Tamsir Jallow and His Excellency The Gambian High Commissioner {London} Mr. Jibril Joof, was encouraged through my offices into The Gambia?

He advised your Government and your farms management of how best to increase yields and eliminate pests and made a considerable investment in finance and time, assisting The Gambia's agricultural ambitions. He further advised at his considerable expense on the Gambian governments consideration of Biomass technology. {growing miscanthus to create bio fuel and energy} He returned to England after 3 hard years of work almost bankrupt and disillusioned at The Gambian Governments inability to create even a tangible plan or strategy to further all these laudable endeavours and ambitions.

I have commented by experience on the plight of Gambians faced with terrible but treatable illnesses. I would not wish to comment on the individuals concerned strictly out of courtesy and confidentiality. But needless to say, I have many such cases within my concern. I have intelligently, expressed the concerns from the Honourable Professors of Medicine here in the U.K. that it is just not viable or financially cost effective to send sick people thousands of miles to the U.K. in search of treatment. Unless they are British citizens and tax payers. They will not be treated unless they can afford to private fees being asked. You may be aware of one such person who has been knocking on The State House door for 2 years now begging your intervention. He was supported into the U.K. and to a private consultation with an expert in his condition, only to be presented with a prepayment bill of £184,000 to amputate his infected leg. The report laments at the poor treatment received in The Gambia and a failed operation at The RVTH which has exacerbated his condition and prognosis.

Mr. President.....You are right to criticise your Ministers for lack of initiative or ambition whilst receiving tax payers wages. I applaud your honesty and commitment to your people. God knows on many occasions you have been wrongly accused and hideously maligned. The failure to promote the free services of International Doctors recently into The Gambia is in my view. ... criminal negligence. I applaud your expression of concern in this.

May I also go further. 12 Months ago you produced a list of 76 patients on your web site whom you claimed to have cured of The Human Immune Virus [HIV]

I did not criticise your commitment or your alleged cure. But I did sight my concern that under known medical science, a large number of these patients had low immune systems {CD4} and high viral lodes { the amount of virus in the blood} May I respectfully challenge you to give an update of these people and a current reading of their CD4 cell count and their viral lode.

A healthy patient should have at least 500 CD4 cells and an undetectable viral lode.

As World Aids Day is again upon us.....I would be the first to acknowledge your cure and your place in human history if you could now clearly demonstrate the validity of your cure incorporating the required scientific criteria.

I remain as ever in the service of The Gambian people.

 Respectfully,     Michael....U.K.