I don’t like Sam Sarr at all because of his past innuendos, credibility issues, and betrayal of trust against Gambians, which he’s trying to address today.
However, I admire his boldness in telling it as it is even though I dislike him. His past insincerity and shortcomings must be separated from what he said, as it relates to nothing but the truth. Even if it comes from the most filthy mouth of a sellout traitor, these individuals are all used charcoals and can not remember their past indignations, which makes it even more bizarre. At least Sam Sarr spoke the truth to the armed forces for once. I hate insincerity and insincere folks masquerading behind politics to silence dissenting views.
Neither Essa Mbaye Faal nor Sam Sarr said anything wrong that warrants the intervention of the Armed Forces through their public relations officer, Colonel Lamin K. Sanyang’s unnecessary rebuttals. In fact, these individuals said what every Gambian has said multiple times, even within the President’s inner circle, wondering why the Gambian Armed Forces are not providing security for our presidency.
So, give us a break and focus on reforming the security sector and staying away from politics. Continue living on life support by being redundant, as the GAF is right now, playing ludos, checkers, and scrabbles, making most of you hate the profession that you once loved. Continue being lethargic, underutilized, and inconveniently making it possible for some of you to embark on the backway journey, all because our armed forces have been demoralized, marginalized, and became boot shiners to foreign forces. This is pathetic, and if the army can not self-help due to their cognitive inability to accept the truth, that in itself is a huge breach of security that could lead to infinite lapses.
The Gambia Armed Forces possess some good, disciplined, hardworking, professional, and patriotic individuals, but it needs more reform than what we’re all seeing today. The Gambia Armed Forces, therefore, needs to be fully empowered, utilized, and ensured that they’re worthy enough to keep their jobs by embracing the truth and staying out of politics for their own credibility, professionalism, and the credibility of the office that many respected so much.
They need to be fully funded to make The Gambia food self-sufficient, their expertise is needed in construction, thereby cutting costs for other contractors, they should be making our roads through their engineering department while the government will provide only the materials. The Armed Forces have a lot of skillsets that need to be exploited to help The Gambia grow.
All these cannot be possible by appointing unqualified people as CDS and all other ranks, whose goals are to suppress educated elites within the Armed Forces and elsewhere in every sector within our government departments and their lined ministries. I’ve been there firsthand and know how it feels.
In conclusion, I think the Armed Forces are still suffering from Stockholm syndrome in defending the indefensible. They need therapeutic engagement to be relieved of their traumatic dictatorial minds.
