(JollofNews) – Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has suffered a backlash after he accepted gifts from a Senegalese property developer while on a state visit to neighbouring Senegal.
Mr Barrow was Friday gifted two luxurious properties worth 240 million CFA by Mar Thiam, CEO of Getran, with the aim of strengthening relations between Senegal and the Gambia.
The gifts sparked the ire of Madi Jobarteh, a renowned activist, who described the it as a “matter of serious concern that directly threatens our democracy.”
“The fact that the businessman said his gift is to show appreciate for his business gains in the Gambia potentially compromises the integrity of the president,” Mr Jobarteh said.
He added: “This is because such a gift has automatically become license for which the businessman could potentially obtain more contracts in the Gambia beyond and above what he deserves. For that matter, this gift must be rejected and returned to the owner. If the gift cannot be returned, then it must be transferred to state ownership.
In the first place, Section 222 which establishes the Code of Conduct for Public Officers in our Constitution states in sub-section 11 that: “A public officer shall not ask for or accept any property or benefits of any kind for himself or herself or any other person on account of anything done or omitted to be done by him or her in the course of his or her duties. The receipt of any gift or benefit from or on behalf of a commercial firm, business enterprise or a person having or negotiating a contract with the government shall be deemed to be in contravention of this paragraph unless the contrary is established.”
“Hence as per this paragraph, this gift is from a businessman who had once done business in the Gambia. Such business transaction may not have been a government contract, but the fact that the man gave this gift to the head of state, could potentially compromise the state when this businessman comes back again in future to seek any contracts. Thus for the purpose of probity and constitutionality, Barrow should return the gift.”
The gifts also infuriated many on social media.
Aliey Njie wrote on Facebook: “Since the president was travelling in his official capacity the gift should have been rejected on ethical grounds or be transferred in the name of the Republic of The Gambia and use as official resident for embassy staff. We can’t replace a brutal and corrupt dictatorship with a gentle one.”
Andrew Pjalo wrote: “No gifts period! Those Czarist and African tendencies should be relegated to the past whether well intended or for other veiled objects and purposes! Offering gifts to national leaders sets a dangerous precedents as was the case with the former PPP leadership where trucks loaded with free gifts of livestock followed leaders, on countrywide tours, back to Banjul. That amounted to pay for play then and still does today!! Or better still, donate the proceeds to a worthy charity for eternity.”
Pa Willi wrote: It looks like “The Pay to play” scheme could still be inexistence in the new transparent government. I think the gift to a president of a nation on a state visit should belong to the nation. Just saying; what do I know?
Natty Dread wrote: “ For the purpose of transparency that should be a national gift rather than personal, and I think President Barrow and his advisers should know better. Who give 240 million CFA for nothing? Scratch my back and i will in turn scratch yours days are over.”
For Buba Sanyang, while it is very normal for presidents to accepts gifts, “they must be registered and catalogue in the states inventory. Personal gifts are often small value items. But even that must me declared and recorded. President Barrow cannot claim those properties as personal gifts because his visit to Senegal is in the name of Gambians and also no private individual will give a foreign head of state such expensive gift without expecting some favour in return. I will be very surprised if Mr Thiam would make such gifts to Macky Sall. The National Assembly should demand that Barrow handover the properties to the state on his return to Banjul. Call me cynical but this seems to me like Mr Thiam is trying to win support for his company to be award the contract for the construction of the Bridge linking Farafenni and Soma. If he is given the contract other companies should challenge it.”
Honest Gambians Saidily wrote: “Is it wise for President Barrow to have accepted gift of two properties from a Senegalese entrepreneur in the person of Mr Thiam? Why would he offer our President such handsome gifts worth CFA 240m? I hope journalists back home would question our president why he accepted this offer on his first official visit abroad? In my view this is wrong given the fact that nine out of ten this is how business tycoons lure powers that be into corruption. I rest my case.”
