(JollofNews) – This is a highly emotive issue, not just for The Gambia but for Africa in general. The Diaspora Gambians/Africans feel strongly that African governments must not “collude” with Western governments to make it easier for the Western governments to deport Africans residing in the West. (Latin American countries take a similar stance with regard to US deportations).
African countries are between a rock and a hard place – so to speak. Diaspora Africans, who contribute massively to their home countries development through hard-earned financial remittances, overwhelming say NO to the idea of African governments agreeing to accept any of their citizens deported by the West. On the other hand, the economically powerful Western governments are pressurising African governments to say YES and accept African deportees. An example is a case in the High Court here in London last week where it was ruled that a Somalian has been “Lawful Jailed” for four years – while the British Government tries to get the Somali Government to accept him: he even landed at Mogadishu Airport with British Immigration escort only to be kept on the same plane and be sent back to London (and jail): Neutral Citation Number: [2017] EWHC 550 (Admin) 24 March 2017 Between ISSE MURSAL BOTAN and SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT.
Gambia’s new government faces this dilemma acutely. Dictator Jammeh was happy to alienate the West (describing Western Aid as “chicken feed”!) and he deliberately politicised the issue and condemned the West for its treatment of African migrants. But Jammeh bankrupted The Gambia through massive theft and stole as much as he could before he was forced from power by West African military forces. The new government needs an emergency bail-out of the nation’s precarious finances – and also needs new funds for development projects, mostly urgently in the agricultural sector to feed the nation. Europe, UK and USA, all of whom hated Dictator Jammeh’s government are well disposed to the new government in The Gambia and have already started releasing much needed financial assistance. But there is a catch – a quid pro quo requirement.
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The Gambia has a responsibility to protect her citizen, when one is censured and personified non grata by another country, that country is required to treat them with respect and return them home. Our country has an obligation to accept and provide for such persons. It is dereliction of a most basic duty and obligation to our citizens not to support and protect them in foreign lands and not to make their transition to home easy. In the case of Jammeh, he does not respect his own citizens nor the simple rule of behavior that all countries are expected to abide by, his aim is to export as many Gambians as necessary and keep them away to avoid decent. So refusing to accept deportees was in his favor and to the detriment of the poor Gambians that find themselves in such unfortunate situation. The bigger questions are:
1. Why are we so desperate to go abroad and stay abroad.
2. Why do we view returning home as a calamity.
3. If they can build their country and make it attractive, why don’t we do same.
The politics of deportees is painful and complex, but we only have the idiots that lead us to blame. When night falls after visiting my friend’s fathers compound, I will like to return home and I will like to think my mother will be happy to see me with a plate of hot food.
I love the analogy Dr:
“When night falls after visiting my friend’s fathers compound, I will like to return home and I will like to think my mother will be happy to see me with a plate of hot food.”
But, your mother loves you so much that she may NOT be “happy to see” you – because there is NO “plate of hot food”at home. That is our tragedy; that is why young people risk their lives on those rickety boats to cross dangerous oceans; that is why their parents will have sold their only possession, their small pieces of ancestral land, to finance their child’s back-way journey knowing how risky it is: that is why most parents may not take it kindly to the Gambian government agreeing to accept deported Gambians. But legally you are right when you say: “Our country has an obligation to accept and provide for such persons”.
A rather painful contrast, Dr, is that those of my generation and your generation arrived on a comfortable and save British Airways flight (no cheap tourist carriers for us then) and when we arrived we were welcomed with open arms … and after a few years we could live and work in the British Commonwealth UK as Commonwealth citizens. Now, people get the suspicious treatment at the British High Commission even before they have boarded the plane to UK (although it is fair to say they gave my 1 year old Gambian daughter a British Passport in 7 days). With regards to your other pertinent questions, some like my village friend of 11 years have never wanted to leave The Gambia and he has never asked me to arrange a Visitor’s Visa for him: I have fenced his village farm and I have provided funds for rice and oil for the family, but otherwise he is happy to remain in The Gambia and do his subsistence farming. When I pointed this out to PK the Editor of JollofNews, his question was “What about those who have no friends or family abroad and have to survive on a 3,000 dalasi salary?” … CAN I ADVISE THOSE AGAINST ATTEMPTING THE DANGEROUS JOURNEY?
