You have demonstrated leadership and establish that indeed the people’s power is a force to be reckoned with.
You have compelled the Government to awaken to the genuine demands of the people. We will not allow business as usual. We will not buy empty official versions for free. We must not be complacent. Government never acts until the people act. This is the fact of history. Every government just wants to have a dormant and sleeping population so that they can bombard us with cock and bull stories. We must not tolerate that in The New Gambia.
The #OccupyGambia Movement shall flourish because it is the citizen action agency that will make leaders respond and cause public institutions become responsive and efficient in the delivery of public goods and services.
It is this Movement that will make leaders accountable and strengthen our democracy and ensure good governance in our lifetime.
It is this Movement that will empower our people to stand up to demand services and defend their rights.
It is this Movement that will tame the government and humble political parties and politicians to become genuine and effective instruments for public service and national development.
It is this Movement that will combat corruption and strengthen ordinary folks to voice out their issues and concerns.
Democracy and good governance are not achieved by politicians and officials in air conditioned offices with an obedient and dormant population. Democracy and good governance are always achieved by an active and conscious masses standing up and agitating and raising their voices.
Congratulations to #OccupyWestfield for starting the revolution to institutionalize democracy in The New Gambia. That journey of Solo Sandeng, Deyda Hydara and the April 2000 Students and many more must continue. We are winning!!!
Let us nurture this revolution so that we enjoy in our lifetime a Gambia that is truly democratic with adequate and accessible social goods and services available to all.
By 31 December 2017 if electricity supply is not put in order we shall occupy State House and the Parliament! Let’s organize!
Bravo #OccupyWestfield
God Bless The Gambia
Thanks for your actions.Agreed that politics starts the day after elections in one of your delibrations.However,that has to be in terms of none Partisan Politics for the intrest of all Gambians.Because only then will adequate response come from the informed and those who are aware of the facts on the ground.
People can lend themselves to sweet-tonge politicians or activists but at the of the day, truth shall prevail. And they will dump them like we have just seen in the december 1st 2016 elections.
It is one thing to understand separation of powers and quite a different thing to separate the people from their government. Not 12 months have passed and such kind of protests we thought would be a thing of the past. The enduring problem is that the very opposition that were counted on to bring change to Gambian politics are marooned in this very difficult coalition. Hon Halifa was instrumental in bringing about a consensus which enabled the coalition and appears to be for the most part, “biting his tongue” So we are left with the APRC and the GDC, to be vocal as the growing mouthpiece of discontent.
My fear is that this critical ban against what is fundamental protest for the cause of Democracy, sends a message across Gambia that sounds like a “whiplash” that can be heard loud and clear and may subdue the true voice of reason and be the beginning of fear based politics. { did we say never again in my name ? 10 months ago?}
WE are living in a very strange world indeed.
Come on man, let it be a protest in the form of a march along a specified trajectory, at the end of which everyone can go home in order to avoid blocking traffic at the epicenter of the country’s economic activities. What the hell is occupying a place like Westfield means? Isn’t it looking like exaggerated and chaos and very bizarre?
Everyone Gambian should be urged to send the right message across to the present administration but we need not occupy public space for issues like water and electricity shortage though the most essential utilities in our livelihoods. A ‘protest march’ is whats got a matured democratic nature and of course good meaning as well. Sit ins will just help get things sit back motionless ..
Should we forget in the first place that water and electricity are not just the rights of the small percentage of the population with access to it’s poor services, but a right of every Gambian to have access to such utilities sufficiently. Hope the protests when staged, will cause electricity to be accessible by 100% of the population. By the way, we needn’t call for a Tahrir Square kind of an affair at this point in time.
To also say, “forbid peaceful protest” however, should be withdrawn and redressed by whosoever dared utter such a dictators’ jargon. Any ban on protests must be immediately lifted and apologised. Sit ins too by masses, in public spaces must not be tolerated in my opinion.
Bourne, you have hit the nail on the head. The police have every right to deny anyone permission to occupy Westfield. But what i found most interesting about this whole issue is that people keep saying its a democratic right to demonstrate, which is true but they refuse to accept that the same section of the constitution which makes it a right also curtails that same right in subsection (4). It seems that some people want to cherry pick what sections of the constitution to accept which can’t work. Furthermore the authorities are engaging the organizers in dialogue which was what everyone said they should have done after the Kanillai incident. Now the same people are saying no you should not have dialogue, just let them protest. My understanding of any protest is to put the authorities on notice. So why protest if you get the attention of the authorities before the protest?
The consequences Jammeh faced for the death of Solo Sendeng and the imprisonment of Darboe and others for their brave arm in arm protest was enough to remove Jammeh to his Equatorial prison. What is so infuriating is this cancelled protest was not about death or torture or aggravation against a foul and heinous President or government. It does not represent any threat or intended threat against Barrow, or The State of any of its institutional apparatus. It is an expression of public concern over basic needs for life and industry.
