RE: EX-VICE CHAIRMAN SANNA B. SABALLY CALLS ON PRESIDENT JAMMEH TO FREE BABA JOBE AND OTHERS!
By: Gambisara; Senior Manager.
I write to acknowledge receipt of an open letter dated 1st December 2006 and addressed to President Yaya Jammeh and copied to our media house for publication, and was published as requested. In that so long a letter, which I will borrow the name from a book written by Mariama Bah, a Senegalese woman years ago. That book was titled “So Long Letter”. In your so long a letter, you mentioned many issues, mainly for the President to Pardon for former Mile II Prisons colleagues, captioned “Freedom, there is nothing you can replace it with, because that is human dignity”. We must commend you for having taken a huge time to write the literature. We hope the addressee will make sense from it.
Mr. Sabally, while thanking you for the time and trouble taken to pen that literature, I hasten to say that it raises many questions to many as to why and what prompted such reaction. Personally, I kept asking myself many questions, hence lot of atrocities were associated with you during your short lived days in power as the Number 2 man of the Gambia . I will still ask you the whereabouts of Lt. Basiru Barrow, Dot. Faal, Buba Jammeh among many officers and soldiers of the Gambia National Army; the Gambisara incidence, the disciplinary you meted out to civil servants within Banjul and the interior of the country, etc. What was your exact role during the night of November 11th 1994 and its aftermath, why did you hurriedly make an announcement on National Radio about the abortive coup? Mr. Sabally, only if you answer such fundamental National questions among many, then we will start taking you seriously, hence innocent Gambian soldiers and civilians lost both their lives and jobs respectively. We will continue to publish your views like any individual. To us, you are not doing well to yourself. You are creating more questions than suggestive answers to our national concerns.
Mr. Sabally, while the Freedom will never support Jammeh on his madness, we will not hesitate to praise any aspect of him that he gets right. We agree with you that he should extend an olive branch to the Mile II inmates through Presidential Pardon so that they will re-unite with their families, particularly those you refer to as “your source of power”. For him detaining such people is betraying the struggle on his part as well as getting rid of you as well. Bairo, why didn’t you raise the issue with him when you were his Vice so he would set free those who where there before July 22nd 1994? You had absolute authority at the time. I mean those you referred to as common law prisoners. We are critically analysing your letter so we will draw sense from it in order to lead us to what and where exactly you are aiming at. We are taking your letter very seriously. I am not saying the Jammeh regime will treat it with maximum attention it deserves, but we at the Freedom, will investigate. Because, to us, your letter is a warning for the Gambian people to be alert as you are probably aiming a come back. In the event that day comes, we will say, oh! He is a saviour. You raised critical doubts than potential answers to solving national matters.
Mr. Sabally, as you have resorted to being a learned scholar and preacher, I would like to refer you and possibly President Jammeh to assess yourselves. It’s a very short Surah of the Holy Quran with many lessons. Surah 114 called “An-Nas”. This is its transliteration. In V.114:2 The King of mankind. In a Hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah, the Prophet (SAW) said “On the day of resurrection, Allah will gasp the whole (Planet of) earth (by His Hand) and shall roll up the heaven with His Right Hand and say “I am the king. Where are the kings of earth?” (Sahih Al-Bukhari; Vol. 9 Hadith No. 479).
V.114:4, Abu Hurairah, the Prophet (SAW) said “The (Hell) Fire is surrounded by all kinds of desires and passions, while Paradise is surrounded by all kinds of disliked undesirable things”, (Sahih Al-Bukhari; Vol. 8 Hadith No. 494).
In short, Inordinate deserves and animistic passions leads to Fire while self-control preserverance, chastity, and other virtues and the obedience to Allah and His Messenger (SAW) lead to paradise. What leads to Hell is easy to do while what leads to Paradise is difficult to do.
Please verify from the Holy Quran and hadiths respectively for details. We will continue to analyse and investigate your transactions.