(JollofNews) – The Gambian Government and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Friday signed a US$6.2 million (equivalent to D283, 604,855.60) project agreement designed to reduce the impacts of climate variability and change in the Gambia’s agriculture and livestock sector.
The four-year project will support the implementation of immediate adaptation priorities in the agriculture sector identified in the national adaptation programme for Action (NAPA).
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Omar Jallow, minister of Agriculture, said like many other developing countries in Africa and particularly the Sahelian countries, the Gambia is faced with enormous environmental challenges including land and soil degradation, deforestation and drought which have direct negative consequences to agricultural production and productivity.
He said these problems are further compounded by negative effects of climate change, which calls for concerted effort from all stakeholders in the drive to adapt to and to mitigate against its impact in order to enhance food security and sustained income for livelihood improvement of the population.
He added that the money from FAO will target 5000 households in ten districts in North Bank, Central River and Upper River Regions of the country that are most vulnerable and exposed to climate impacts, with no access or low access to information, knowledge and education and fewer resources (assets and income).
“The project seeks to reduce poverty of rural households, for security and malnutrition through increased agricultural production and productivity and commercialisation by strengthening the livelihood and resilience of the targeted households and farming systems,” he added.
“In addition, the project aim not only to diversify agricultural production towards more drought tolerant crops but it will also promote and support livelihood alternative.
“The intervention will therefore enable its beneficiaries to better cope with climate change and adapt their agricultural practices, including livestock management .women in particular (70 per cent of the targeted households) will benefit from more secure livelihood assets through the establishment of community gardens with irrigation systems, honey and poultry production.”
Dr Katepa Kalala, FAO representative in the Gambia said the project is consistent with the Gambia national agricultural investment plan 2011-2015 (GNAIP) which is aligned fully with the national development goals and aims to promote sustainable and diversified livelihood strategies for reducing the impacts of climate variability in the agriculture and livestock sector.
She said the world’s natural sectors, including agriculture, forestry and fisheries, face many challenges in meeting the food requirements of an ever-increasing population –such as intensive competition for and water resources and a degrading environment compounded by changing climate.
“Smallholder farmers, forest dwellers, herders and fisher folks are often the most affected by climate change because of their limited capacity to adapt to its impact,” she added.
“The project we are signing today will immensely benefit these groups to strengthen their adaptation capacity. The FAO remained committed to working closely with the government of the Gambia and all relevant stakeholders in the agriculture and natural resources sector for the attainment of its desired development goals.”
Are there any thoughts about planting trees to prevent the spread of the Sahara? Are the plans to replenish the seas will small fish when fishermen go to sea? My point is we need to consider sustainability eg how we can invest the money for long term gain not just accountability
Are there any thoughts about planting trees to prevent the spread of the Sahara? Are there plans to replenish the fish (e.g. via a project with fishermen) with baby fish? My point is we need to consider sustainability in the projects we design. That way our investments go further.
Yes, this is why we need a clean modern agriculture to increase production to it potential, and protect the environment for the survival of the biodiversity.
@Peace and profit both in terms of the material and immaterial
By the way, what i mean by clean modern agriculture is the practice of modern agriculture with the application of clean agricultural technology to avoid degrading and depleting the environment. If properly managed, it will largely increased production and saved the biodiversity.
My thoughts about planting trees to prevent desertification is: the UTG’s faculty in that respect, to start a collection of seeds or seedlings of the flora of the Gambia, especially wild big species like mahagany, figs, ‘Santango’, Keno and all those botanical names of trees I don’t know. They should be curious to make researches and experiements on every available seed or seedling of the country’s flora in order to make information and techniques available, as to how these wild species of the Gambia’s flora can be cheaply, easily and quickly regenerated across the four corners of the country, especially if that process wild create a meaningful job for the youth at that moment. You don’t encourage the youth by calling them to a ‘Set Settal’ or ‘tesito’. Dictatorship comes back to their memories. The government of the Gambia should be able to make Gambians realise some very good change in the country with nearly half a billion dollar in aid from development partners. If they fail to do so would mean the first signs of failure of the Barrow government. This is quite an important thought as observant people would be able to note the loss of half or more of the country’s mangrooves on many parts of the river Gambia banks and it tributaries too. This is catastrophic and needs a real scientific case study and findings by the UTG. A university is not a complete one if its science faculties are not in contact with a country natural environment.