Buba, I’m glad you also acquiesced to ‘opposing a Westfield sit in’. It is senselessly exaggerated, chaotic and creepy. The stakeholders in ‘that proposal’ have fail to elaborate on the difference between a “protest march” and a “sit in” at Westfield.
Mike,
To make a blockade at Westfield seems progressive and very peaceful to you, isn’t it? Frankly speaking, you sound to me like you wish you see everything in the Gambia head south. Had you ever really been supportive of Solo Sandeng and co.’s activities? I remember you spoke the most abstract language then. I have one time been convinced of your close relation to Star wars chief ..
I personally had never once been in support of any party nor a particular government except for the fact that I’ll hate, and vehemently critique any party, organisation, group of people or government in the Gambia who are contempt for democratic values. Democratic values however are open to a marathon of rational debating but not a journalistic marathon. Anyone with an enlighten sense of reasoning know when an act, a gesture or utterance is democratic or
creepily outrageous.
Mike, why can’t anyone understand the potential of the intended peaceful energy/NAWEC protest being hijacked by elements for chaos & distructive tendencies, with probable costs of lives, properties & livelihoods…?
I’m sure the protest will go on under police permit if it’s political show just like the political meetings lately…
Even after allowing the Westfield occupy event to issue will come back down to the dialogue table where it’s already been without the physical protest on the streets…??
Then there’s more & ulterior motivation to the blind insistence than mere energy criticisms…???
Rectification please – after allowing Westfield occupy the issue will… It’s meant to read; thank you
So called uniparty political Demonstrstor could have also been hijacked by other elements. But the acclaimed Lawyer denied all postulations and even challenged the arrest to supreme court. History has come too soon to be a litmus test!!
The only element hijackers of that uniparty demonstration was the evil kanilai murderer devil & the killer mercenaries at service…
Raped, tortured & murdered in cold blood, even when arrested & under (protective) state custody, in pretense for legal prosecutions…
I think history happens too soon for the ostrich buried heads, in futile denial & utopia attempts to turn the indelible clock back…
Gambia & decent humanity will see to progress & prosperity together with no turning back…
God bless the Gambia…
I think the rational thinkers here have merits and demerits;
Perhaps it is a question of “what type of protest”
A well organised protest at a designated place and a designated time with prior warning to the authorities, is what I support.
I would never support any protest with a hidden agenda to cause havoc and disrupt the nation or be close to inciting violence.
As for this preconceived notion that I want to see this government fail. The coalition have the Gambia’s future in the palm of their hands. Their manifesto pledges they signed up to….and the agreed tenets of The MOU have been neglected, and some would say “manipulated” to the will of some members of the coalition and not towards the goodwill given freely by the electorate.
I think to give support on the basis that “they” are better than Jammeh, is very weak indeed. We need to feel that this promised change in direction and system is plain to see.
Myself and from this distance the coalition have yet to give out the right sounds that the promised change has arrived. Banning any protest, whether it is taxi drivers, or disgruntled taxpayers or Kanalai residents, is not what most of us anticipated.
From an organisational perspective…this government falls well short in all departments.
History teaches us that an Englishman have never been a solution to human misery but infact are the cause of misery for humanity from the partition of India and Pakistan to the destruction of Palestine as a homeland of the Palestinian people to the destruction of Iraq, Libya etc, etc.
It is no surprise that Mike Scales wants to see our beloved country in flames. He is a hypocrite will always be a hypocrite.
Natty, you are very right, Mike is a hypocrite who thinks he can fool people by pretending to have the best interest of the Gambia but acts otherwise. But as the saying goes “you can fool some people some of the times but you can’t fool all the people all the time”
The fact Mike, is you aren’t truly concerned except in hypocrisy & meddling…
Any &/ every right/s one always expects to be provided, comes equally with responsibilities required towards the very community of the very person demanding the right/s from…
Then the security institutions are the experts mandated for ensuring harmonious coexistence, who will surely issue permit as required in future when the issue still nesicitates the protest march holding…
Gambia coalition government issues are only voyeuristic endeavour to you; hoping to stumble on the scavenging; otherwise, Theresa May here has never won any public mandate to lead at any time on her own, yet she’s prime minister; what about the ‘paradise papers’, the £1.3 million last year & £442, 000 the British mps trousered this year; etc etc..?
The coalition agreements & disagreements aren’t new; which are healthy in any standard & must be expected here & there; just like in all mature democracies anywhere…
Only a devil (in your equal) can equate the current administration to what obtained 9 months back stretching 22+ years; the Gambia will rise above all evilness from anywhere, Insha Allah; & Gambians & well wishers & the politicians in particular know they can vie each other & stand realistic chances to sell ideas & govern on winning mandates in future elections to come…
The truth is Mike, you like to see us at each other’s throats tire other apart, whilst you hypocritically pour the petrol to inflame our community (while standing) from afar…
I opine you rather tone & receprocate in kind truthfully back to innocent Gambia where you were treated with all dignity as a person; except for whatsoever you were engaged clandestine, perhaps…
Even the paedophile tourists, who treaded the Robin hood domain, donning ‘blackburn’ robbers jacket, do enact some samaritan portraits…
Rectification please – the British mps trousered this year on allowances for meetings that they never attended, etc etc… it meant to read, thank you
Once upon a time I prophecised about the failure of this CORRUPT, TRIBALIST, VENGEFUL, RETARDED,INEPT, INCOMPETENT clique of “administrators” at Fajara. They have started to show their true colours.