Gambia indeed , experienced politicians needed as soon as possible. The gifts will end with the politicians, if Mr. Barrow does not know that because he has not a clue of the policy, just ask the Spanish politicians or his own former boss Mr. Cameron in London the Gambia lacks experienced politicians , is Mammah The future?? Come on young Gambian
The gift is definately thought provoking,what ever intentions or motives behind.It is my understanding that only thirty percent is due to the recipant abd the rest is for the Gambia,I stand to be corrected…..
Constitutional restrictions on foreign gifts don’t apply to presidents it says officers and a president is not an officers because he is elected and officers are appointed Ma stop fii
Ebrima, CONSTITUTIONAL or Not, the mere fact that the errant businessman Scoundrel, did not give Adama Barrow a gift of this kind that we know of prior to Adama Barrow been elected President of the Gambia under the Coalition Alliance, is ample reason for any Jackass to know how inappropriate and Corrupting an Act such Gifts are. It doesn’t have to be CONSTITUTIONAL for it to be Unethical and Malfeasant. It violates the Principles of Accountability, Honesty and Equal Access as well as the Oath of Office that states, “as President he would execute the Office of President Faithfully and Without…..Or Favour”. Why do you suppose, this is part of the Oath of Office for President and other Office Holders within and at the top of the Three Branches of Government? It is one thing to support a given Candidate or Politician, but indeed another to be willing to blindly follow and play Subterfuge for the Errant and Potentially Corrupt Politician. Politicians are Elected, they are Not a Monarchy and as such should never be worshipped. When we begin to Worship and throw Gifts at any Politician, he or she ceases to be an Elected Official and takes on the Personality of a Despot and a Tyrant. That is Not what GAMBIANS of all Ethnic Groups Voted the Coalition Alliance’s Adama Barrow into The Presidency for. Gambia is More than the Sum Total of One Individual, One Ethnic Group and Region. One Gambia, One People, One Destiny.
Sidi Bojang
This is the only time in your life that you say something sensible. Keep it up and please consign your pompous,twisted,false incomprehensible analysis to the dustbins of Jammeh’s Equatorial hiding place. Welcome to the human race!
Natty Dread, Simmer down before you go up in Smoke…in more ways than one. I am not a Partisan Hack like you and your travelling Ethnic enslaved pundit wannabes. Simmer down.
You won´t just give it a break…. It is very shameful for one to be writing like you. How about Jammeh who personalize the tractors, heavy duty trucks and foreign aid to The Gambia for his Kanilai family businesses. You are a perfect sample of the hypocrisy in The Gambia!
Nonetheless, Mr. Jorbateh made a good point with regards to the gift received by Mr. Barrow from the Senegalese property developer. It is a very serious matter among various bad conducts of the president. Mr. Barrow seems wearing a smart look but dumb in his behaviors which is too soon in his incumbency as president of The republic of The Gambia. A bill of impeachment should be pushed forward as soon as possible.
Indeed, the above is to Sidi Bojang.