We will ban plastic bags?? Hope so at least 10% of this money reaches out to destination farmers and really people who stands for agriculture but yeah knowing African leaders unfortunately will not be compelled as we know our new agri minister 15yrs ago ppp .this is Africa
This man, Omar Jallow, was the minister (MINSTER) of Agriculture during the Jawara regime. He was also the first minister(MINSTER) of Water Resources and the Environment again during the defunct PPP regime. What did he achieve in those crucial economic sectors during his flamboyant tenure in office? Besides aiding his families, loved-ones and buddies to obtain government scholarships and assistances, make an ECONOMIC BANTABA around his compound for his party stalwarts and WOMANIZE!
The money he has signed will go into handing out crucial agricultural projects to his close unqualified buddies/relationships, retrieve kickbacks from those projects and draw uncountable and unauditable per diems and allowances until the parent projects collapse or just run down without sustainable benefits. He was there when the GCDB, the Cooperative Union, the Agricultural bank all dwinddled in bankruptcy! What a HUGE error in hiring the service of such a ciorrupt and efficient person.
The corrupt practices have just started and BILAHI these people are akin to them and will never desist from the illicit practices.
The coming into the helm of our affairs of these corrupt people only reminds me of the tribalistic, nepotic, regionalistic and influence peddling behaviours of the defunct PPP regime. We’ll see the worst in the Barrow days with his clique of old corrupt elements!
Purely pessimistic. Give him a chance again.
I could have been very different in Barrow’s shoe because I will ban the APRC as illegal. That move will prove me short of democratic values and become very very unpopular and be dubbed ‘revenger’.
O.J is a matured politician I guess that is why he may not allow his memories back on that day when they were all arrested as cabinet ministers harrassed and disrespected on the national radio.
The Aprc should be just ashamed of themselves if they have not soon forgotten Aprc regime’s atrocities on Gambians. The Aprc are not just corrupt a regime, they are daylight looters of citizerns’ properties and as well as takers of their lives and healths. The Aprc bigwigs have all got their canines dripping with blood. They are horrible.
Babu, you have made some good points with regards to how projects were managed during Jawara’s regime. However you didn’t do yourself any favours by not making a similar analyses of why Agriculture has remain a fail sector during Jammeh’s regime. These two presidents has in 52 yrs mismanaged the Agricultural sector to a point that it barely exist now. I know we all have our political bias but injecting a degree of balance in our commentaries will be good for our country’s future. You cannot blame the PPP for the woes of the Agricultural sector entirely and pretend that there was never an AFPRC/APRC regime of 22yrs. To convince readers that you have the best interest of the nation at heart, you should apportion blame correctly. I would agree with you that there was nepotism in PPP regime but you cannot accuse PPP of tribalism. How many Jolas were incarcerated after the failed 1981 coup? The answer is very few, perhaps a handful. The majority of those detained and imprison were Mandinkas despite the coup leaders being Jola. Tribalism and tribal appointments were Jammeh’s speciality. It was Jammeh who brought tribalism into the affairs of the state. There is enough documentary evidence to support this if you really care about the issue. PPP regime was guilty of “who you know not what you know appointments” not tribal appointments. APRC regime on the other hand has combined tribalism and nepotism and multiply it by 100. In the end , it crumbled under the combined weight of those two ills.
Buba Sanyang
When I read your statement: “PPP regime was guilty of “who you know not what you know appointments” not tribal appointment” , I observed that you face that fact/reality of the nature of the appointments with altruism, but conversely disagree with you that they weren’t tribalistic.
The “who you know tendency” in any sharing of the national cake is in itself tribalistic. Thus appointments in our civil service during the PPP era were all dished out within the Banjul Quadrangle and largely to high-profiled Wollof, Akus, some Mandinka and some Fula personalities.
I spent almost all my childhood days in Banjul until I completed my secondary school education to go to the then Yundum college. I realised in first degree how our government institutions were barely Banjul-born institutions and how many provincial chaps had no option other than take menial jobs in the agricultural and/or teaching fields.