These bunch of USELESS people cannot live up to respect democratic virtues and dispensation, yet they have tail-treading sycophants like Bajaw, Jack and Nasty Natty Dread welcoming them in their senseless decisions.
We have harder days to come!
The Babuunderland same old version of democratic values; vitriolic squealing. “Once upon a time”, when was that? I would guess that must be a 2000 prophecy ..
Man, you are humorous.
Babu Soli
Same old dishing of insults and castigation of your fellow country men and women is not going to put food on no one’s plate nor is it going to take us an inch forward. You are just a professor of contradiction. You have no ideas, no class, no virtues, no morals, no empathy, no soul just like the man whose praise you sing daily.
Gambia needs educated elites with ideas, the likes of brother Buba Sanyang, Brother Kinteh Kemo, brother Madi Jobarteh, brother Bourne, brother Jack, brother Njundu Drammeh. These non partisan brethren who call a kettle a kettle not the insidious lying and hateful idiots who called themselves professors but think with their anal cavities instead of their brains. These hateful idiots(Babu Soli and his dim witted,capital letters obsessed fool) who couldn’t see beyond their own shadows.
Only an idiot like you Babu can write such hubris about a government that delivered our people from bondage.
Rectification please Babu;… Bajaw tail tread sycophant to Gambia our homeland only & not politics…. Thank you
Bajaw; You don’t need an englishman to encourage throat grabbing. You do it better by yourselves. And Yes Babu Soli, they can stop protest and they can freeze freedom of speech when it chaffs at their own interests. They can also condemn Britain who gave them asylum. But you don’t see them leaving anytime soon to actually start a business and pay homeland taxes. Hypocrite ..what me, lol
Naaa !!!
I think the thinkers with true concern are the Gambian writers not the online anonymous nobodies who gather in a crowd to conceive a single thought. On behalf of the tax payers…we thank you for your labour and for paying english taxes. No doubt this will enhance our overseas aid budget and find its way back to Africa. All Africa should be proud of you all. As for democracy ? I shake my head. Opps they have taken the light again.
Mr. Scales,
Dave would say, “When people are dying, we don’t believe in giving excuses, what we believe in is doing something.” While leaders of rich nations say they should be proud of keeping their aid promises to Africa which they estimate at $30 Billion annually, exerted research efforts have established the facts that in fact, each year, $192 Billion get milked out of Africa as follows:
1. $46.3 billion out as
multinational company
profits
2. $21 Billion in debt
repayment, in cash or “kind”
3. $35.3 out through illicit
financial flow a part of which
is in tax evasion.
4. $6 Billion, lost on skilled
workers leaving the
continent
5. $17 Billion in illegal logging
6. $1.3 Billion in illegal fishing
7. $36.6 Billion as a result of
climate change Africa didn’t
cause.
* #HonestAccounts.
All Africa is not to be proud of people like me for taxes I pay in the West that may end up as part of Dave and friends’ Samaritan returns to Africa, because such Samaritan groups are nothing but blood sucking hypocrites and distorters of the actual picture of the so-called first world and third world countries’ multilateral ties.
How can I be leaving for home anytime soon if you have never looked back over you shoulder yourself since you left yours to come to mine in mine?
Mike, who are you trying to fool in your cheap insinuations that Britain and other rich countries are of help any in the search for remedy to Africa’s bad leadership and financial economic exploitation?
You seem to be a perfect example of a petit bourgeois of the West, who run the errand in exploiting the Africa Land, and using the status of her citizens in Britain and the rest of the West to portray a distorted worldview of the continents’ various predicaments. With the help of “your” sponsored bad leaderships in Africa, now ‘you’ look me with that scorn, then you eat up all my corn>a wise man made me aware .. So now Mike, tell me, who got to be chased out of the other’s town…
Remember once you appraised the fact that Gambians in the diaspora for contributing largely to foreign currency reserves of the Cbg! Now I know, that was a look of real scorn. Those remittance are just canary drops compared to what is taken out of Africa, including Gambia.
You don’t sound peaceful or rational at all and I’m not at all willing to let you go like this. A ‘little big man’ representing the Western be-easiness in Africa, with a dignified Gambia citizenship?
Mike,
Sorry for the various errors in my text, light is being tampered with in my head.
I’m pretty sure the senseble know it’s not everyone who has the asylum labels…
I don’t need to divulge what I do for living to a paodopile nobody like you who is calculated liar…
Better human beings know the true meaning of globalisation…
I for one, have & will always do anything for Gambia as incumbent responsibility mandatory upon every Gambian in anyways possible; that doesn’t mean one has to be physically present on the ground all times….
