Gambian dictator President Yahya Jammeh, is suffering from mental illness. His supporters will not welcome such a statement, but this is the reality on the ground. Yes, doctors have not certified Jammeh to be mentally unstable, but common sense teaches that the personal comportment of an individual could be used as a suitable yardstick to gauge one’s mental stability.

Jammeh yesterday, shamelessly told the nation that our noise on his fleets of latest cars was uncalled for. For Jammeh, possessing cars such as Hummers and limousines mean development to him. What a sick President? What is the sense of having such expensive cars when the average man in Banjul is starving to death? Jammeh, need some medical examination. He will end up selling The Gambia, before his down fall. This serious state of affairs is the least unacceptable.

Jammeh was quoted by the Daily Observer as having said that he designed for the Limousines, though they were expensive but he did not use his critics money to buy such expensive cars. Jammeh, is a celebrated liar. Where on earth can you get such funds to buy those vehicles? Your father was not born rich, nor your mum. Prior to the July 22^ND coup, we have not been told about any wealth left by your parents. A person who could not own a bicycle is today owning Hummers and limousines. What a pathetic situation for The Gambia. A poverty stricken soldier turned millionaire over night? What signal is Jammeh sending to those poor army officers in our military barracks today? The Presidency is sweet you know. Jammeh, the sick man is today competing with bigger nations like the UK and America.

For Jammeh to think that purchasing vehicles mean development for The Gambia is total madness and stupidity on his side. He believes that he was trying to impress the King when in actual fact he had once again exposes his madness. Morocco is far ahead of The Gambia, in terms of development. There is nothing wrong for Jammeh to humble himself and ask for help from the King, just as he did in the case of the Taiwanese. But trying to play with the gallery will not help The Gambian situation at all. If Jammeh was with his five senses he wouldn’t have ventured into such wasteful vehicle project.

Imagine Jammeh saying that by acquiring such vehicles nobody will look low upon The Gambia. That the mere fact his government was able to import such vehicles into the impoverished nation other countries are admiring The Gambia. “Now a days everybody is talking about The Gambia.” said Jammeh.

The questions that comes to mind is why are these people mentioned by Jammeh talking about poor Gambia? Were they saying good things about our country? Why the attention on The Gambia? Fools like Jammeh will continue to live in dream world. Most of these people talking are against his flamboyance life style and his brutal dictatorship. APRC syphocants are the ones praising Yahya for his “white elephant” projects and not genuine patriotic Gambians committed to the emancipation of our captured mother land. Come rain come shine, Jammeh is on his way out of power. The day for his down fall is nearing!

In view of Jammeh’s declaration on his recent purchase of those expensive cars, we want to alert the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and other donor partners to focus their attention on The Gambia. While the ordinary man is dying of hunger, Jammeh is dipping his hands on our national coffers to engage in projects that were not catered for in our 2005 and 2006 fiscal year budget. It was the same wasteful expenditure that led to the auditing of the Central Bank of The Gambia spearheaded by the IMF. Jammeh, is repeating the same trend and at the end of the day he will blame the local staff who are often used as shield by Jammeh to carry out his corrupt practices. This uncontrolled distribution of money at our nation’s treasury should stop if we are to make any economic improvement in the year ahead.

Jammeh is a sick President, who need urgent medical attention. By the time people realizes his mental in balances it  is already late. Our country is taken into ransom by a sick man who have no sense of direction. He executes whatever comes to his mind the next day-be it godly or ungodly. This is the situation we find ourselves. God save poor Gambia and her people. How long will this Jammeh madness last? Only God knows. We rest our case….

The author is the former Secretary General of The Gambia Press Union and the Voice of America radio Banjul Correspondent. Mr.M'Bai, who now resides in US state of North Carolina, Raleigh was also a leading political and crime reporter with Daily Observer and The Point Newspapers respectively. He can be reached by email on  the following addresses: editor@freedomnewspaper.com, panderrymbai@yahoo.co.uk or pnmbai@hotmail.com Feel free to send in your reactions and opinion pieces on the above mentioned email addresses.