The coming of President Jammeh was indeed unprecedented in uprooting that adverse tendency. The Jolas and my tribe(Mansawankas) and many other minority tribes weren’t visible in the nucleus circle of official appointments. I would say the social, educational and political emancipation of these minority tribes was singularly spearheaded by the President Jammeh administration. That’s why you can find some Jolas, some Manjakos and some Manswankos in acceptable public positions, today. That’s indeed the FAIREST path to good governance, isn’t it Buba?
Mind you, Secretary General Fadera, a Mandinka from Kiang Nema has “duly” started to overturn that balance in favour of his buddies. That’s the plausible repetition of the PPP regime.
President Jammeh overhauled the decadent social and econòmic standards of the Jolas, the virtual housemaids(N BIN DANO) in all our metropolitan households. Jolas housemaids who were liable to all sorts of physical abuses and sexual harassments in the hands of their unscrupulous “employers”.
President Jammeh also single-handed overhauled the agricultural sector by investing his own laudable and exemplary efforts, time and resources in rejuvenating the sector. He facilitated the irrigation and ploughing of all arable land which to this day will be productive in Jahali Pacharr and a lot of rice fields and ferms in the NBR, LRR,WCR and URR. He promoted cashew nuts production and constructed the first multi-purpose mango processing plant in Kembujeh, near Kombo Brikama. Today we are seeing an increase in the processing of our primary raw material to cater for the consumption of home-made produce.
Agricultural production had already taken a new impetus during the APRC government. Except for peanuts production which is not faring well largely due to the drop in world market demand, vegetable and horticultural production were multipled and herdsmen live conveniently from cattle rustlers, thus increasing production and supply of meat and milk.
The foundation for a sound and sustainable social and economic emancipation, and a self-reliance attitude of what one can do to improve one’s lot has already been laid by President Jammeh. ONLY THE VERY LAKADAISICAL ONES DIDN’T HAVE ROOM TO MANOEUVRE IN THE GAMBIA OF PRESIDENT JAMMEH. WILL BARROW BE COMPLACENT?
Not every one can be enslaved. Not in a foreign country much more at home. Moderate minds would like to sacrifice in good cause but can never be enslaved, they would rather die. The Indigenous tribes of the Americas cannot be enslaved, the main reason for the cross Atlantic slave trade because the first missionaries might have learned from Africans themselves their desires to enslaving one and another. ONLY THE VERY ……ROOM TO MANEUVRE……..IN THE GAMBIA OF PRESIDENT JAMMEH. What and easy letting out rubbish. You are the one who need to talk less and do not more, but better.
Babu, my overriding interest in Gambian politics is how collectively we can develop our beloved nation and make sure that government works for all not just the privileged few. Therefore, I will agree with anyone when they make a fair point but will not hesitate to put forward counter arguments to points I disagree with. Babu, PPP appointments were due to nepotism not tribalism because Wollof boys from the provinces were not given top jobs. The only way provincial boys get top jobs was by marrying someone from Banjul. Hence the reason why most of them have Wollof of Aku wives. Not all that happened in the PPP regime was good nor was all that happened in the APRC regime bad. However the almost complete destruction of human rights protection laws has made the APRC regime worst. Jawara may have not build roads, schools, hospitals and a university but he has given us democracy and human rights. Babu, you went to Yundum college so you will remember the number of strikes the students had both in Yundum and Brikama campuses. You will perhaps remember the student demonstration of 1987 just before the elections. The reaction of Jawara has always been, dispersed them with batons. Never was a live bullet used to disperse students. Fast forward April 10-11 2000, Jammeh order massacre of students. That is unforgiveable Babu. Jammeh has supressed freedom of speech to a point that it rendered the University and other institutions dormant because people were afraid to offer differing opinions. The adage poverty in freedom is better than riches in slavery come to mind here. Babu, Jammeh’s Agricultural policy only works for Jammeh. He was not able to scale it up. Babu, I agree something had to be done to make sure everyone has a share of the national cake, however Jammeh went about it the wrong way. He replace nepotism with tribalism. Jolas, like all the other tribes in Foni had the same opportunities to education. It is therefore wrong to blame anyone for the failure of parents to send their children to school. Yahya’s parents sent him to school and he worked hard to pass his common entrance examinations. What stopped other Jola boys from doing that? Yahya could have encourage Jolas to send their children to school to achieve something. That I would have commended him for but not giving Jolas preferential treatment in getting access to scholarships and career opportunities. Babu, if you look at the memo Federal sent to the president, only 3 of the 12 names on the list are Mandinkas. So I won’t call that tribalism.