There’re Gambians & indeed Africans at home & abroad who can employ you evil soul for a live in housemaid; not belittling the job in itself which is decent earning through own lawful sweat in any standards but rather the affordability…
The Gambia recent political climate was as a result of the kanilai fiefdom infestations where evil criminals in your kind found some fertilite grounds as the only conducive for your dirty modus operandi…
I’m sure, except for your devilish voyeurism if you do have any truthful realistic worthwhile values at all for your own home there’s so much evil goings in Britain; from the Queen’s & others tax dodging in the paradise papers, Theresa May misled to deceive the Queen to form government on confirmed prior ‘DUP agreements’ which were deceptive at the time; the West minster sex & allowance financial scandals; the list can go into infinity….
I’m sure any sensible Gambias, including some who mistook you for real before are laughing at you, seeing through all the ‘me-me-me’ lies you have been spewing here all this while; which are true signs of self elevate deceitful lies… corning;
Oh, I forgot; it’s only God fearing Gambia & the coalition government who as the realistic sincerest must incorporate genuine critiques for the betterment & uplifting of our community; not the evil Western banditries where big fishes eating smaller fishes are pretty norms acceptable & totally ‘legal’…
I’m glad, Mike, my taxes, at least, going to impact on Queen & Duke Phillip’s winter allowance & upkeeps; some of it thieved away ‘legally’ by some corny mps expenses, etc…
However does a supremacist extremist skinhead on scouting (factually) digest that humbly; much more be acknowledged in gratitude & receprocation in humility; in who’s evil mind, I’m not entitled to decency at home & abroad but tyranny, strife, war, famine & asylum; only for the mighty West & evil self centred actors in your type to pledge some righthand clandestines in aid & grant / donations etc in pretence of humanity & ‘concern’ pronouncements, much of which are grabbed back with the left with the evil mechanism instigations & fuelings as in your actions on here…
You & likes; absolute disgrace to humanity…
Listen little big man; You can slander falsely accuse and make a mockery of honest and decent white people. But you will never have the courage to expose your true identity and face the consequences. You are a big fat coward sleeping in the shadows of the foul mouthed with bad breath. Not all Gambians are like you.
If all these cowards { and we know who they are} put bad language insult and mindless attack as their choice of weapons…online.
The core values expressed consistently by Bax, Dr Sarr, Babu Soli and Buba Sanyang Alagi Yorro Ceesay, Madi and Mr Drammeh and co…are what the readership needs to hear. You and your brother in deep shit, need to pipe down and listen. Have a really nice day old son. Thanks.
You see now how you get hot under the collar by accusing Bajaw of slandering and falsely accusing while making mockery of honest and decent white people, what about you making mockery of our honest decent elected black folks. An Englishman calling somebody immigrant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. What were your ancestors doing in Africa for 400 years? What were they doing in India, in the far East, in North america, in the Middle East? Were they holidaying? An Englishman have no moral justification to show that kind of decadence. Your ancestors inhabited our lands uninvited and our black folks will inhabit your land too whether you call them Asylum seeker or immigrant. You went to our countries robbed, raped and enslaved, while we come to your country to manned your Health service, your industries, drive your buses and your taxis
Corr; Alagi Yorro Jallow..{sorry Mate }
I have revealed my full identity, the readership following knows that; except for you, people know I have published opinions out & about with my full name at some points; bajaw is my middle name if you must know; why do anyone have problems with that…?
I’m not for the limelight & never will be contantrary to your deceptive type…
The British know who I am, I’m pretty sure of that; none of my compatriots you mentioned above will ever associate with your evilness, conduct & utterances on here lately…
Truth is Mike, we’ll all continue to laugh along with you on here, henceforth; as ‘Gambian nature’ some of us will still engage you along in your clown mascots hilariously while all actually laughing at you in essential reality…
Not all Gambians have your divisive and devious mindset chum. {as you claim}
Your a bad apple in a barrel of illusions. Come now….what’s your name and address.
The paradise papers, British mps fleecing, Theresa May deception to form government on alleged DUP agreements, etc etc are all in the news in Britain currently…
Anybody can search out on the web/net; I am not making them up neither the source of the information…
You were caught of guard in your evilness Mike…
What else can you do about it…?
The law of averages deems that some bad eggs enter all institutions; But we don’t put up with them and vote them in for 22 years. We expose them, investigate them and charge them. Any other business today Mr Big Bad anonymous immigrant ?
You are almost funny {laugh} Not anything like my many Gambian friends and associates. It must be something in your upbringing or past / Please tell us your sob story .
Whatever (names) I may be, I left God to judge me on my honesty & dedication in integrity (towards my home community & anywhere I may live at given time, for humanity in general) in fallibility & prone to mistakes as humans; meanwhile you, certainly & anyone else are entitled to opinions about my small self…
I’m certain, I for one won’t surely waste my time on you; not again…
I and many other will be so relieved Mr little big man. Enjoy the rest of your day.
A HUMBLE REMINDER AND A CALL TO ORDER: Divergence of opinions, no matter how unpalatable, as well as respect and tolerance for such divergence, is the very essence of FREE SPEECH and DEMOCRACY.
