SANKANU AND FRIENDS PLOT TO ASSASINATE ME. THE WATCHMAN
SANKANU AND FRIENDS PLOT TO ASSASINATE ME. THE WATCHMAN
SANKANU AND FRIENDS PLOT TO ASSASINATE ME. THE WATCHMAN
 
Once again, Freedom Newspaper and its efficient editor Pa Nderry Mbai have delivered a huge victory in the name of free speech. Judging from comedian Sankanu's exposed secret emotional tirade to almost all of Gambia's exile, independent and online media, it is obvious that he has backed off from the prospect of engaging me out in full view of the public while trying to win the hearts and minds of editors in an effort to stop my incessant comments on his puerile gibberish and wanton insincerity. It is appropriate at this moment to announce to readers that in light of all of this, friends and supporters of Bubacar Sankanu have made threats to assassinate me, The Watchman via e-mail.
 
I had exercised considerable restraint in not overreacting to the e-mail taunts against my life and desisted from reproducing the messages from Sankanu's online goons because unlike Mr. Sankanu, I cherish the tenets of privacy even if it is from an enemy who's out to get me. In fact, I found out my e-mail account survived an attempted hacking because of numerous steps I had taken to safeguard against such intrusions. These threats emanated from allies and so-called "fans" of clown Sankanu who felt I was humiliating their beloved "prince". I replied to most of them that if revealing a person for the fraud and show off that they are is wrong, then I'm happy to oblige because every time a Sankanu, Cherno Baba Jallow and now Ebrima Conteh, demeans the common sense and dignity of the reading public, The Watchman will meet them head on. Apparently I have been succeeding because rather than come out swinging, these 3 blind mice have been suffering and sulking in their murky private quarters.
 
Humorist Sankanu and his acolytes, Cherno Baba Jallow, Ebrima Conteh et al, seem to tragically miss the point. The outburst over my retort to Sankanu's interview with All Gambian.net is not that he had never mentioned Fatou Jaw Manneh or Chief Manneh for that matter. The crux of my critique of Sankanu's sketch comedy script is that he unscrupulously uses the unfortunate disposition of others to advance his grossly overestimated personal portfolio. For every occasion that he utters Fatou Jaw Manneh or Chief Manneh or some other target of the Yahya Jammeh infidels, one can be sure that "lawyer" Sankanu will engage in a mind numbing, self-praising mantra that totally deviates from the subject at hand. If the objective of Sankanu is to flaunt his many "admirable" and "spoilt brat" qualities, then Gambia's nascent democratic online forums are the wrong venue. He should strut his stuff on Facebook or look for a better woman than FJC on Match.com.
 
Cherno Baba Jallow insinuated that the jury was out on my "gift" of writing in his miserable outreach to his fraternal brother in idiocy, jester Sankanu. You see, this is exactly my point. What the gullible Cherno Baba Jallow and his ilk don't comprehend is that writing on the Freedom Newspaper or any other medium is not for show of talent  or quasi-intellectual preening; it is for the sole purpose of advancing the politico-socio-economic well being of the Gambian entity through journalistic and other respectable advocacy. The most egregious of Cherno Baba Jallow's crime rears it ugly head in the part of his middling e-mail to a cohort in back stabbing, the part where he says my legitimate objection to his self-righteous screed has actually "increased his world wide currency". Unbelievable! Here was a "writer" who I wrongly assumed was expressing himself, albeit distortedly, to somehow improve conversation between his fellow patriots only to find out he was doing it for show, for sham motivation, for the opportunity to "adjectivize" (to use his improper term/adverb) just for kicks. Cherno Baba Jallow thought he was on the writing version of American Idol all along! We all know Paula, Randy and Simon will deny him a ticket to Hollywood. He isn't fit for the silver screen let alone the computer monitor.
 
My reply to Ebrima Conteh is simple. Please do not utilize federal government e-mail or use your position as an employee of the administration to besmirch a person you do not know. You're free to disagree with my strong opinions but understand that my theme has always been one of moderation and discretion while discussing the path The Gambia should embark on after it is ridden of Yahya Jammeh. The motive behind my anonymity is simple: I do not need the adulation of others in my quest to contribute to the spawning of Rule of Law in The Gambia. Obviously you are not an objective analyzer of articles produced by both baby Sankanu and myself. You had my e-mail at your disposal. You could have personally reached out to a fellow country man and ask useful questions. How have you managed to still keep your job with such out of control myopic tendencies? I entreat you to tell me why your hero of the gibberish stained pen, Sankanu, is better at prognosticating Gambia's fate than I. If you make sense I'll vanish and never author a single article again. The odds are against you, however, so you'd have to work really hard. Imagine a donkey toiling under the hot sun at a farm in the middle of growing season. That's the kind of effort you'll have to put forth.
 
Sankanu, Cherno Baba Jallow and Ebrima Conteh are the 3 blind mice who without the resistance and premonition of The Watchman would have continued to deceive the people of our beloved The Gambia. Now they have a real fight in their hands.
 
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Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 (Archive on Saturday, May 31, 2008)
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