Buba Sanyang: I must admit that you are slowly but surely “seeing the light”. I am not sure whether to Smile or Cry. Thank you for allowing yourself to examine both sides of the Gambian Ethnic and Political Practices during the First and Second Republics of Jawara and Jammeh’s Presidency. I however, see that you still need some therapeutic help to move beyond the Affinity Sentimentality. I can understand that, if only you are not so much invested in the Contradictory and Wrong Direction of logic. Jawara’s Presidency And Regime was indeed Tribal in the way that it went about hiring and providing scholarships to mostly Mandinka extraction or the “Banjulkolus” who were either related to him by Marriage, by former religious affiliation (Muslim, Christian, then back to Muslim depending on the Political Winds), or by his Political Party Businessmen who Fund his Campaigns. It appears that JAWARA’S Regime would Pander to anyone or group who greases their Political and Economic Pockets. Jawara had Three Phases of governing. The first was from 1965 to 1970, from 1970 to 1980 and finally from 1981 to 1994. During Jawara’s First and Second Phases, he needed the Aku/Creole in-laws and the Wollof Financial Backers who later became in-laws (the Njies). I am not sure if I can strongly Condemn him for being an Opportunist and a Political Chameleon who changes his color to fit his environment. This is why during the First decade or decade and a half of the First Republic, there were at least two Functional illiterate Permanent Secretaries who could not read, write or speak English, which is the Official designated language of the Gambia. The two weeks all of Mandinka extraction. One was from the then Kombo South, Western Division and the other some where in the Upper or Lower River Divisions. I can’t be Quoted on this, but I Think it was Kiang where the gentleman baked from. The “Alkalolus” and the “Seyfolus” or Chiefs were 95 to 99 percent of Mandinka extraction similar to Colonial times. The Civil Service was in for the most part during the first Decade in the Aku/Wollof Alliance’s Hand due to the lack of Education and Administrative Skills among the Mandinka extraction Party Cadre and general population. By the end of the First Decade and a half of The JAWARA Regime, there were enough Mandinka extraction trained Middle management and Political class to assume the Positions. This was the approximate time NCP was coming to the Political Scene demonstrating that the “Mandinka have finally arrived on the Gambia’s Political Scene. This is the Third Phase. It is 1980 to 1994, and the Gambia was in the throes of a very deep and hard Economic and Political Developments. Agriculture was not performing as well as it used to and there was an influx of even more desperate Ruralites moving to the Banjul, Bakau and Serekunda Metropolitan Area exerting more pressure on the Public Services of all type and kind. These are the days when getting a job or getting in to a High School even though you Passed G.C.E., you are not guaranteed a position that you are the most Qualified Individual. That is, unless you are a Mandinka extraction Gambian and can narrate the Clan relationships and or Marriage Connections. It may be tempting to conclude that the Mandinka Hegemony during the First Republic under President JAWARA was not Tribalistic, it was who you know. Such an analysis demonstrates a lack of understanding of one very important Variable. That is, the Gambian government was mostly Staffed, managed and run at the top by Mandinka. That means, the rest of the Gambians were at the Weem and Mercy of the Majority Mandinka “Gate-Keepers” and Usual than not, they demanded a bribe of some kind or form to get or receive Government service. The situation was so bad that people had to give a portion of their Salary as a Condition of their employment. Another Corruptive Practice commonly used by those in Power, the Mandinka, is finding work outside of ones work place and having the employee Clock in at one Office or WorkSite but then go to another Worksite to work for the day. The payment for the Second Worksite is made directly to the employees’ Boss. I would not be Surprised to find that such Corrupt and Corrupting behavior is being Dusted off the Selfs and Folders of the First Republic to be applied in the Third Republic. Adama Barrow and his Clique need to with Due diligence and Require all Cabinet Positions be required to Declare their Assets and Banking History for at least three years prior to being offered a position. This would help weed out ilegal padding of Bank Accounts by Benefactors who want to Unlawfully Benefit from the Prospective Cabinet, Administrator, Management or Middle management Civil Service Positions. Civil Servants need to be evaluated every three months on Criterias. These are, Punctuality, Quslity and Quantity Work Output, Reliability and Dependability. These Criteria needs to be assigned a Score to have a threshold that all employees must achieve or face Discipline. Inorder to avoid the Ethnic and old boys conspiring to punish those who they do not like, while rewarding and promoting the Deficent or low level Performance. Government does better when it is People Centered and Service Delivery Focused. When it is Not Content with what it Achieved Yesterday, but what it could Achieve Tomorrow and beyond. Such a government cannot afford to be Ethnic Group Interest Politically invested. It has to be Diverse, Egalitarian in Action.