This forum is admired for being the “Bantaba” (meeting place of minds) where those interested in Gambia’s affairs (nationals & friends) converge to express different views, share experiences, provide moral support where needed and propose resolutions to challenges our nation faces, thus becoming a resource for us all.
Let’s maintain that “culture” and try, as much as humanly possible, not to fall to the temptation of perceiving differences as indicative of negative intentions towards the new government, the president, the country, the Gambian people or the African people/race as a whole, warranting unpleasant reactions, particularly in the form of personal attacks.
Please, I urge all to calm down and be positive. We are ONE community on this forum and we must treat each other as friends with a common interest, but differing in our views of, and perception on, the issues we discuss. CHEER UP GUYS. WE REMOVED THE DICTATOR TOGETHER minus Babu Soli and his “friends”.
Bax
You are a gem!
You missed the point( inherent in you) by citing these people(Buba Sanyang, Kinteh Kemo, Madi Jobarteh, Bourne, Jack, brother Njundu Drammeh) as brethren “who call a kettle a kettle”. That’s until recently.
They have sided with the CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT and UNDEMOCRATIC clique of club boys at Fajara for a long time. It’s until now that they are making their voices heard to these SILENT KILLERS in administrative dressing.
The sine qua non of a people’s socioeconomic and political development lies in the education of the masses and their leaders. It’s equally incumbent to have a sincere and dedicated leadership for any development tenet to prosper. We lack those tenets in our present “administrators”.
This has always been my point of view since the INCAPABLE, CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT bunch of SELFISH people took over in January 2017.
But most of our “educated” blind-folded opposition kept on giving their support to a group that is gradually disappointing their expectations.
Though, it’s not late to take them on, this USELESS administration has done much damage than good and the whole episode has already wearied the intellectual feat/standing of those who supported and continue to support them.
My point has always been to focus our collective attention on grooming COMPETENT, SINCERE, PATRIOTIC, INCORRUPTIBLE, NON-TRIBALIST, SELFLESS citizens who could flush this bunch of INEPT administrators out of office.
Our time is being wasted with these wasteful people.
The Westfield Demonstration organizers wanted to ask a few questions to the STUPID administrators.
1). Why didn’t they abort their wasteful Hajj trip to the Mecca when they knew that there was acute shortage of electricity and water supplies?
2). Why didn’t they abort their wasteful trip to the UN Meeting in September when they knew that there was acute shortage of electricity and water supplies?
3) Why didn’t they abort their wasteful trips to South Africa, Qatar, Europe, Rep. Congo, Rwanda, Senegal when they knew that there was acute shortage of electricity and water supplies?
4) Why bloat our civil service with incompetent buddies, families and party affiliates when our farmers need fertilizer, seeds and seedlings; when our children need cheaper bills to go to schools, colleges and the university?
5) Why spend millions of dalasis on grandiose and useless independence/inauguration ceremonies, trips to visit Marabouts in Senegal, give away over 50 vehicles to NAMs, spend millions in refurbishing the State House in Banjul and a personal office at Fajara when our feeder roads are yet to be constructed?
6) When most of our people still find it difficult to put the required 3-daily meals on their mats/tables, why are these SELFISH people policking about President Jammeh(giving D500,000 per month to each of the Commission members) without presenting tangible development projects?
These and other national headaches were the questions the demonstrators wanted to manifest.
WHY DID/DO THESE IDIOTS CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE THEIR PERSONAL INTERESTS at the EXPENSE OF OUR NATIONAL INTERESTS?
There was no need to discuss any form of aborting the showdown at Westfield. It was contrary to their contitutional rights, which they have accused the President Jammeh governmnent of denying to Solo Sandeng, who went astray to demonstrate without permission from the authorities.
Hey look Babu Soli, don’t let me come back again like the bin man cleaning heaps of crap behind you O.K …. How one can be so persistent in writing all your kind of nincompoop-head nonsense with such demonstrated pleasure in doing so is just amazing. I bet I will show 10 for you in the Clowns’ Trophy but if only you sign in for the competition.
Other than that, why would expect anyone to waste his time responding to your skyscraping nonsenses? Dunderhead!
Bax, ‘you can’t skin the head if one shys away from (occasional looking at the eyes) the eyes… ‘ Mandinka adage… Meaning – telling truth to the face are real tenets to judicious human dispensation; whether in religious &/ civil….