I FIND THE MORAL QUESTIONS VERY DIFFICULT INDEED. It is a fact of Human History that people have moved from lands of scarcity to lands of plenty to make living possible: the British did that when they colonised America – the living conditions were DIRE for those Brits (the English working classes, the Scots and the Irish) who made that hazardous journey across the wide Atalantic to survive in very risky conditions in the USA. Ditto those Brits who left for Australia voluntarily – and the many ex-World War 1 British soldiers who went to settle and do the hard work of farming in Colonial Kenya, Rhodesia and Southern Africa – where many died from diseases. Indians dispersed everywhere: to east Africa, Mauritious, Guyana, etc.
HOW CAN WE NOW SAY TO A CHILD OF GOD STARVING IN AFRICA THAT HE OR SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO MOVE TO A LAND OF PLENTY ON GOD’S EARTH?
Forced migration is a human tragedy at all levels and culpability can be spread to many corridors. My concern is not with the so called eldorado-(aka land of milk and honey) my fraustration and frankly anger lies at the feet of our leaders that make it attractive for young women and men to risk life and limb on a dangerous odyssey. It is also necessary to point out that refusing to accept deportees , is clear signal that such persons are of no value. Every Gambian life is valuable to me with one exception and you know who . Our sons and daughters who wish to return and those who are forced to return must enjoy the benefit of a glorious home coming. Thank you Sir
AS IF TO PROVE YOUR POINT DR., here is sad RiP news TODAY: Hamidou Bojang, former player for nawettan sides, Pencha and Pipeline in the Serrekunda West Nawettan Zone, has met his untimely death en route to Italy.
Born on 3rd January 1991, the former defender who has high passion for football was one of the country’s promising talents in the game. He also played for Fajara South in the Manjai Nawettan.
Bojang, who graduated from St. Augustine’s Senior School, left the country to Mauritania where he spent some time before proceeding to Libya. He was in Libya for some time before attempting to cross over the Mediterranean Sea to Italy.
Courtesy of MAMOS TV.
This can be defined as the migration of people across international borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country.
Africa has never seen such a flood of young men heading for Europe. The number of migrants crossing by sea to Italy, a top entry point, nearly quadrupled from 2013 to 2014, reaching about 170,100. Sub-Saharan Africans made up a growing percentage of the total.
As of 1 January 2015, there were 5,014,437 foreign nationals resident in Italy. This amounted to 8.2% of the country’s population and represented an increase of 92,352 over the previous year. These figures include children born in Italy to foreign nationals (who were 75,067 in 2014; 14.9% of total births in Italy), but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality; this applied to 129,887 people in 2014.
And in 2016, more than 361 thousand immigrants arrived by sea in Europe and half of them landed on Italian shores, 48% in Greece (174 thousand arrivals), while in Spain they were just 8,826. (ISMU Foundation, 2016)
There’s a big problem of complex among some young Africans and that problem is majorly in thinking faculty; that, going abroad is a greener pasture. That’ not true. So I put to you, there is no greener pasture anywhere like your home- country and where you come from. Until we get this into our skull about it, the Mediterranean Sea will never seized to be death trap, and is recording increasing number of dead of young Africans swallowed in droves on the rough high sea. I just do not know what is pursuing them abroad. Take it or leave it, any young person that is unable to make it at home, cannot or will find it equally difficult making it abroad. You see, to live or reside in abroad requires hard work, and most job opportunities for irregular are cheap manual labor that you wouldn’t ordinarily do in your country. So what’s the point?