@ Sidi. N. Bojang, i agree with your summary of political history in The Gambia. I will continue to argue that our unity, peace and security are our basic foundation to lasting development and the reinforcement of our democracy. We should do our best to defeat corruption, without which we are bound to fail.
Sid, I have not seen any light. I have always been objective in my analysis. That is something which is foreign to you. You are obsessed with Mandinkas and want us all to see things from your one dimensional view and approach to the Gambian problem. I invite you to go over all my postings on the forum and learn from my logical impartial way of contributing to the debate. You should try and let go of the grudge you had against Jawara and PPP. It has blinded you to the truth, you can’t see the wood for the trees. Your futile attempts to justify Yahya’s tribalism by mixing facts with fiction won’t work. Perhaps you can’t differentiate nepotism from tribalism.
THE QUEST FOR “Mansaya” AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DESPOTISM IN THE GAMBIA. THE CASE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC.
Dictatorship, Tyranny and Repression is what defines Despotism. It is Not in the nature of man or woman to Volunteer their Subjugation, nor the natural order of the world for any given Subjugated people to remain Subjugated. This Truism, I Heard, Witnessed and Believe in. Yet, time and time again, the folly and audacity of men and women had guaranteed that humanity engage in deadly Subterfuges of the first Order. Adama Barrow and his Interior Minister, Mai Fatty have embarked on or engaged in Several Disconcerting and Dishonorable behavior since the event of December 1, 2016 onward. The “Fronted duo” plus the over age Vice Presidential pick are up in over their heads. First, came the I’ll conceived notion of puffing and huffing with chest out like a chicken, taking a Knife to a Gun fight and talking about what they would do to President Yaya Jammeh following the announcement of the Presidential Elections and being Confirmed the Winners. There was the Extremists UDP PARTY MEMBERS expressing the various allegations against former President Yaya Jammeh’s government and Ministers wrong doing and how they were going to Prosecute them either in the Gambia or at the ICC. The Crude and Tribalist among them Speculated on the various punishments that would be meted out to not only former President Yaya Jammeh, but also to his Tribe, the Jola. They plunged into all manner of Cynical, Insidious and Subliminal Messages of DEMONIZATION and Character Assisination of not only former President Yaya Jammeh, but the entire Jola Tribe of both the Gambia and Senegal. The unadvised and dangerous Shooting off without much thought of the Consequences inherent in such loose and fast talk almost plunged the Gambia into a bloodbath. It created a Sense of tripidation and uncertainty among GAMBIANS for more than a month. Mean while, the birthparents of the explosive situation, Adama Barrow and his UDP led Faction within the Coalition Party fled to Senegal and remained in Senegal UNTIL the Impasse was Resolved Peacefully with former President Yaya Jammeh departure for exile to Equitorial Guinea. First failure of LEADERSHIP. This was followed by Mai Fatty, being assigned or assigned himself a “Special Adviser to the the President Elect and then went on to hold a Press Conference where he alleged that 55 Million Dalasis was Looted by former President Yaya Jammeh in the days that the Political Impasse was going on. Hon. Halifa Sallah, the Coalition Party Spokesman came to the rescue, debunking the insidicious and blatant lie laid out by Mai Fatty with reference to the Phantom “Missing Millions of Dalasis”. Second failure of LEADERSHIP. The President Elect Adama Barrow’s eight (8) year old son was allegedly mauled by a family dog and died as a result. The poor child was buried without the benefit of “his father’s presence at the burial, because he was at a Hotel in Senegal with a Clique of UDP AND THE ONE MAN PARTY OF MAI FATTY LIVING IN LUXURY AT THE COST OF THE GAMBIAN PEOPLE’S TAX OR TREASURY MAI FATTY ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN LOOTED. NOTE TO THE READER, THE CULPRIT, THE DOG WAS EXAMINED BY S VET., AND FOUND TO BE HEALTHY, NOT RABID. HOW AND WHY DID THE DOG SUPPOSEDLY ATTACK THE POOR CHILD. A DOG THAT ACCORDING TO THE OWNER’S, THE FAMILY, HAVE NEVER BIT ANYONE BEFORE. YET, THE RESPONSE OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT AND THE