APRC's metrics of insanity 250 tons of peanuts divided by 1.6 Million gives 3.125 pounds of grains per person!-Jungle laws!

By Hammadi Maasinah
 
 
You know when President Yahya Jammeh speaks or at best forces people like Yankuba Touray to speak for him it makes it so easy for Gambians and the world to see through this man’s hypocritical mind.
Yahya Jammeh should try using the talents of others during critical times like these, to at least save his face from further damage. Can he ever? Not as far as his name is Yahya anyway. This man needs to be buried, unburied and recreated again and again to make him a changed being. Which means he will never change.  It is good that Jammeh embarked on his useless voyage called meet the people’s tour. It is very good. This tour will expose more of his frustration, anger and despair. Then finally  prove to the whole world that we have not been making up stories against this sad character of a leader with endless stigmas. Did  you listen to Yahya? He said he does not care if the price of a bag of rice rises to D10000.00(Ten thousand dalasis) $500 USD (at least to the nearest figure). Well Gambians that is the price of allowing an insane person lead a place. The same Yahya turned around warning district chiefs, governors, village heads, secretaries of state and other local government authorities to step in and hand over any petty trader selling a bag of rice for more than D1000(One thousand dalasis)? This is real “bitter comedy”. We are laughing while in pain!  Which is which, in Jammeh’s head? I have an answer. He is frustrated, angry, confused and determined to use force on hungry people because he cannot deliver the goods but wants to stay a president!
By listening to Jammeh’s speeches even a Pre K infant can see the clear contradictions and insane ways that are oozing from this mad man’s mouth. The same Jammeh said he had already arranged with rice importers for the price to be fixed at D800 a bag? Therefore anyone caught selling it at a price more than D900 or D1000 should be taken to the police? Am really getting confused myself. Oh God Yahya Jammeh!  Please read what Jammeh says or listen to him. Please do and then see why we as a country are a big disgrace on the continent of Africa as far as he is leading The Gambia.
 
Again in his metrics of madness or insanity Jammeh “forced” Yankuba Touray to sell another insane idea which is this one. Saying they the government will supply Gambian farmers (he is urging to go back to the land) with 250 tons of ground nuts or (peanuts)? Alright lets say if every Gambian was charged with the responsibility of growing his or her share… Then mathematically that means dividing 1.6 Million inhabitants with 250 tons right? The answer will give nothing more than 0.000016(nearest figure on tonnage) per head!
This if multiplied by 2000(tonnage) will give us the nearest figure Ie 3.125 pounds per person. If these pounds were  used to fill a given volume then we may expect nothing more than 100 seeds in each container or less. That would then mean each person is expected to  grow at least 60 plants(as there is no guarantee) that all seeds when germinated will positively respond to the climatic condition. All this is happening before thinking about how fertile the land is! Or other agricultural challenges per se. In all this he Jammeh said that there will no longer be free fertilizer to farmers during his tour of madness and disgrace. Talking to these hungry rural folks as if our people are infants waiting to be served warm feeding bottles from an irate father? Alongside the same Yahya is warning farmers not to sell their peanuts in neighbouring countries after being shamelessly unable to help them sell their yield? Sell the fertilizer to the farmers and then force them not to choose a market for themselves? Still Yahya Jammeh is  an elected leader for some? This tour has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Jammeh was not elected! He forced to stay. The speeches and actions used against our rural voters (the majority) are loud and clear!
Coming back to the aforementioned point. This is fertilizer he stole from behind our backs by using the country’s name abroad to get it. Jammeh the Robbin Hood of Banjul is going to sell the fertilizer then reserve the proceeds again. The same Jammeh presently says he has 500 tractors but will not give any of them out for free. He blamed Gambian men for refusing to answer to his call when he called them to go back and till the land? Therefore he has no mercy to help BUT at the same wants them to till the land after a second call???
We all remember what obtained at the House of parliament when his current Ambassador in Washington mistakenly revealed that the tractors from Taiwan were not a gift from Jammeh. By then Ambassador Jallow was the majority leader at the house of parliament. Jallow revealed that the tractors were from Taiwan to help promote mechanized agriculture in The Gambia. Instead President was earlier on using those tractors as a campaign tool saying he purchased them for our farmers. That was another unwise lie from him and his praise-singers. From that time Jallow was removed, taken to London to serve as deputy Ambassador( a serious demotion for him at the time). Later on  he was fired and rehired. Today he stays in as one of those recycled “political toys” of the APRC regime.
 