Do you know why do young people risk their lives at all cost to traveling abroad without a destination, permits or money in pocket at arrival? To arrive in a foreign land without where to sleep, food to eat could be traumatic, and starting a life in street as if one is a psycho- man could be another thing entirely? I have seen people in work in Africa, selling their properties to gather money to travel abroad with the hope of getting a better job, which they never. I have seen parents selling their compounds and collecting loans from bank to fund their daughter to travel abroad in anticipation of return on investment, which usually result in the girl’s death of HIV/AIDS. I have seen where Men traveled with children in pre tense as theirs, only to sell these children for a token. Imagine what people do for money? What is more wickedness than this? So you can tell me what is it I have not seen or heard? But that is just the picture.
Back to the point I asked, why young Africans want to travel abroad by all means? Or will you blame this young people in totality for their actions? Wanting to leave their country in droves? To my mind is where there is hunger there is likely hood of migration. Where there is poverty and joblessness there is likely hood of migration. Where there is war and conflict, inequality, corruption and bad governance there is likely hood of migration. And this entire likely hood is in Africa and I don’t know why Africa. To me, migration in its self is not criminal per se, but when it is irregular, it can be viewed illegal by the entering country and as security threat. Most times at borders migrants are arrested, roughed handled, tortured and killed, while so many are languishing in jailed criminally in Asia, Europe and America. This migrants are usually maltreated may be because they are from Africa and is out of racial discrimination and Xenophobia. But funny enough, even most of those African youths that are arrested and detained in jail themselves have refused to identify with their identities and reject their Government interventions in returning them back in their various African Countries for reintegration. That too goes to show you the rooted mentality we have that greener pasture is not in Africa by African. It is such is pity!
But to those irregular migrants whose have found their way into Europe, Asia and America from Africa, they are currently into modern day slavery. Ask me why? Their condition there is not better than when they were in Africa. They see good life but cannot access it. But the truth of the matter is that, Americans, Europeans, Asians enjoys such migrants and recognizes the potentials, which they absorb and provide available labor jobs to them. These jobs are jobs that do not have dignity nor add value to them.
According to UN statistics, 244 million migrants are living abroad. These migrants make their ways through the Mediterranean Sea by boat, and these boats do capsized, killing our teeming youths in droves. Most of the boat cap siding is never captured in the media and till tomorrow young lives are cut off in this deadly sea route to abroad. To some that are migrating by road, they are stocked in the desert and killed by hunger and thirst. After drinking their urine as water to be dehydrated to death, you will then understand you do not need this road to greener pasture. Oh, what manner of greener pasture! When I think of it, I now know that I do not need this manner of greener pasture and is extremely not worth the risk? And you need to let others know of it too.
You see migration most at times result into trafficking and don’t just happen. It is an organized crime. It starts when someone is desirous and apprehensive to move abroad. You will meet or will be approached, introduced by and to those into Visa racketing. Some of them go into poor local communities, led by family members, known people and community members who lure vulnerable youths with promising annotations of job opportunities in Europe, Asia and America. These opportunities never existed nor will exist. Young girls are taken out of African abroad to serve as sex toolkits in prostitution.
These young Africans girls are exploited sexually to sleep with all kind of animals for experiment. These girls are mostly under 20 years old and are traded for commercial sex to over 30 men daily, without protection. So I ask you, who are these old men paying for these girls to be brought into Europe, Asia and America? And I will tell you they are not Africans. Africa is only used as the kingpin for the trade. And is senseless, shameful and heartless to humanity, they will pay for it one day.
It dream of Africa that would one day see her youth tapping from the expertise of Africa and began a new process of leadership where we will find that greener pasture right here in Africa.
