By Kalil Laye

Mr. M'bai:

Hopefully, there is space in your widely read and highly coveted online paper for us to share some of our views concerning the plight of Mr. Ousman Jammeh who is currently in the grips of Yaya Jammeh's torture machine, the bloodiest execution system that the Gambia has ever known. To be sure, the situation that Mr. Ousman Jammeh currently finds himself in is indeed a pretty unfortunate one; but in our view the questions that really matter or really ought to be asked are as follows:

1. Was Ousman Jammeh's plight really foreseeable?

 2. And if so, why should we sympathize him?

Recently, we've all heard several people, including yourself, come in support of Mr. Ousman Jammeh, just as we also witnessed other folks in the past lend their support to Assan Touray or Dr. Janneh. All that seemed fine if only on the basis that to defeat the APRC tyrannical regime, and usher in a civilized era in the Gambia, lifelong opponents as well as disaffected supporters of the regime must come together to form a unified front against the ignoble tyranny that has ever since 1994 killed and maimed the people of the Gambia under the outrageously false pretext of working for development. 

Our take on the above questions is that Mr. Ousman Jammeh's current predicament was, if nothing else, a pretty foreseeable one. For indeed, he is just the latest person among an unending list of so called Gambian intellectuals who were not forced by any circumstances whatsoever to serve the murderous government of Yaya Jammeh, but instead did willingly choose to prostitute themselves in favor of a sanguinary regime that will stop at anything in order to cling to power. 

Indeed, in all sincerity, Mr. Ousman Jammeh knew, well before joining Yaya Jammeh's organized crime cartel, the very nature of the beastly crime syndicate that he was getting into.  And now that the same crime syndicate has turned its deadly repressive machine against him, the question is: Why should we care?  OUR ADVICE IS THAT HOWEVER JOINS THIS CABAL OF MURDERERS MUST BE CERTAIN THAT HE OR SHE IS DOING SO AT HIS OWN PERIL AND EVENTUAL DEMISE.   

I say, therefore, that I for one shall not deem it worthwhile to spill any tears over Ousman Jammeh's plight. He got what he must have expected in all likelihood by joining this murderous enterprise, and becoming a facilitator to its crimes. Perhaps, what Gambians should know is that this Yaya Jammeh regime is over.

And whoever joins it to kill Gambians will sooner rather than later be reckoned. For verily, it is a regime in its last troughs, even as we must also be starkly aware of the fact that its leader [the so called dictator for development who in reality is more  than a dictator; a primitive tyrant] has sent us clear signal that he will not go down easily, nor alone. 

Why should Yaya Jammeh care even an iota how many Gambians he maims or murders? He simply should not be expected to care since he isn't one of us. His ultimate goal is to use the Gambia in an attempt to secede the Casamance region (to which he truly belongs) from  the republic of Senegal. In his mind as well as in the minds of the CASA rebels, the Gambia is a mere pun, a means to an end. But worse still, in that process of attaining their goal, Yaya Jammeh and his protégés in the Casamance rebellion are ready to see our Homeland stand to be enslaved.

Given the total absence of freedom in the Gambia, it is clear that there is at best little or no hope for a peaceful transition to democracy. And like in Egypt were Mubarak used to be elected by close to 90 per cent election landslides, in the Gambia too will Yaya Jammeh also make sure by hook or crook that he is always returned to power by a similar vote rigging. In short there will be plenty of voting but no real elections in that country of ours.

In the meantime, it is the people of the Gambia, and their sons and daughters currently serving in our armed forces who will continue to feel the full brunt of Yaya Jammeh's murderous spree and drug [cocaine and opium] poisoning.

The current Gambian youth is therefore a lost cause (if not a lost generation) who under the current government is certain to continue its descent into the bottomless pit of death, deprivation, and national humiliation, until such a time as it rises up against the current tyranny. Thus to free the Gambia, its youth has no choice but to rise up.

To free the Gambia, its armed forces should rise up - they more than any other segment of our nation should have a strong interest in ridding the country of the Bastard Yaya Jammeh who in all likelihood will continue to murder them. Until and unless they (the armed forces) finally gather their courage and stand up in self-defense, and free their homeland they shall continue to be lambs for the slaughter of the Voodoo priest of Kanilai.

Yaya Jammeh is on record to have said that he fears no one but Allah. So too our response is that the Gambian people including our armed forces have the right (if not the duty) therefore to expedite his reunion with the Almighty Allah for an expedited judgment for his crimes against us. 

Kalil.