WIFE WAS PECULIAR AT BEST. NO FOLLOW UP INVESTIGATION OR UTOPSY TO RULE OUT FOUL PLAY. WHY? THIRD FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP. After returning to the Gambia from Senegal where Adama Barrow and his Clique were Entertained and vis versa, they again threw out another “mother of a lie” when Adama Barrow and his UDP led Faction and Mai Fatty again alleged that “the State House has been poisoned” with a Substance that was allegedly applied to the Air Condition System. This lie was told to the Gambian People as a justification for Adama Barrow and his UDP led Coalition Government’s desire to reside at a Hotel in the Gambia as they did in Senegal during the Impasse at an unheard of cost to again, the allegedly Looted and Bankrupt GAMBIAN Treasury. Millions of Dalasis are being Squandered by these Corrupt and utterly Tribalist Rogues bent on Self-Service, Self-Entitlement and Enrichment at the Expense of the Gambian People. The Senegalese ECOMIG FORCE General informed the Gambian People that there was and is no Substance or Poison at the State House and that he is the living proof of this fact… the General himself who tested the Air Conditioning System and found them to be not poisoned. Fourth failure of LEADERSHIP, and a rather costly one to the Gambian People and continues to cost the Gambian a lot more. GAMBIANS Should Demand Adama Barrow and his UDP led Faction Hotel residents should Forthwith Vacate from the Hotel and Occupy the State House as is Expected or Required of a President. Fast forward to the Appointment of Cabinet Ministers. This task was also bungled. First, the old lady Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang despite her age which is over the Constitutionally Mandated Provision, was Appointed as the Vice President Contrary to the 1997 Constitution. Then came the Appointment of a Cabinet Minister who is a Convict. He was arrested and Convicted of a charge of Drug Possession and Distribution, Cocaine and Served time for it in Germany. This, like many other violations of the 1997 Constitutional Provisions, are not Corrected nor Recinded, or Nullified. Fifth failure of LEADERSHIP. The Timber, Trucks and their Gambian driver’s Case. This is the recent example of a typical failure of LEADERSHIP Quality from Adama Barrow and his UDP led Faction and his Clique. The incident illustrates the Control Senegal now has over the “Mansaya” regime of Adama Barrow Mai Fatty and Ousainou Darbo who have in many ways sold out to Macky Sall and Senegal. The Senegalese ECOMIG FORCE General Stopped, Trucks carrying Timber within the Gambian boarder and proceeded to Detain the truck drivers and ceased the Timber. The truck drivers were later released but not their Cargo. If this is not a Clear Demonstratration of who the Boss is in this Unequal and dangerous relationship, I don’t know what is. Senegal is the Senior Partner and makes all the Decisions and Actions and the Junior Partner being the Gambia is compelled to implement the Orders as is. Item, the Senegalese ECOMIG FORCE General interdicts the Timber and Ceases it within less than a week, the Gambian Junior Partner Declares Timber import and export illegal in the Gambia. Let’s examine and observe the situation with patriotic honesty. WHO is governing the Gambian Homeland? Uncle Macky Sall, ECOWAS/ECOMIG FORCES’ SENEGALESE GENERAL OR BARROW AND Clique STILL Vacationing at the Hotel? The answer is Clear as the Vice President’s age and the Convicted Minister who should all not be appointed to the Coalition Government of Incompetent and Disorganized Pack of Wild African Vultures perched on the eminent death of the Gambian Republic as we know it. This is the Sixth failure of LEADERSHIP Quality from Adama Barrow and his UDP led Faction and Clique. The Crowning Jewel however is the “Do Over ” Swearing in and Inauguration held at the National Stadium in the Gambia on Saturday, February 18th, 2017 which is also the 52nd Independence Celebrations of Gambia’s “Independence” from Britain in 1965. Though this was supposedly planned since January 2017, the whole event was a fiasco of immense proportion which resulted in the deaths of at least three or more Casualties and an almost Crushing or Stampede of the event Attendees including the Ambassadors and other Dignitaries whoes Security and Safety were reportedly Compromised by the Negligence and Unprofessional management of the Event and Celebrations. For the reported cost of the event, which is estimated to be between 30 Million and 40 Million