Heavy, Saidina. Heavy. I was at University in Edinburgh 35 years ago and also working as a night-shift taxi driver to pay my fees. An African from Northern Nigeria, a Fulaman, made me come into his home to share a meal after I had given him a lift home. I met his wife newly arrived from Africa. “Oh my God, what a beautiful woman. I wanna marry one like that one day”, I thought. Two years later, I saw the same woman walk into a “massage parlour”, now wearing a short skirt, high heels, hair extensions and red lipstick “to work”. It broke my hurt. Over the years, I have learnt that this experience is common to many Africans. Is it worth it to earn all the money in the world and yet lose your soul?
Saidina Alieu Jarjou, well said my brother, the problem is, some people want everything now, brainwashed by music and movie videos, fast this fast that, some want to be Beyonce some 50cents, man it’s a sad situation.
I think Mr Halake means well in this article, but having spent 10 years involved with this issue;
I think he may over simplify a solution in his article over the complexities and dangers for Asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. Though I know Mr Halake to be very competent advocate for African rights. I write with particular emphasis being placed on those illegal in the UK.
Dr Sarr takes a realistic and sensible approach, but even her compassionate opinion relies on the goodwill of the UK government, which in my experience is not always forthcoming.
I recently stated online that Gambian Foreign Secretary Lawyer Darboe, should seek assurances from the British government for all Gambian’s living by whatever means in the UK, especially since the UK Government is about to take deportation rights back from The EU and because former President Jammeh has left power.
I also said, just before Gambian General Election, that my avenue to British Cabinet Ministers was through my Member of Parliament. That all my concerns were responded to in great and adequate detail, except One.
The only concern not responded to was for three case studies on three African women. Each with a complex history since residing in the UK. To offer too much detail could reveal their identities, so I must tread carefully.None were Gambian.
But if I mention some of these, included rape, kidnap, valuables being stolen while in the care of a mental institution, forcefully injected with sedation, assault whilst in Hospital, Hostile interrogation by Immigration officers without a Lawyer present. Indifference by the Police to rape.
{ this case included repeated rape and kidnap over two days, by two men with the Police suggesting the woman was a prostitute} The woman withdrew her complaint.
I can say with certainty the woman was not a prostitute. Another case was of a highly intelligent woman, also a member of an African government, who was urged by lawyers to make her appeal based upon asylum. She had been beaten by her spouse while in the UK and was advised by Police to leave the marital home. She was stopped by Police at an airport while she was trying to catch a flight back to her native country. She quite rightly based her right to remain on the domestic violence rule. How could she claim asylum, when she was a former government employee. She is about to be deported in the next few days. I have read all the communication to and from The Home Office.
I have spoken to many lawyers, when each became destitute or in difficulty or held in a mental institution. The lady held there was not mentally ill. But became mentally ill in due course entirely due to her treatment and desperate situation. This woman had a PHD and came from a wealthy family, but choose to hide her predicament, from her family and her government because she felt shame and she hoped to return to her government job.
Those caught in this trap of being illegal, live fearful and isolated and very difficult lives. There is no government assistance for such people. They either work illegally or starve or depend on other African’s for handouts. Legal aid for asylum seekers, is limited with on the whole, being third class legal representation and done by junior/trainee solicitors. These are complex legal issues. I know of cases where illegals have paid thousands to unscrupulous back street lawyers giving false hope.
Legal aid for illegals is usually a last ditch effort at a detention centre, being a basic legal formality before deportation.
To live without their own identity for many years, causes mental health problems and incredible insecurity/anxiety issues. Many are exploited. Some have been beaten by boyfriends But can say nothing. All are desperate. Nearly all I have spoken to have either tried to commit suicide or have contemplated suicide on more than one occasion.Fearful that if the attempt is found and they are rushed to hospital, there status will be found out.
All send money back home, when they have it.
I know of some family members either needing Hospital treatment back home or died for lack of it.
I could go further;
All I can say is as a British citizen ..I am ashamed.
My evidence can be confirmed in my many files to Government.