The latest meet the people’s tour is historic because it has revealed a lot more and has reconfirmed a lot more to the disadvantage of Jammeh. He has finally and publicly proven to all that these tractors are indeed not gifts from him. One thing makes it more interesting which is where Jammeh is blaming farmers for the up keeping of the former tractors? What!!? He is not saying the truth. At the village level there were committees set up to maintain those tractors. Local or common people contributed their own monies to maintain those machines. The funds were used for buying gas or pay for the repair of those tractors. In some cases local mechanics did the job free of charge. In this situation it reminds us of where our great writer the WATCHMAN made mention of the soldier cum guard at the Kremlin. The one who was so obedient thus had to remove his boots  to avoid making noise while his boss was asleep! Only to be killed because the boss thought he was up to something else. This is the same thing that obtains under Jammeh. Anyone who things he or she is singing patriotism for Jammeh has to understand the difference between Kanilai-Patriotism and The Gambia’s one. There is a big difference between the two.  These tractors went through rigorous measures. Like the preparation of progress reports by the department of state for finance prior to submissions intended for donors/creditors like Taiwan. The villagers using them adhered to every regulation. He has no reason to blame them for anything here. He is a shameless being who uses rage to escape responsibility period.
The same President Jammeh wanted to hood wink another businessman in the USA lurking behind dark curtains, masking his intensions behind the name of our poor farmers within falsehood. Our investigations  caught the name of one Dr X(name withheld for now). He was introduced to Banjul by a man called Mansong Jagne. Dr X was to be proposed by the state house to be appointed an honourary consul. Can you imagine! Right before the act he was asked to pay $5000,000 (5 Million Dollars) into a Jammeh-owned account at the Rix Bank in Washington DC. Thanks to the intervention of the state department the man’s appointment was not possible. The Gambia government’s proposal was turned down! amidst reports that the would-be consul was a fraudster and a gambler. Therefore disqualifying him from receiving an “execuator” from the host government. This letter is an official document which enables an appointed consul to practice in the country of residence. That became a big scandal in Banjul during the era of former Secretary General Julia Joiner. It led to Jammeh angrily forcing Mansong and a man like Bubacarr Michael Baldeh to silence. They were threatened with courts, arrests and the like. Bubacarr who was discharged by a court without any evidence later on had to flee, then sought refuge in Senegal. Where he is currently residing. Baldeh was discharged by a court of law the records are there. After realizing that he could not implicate Baldeh in the above scam Jammeh resorted to accusing the former of being part of the famous March 2006 Coup. Seeing through the whole labarynth  is a challenge for all those who want to hold the current regime accountable. The distribution of tractors. fertilizer, and agriculture in general is a lucrative market for the Jammeh cartel. This is what he uses to maintain the famous Jammeh foundation too. This is exactly why he will never hand over the dept of state for agriculture to anyone any more. It is a good market for him and the APRC, they use it to make money over the poor farmers. Lets do the math again. If Yahya Jammeh has 500 tractors (from where we know),then intends to sell them for example $25000.00(twenty five thousand USD) each. The returns will be what at the end? $12500000.00!!!!(twelve million five hundred thousand USD).
The above price is estimated but all I know is that Jammeh will sell these tractors at least  @ a unit price $15000.00(fifteen thousand USD). The marketing will be done by local car dealers or the NIA and state guard, just watch and see!