Gambian Dalasis, there should be No Gambian Casualties of any kind or Compromising the lives of Foreign Presidents, Ambassadors and Dignitaries. Put injury to an insult, Foreign Minister, Mai Fatty who is an Extreamist Jola Tribe Detractor, and Potentially a Jola Hater, Ordered the Paramilitary to Assault and Arrested an estimated 51 or more Women and Children of the Jola Tribe of which former President Yaya Jammeh is, during an incident between Supporters of The Foreign Minister Mai Fatty’s Party and UDP. The Despotic and Unileralist Collective Punishments being Ordered by Foreign Minister Mai Fatty and his Interior Ministry need to be Terminated and Surgically Removed from the Gambian People, especially the Undeserved Collective Punishment being Metted out to Jolas as Settling of Scores against former President Yaya Jammeh’s Tribe. If this unwarranted Extra-judicial Actions by the Extreamist Minority of Mandinka extraction is Not brought to a Stop, the Impasse that the Gambia just overcame will be revisited and this time, we may not be in a position to resolve it Peacefully. JOLAS are No One’s enemy, except those who make enemies of the Jola. Don’t Start what you can’t Affordfford or Handled. GAMBIA is more than the Sum Total of One Individual, Ethnic Group or Region. One Gambia, One Individual and One Destiny.
These are simply lies and distortion of facts @Sidi! What is it you are trying to insinuate? Are you buying a face for yourself or someone? No one is a defaced in the Gambia but Yaya insinuated so as if he was trying to buy a face too for himself or someone else, launching insolent verbal war on some.
I do wonder from which extended family system will the first inventive scientist come from. That’s kind of record a family should be proud of. You fail to realise this fact that; The best idendity of a person or peolple is what common good of the greatest numbers they can offer as human resources, in their communities and countries. You are just proving to be an instigators for disunity and unrest. Can one really prove to be what he is not? @Sidi, dictators are power hungry so they’ll say things like; One Gambia, One INDIVIDUAL and one destiny thus INDIVIDUAL stands for themselves, the dictator and his cohorts. I think you have lost a sense or two with the downfall of your boss. There is discernable message of coldblooded menace to the security of the Gambia in all your writings and that should be alarming to the competent entities in the Gambia.
You talking about the minister Hendry Gomez appoint by Mr. Barrow…whom the German police have wrapped in their ‘Schwarz’ wrap sheets. In the 80s to mid 90s, what could be there for blacks in Germany other than marijuana, cocaine, an immigration detention center and a middle aged german woman?
The European police’s criminal records as such, on our brothers and sisters shouldn’t be disregarded but shouldn’t also have any effect on their appointments by the goverment or their resourcefulness back in the country.
Germany have moderated very well now, with regards to immigration and intergration but yet today, in some parts of Europe, an African or sub-Saharan is literally a criminal before you have a job to buy yourself with money, a legal status. Spain, one sister country of Germany in the E.U, is one example among such countries. One must be able to understand that the E.U’s potrayed humatarian policies and human rights values, are not a general reflection of police attitudes in its member countries. Most Africans/sub-Saharans have become a victim of a crude 20years old boy police in his first excercise in the street regardless of a crimial activity one might be involved in.
Once upon a time, a U.N worker had been stopped and harrassed by Swiss police before they know, oh my God! some African indeed can run for president right here in Switzerland, thus in an African saying; honorable man of his country but made a vagabond in another country.
Who owns the hotel that your President is using and the Gambians are paying for?
ladies and gentlemen, rambling Sidi is back!!
The present administration is less than 3 months old, can we please give them time? Considering what took place since December and the last 22 years, it is not easy to have everything smoothly running at this time, it will take at least 2 years to know the direction we are heading. It is now important to give the administration all the support they would need, and the same time letting them know the direction we want the country to follow, but in a civil manner.