The “Jammeh obsession” that is Subliminally and Insidiously extrapolated to all or any Jola as being Complicit will Not be left Unchallenged or Confronted. All Ethnic groups, from all Political and Social Strata in the Gambia participated in Enabling and Profiting from the Second Republic under former President Yaya Jammeh. The “Jammeh obsession” and the Ethnic Group Based Politics of Persecuting and Punishing MOSTLY JOLA TRIBE OFFICIALS OF THE SECON REPUBLIC, WHILE INSIDIOUSLY AND INTENTIONALLY LETTING OTHER ETHNIC GROUP’S GUILTY COUNTER PARTNER’S ESPECIALLY, THOSE OF THE OF THE MANDINKA PERSUASION, IS A RECIPE FOR INSTABILITY IN THE LONG TERM. When Ethnic Group Based Politics and Selective Ethnic Group Based Justice or Jurisprudence is Replaced with a Blind or better yet, an Egalitarian and Based Ones, I and others would be rendered Out of the Business of Keeping Ethnic Group Purveyor’s of Ethnic Hatred and Propaganda Camouflaged as a Negative Backlash against former President Yaya Jammeh. I never benefited from the Two “Js”, Jawara and Jammeh’s Regimes. I am Not a Partisan Ethnic Based Harck like most UDP Supporters as Evidenced by the many Exhibits of UDP Officials and Supporters’ since their Tribal Regime came into Power. Item, the arrest of One Fatou Badgie a Jola lady for allegedly insulting President Barrow, the Arrest of Jolas in the village of Kafenda for an alleged altercation with UDP Supporters on February 18th, 2017 Under the Order of Interior Minister Mai Fatty, the Assault of Foroya Journalist, Jephang by UDP Supporters at a Press Conference held by Ousainou Darbo, Mai Fatty and Hamat Bah, all of whom stood by and did or said nothing to the UDP Goons and Thugs Assaulting the Harpless Victim who asked questions the UDP GOONS AND MOB found distasteful. There are Countless other incidents of Extra Judicial Acts by the Likes of Ousainou Darbo and Mai Fatty and their Tribal Regime Supporters, while Adama Barrow Passes his time at the Hotel Watching Arsenal Football Games instead of attending to the Nation/State of Affairs of the Gambia and Gambians. The UDP led Government of Adama Barrow would do better, if it Develops a backbone and resolves to retroactively rain in the Goons and thugist behavior of all sides of UDP LEADERSHIP AND MILITANTS. ECOMIG SENEGALESE CONTINGENTS BEING STATIONED IN THE PREDOMINANTLY JOLA AREAS IS A CYNICAL AND DIRECT THREAT TO THE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENTS OF THE JOLA FARMERS IN THE FONI AREAS. LET’S BE FRANK, THE SENEGALESE CONTINGENT IS A UDP PRIVATE ARMY SERVING THE COALITION OF THREE: OUSAINOU DARBO AND MAI FATTY. As such they are an INTIMIDATING FORCE AND NOT A SECURITY FORCE TO DEFEND OR PROTECT THE JOLA. Going to Brikama for a Cynical and Opportunistic Photo-Op with Select Elders andPortion as well as Heap Blame on the Police for the Acts, Commissions or Omissions of the UPD leadership and UDP led Government would Not Do. Mai Fatty and Ousainou Darbo and their Tribally inclined Militants and Supporters, Need to know that Gambians would not Swallow the Muck they are dishing out for long. When they get enough of it, and it would be sooner than later, the “Mansaya” Despotic and Unilateralist Experiment would Prematurely come to a Sudden Stop. Mob rule Shall Never be the Norm Again in the Gambia, as it was in the Past, during the First half of Gambian Independence. Gambia is more than the Sum Total of One Individual, One Ethnic Group and Region. One Gambia, One People, One Destiny.
This is how corruption in governance get started, either by way of ignorance or will. President Barrow has to be brief on the protocols that govern the presidency period. I really believed that he is clueless about most of the responsibilities of the office, lets pray to Allah that he is a quick learner and has the ability to grasp full control of the subjects that matters to the Gambia people. Accepting personal gifts from any one entity as a President is wrong, unethical and down right stupid.
Hope this was a learning moment for him and others that will be coming after him.
Good luck Mr President and may Allah bless our beloved country.
It sounds reactionary, if not foolish to have returned those properties as the Gambia as a whole needs them.
They could have been accepted in the name of the Gambia as a whole, and could have housed the Gambian Embassy for example, or used as a Chamber of Commerce, or even as short stay homes for old, or sick people on medical treatment to Dakar- which is not uncommon, or for a host of other things. It beggars believe therefore that they should be returned considering, as the donor specified that Gambian money from lucrative contracts won against Gambian Entrepreneurs contributed to him acquiring those assets in the first place>
What a shame therefore that these Properties were returned! How much did that ugly,
not-so-necessary Arch cost? How much [more] did the Airport cost the Gambian people?
Business here to make money as you guys know that,, A government of 7 political parties will never work well and does not have a good end so Mr. Barrow knows very clear that as much will be there 3 years so make money accept gifts in return for contracts and projects , no gifts no contract
Laugh Out Loud!!!!!!