Mr. Scales, you says you “have spent 10 years on this issue”. Mr. Halake, African Students Representative, was on the front-page of Aberdeen’s Press & Journal newspaper … in September 1977 speaking on “this issue”. That is 40 years ago as opposed to your “10 years”.
Dida’s intent is clear and always in the best interest of Gambians. I am glad to read his opine on this issue and agree with him. I simply wanted to point out the complexity, twists and turns of these human tragedy generally and how very vastly unique each case can be. It is an opportunity to remind the Barrow administration that they have a responsibility to care for our citizens both abroad and at home. Mike if you ever decide to run for president in my country, you have my vote.
Was it not like the youths were rescued from Libya and not deported from Europe.. Seems like the youths suffered bad in Libya These days, getting ill treated robed and enslaved by their “Arabian Brothers”.. and why should a government not accept their own People???
Mr Halake;
I do not think giving assistance is a matter subject to the length of time; Many British people only become aware of this situation by association. That association could only begin yesterday.
Thankyou Dr Sarr. For your vote, but mine has always been a supporting role. But God Bless nevertheless.
Mr. Scales, I did NOT raise the issue of “the length of time”; YOU deployed the issue of “the length of time” to show that your point is more valid than others because of YOUR experience – it is in that context that I told you that I have dealt with the issue for 40 years to your 10 years. Please visit your posting above to refresh your mind. Of course, I am aware that an individual who just considered the issue for the first time half an hour ago could come up with a very valid point and it would not be right for me to deploy my age – or the length of time I have dealt with the issue – in the argument.
We should accept deportees. We have a duty and obligation to, but I think we need to lay down our own conditions, aimed at protecting our citizens from abuse and misuse.
For example, many of these developed countries turn a blind eye to illegal workers because it’s good for the economy. They only crack down on it when there is an over supply of illegal labour.
Our governments must insist that those of their citizens who have worked hard, often long hours and under poor conditions, and have amassed assets from their sweat, must be deported with their assets.
Many Western Governments now try to confiscate even the little that these over exploited workers have amassed, or refuse them any rights to take any belongings with them when their residences are raided.
This is theft and in Gambia, Mandinkas have a name for it. It’s called “Suung Suuluuto”, meaning a “thief that steals from another thief.”
There are also many innocent youths who have no prior criminal records in their countries of origin, but turn to crime to survive in the West, due to lack of work rights, and become career criminals. Our governments must demand that the cost of reformation, rehabilitation and resettlement of such people be borne by the deporting country. After all, it is their systems which force such youths into a life of crime. Otherwise, without the resources, facilities and knowhow to deal with such people, they could pose serious security and social problems to their native countries.
My in-law, here is a case straight out of the High Court. Should Africa accept such people at all?
At the Court of Appeal 4 April 2017
“REMI AKINYEMI … decision to deport him to Nigeria. The central feature of the case is that he has lived in the UK since birth and has never been to Nigeria and has no substantial links with that country … he is now aged 33 … The Appellant has had a long record of criminal offending from his teenage years onwards. He has in all some twenty convictions for 42 offences. The most significant for our purposes are … On 5 July 2007 he was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving for which he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment … On 31 January 2013 he was convicted of four counts of possession of heroin with intent to supply … driving while disqualified. He was sentenced to a total of three and a half years’ imprisonment … Following the Appellant’s conviction for drugs offences in 2013, on 13 February 2014 the Respondent made an order that he be deported to Nigeria.”
SHOULD NIGERIA ACCEPT THIS MAN???
Quote: “The central feature of the case is that he has lived in the UK since birth and has never been to Nigeria and has no substantial links with that country … he is now aged 33 … ”
That, for me, is enough. Nigeria has no obligation whatsoever, to accept this person. They should not deny him the right to relocate to Nigeria, if he freely desires to do so, because it’s the land of his parents, but the country to which he has the most affinity, being the place of his birth, where he grew up and spent his entire life, is the UK.
