Banjul:7/24/08-This week has been very dramatic in The Gambia. First we saw our Oga come back from his visit to Guinea Bissau and making the usual noise.That dissidents know where to run to.Again pointing fingers to neighbors and some other country. They can no longer run to Bissau. Little did Jammeh know that those he call dissidents come in and out of Gambia unnoticed. If he Jammeh cannot prevent his so called dissidents from coming in and out, is it Bissau that is forested much more than the Gambian that can police dissidents? This is the height of madness in a brainless head like his.  Jammeh thinks he's smart. He has been using his green boys as workers at his various farms. Now he wants to incorporate them officially into the army to serve as farmers naming them as a battalion and they will still remain his undercover hit men. Gambia is small and nothing can be hidden. It is welcomed news if a battalion can be used purposely for farming to produce food for our army. This venture we hope will reduce the defense budget. Our counterparts in other countries learn many skills while they serve in their national armies. This they use after they are retired or deactivated from service.  It is only in Gambia where you see a top retired police or army personnel becoming a gateman or security officer at some hotel or other institution after leaving office. The Gambia Armed force trains people as professionals in weaponry and when they retire, they have no other jobs except loiter or take up watchmen jobs. It is these highly trained people who still turn around and become drug peddlers/traffickers or even pimps in brothels. We all live here and see our X-service men and what they are doing. If this trend continues, we will continue to be far and far away from becoming the Singapore of West Africa that Boy Jola keeps dreaming about. It will also be difficult to rid Gambia of drugs and crime. A trained killer cannot go on starving after serving his country faithfully for years. He will improvise ways and means of survival. The possibility of these becoming paid killers for anyone who can put cash in their hands is high. Man has to survive!

The sacking of Halake is welcomed news to all who have been following his life and reading his editorials in the Daily Observer. He behaved as if he was immune to Jammeh's sacking madness. Little did he know that even Jammeh himself is not immune to his own madness thoughtless of a poor soul like his? We have witnessed how of recent Jammeh has used his cronies to deny what he publicly said here at the Talinding rally about gays. Sometimes I wonder if the beads that Jammeh holds in his hands ever mean anything to him aside a decoration and camouflage. Little did Halake realize that Town Crier has told Gambians that Jammeh is a political pimp. He uses you for his purpose and once that purpose is fulfilled or he feels negative about you, you're booted out. Halake has long been kicking under our legs and it was long over due  we use both feet to kick hardest under his own legs and we did exactly that. He has used our generosity as a sign of weakness. But he has been taught a lesson that he will never forget to his grave.

As for shameless Neneh, she has jumped high to embrace a new position. Sometimes I wonder if these people are made of steel,brick,mud or flesh. Do these cronies really think? Why can't they do something else instead of serving under Jammeh who will time and time again disgrace them? Chei Aduna! Those of us caught in the security service cannot resign and remain here. We will be targeted and/or eliminated. So the only thing we can do is to remain within and just earn our living if we cannot resign and leave the country quickly. We are caught in a trap and most want out of it.

The recent killing of Imam Amadou Jallow should send a stark message in the heads of Gambians. This is a Gambia where even the stealing of a chain/bracelet was met with mob justice. One has never sat and thought yes some day someone will get up and kill someone while they headed to the mosque/church. But with the advent of this Jammeh accidental regime, we have open a door that will be hard to close. Who would have thought someone heading to a mosque will be stabbed not once but 16 times to death? Who in Gambia? But this is a Gambia where Jammeh has harden many souls. He's turn many remorseful souls to merciless killers. Gambia is in for a heap of trouble so long as Boy Jola remains at the helm of our affairs.

Gambians should not be fooled. Some day Town Crier's predictions will become true. Wasalam.

 TOWN CRIER