By:Abdoulie

Hi Editor,

If you may let me throw light on your issue dated 15/5/o6. Pa you have to act responsibly when reporting because non of the issues you have talked about in that by election in Kombo East are true. .Do you think that the people of Faraba Banta are that backwarded to be scared of soldiers carrying their duties or the people of Kombo East do not know why they are voting. Faraba has one of the first schools in The Gambia. Your report is bias and very insulting to us. As a result of this I would advice you to report honestly and stop acting idiot. Be careful and know that nothing is permanent

By:Saiks Samateh

Dear Freedom Press, waking up this morning to read one of your lead article on the recent by elections in Kombo East makes me wonder if we will ever come to recognize the political maturity of ordinary Gambians. Once again it is the ordinary Gambian masses who are accused of not being prepared for a change of government and thus the results. However such conclusions are always easy to make. The poverty and suffering of the Gambian masses ,if it is anything to go by, your conclusion that "Political change can only take place if the opposition set aside greed, love for power and personal aggrandizement" is still not an answer to this sorry state of our people and country. It is not only political change our people need, how do we expect such politicians in power to make any difference in the life of ordinary people ? You did make mention of countries where the oppositions for one moment, put aside their differences and " greed, love for power and personal aggrandizement" to win an election,true,but name me one country where this has happened and resulted in the advancement of the living conditions of ordinary people, not in Senegal, not in Kenya, not in Ghana etc,etc.Politicians don’t unite for the sake of the suffering of people, this is what history is teaching us, they do so to conquer political power. What I later realised by talking to ordinary Gambians is that, they know this more than I do and even before I arrived to this conclusion. It makes me respect their political maturity much more than ever before. Who have ever consulted them as to who they want to lead a political alliance of oppositions parties in the Gambia ? For Freedom Saiks :