By Michael Scales, UK
Dear Mr.Editor,
As yet another smoking gun crosses my screen from your headlines, concerning Slok Airlines.I cannot help thinking of those who are helpless and in need in The Gambia.Children who tonight fell asleep hungry or in pain,whilst its Government is implicated in yet another alleged scandle.Whatever the outcome of this constant turmoil...let us spare a thought for those who are innocent and cry out in vain.My prayers are with them......
Let us also not forget those in 2 mile and elsewhere who are denied freedom through the absent Law ,that should protect and not imprison the innocent.The Constitution and its oaths..lay abandoned in some gutter .All in the name of what ?
For whom the bell tolls...........
Is it not time for this Government to step down.? In my mind...the right thing to do ..is to hand the crown of Gambia back to its rightful President...who inturn should allow free and fair elections to commence.In any true Democratic country...this would be the voice of the people....
Does The Gambia, have a voice anymore..?or does it whisper..afraid of those who surrround them ?The vast galleries of informers and spys ..should vacate there inheritance ,for what they aspire to, do is not The true way of The Gambian that i have come to love and admire.
On July 22nd 1994,a very young army officer,found an abandoned crown,at a roadside,and placed it upon his head.This as if a clown in a circus ring had pretended to be a President...the crowd applauded...and said you should be King...The boy King..laughed and said so i shall....What transpired...became reality...
This reminds me of the H.G.Wells story.....The Man Who Could Work Miricles.......A common man who through some magic...found that if he wished it ..it would come true.Until one day...having tired of being granted every wish...became so confused..he wished the World would stop revolving...It did.and everyone fell off the World .Before he perrished..he shouted one last wish...I want everything to be the same as when i didnt have this power...and behold..it happened....The man was so pleased...to be just a common man again.He never wished again....content with what he had and almost lost...The moral of this story is clear...
Power corrupts..absolute power corrupts absolutely...
Just a quiet thought to pass another day......Michael.