The racists rants & deviling behaviours certainly aren’t parts of any democratic credentials &/ ‘tolerance’ anywhere in the whole wider world…
If you choose &/ prefer to condone it in your due rights, it’s equally in others’ rights to condemn it dispensably; which is true democracy…
Rectification please – despicably – not dispensably; thank you…
Babu, some of the events you cited can’t wait; they are equally important & necessary for Gambia to perform in line with our worldwide community responsibility, while juggle along with the current economic & social issues faced at same times…
The current issues are rather more out of your evil kanilai devil’s making, than the cause/faults of the current administration…
The Westfield occupy, I personally believe, will have permission with state security arrangements for the march to pass if the situation isn’t amicably settled…
In as much as we exercise our inalienable rights to dissent, & demonstrations as last resort remedies when necessary, we equally have mandatory responsibilities placed upon individually & collectively, to the safeguard of the very same community we demand rights from; that’s not only owed to ourselves but for humanity & future generations unborn…
To disagree is over the common cause is healthy & natural, as in all & any communities world over; while ‘renew our promises all times towards the common good’ despite the ideological differences; just as in your national anthem…
Koto Babu, unlike you who is living in hateful denial and can’t see or say anything positive about this Government, I am an objective critique. I am one of few contributors here, who has on occasions agreed with harshest critics or disagree with supporters of this Government. Koto Babu I have written an open letter to President Barrow giving advice on piratical steps to move the country forward. What have you done so far?? I was one of the first on this forum who condemn President Barrow for accepting a gift from a businessman in Senegal. You have never contributed anything positive towards nation building on this forum. Are you seriously so devoid of any geopolitical knowledge to think that the trips you mentioned above are not in the Gambia’s best interest??? I respect you as my Koto but honestly you are an embarrassment to Gambian intellectuals. You can shout as loud and long as you want but you will never succeed in attributing the characteristics of your Boss Jammeh to this Government. I know you are reminiscing the Jammeh days of killings, torture, rape, corruption, incompetence, mal-administration, injustice and open state tribalism. That is the kind of environment your type flourish in. News flash Koto Babu, the Gambia will never go back to those dark days, so might I advice that you suck it up and live with it.
Natty, I’m sure if I draw the British police attention on the comments online here, it certainly won’t be Bajaw who will be liable for custodial racists persecution & any ‘slander’ made up at anytime…
I urge everyone to run factual checks online, on all & everything I said on here about Brits & challenge me on any lies &/ ‘slander’ that may be found…
Buba Sanyang,
Are you sure we won’t go back to what you refer to as “the dark days”?
Aren’t you aware of the sneaky covert methods used in administering the affairs of our country in the name of “change from the President Jammeh government”? Be sincere!
Koto Babu, no, we won’t go back to those dark days. For the fact that Gambians are holding this Government accountable is testimony of the transformation so far. Gambians had a reason to protest daily during Jammeh’s era, but dare not because we all know the consequences of trying to protest that time. Fast forward 2017, the protest organisers are freely going about their business, they were given air time on GRTS, all the local papers and radio stations are reporting it and most importantly the authorities approached them and started dialogue. This would never have happened 15 months ago. Koto am not naive to think that this Government will get every decision right but am willing to support and give them a chance to implement the changes necessary to strengthen our fragile democracy, which is necessary to move the country forward. I think you, me, and all others should work together to make that change possible. Sitting behind the keyboard and shouting profanities at the political leadership will not help the Gambia or Gambians. We have to remember that this forum is widely read and by many impressionable young minds, therefore we should express evidence based opinions instead of expressing opinions that we know are deceitful.
Quite true. Babu Soli can’t simply get over Babili Mansa’s defeat at the polls. May be, he believed in the billion year “Mansayaa” promise.
Bax as always you are a akin to a soothing bath in Epsom salts;Ahhhh
Me a clandestine paedophile who was Jammeh’s side kick….so outrageous, spiteful hateful and full of claptrap. Bajaw and Natty foul mouth…You have no hiding place. You are exposed for what you are.
Yes we will enjoy all opinions that are not based on personal vendetta’s, or back stabbing. You can now see how innocent people were trapped under Jammeh, for a few dollars more….am whistling….
It is a two way street Mike and our exposure for what we are can’t negate the fact of your hypocrisy, insidiousness and flipflopping. You have no hiding place either as we already know what the likes of you are about in our beloved continent. Devils in disguise, pretend to be our friends while robbing us of our meager resources, pretend to care about our children while abusing them in your hotel rooms, pretend to care about good governance while helping cement impunity.
Africa for Africans at home and abroad.
Bajaw, Bourne and Natty may I sarcastically remind you guys of the Gambian old adage “respect our elders” Ha!ha!ha!. Let us respect Mike’s age (laughs), he cannot sustain this level of intellectual assault. Lets give him a break, perhaps deep down he meant well but is going about it the wrong way and is coming across as a hypocrite or may be he is just a hypocrite, time will tell.
Buba, yes I know the adage but I can’t promise to stick to it once Mike is adamant, distorting facts about the rich Western countrys’ exploitation of Africa. Mike has the habit of getting foul mouthed but he shows bad temper by a little joke of a word.