Corrupt, inept and incompetent!!!
How can a British Argos Store watchman become a “president” of a noble country and go clean? How can a corrupt Gambian estate dealer (most of whom are recorded for their notoreity in corrupting land and properties from poor people) become a “president” and exonerate himself from corrupt practices?
This boy Barrow is used to the deal/manner: “accept it brother and live well….DUNDA, BALLU! LOL.
We’ll have more sickening and saddening days to come from the bitty “coalition” and its incompetent and half-educated “president”.
We have very little to be proud of, Gambians. A “president” who in less than ONE month in office goes to the land of his benefactors to SELL our country by blindly signing bilateral treaties that would swiftly get the BambaTenda-YelliTenda bridge constructed and safeguard the over 350,000 Senegalese economic migrants. A ploy for further Senegalese military invasions. Sorry, mother Gambia. We have already started crying!
We are given a puppet “leader” remote-controlled from neo-colonial Senegal.
How much money was dished to the Serign in Touba and other religious caliphates in Senegal where Barrow was dragged into by Macky Sall to receive the patriach religious “blessings” that would “help” him defeat his enemies? Sorry, mother Gambia.
When will he visit the Senegalese Priest of Popoguine?
I know his enablers(“dr” Isatou Sarr, Idiotic Mike Scales, Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread……..) will surely justify the acceptance(tentative corrupting of a President) of these gifts.
Babu Soli
Welcome back Babu as you have been missing for a while. Both Dr.Sarr and myself agree with you this time that the gifts were inappropriate for an elected head of state to accept as it violated the principles of accountability and may even bordered around pay to play. You see Babu this is the difference between us,you and the previous government of the Kanilai monster. We acknowledged our mistakes, will always strive to rectify them in good faith. But we as supporters of this government is asking you opponents to do the same things, — acknowledge the human right abuses, the abrogation of our constitution, the self aggrandizement of Yahya, his family, close associates and some government officials during these last 22 years. We asked you to be fair and balance in your criticism of a government barely formed.
We are democrats Babu and we will hold President Barrow to account whenever he deviate from the principles of good governance, for that myself, Dr. Sarr and Buba Sanyang all came out to voice our concerns surrounding such a gift. We are not educated blind loyalist. We said it as it is, unlike you and your village idiot friend Sidi Bojang who only peddled lies, incomprehensible analysis and pompous false and twisted narrative.
We are patriots and will do all in our power to support this government in their efforts to create a fair and progressive society for all, irrespective of tribe,religion or gender, unlike you and your village idiot friend Sidi Bojang who only preach hate and division, whose only wish is to see this government unravel, followed by chaos and wanton destruction.
I wonder sometimes where you and village idiot friend Sidi Bojang were during these 22 years of our nation’s dark history. How you failed to see the various right abuses,the corrupt practices that were the order of the day and the pilfering of our meager resources by Jammeh and his cohorts. It seemed to me that you two adversaries are either cowards afraid to die, traitors or just plain fools.
For the purpose of clarity i will repeat Babu, President Barrow was wrong to receive such a gift as personal as such actions violated the principles of fair play.
Natty,
I take your discourse wholeheartedly. But you see, you always bash on President Jammeh’s human rights abuses, enriching himself without fairly making an iota of reference to good he did in 22 years.
I left the Gambia because I was denied further education, even at HTC in Sierra Leone or ATC in Ghana by the Ex-President Jawara government. Holding 8 “o” levels, 2 “A” levels with one of the best Primary school Teacher’s cerficates from the then Yundum College, promoted Head Teacher after only 4 years into my teaching career I was still denied going on HTC or a BA in Education at Hull University, UK which I was unequivocally qualified for according to the Hull university statement to the Ministry of Education. You know why, Natty, I was a provincial boy! That’s an anecdote of my personal experience but thousands of provincial chaps fell in the same net.
President Jammeh offered all those rights, opportunities to our youth, today. Why don’t you say that?
