By Momodou Sallah, Leicester

I have managed so far to refrain from the ongoing online debates consciously for a number of reasons. However the latest saga involving Cherno Baba Jallow makes it impossible to keep quite any longer. I found the tone in which the debate is being conducted objectionable. I start from the premise that all involved in the debate have our motherland’s best interest at heart even though the diametrically opposed views are held to be self evident.
 
My intention here is not to agree with one party or the other but to appeal for restrain. As we all have a common goal, regardless of our viewpoint, I will appeal to all to conduct the debate with more decorum and attack the points raised rather than the personalities involved. This creative tension enables the exploration and engagement of diverse views; however it also has the potential to tear us apart individually and collectively. The passion with which people write shows their commitment but we must recalibrate the debate to the pressing issues at hand rather than the personalities; this I humbly beg of you.

Is Cherno Baba pompous or jealous?

 
  
By Sidia Drammeh 
  Johnson & Wales University
 

  I wish to point out something with regard to an essay written by Cherno Baba Jallow on the Gainako online forum. Usually, I don't bother immersing myself in such arguments but this one particularly caught my attention simply because of the nomenclature of its setting and, of course subject. Two things are especially worth mentioning in reacting to this article which are the fact that Cherno's tone smacks of an aggrieved individual, and the fact that he let loose the untruth in his attempt to paint others untruthful.

Special Investigations-Who is Dr Sam? PIU bullets,Coroner's fear-Yahya Jammeh killed the kids!

Special Investigations  mounted by Hammadi Maasinah
 
Introduction:-In this special Investigation the intension is to reveal the other side of the story about the April 10th 2000 bloody incident. A bloody day that has already left a scar on the history of our beloved country The Gambia.  In this piece we will expose more  on the circumstances surrounding the said incident. Therein we will revisit the testimony of Dr Omar Sam a pathologist(at the time) who performed the autopsy tests on those students(and non students like Ousman Barrow) who lost their lives on that day.

Daily Observer: No light in its Attic

By Cherno Baba Jallow

In the beginning, we could only wonder with studied skepticism, but now, we know it for a quotidian fact: the Daily Observer is equal parts, a conduit for President Yahya Jammeh’s hooey and an enabler of his government’s unfettered authoritarianism. Bully, bully. That’s what Jammeh keeps doing to the Gambian population. And in the Observer, the president has found a willing, if coerced, accomplice.

A Special review by Bubu Hammah
Ask your selves this question? Who is the secretary of state for energy,defense or commander-in-chief in The Gambia? It is HE President Yahya Abdul Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh. These are some of the many portfolios our President is handling. He is handling the department of state for defense because he does not trust anyone on that one. He is handling energy and water because he said no one can manage this sector the way he likes it.