It’s unfortunate for the Gambia to have Yaya Jammeh as her Chief Executive Officer...
Gambisara tries to practice what is called “Do unto others what you like others to do unto you”. The Gambia
is faced with a lot of societal-ills principally caused by the state
through its chief executive officer, President Yayah Jammeh. He
successfully created the divide and rule system where there is absolute
lack of trust among matrimonial households. VP Isatou Njie-Saidy does
not trust SoS Edward Singhatey and CDS Lang Tombong Tamba do not trust
NIA DG Harry Sambou for not to secretly instruct officers arrest him
late in the night in the name of National Security. In this edition,
Gambisara tries to analyse the editorial of the Daily Observer last
Friday, the 18th August 2006. Gambisara knows it’s a Government paper as its bank roller or pay master is Yaya Jammeh. Gambisara have the
opinion that the Daily Observer owes our respected opposition leaders an unreserved public apology.
Last week, I bought the issue purposely for the editorial captioned “September Presidential elections: An Acid Test”.
Gambisara cannot comprehend why and how can a paper like that be so
lunatic about the current political dispensation in the country. An
extract from it reads, “Considering the nature
of the existing political parties and the political leadership of those
parties, it will be foolhardy to think of any possible winner among
them except President Jammeh. In terms of charisma, he is incomparable
to the leaders in the opposition parties. In terms of the ability to
lead a country successfully, President Jammeh is the only one among the
candidates with a brilliant track record of national development. The
question here therefore is between experience and proven track record
and inexperience with no proven track record. If Gambian voters are to
decide between President Jammeh and the other Presidential aspirants,
the criteria for voting should be based on a proven track of success.
Unfortunately the opposition parties have no proven track record since
they have never been in Government”.
What brilliant track record of national development is the Daily
Observer talking about? The general public knows it is the mouth piece
of the APRC, but should be cautious on the way it handles its affairs.
Dr. Taal is doing a great job for helping the President dig his own
grave. I know Dr. Taal when he used to visit my father in the provinces
asking him to pray for him. We use to share the same bed in my room and
now Taal
does not want to see me when I come to see my friends at the Observer
complex. My father said he was going to talk to him, I said NO I will
solve it my way. Dad will never talk to you again about me. Gambisara,
like other literate members of general public read in between the lines
and concluded that the editorial did not interpret exactly what it
meant by an acid test.
When I was
studying, I was taught that development could be in the form of strategic or practical. In the Gambia,
we have more of practical than strategic developments. The observer is
being fooled by the numerous incomplete projects in the country along
with other white elephant projects. The Gambia’s
main development indicators are in chaos because nobody wants to talk
about them. The media sector in which the observer falls is in a more
chaotic state than any sector. On January 3rd
2005, President Jammeh threatened to bury journalists six feet deep. He
said that he believed in “giving each fool a long rope to hang
themselves. Journalists, he went on, should either register or stop
writing or go to hell”. Most recently one of your colleagues
went missing in the person of Chief Manneh. How can the observer sell
the APRC to the public is what Gambisara cannot comprehend. President
Yaya Jammeh is all interested in enriching himself at the expense of
the Gambian people. Gambisara is praying to God for development
partners and countries follow the route taken by the US Government to
cut aid to the Jammeh regime. The UK Government should follow suit
without delay to save the masses of the Gambian people. It’s
unfortunate for the Gambia
to have Jammeh as her Chief Executive Officer. Edward Singhatey is more
competent than Jammeh. Edward Singhatey has the ability to unite people
than your bank roller, Yaya Jammeh.
Going by the trends of the day in the then smiling coast of Africa, it’s totally worrying as the country is completely turned upside down. Since the Gambia’s
black day, 22/07/94, how many Gambians have gone missing either natural
or man-made? From the death of Ousman Koro Ceesay to the recent missing
of Chief Manneh? Daily Observer thinks again. Have a look at some of
these fundamental questions and ponder over their answers.
- How
many innocent Gambians have you caused trouble as a result of the
publication of the names of subscribers further referring to them as
traitors bent on tarnishing the Gambia Government under Yaya Jammeh?
- Why is the country not being able to attract huge foreign investments? Recently Mrs. Susan Wafa Ogoo was decently told “NO thank you, we not in bilateral relationship”. Instead they (SIDA) will support the Gambia through Swedish NGOs operating in the country. An extract from a press release by the Tourism department read “In response the Desk Officer noted that although The Gambia
was not a key bilateral partner, SIDA has been providing support to a
number of Swedish NGOs working in the country, in the area of
education, health, among others. She said SIDA’s NGO budget to The Gambia was estimated at 8 million Swedish Crowns. After a reform of the country’s
Africa Program four years ago, Sweden drastically reduced its aid packet both for The Gambia and Guinea Bissau but increased its commitment to Mali, the Cape Verde and Senegal.
She also noted that SIDA’s new programme of support would be targeting
the productive sectors and cited fisheries as an example”.
In this case, our Government and its Secretaries of State including
Jammeh himself are no longer trusted by our traditional partners
because of institutionalised corruption.
- How
many Managing Directors have your Institution welcomed over the past?
How do you ensure continuity and consistency in the company?
- Why
would Pa N’derry Mbai and Mr. Sankareh among many run away from their
beloved motherland to establish successfully abroad thus contributing
positively to the socio-economic development of the US? How many young Gambians would have been gainfully employed?
- How
many Gambian Young people have been denied gainful employment as a
result of the illegal closure of the independent Newspaper and citizen
FM?
- What is the rate of inflation in the country and how it has affected the ordinary Gambian?
- What
are the causes of the high rate of unemployment in the country? Why no
serious investment in the productive sectors of the economy such as the
Fisheries and the Environment? Why hugely investing on weapons, what
are they for, are they for the Gambia Army or the Cassamance rebels?
- Why your bank roller or pay master, President Yayah Jammeh could not meet his countrymen in Fatoto for 3 consecutive years?
- What
is the country’s threat to external terrorism that warrants our myopic
Attorney General introducing a bill of such in the rubberstamp National
Assembly occupied by the likes of one eyed FaBakary Tombong-Jatta?
Gambiasara and the observer staffers know very well where the terrorist
is? He is occupying the executive office at No. 1 Marina Parade
otherwise addressed as the State House in the person of President
Jammeh.
- Why the country cannot have a reliable electricity supply? Etc.
The
daily Observer should be careful as they have successfully completed
the digging of Yaya Jammeh’s grave. Gambisara knows it will be very
hard for its management, but should try and ask their pay master such
fundamental questions as they have the opportunity to interact with
him. He does not trust us, but we are helping him and his government
show him his weaknesses which we will continue to do. If Mr. Kenneth
Best knew his baby will end up a propaganda item, he would not think of
coming to seek refuge in the Gambia
more so to initiate the Paper. The daily observer must be tried in the
high court for aiding and abetting President Yaya Jammeh and the APRC.