By Hammadi Maasinah
Interest is a concept, it could be an evil concept or a defensive one. Politics,security,economics and the general desires of human nature have always been dancing around interest. National interest is in most cases raped by ruthless men and women in power. Those who hold the nation's legs apart during the act are these verbous sycophants like Halake. These are the types who help or helped sell everything and anything related to the strong desire of vampires in power-VIP. These leaders with reddish fangs aren't Very Important Personalities. They are Vampires In Power. This is where sense and sensibility repel the likes of Halake.
We will present a short resume on Halake for the records. Halake is an Ethiopian-Kenyan with reference to given records we received from people who really know him. This man is one of those products who still have the marks of Former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariem in their writings. The man obviously has in him,the characteristics of propagandists who use the flutes and gongs of bloody wars of arrogance. Halake will turn around trying to shun Mengistu but let him also know that he is known.
It is an insult to the intelligence of Gambians for a man like Halake to be left unchecked. In Gambian tradition there are proverbs like this one:" a visitor should not untether goats" Today Yahya Jammeh is hiring the services of mercenary judges, journalists and hit men. Good for him, bad for our land, period. Obviously ruthless bandits in power like Yahya Jammeh favor these wild geese of opportunism. Halake came to Banjul, married(?) a Fulani girl, settled in Kotu with his 9 year old child and another one at the rear. He is so slimy that he adopted a middle name(Gambian-Guinean)-Amadou Jallow.Saying his resemblance with the fulanis makes him adopt that last name. Historically it is widely believed that fulanis trace their roots through Niger, Cameroon, Hausa Land in Nigeria and Ethiopia. However, for this Halake man his aim isn't to respect the past! His aim is to influence the present while prostituting history. He has in a cunning way been showing everyone his "Gambianness" more than those who lodged him. Such copy cards are always dangerous. These are the types who excel where extremism is the order of the day.
A couple of weeks back the same Halake was seen trying to hook up a trailer of endless semantics by trying to confuse Gambian literature with his selfish aim. He started by attempting to promote Gambian literature at the Gambia university. He used that occasion thus tried politicizing the fine work of poets like Dr Lenry Peters. This attempt never left the ground because the two ie Peter's perception and that of opportunists like Halake are so incompatible. For sure the daily observer will come back here saying that occasion was organized by others not them. Okay? but anything the observer prints represents a chance where Jammeh's battered name could be recycled. This is why we deem it fit to accuse Halake of patronizing that occasion on his paper for political reasons which is beyond any reasonable doubt. The subject was dropped unceremoniously because that avenue was too slow for these speeding rapists!
After a while Halake and team once again left the finger prints of their sticky hands on another female Gambian writer's book. A fine author-Patience. What did they start with? Using the book to stir tribal sentiments. That heading on the paper was used to appease Jammeh,promote his tribal ego and send irritating waves to other tribes for mere political reasons.
When one sees peoples of The Gambia, it sounds good. But why start with The Jolas? Why didn't the daily observer use a mosaic of ethnic groups then bring along the Jolas? The author they are trying to use here was not even honoured in their piece? Isn't that intellectual dishonesty and political prostitution? Prostitutes are always in for interest within a very selfish prism. This is where Halake's path is dangerous. If it is history he wants to preach...then please let Halake find out the book that written by another Gambian historian in the name of Dawda Faal. He wrote "Peoples and Empires of West Africa". Dawda too graduated from the university of Lesotho during the heated days of anti apartheid demonstrations. He is a renowned teacher and an seasoned educator. Would Jammeh expect the possibility of extracting ego-massaging chapters from Dawda's book? Of course not. Infact the book they used for this political prostitution was not meant to promote Jolas. This book said a lot of good things about every ethnic group in The Gambia. Stop politicizing literature while fanning tribal feelings in The Gambia! Do not misrepresent our good historians!
This is where Halake is sneaking behind the scenes in the name of "militant journalism". By reading his literature on the daily observer one can easily catch the old styles of cold war literature. He cannot do otherwise because he has been groomed by Mengistu's school of thought. These are the offshoots of Mengistu's old guard of so-called men and women of the propaganda machine. Halake will reject Mengistu but deep inside he is a good son of the old Ethiopian cliché. People like Halake are the journalists in Adis Ababa who fan flames between Ethiopia and Eretria. He will deny this too with endless verbous paras but look at the outcome in Kenya. Halake's traces are in that country too. He maybe a little fish in Nairobi but could also be one small fish with a lot of bones. Such species are not easily swallowed by rationality.
Look at the way he pounced on Kenya? in that article one can see a mind trying to settle old scores. How can the daily observer stand to castigate the west for colonialism and then send invectives to the legacy of Jomo Kenyatta? Here one can see serious flaws and a tabulation of confusing arguments every day. From now onwards we will be handling Halake to the point that he will run away from our motherland with his tail between his knees. Such characters should not be brushed off and left to parade their endless evil lessons within our streets. He will be exposed, zoomed and catapulted with less mercy in days to come. There are so many factors to reveal about this Ethiopian snake in Banjul. If Halake has lessons to teach the west or bitterness to transplant from the Eritrea-Ethiopia border let him choose another destination not our country. We welcome Pan Africanism by caring and sharing but not when a brother or sister comes home from another nation only to stir tribal war in our house. More will be written on this subject so Halake should brace up.