The university we so much adore,Gambia called a sex tourism destination-Jammeh supporters cut your losses short!
By Hammadi Maasinah
Of late the freedomnewspaper's editors have been proving beyond any reasonable doubt that, tolerance is part of their decent path towards exellence. Avenues exist here on this very platform for Jammeh supporters(blind ones,insane ones and hypocritical ones).Call them whatever they are still given room to vomit their feelings on this medium without any let or hindrance. Alas!this is the paper Sajar Taal and company call "haters"? Will haters allow dissent? Today we ask these very loud mouths to please deposit two requests for us at the daily observer then the state house. That is by asking their patrons the following..Guarantee us that the daily observer editorial board will allow one single article from the freedomnewspaper be published on their backpage(not the front page) at least for once! Let them also ask President Yahya Abdul Aziz Jammeh to grant editor Pa Nderry Mbai and Omar Bah a grand Interview at least for once! It is obvious that Pa Nderry and team have gone beyond the hurdles here. Why allow Waa Juwara's heap of good names in favour of Yahya Jammeh on this paper if it was not objective? Why allow others promote the good names of Jammeh men and women if this paper did not mean objectivity? There is one side of the coin some of our so-called civil "vigilantes" are not flipping here. Why not deposit these requests for us before Yahya Jammeh and Sajar Taal? This paper would not mind Interviewing FJC,Edward Singhatey,Yankuba Touray,Isatou Njie Saidy etc etc. After all them refusing us such interviews does not mean they are important! We have Interviewed people of higher calibers on this paper. Let them just not fool themselves by thinking that snubbing this paper means they are high noses! This is just funny!
If Yahya Jammeh is the democrat being peddled here by our latest "sympathisers" then does that mean we are beginning to be blessed by demons? Do demons bless or destroy? Even if they were to do so then, the cylce of blessings can only be complete if Yahya turns around thus debunks everything being written against him with concrete evidences. Some think this paper's articles are libelous. For goodness sake what is stopping Yahya Jammeh and his gang from taking this paper to court then? Thats all we are praying for every morning. Thats why this paper came into existence. We started to shake the tree and then wait for more monkeys to shoot at. Yahya Jammeh has to be very careful this paper is more than he may think!
One example Jammeh-addicts like forwarding here is the Gambia University. There are so many mouths barking without knowing the reality behind the creation of this university. This university is not the least a Jammeh-made pancake. This is a project that has been on the table.
Whether Yahya Jammeh came to power or not the university was already on the verge of being started. Infact this is why after the early nineties many certficates issued from the Brikama campus had affiliations with Canadian accademia or other French Institutions outlined on them. Sure Yahya Jammeh is a "result-mania" who wants to drag everything before his feet and then call it his making. We all remember when Yahya associated heavy rains to his coup d'etat at McCarthy square in 1994. We had cunning Gambians attribute special powers to Yahya during those days. After all Yahya was nothing but a wet coward! He has been associating everything natural,super natural and artificial to his personality. That is what people suffering from inferiority complex do!
Where is the Allah's bank syndrome now? Will a true believer associate Allah with a bank? Allah does not care about material. Allah is not a humanbeing who would need banks. Infact that in itself is a great sin. Then where will Yahya put the essence of "Suraatul Iqlaas"? Yahya Jammeh should shut up and eat his stolen booty simple as that. Yahya Jammeh is an innocent person who is being cuddled by cunning hypocrites calling themselves learned,decent citizens. If decency and patriotism were living beings they would committed suicide in The Gambia under Jammeh's rule.
For the information of those who cry so loud for this "unknown" university, researchers have given us latest details as shown at the bottom of this piece. This is an excerpt from Foroyaa. Does anyone eating roasted chicken somewhere else know what is on the ground more than Foroyaa? Believe it or not this paper has no personal agendas with Yahya Jammeh.The only reason why people talk about Jammeh is because he stole power and is clinging on a hanging rope of hope pestering everything and everybody with his endless insane tirades period. You know wnat? If anyone thinks Yahya Jammeh is working hard just change yourselve into Deyda Hydara's soul and body and then ask the good angels of God who Yahya really is? What worries sensible minds is not about how many empty buildings Yahya is erecting while using tax payer's money.What worries them is when will sanity prevail in The Gambia? Any of those shouting today is doing so because they are not Koro,Deyda,Omar Barrow and Alpha Bah former state guard and team who were murdered in cold blood for a coup that never was. If any of these Jammeh supporters is ready we can start a debate on line then start excavating how each and every of the so-called "goodie" president's projects came into being.
To start with let them ask Jammeh how much UNESCO gave him before the University Extension Program started? Let him tell us where UNESCO'S $100,000 USD was spent? He knows where,he will never utter a word! Yahya Jammeh used those funds on other things. Today we can see a science institute in Kanilai when Brikama college's graduate teachers are not being paid salaries. Read the Gambian local papers for goodness sake,some of them wrote about teachers not being paid. That was not freedomnewspaper's story.
As recent as two weeks ago a special program prepared by the french television's envoye special narated very damaging stories on our country on the (world wide web). The Gambia called a sex tourism destination. That was not written or videod by the freedomnewspaper. It was prepared by International and fully trained french journalists. The people on the program are Gambian youths. These youths were openly saying how hard the country is.These are live pictures any interested party can get from France 2 and see for themselves live and direct. Its obvious that Yahya Jammeh himself knows he will be taken out of power by any means necessary. Anyone who so wishes can deny this by leaning on his stolen elections and wait for the last bad day of Yahya and his crew. Power belongs to the people.
FOROYAA QUOTE "......Currently, the University of The Gambia is without a campus or proper science facilities. The students doing physics and other science subjects are terribly disadvantaged because of the inadequacy of books and laboratory facilities. What the university needs currently should be identified and provided if the government is committed to the spirit and principle of promoting university education. At the moment, what is available is a college.
What the university needs are accomplished lecturers in the sciences, an update of learning materials and well equipped laboratories to provide education up to PhD level....."