Apart from that when I hear/read Jammeh dissidents denying the laudable infrastructural developments he achieved in 22 years, I wonder why Gambians are so bad, self-centred and hypocritical in minimizing such visible evidences for our progress and development. Who in her/his sane mind should say those developments do not contribute to our national welfare? They might have never read texts on macroeconomics. I’m not an economist though, but I do read writings from renown development economists on matters pertaining to sustainable development. Besides, I am residing in one of the most advanced/developed countries in the world, Holland.
Where there are now sustainable hospital structures in The Gambia, Natty, I believe it’s time your “government” thinks about furnishing those structures with the necessary material and amenities without bothering about the infrastructural layouts. Isn’t that laudable, when President Jammeh didn’t inherit a standard airport, a TV station, a single public secondary school, a university…………..
You see, Natty, when I see the return of figures like Omar Jallow into our present political scenerio, those figures/elements who contributed to the social and economic decadence of our country for 33 years, I become VERY VERY jittery . I conscientiously continue to learn that the human being can be HYPOCRITICAL and SELFISH. What can those elements (re)achieve for the Gambia after their 33 years of mismanagement?
I would not enter into the human rights abuses of President Jammeh, hence I judge on merits, evidential proofs. Not on hearsays!
I’m still waiting for those proofs to surface to either accuse or exonerate President Jammeh. When those evidences surface, I’ll give my word!
Already the fraticidal feud has already begun within your ego-centred “coalition” comrades. Just for positions, not for THE GAMBIA. These elements are not patriots. They are a selfish bunch of patriarchic elements. DROP YOUR SUPPORT FOR THEM, NATTY!
Here is a probono information of what Gambia we’ll live with during your Barrow administration. Cross border raids, thefts, looting, cattle rustling, money laundering, killings and maiming from across the Senegalese border, abominable offences President Jammeh eradicated and wiped out. With puppet Barrow in office commandeered from Senegal we’ll soon witness the return of all those Senegalese bandits! Lamentable, isn’t it?
Armed robbers attack shops in NBR, get way with over D500,000
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
The village of Kerr Gumalo in Central Badibu, North Bank Region, was attacked by armed robbers on Thursday 2 March 2017.
“In the operation, the PIU post in the village was the first to be attacked,” according to police PRO Foday Conta.
The robbers then proceeded to the shopping area, where they broke into two shops owned by Mauritanians – Seedy Muhammed Salleh and Muhammed Lamin Hydara.
According to the police PRO, D342,000 and D181,000 were taken from both shops.
“There were three victims of the robbery attack. They include a PIU officer, Seedy Muhammed Salleh and Muhammed Lamin Hydara, all of whom sustained injuries and are admitted at the Farafenni General Hospital.”
A case file was opened and investigations are ongoing to trace the suspects to face justice, PRO Conta told The Point.
“Furthermore, the Office of the Inspector General of Police hereby urges the general public to be vigilant and report any suspected crime, so as to make The Gambia safe and secure for all.”
Source: Picture: Police PRO Foday Conta
Who ever said Pyongyang is without infrastructure, couldn’t test launch continental ballistic missiles or its streets are not clean like a new penny…Babu Soli?
You may be personally disgruntled by not winning a scholarship with your 8 O’levels and 2 A’levels but completely false to say that was due to the fact you are a ‘provincial boy’. You just need to think twice to know that such a claim is completely out of order. In simple urban language, I would say, stop breeding “badmind and inferiority complexity”. All Gambians who have prevailed with exemplary O’level and A’level results then have had their opportunities one way or the other irrespective of where they come from in the Gambia. All other rubbish you wrote here don’t even need to be contested because it is clear to note that putting artistic words together is a hobby in you.
Babu Soli
I am beginning to respect you more than i thought is possible just few odd months ago.You are genuinely expressing your opinions based on your experiences of what you had to go through to attained the status you are today academically and i saluted your courage and devotions even in the face of unjust denials to your dreams of further education. I sincerely apologize wholeheartedly for the words i used against you in this discourse and i hope you will find the time and space to forgive. We may be in opposite corners in this debate,but our collective desires for our nation is one and the same; a fair and progressive society for all. I hope and pray that this government through the guidance of Almighty God and the goodwill of our people will make that aspiration a reality.