Sanyang DOMORRLA, I can assure you; no qualms at all; theres nothing Sanyang can’t make Touray (to) do because we too knew food’s your obsession which we ensure you get in excess always…
I some times stay silent, following on this magnificent fora; not out lack of comments but purposely for the fact some comments both for & against political dispensation by various contributors on here speak for me already & at times beyond, how I would’ve say…
I won’t hesitate to remind any destructive tendencies to rationale…
I have criticised the ‘kanilai demonstration’ handling & urge for redress & compensation towards the victims for example, if any would alternately also want to point to my positives on the transition government among others…
Most of those demonstrators may be breaking public safely at the time while not entirely informed/aware on legal implications in their acts remotely manipulated from somewhere else…
The state, I argued, obligatorily should’ve reacted faster to deploy riot police on the ground, to safeguard fatal loss of lives which came to be…
Far from defend the action but purely from realistic security analysis…
Ecomig, unlike the local police, had the broader view security analyses & would not take anything to chance; & unfortunately, life got lost…
On Foroyaa, a demonstrator was quoted ‘Ecomig fired bullets on road deflected’ to hurt demonstrators…
The state have to admit to shortcomings & redress in my view, for their obligatory flaws at the time…
While I mainly keep quiet, follow to learn from one another & ‘more heads better than one’; as something valuable & worthy is being learned from every contribution here in our diverse capacities; in endeavoured dedicated strives to improve our community & world in general as global village…
But I also won’t shy away too from reminding myself, & anyone else, our collective responsibility mandatory to our communal society in turn, when & wherever possible; we had our forefathers endured under all situations, no matter how hard; passed the baton to us, in good faith; it’ll be ungratefully unkind for any to think, bent on self rights insistence blindly to destroy that for anyone else equally entitled to, & the generations unborn…
Mr Sanyang>> you’d be funny if you weren’t so ugly { with all due respect to ugly people } hahahahaha !!!!!
Mike, don’t leave your day Job, because you will be rubbish at stand up comedy LOL!! On a serious note what do you think of the Brexit negotiations and post Brexit UK. Also what’s your take on the US Commerce Sectary’s speech vis a vis chlorinated chicken and UK and to adapt US trade rules and standards. To me it’s ironic that British people voted to come out of EU because they do not want to be dictated to by Brussels only to be dictated to by USA. You cannot script it.
Don’t disturb me little man….I am about to get married. I need to conserve my energy.
Hehehheheh !!!!
Bajaw : You were born ugly and never improved.
Bourne; You’re a very inconsistent man.I would like to view the source of your figures, they show only incompetence of African governments and your claim of western exploitation is easily offset by the positive trade and profit and employment for and of African’s. Or would you rather keep your assets in the ground and grow mushrooms and live forever on western taxpayers??
I think Africa needs to learn negotiation skills that benefit the taxpayer and not the officials. If you see what I mean ? I am sorry to say in many countries, back handers are commonplace and that is more to do with the local culture of thrift than foreign investors. No backhander no deal…if you don’t do it, the next company will. So what would you do ? Be righteous and starve or be pragmatic and see how the profit margin stands up ? Business people sink or swim on profit not moralising and contemplation of the Ten Commandments. Sales ” Profit” Taxation” Trade Surplus” Balance of Payments” Investment of Profits” Sustainable Revenue” Growth” much joy> and upward social mobility.
The Bourne conundrum: Live proudly, no trade with the “white Man” and oh by the way Mr western man…can we have another loan or a donation. ?
We work. What do you do ? Its an economic battle field out there. When is Africa going to get competitive ? Gambia can’t even keep the lights on for more than 10 minutes. This has been Gambia’s story for the last 52 years. Man up and face the truth, without recourse to white people being the cause of your endless lack of self worth and confidence. Moaning and Groaning is forever the Gambian occupation.
A government Minister of The Gambia once said to me..”.It is the Lebanese and the Senegalese who do the work in Gambia. Gambians would rather sit all day doing nothing but complain about everything”. System Change Mr Hon. Sallah is long overdue.
Mike,
Of course I want to do trade with the “West” instead of “white”. The colors of the papers in my copier are “white”. Color skin “white” is very much a perception than reality. I’m not saying there is a colourless skin!
Where I got my figures….? It is not the Home Office for sure. I know otherwise won’t convince you. But, be rest assured many of the new generation of Africans, and therefore Gambians, are born to set the records and percentages straight with respect to what stands on their land or what lies underneath it as a natural resource, a reality that will look ugly and feel a like poisonous mushrooms to you taste. Trust me, these breeds of Africans/Gambians, will enlighten African/Gambian leaders, so they will not be monsters, circus clowns and idiots to the detriment of their citizens!
Mike its a lie, a foolish hoax, that Africa is benefitting from the Western country’s taxpayers. It is plain to see with your own naked eyes that the African asylum seeker is the least well-wished in the West. I intend to be consistently urging the Gambians and Africans to drop the corrupt practises and mindsets that was taught to and imposed on them by the former colonial Governors’ offices, and to abstain from enlivening the blame game today, in the struggle to shape up a better future for their younger generations. However, this is not to say that I will be passive to you Mike’s bigoted and disrespectful views of the West’s obvious self-centered interests in Africa, distressingly enabled by a quagmire of leadership in the continent’s various countries, which is to the health of Western leaders like a glass of exclusive vintage wine.