I bade you farewell my friend as Natty Dread will be on assignment in a far away land. God bless our great country and people.
Babu, it is nice to see you and Natty engaging in true intellectual debate please keep it up as we can all learn from each other that way. I have discussed the issue of the provincial-Banjul divide some time ago and how it gave birth to “Nteri Kafo” with the primary aim to bring equilibrium in the balance of power and to improve job and educational opportunities for provincial boys. That discussion was in response to Sidi Bojang’s convoluted misrepresentation of facts to suit his own tribal political agenda. Babu, you, Mr Manneh of US and many more Gambians who suffer such discriminations and injustices all have one theme in common. That is you were all discriminated against not because of your tribes but because of the places you were born. Your stories will resonate with the families and friends of many Gambians who suffered similar fates but are not alive to share it with us. Babu, Jawara’s government was afflicted by nepotism and corruption to a point that it paralysis the state. This was what resulted in the 1994 coup. However it is wrong for people to try to excuse Jammeh’s excesses by saying he inherited it from Jawara’s regime because Jammeh committed treason by overthrowing an elected government to end corruption and nepotism. Although we should make reference to Jawara era in order to understand some of the root causes of the vices of Jammeh era. You are right that Jammeh has built some infrastructures like roads, schools, hospitals, airport and UOTG. However he did not end the corruption and nepotism that blighted Jawara’s regime, instead he replace the players with new ones and on top of that he added tribalism and excessive human rights abuses. So like Jawara, his government crumbled like a deck of cards under the combine weights of these four. Jammeh’s good deeds are overshadowed by his bad deeds. Like the Bard said “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones” so let it be with Jammeh. You are disingenuous to say the human rights abuses under Jammeh’s regime were hearsay because there is enough documentary evidence shown on GRTS of such abuses and also from statements and pronouncements made my Jammeh himself. The arm robberies in NBR are very unfortunate and my sympathy goes to all those personally affected and the community in general. I have said it before and I will say it again. Lets resist making cheap political capital from human tragedies. Unless you can proof to me that this happened because of a government directive to the security services not to patrol and secure our borders then blaming the government for it is something I will expect from Sidi but not you Babu. This attacks are opportunistic attacks because as a nation we were weaken by the protracted and difficult transition period we went through. I have every faith that the Gambian security services will do their best to serve and protect Gambians and Gambia’s territory so lets give them our support because they face a difficult task as our borders are very porous.
Buba Sanyang, you reared your Coconut head again. Simmer down. Nice try. Your cheap elementary school psychology will Not work. Babu Soli is far more informed and sophiscated to fall for the old Standby of Co-opting and divide and conquer horse shit. I will Not relent until you and your kind Stop making excuses for a mere two month old regime that has embarked on Selective Ethnic Group based Politics, Law enforcement, and Intimidation of Journalist. Examples of One Fatou Badgie, Jephang, the Foroya Journalist, the Unlawful Arrest of Jolas at Kafenda in the Fonis, the Questionable and Intentional Intimidation of Jolas by Placing the Senegalese ECOMIG Contingent in the Predominantly Jola Foni Areas affecting the Freedom of Movements and Work of the Jolas in these Areas, Arrests of Jolas who worked in the Jammeh regime, while Mandinka Counterparts are given the benefit of doubt with regard to their guilt. Let me repeat, Buba Sanyang, I have Never been a Supporter of Jawara or Jammeh in the sense of Voting for them, advocating for their Party. However, it would be a Lie to say that Jammeh did nothing good for the Gambia and Gambians. You Lie, when you say that. Yes, there have been excesses in Jammeh as well as Jawara’s Regimes. It is more a personal view depending on Selective memory or lack of it. It may also be a case of age. May be folks like you are not just too Young and Pathologically Not able to accept that Tribalism has been Endemic and Present in the Gambia since its existence. Not experiencing it until Jammeh’s regime, does not logically or reasonably imply or mean it did not exist or existed based on Rural Vis a vie Urban residents. That is your take on it, your personal experience is Not Universally True for all Gambians. Your days at Nusrat High School and in London should have purged such Dogmatic Selective memory from your person. Evidently, it has Not. That is Sad and Regrettable, dishonesty and unsustainable argument you have been Selling. Babu Soli too intelligent to fall for such Manure. Please, tie your Penaforce or “Tocca” and pick up your Phony or 419 Credentials and get going to your Masters Burrow for a Share of the Undeserved and Unqualified Compensation for the Hatchet Horse Shit jive you been throwing about. Gambia is more than the Sum Total of One Individual One Ethnic Group and Region. One Gambia, One People One Destiny.
Sidi, ramble on. That’s all what you’ve got left.
Sidi, you should be too old to baltantly lie. Where in my comments have I ever said that Jammeh did nothing in the Gambia? You know fully that attributing that comment to me is a lie, yet you couldn’t stop yourself from making it. Your blind hatred for anyone or anything Mandinka has made you a pathological liar. Stop pretending to know me because definitely don’t. I have told you before just ask me nicely and I may tell you who am I. I do not need to divide you abd Babu because you and him may be supporting the same person but I don’t think you are doing it for the same reason. You Sidi is nothing but a lying tribalist psychopath.
Brother Buba Sanyang
Please don’t waste your valuable energy or time to answer this village idiot,who is using this medium to validate his sad existence as a petty and bitter old man,who think he knows when we all know he doesn’t. He is nothing but a hate monger and we Mandinkas don’t give a damn what this little man think about us and how we want to rule our nation.
Sidi Village idiot Bojang! it is time to accept the reality of the moment and that reality is the Kanilai jola fiefdom is gone, dismantled and never again will we Mandinkas allow such beast like Yahya Jammeh to come anywhere near to where he can have a say in the affairs of our land. Your idiotic peddling of hate and false assertions against the Mandinkas will be your downfall. Keep barking through your anal cavity till eternity.
Natty thanks for your advice. We should leave Rambling Sidi to continue seething with anger for being a fool to think that the fiefdom will be there forever now that it has ended abruptly and he has lost out on a plum job. Barrow’s victory most have thrown a mighty spanner into his retirement plans lol!!
Buba Sanyang,
I’ve just closed from work when I went through your posting. Hopefully I’ll get back to you t’morrow.
Nonetheless, I had time to read Freedom Newspaper’s posting on the FATOUMATTA TAMBAJANG BRIBERY SCANDAL.
From the frying pan(the tentative corruptible gift to Barrow from Dakar) to the fire(the reception of $2 million cash from Africell). Will she be depossessed of her public office? I hope the Barrow government supporters send word for her immediate dismissal. She’s corrupt. With less than a month into office what do we expect in 3 years?
I’m attaching the posting for your perusal, Sanyang.
Gambia: Glimmers of Hope in Kairaba Hotel as Barrow Improves
Pa, Following my last writeup, I am pleased to report that Madame Fatoumata Tambajang has been asked by Barrow to return the funds Africell gave to her for the purposes of overturning the PURA directive. It is unclear…
Pa,
Following my last writeup, I am pleased to report that Madame Fatoumata Tambajang has been asked by Barrow to return the funds Africell gave to her for the purposes of overturning the PURA directive. It is unclear whether she has returned the $2 million cash. In the meantime, Africell is operating with a carte blanche and able to do whatever it wants in Gambia, as the Lebanese tycoons retain control of the Gambian economy.
Muhammad Bazzi still is in charge of water, electricity, petrol, gasoil, and Gambian passports. The Barrow Administration is however coming under heavy international pressure to eject Bazzi as law enforcement officials become worried that Bazzi is still the king of Gambian business despite his notorious reputation.