I can understand that you won’t mind to sink Gambia and any other African country in pollutants just to make you profits but don’t expect the whole of Gambia to be snoring while you doing it. It may take us the rest of life in trying to build airplanes and the super fast cars but it won’t take us that long to understand their usefulness and power of their farts. I know artificial intelligence contradicts the ten commandments so it isn’t a surprise if other people will use, abuse and refuse other people worth in this world. After all who knows .. if the earth indeed, was invaded from outer space by aliens without a sense of biophilia.
Profits profits profits. Does Mike truly truly truly care if they are dying?? But no! You won’t blame it on you, you will blame it on my officials you gave a joyride on your airplane and fast cars as your system set it up. The younger generation have started puzzling it out and you are getting worried Mike. Why do you think there are those leaders who want to stage earth threatening exhibitions of their achieved artificial intelligence? They look ‘mad rockets’ from their generation to generation, but must have been witnessing madness at heights under the cover of a new world order so-called civilisation. It perhaps ideal for all nations to make a progress in some kind of artificial intelligence of some kind … being it bad or very very bad.
Anyway Mike you’ve a point; my leaders whose brains could be manipulated to be bloody dictators and industrial embezzlers, by profit making professors, is not to blame on anything but the lack of sense of reasoning of my leaders, which is a very serious concern. This is the reason once again, that there are now those born to puzzle that situation out for a resolve. Please be on the ball but don’t let it sag. It’s a smile comrade!
Mike, the West only can boast of energy to keep light on because of nuclear power; which they weaponise in devilish INTENT, for mass human destruction of lives, property &/ livelihoods…
Only to corningly, fronted the ‘nuclear proliferation’ argument to deny others the positive effects of the nuclear fusions for usages & betterment to society, after they (west) got there first; same hypocrisy, isn’t it…
The recent north Korea & Iran inclinations are events unprecedented; sooner/later there will be more similar avenues for other countries to do the same out of choice to final resort solutions to break the abusive circuits of demonic West fat-cat devours of fellow human beings…
Mike, your mentality on here lately revealed some disturbing insights into you & your likes’ world…
I hope you aren’t to marry a ‘small’ baby face Nigeria who sought asylum with you…?
You see if I don’t say what you like to hear { and that is the truth} the back stabbing and the stupid allegations abound. Grow up !!! Stop facing west and build a house and a future.
I know the majority of Gambians agree with me because this is what they tell me.
Not all Gambians are the same destroyers.
‘Majority of Gambians’ that doesn’t include ugly bajaw & others…
How & why do (think) you know ‘majority Gambia’ more & better than bajaw & the rest who are unblical Gambian…?
What’s the name of current Gunjur alkalo, Mike?
Bajaw; I would broadly agree with your international synopsis. Just who is tugging at President Trumps heart strings in the Middle East ? Would you like me to get an introduction to Mr Omar Darboe ? Or are you just playing your silly deceptive mind games again?
Nope, Mike, not at all…
You have done your search good & came out with the alkalo’s right name; just your dare for more Gambian initiations, for keeping you update; keep it up blue eye Gambian…
The small rocket Korean man is a rashes agitating thorn in uncle Sam’s flesh in the image of mad Donald Trump currently, caught between the devil/s abroad on one hand, & at home in another, in the Russian manipulation connivance scandal & meddling in the last US election…
As a believer must never rule out miracles, I for one would hardly believe that P$$$-Grabbing Trump can race the tides & survive both of the storms; yet emerge triumphant standing upright…
Yes, the Gambia, God willing, is safer socio-politically now than before; after the demise of the kanilai murderer’s fiefdom; optimistically, things can only improve for the better henceforth…
Why not; you can visit the Gambia like everybody else whenever you like, as you wish; & get audiences with Omar Gicky Darboe…
Don’t forget to apply for a Gambian ID card, this time around, if you haven’t got one…
I didn’t want to use his nickname. I would hope to meet you all someday and sometime. God Willing.
We used to work well together Bajaw…these last 10 years. You are still my hero.
You have got guts. !!! All Jammeh has got is some rotten cabbages.Maybe he should grow sugar cane….God Is great !!!
Bourne: if the photocopier is more than 10 years old it is probably one of mine.
Yes I think you’re on the ball with your synopsis…can’t find fault at all.
Good work Sir !!!
Bajaw; For your future retaliation,,,she’s Kenyan Mother Angolan Father, Looks like Whitney Houston and sings like Freddie the frog . 37 years younger and thinks I look like David Bowie. {rip} “We can be heroes just for one day”,,,,,, Never give up !
Where’s my heart pills ?
Oh, right; nonetheless, she’s African beauty…
Never been to Angola but have been to Uganda & transited through Nairobi couple of times…
The fulani masai & other Kenyans are among the various beauty queens amongst the diverse African tribes; each & everyone in their own unique distinctive style & character…
Treat my sister well, Mike; & don’t let anyone nick her from you….
Yes she is a Nubian extra special beauty. I melt when she looks at me. God works in mysterious way his wonders to perform xxx Maybe I did something good one time ?