Barrow still has the Jammeh people running the government. Edward Graham, is running the Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation, where the employees are busy looting the accounts of retirees. For the past 6 months, they have refused to provide statements to retirees indicating how much money is in their accounts. SSHFC employees are also transferring money from the accounts of contributors to those of their friends and families all under the sleeping eyes of the Barrow clueless government. People don’t even know how much money they have in their SSHFC accounts. I urge all people to insist on getting their account statements from the SSHFC as this is their legal right.
The GNPC on the other hand is still under the management of Babucarr Njie, who is now famous for the number of people that he helped send to Mile 2 through false testimony. Together with a married employee with whom he is having an affair, they are running the GNPC with no oversight whatsoever and are spending the Corporations money as their own as they have no minister to oversee them. In December, they used the GNPC money to buy dollars for Bazzi in the black market outside of the norms of all accounting practices.
In the meantime, I would like to confirm that Oumar Thorpe together with Samuel Sarr and Amadou are indeed the closest operators to Pres Adama Barrow. Your report on this is correct and there is a lot that people don’t know about Oumar Thorpe, which we will reveal in due course.
Another team to keep a close eye on is Cham and Fatou Ceesay, who are trying to get rich quick with numerous schemes targeting business people and asking for money on behalf of the President. Whether Barrow is aware of this is not clear.
The good news in all of this is that Barrow is well-meaning but just not sophisticated enough. He is also surrounded by people like Oumar Thorpe, Fatou Ceesay and Cham and Samba, who really have their own agenda. But the President himself is a decent fellow who means well.
He has some decent Ministers such as Ba Tambadou, who is actually an honest person. If he can get more people like Ba in his team, he will succeed. I am very hopeful that we can all help Barrow to succeed by exposing the corruption in the government.
Written By Gambia’s Deep Throat
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Bourne,
When and where were you born? It appears you know very little about the inner circle of the Quadrangle in the late 60s, through the 70s, 80s and early 90s before President Jammeh flushed out the dysfunctional PPP government from power. Or you must have been a toddler somewhere or just ignorant about the gimmicks of Banjul (metropolitan) influence in dishing our scholarships or preferential jobs.
Ask Ex-President Jawara why he studied Vet.Science instead of Human Medicine (or just read his book, KAIRABA). Ask Bakary Bunja Darbo(BBDarboe) why he read French instead of the BA he originally opted for. Ask Lawyer Darboe’s brother, Foday Darboe why he left the Gambia for the USA where he was able to read.
The politics of scholarship allocation in my time was not what you opted/were qualified for but what they(scholarship board) wanted to give out. It was take the RUBBISH scholarship or leave it, POLICY. Because the rest was for their children. Or wait and wait after your “A” levels until you get disgusted and snub the statusquo. Most of the provincial chaps were just lucky to secure the on-the-job further training which raised their qualifications and job placements. Ask Bakary K. Njie (former Managing Director GAMTEL, Former Minister of Information and Communication). All these personalities and many more whom I don’t want to enumerate suffered the same fate after senior secondary school.
What NONSENSE can you say, Bourne, if you know little about the disgusting scholarship allocation strategies that were exclusive handled by the most powerful within the Banjul and metropolitan areas?
On arrival here in Holland, the university only verified my O and A level results with the West African Exams Council(WAEC) and immediately accepted my enrolment upon receiving the verification. The rest was my effort. Finding half of the funds by working part-time and studying very hard. After graduation, I stayed, because it was the same EX-President Jawara-bloated-government in power.
In The Gambia where some scholarships were not Gambia government funded, most of the provincial boys would linger, run around and wait in other positions like UQ/Teaching jobs, Agric demonstrators before being given their right for further studies. Those who were lucky, were just lucky or had the nepotic contact on the scholarship board which we all knew about.
I saw boys with ONE “O” level being offered scholarships. Ask Charles Camara (late Hassan Musa Camara’s son, Vice President under Jawara) how he secured government scholarship without the required O and A levels. I saw compatriots like me offered HTC at Milton Margai in Sierra Leone only to come back after two years to rot within the system.
I have more to say than you know, Bourne. If you are a Banjul boy, just shut up!