He has definitely developed into a problem (from that innocent baby to 33yrs), that the Nigerians have no hand in. Why should they have to deal with the problem ?
The UK would have the same rights if faced with a similar situation, as far as I’m concerned.
@ BAX= I Agree we should accept our deportees. The global immigration issues have been in existence for a while now without a solution. I agree that the economic refugees exist only because of poverty from the countries of origin. The receiving countries could have solved these problems, but are reluctant to do so because of cheap labor. Illegal immigration would significantly reduce if the rich industrialized countries are serious about eliminating poverty in the poor developing countries. There is nothing like home.
The reason why Gambia and most African countries remain poor is mismanagement by idiots like Yahya Jammeh. We Africans must take responsibility for what we have control over. We have control over our own lives and destiny. We must build our country and create an environment that makes it attractive for citizens to remain home. Work and play at home. I don’t care what US or Britain policy is. We don’t have to go there, we don’t need them if we clean our own house. The truth is they need us for a second generation servitude .
What is relevant to illegal immigrants is the law as it stands right now/There have been changes;
I do not know of any situation in the UK where the government or its officers turn a blind eye to illegal immigrants.
I am aware of a Gambian male who was given a
income support and a council house by the local authority while his asylum application was being heard. He was also allowed to work upto 16 hours a week, but not earn more than £20.
The gentleman earned slightly more { He said £23} but did not declare the excess. He was charged with benefit fraud and immediately deported. He was not allowed to take his possessions/ This Gambian person’s appeal to me was from The pages of The Daily Observer. Given privately to myself by Pa Mbai/ I was unable to assist him. Perhaps Mr Halake can remember this case? There was one situation, which assisted many, in that if you could prove residency in the UK for 10 years, you could go through a “naturalisation” process to get indefinite right to Remain. However one of my current contacts says the UK government have raised this to 20 years/ If you are deported, The Home Office will not consider any fresh visa to The UK for at least 5 years. This is particularly harsh if you leave behind family or a partner and an established life. The Home Office hold on to Passports and the general procedure that I am familiar with is that The Home Office will return the Passport at the chosen airport of departure with a permit to travel. This is if repatriation is voluntary. In some if not all cases the UK will pay for the flight/ This is my understanding, I stand to be corrected/One of my current contacts is advising me that this is the current situation for this person.
Regarding The UK to pay for rehabilitation in the home country/ I don’t think that this is justifiable as a matter of principle and would have very little public support/ If the person is of another country, the right to protection and welfare returns to the home country. { That’s if it ever left, which I do not think under such cases it does}
I am informed by one of my contacts, that there is a little known Law that says if a person is from a former British colony, they cannot be deported/ I think Mr Halake is the expert here as I have not had chance to take advice on this/
Immigration Law is extremely complicated. My advice would be to find legal advice from a confidential organisation who has access to free or limited cost legal opinion.
All asylum cases require substantial evidence of risk to the citizen if they return to their home country/
Solicitors prepare the case/ Barristers present the case before a Judge. The is also Home Office representation Solicitors fees vary, but between 200 and 400 Pounds plus VAT at 20% per hour
Barristers opinions vary but usually 600 to 1600 Pounds. Barristers are only allowed to charge £1500 plus Vat for court argument/ I have heard from friends that they went to court to argue their immigration case themselves/ and in both cases they won/ Myself I would always take legal direction.From what I have learned, most judges are sympathetic and totally impartial.
The Justice system in the UK is probably the best in the world. But it can be very expensive and very lengthy/.
I would not consider any illegal person that I have known to be {under normal social circumstances} an habitual criminal or someone who had previously ever or would ever stoop to crime/ Far from it. Those who have found work by whatever means, work long hours, are very good at what they do and contribute to the UK economy and our communities in no small way. Many are taking care of our mentally ill, or sick, or terminally ill or elderly citizen’s. Jobs that traditionally British citizens do not want. Because the pay and conditions are deplorable. Some are exploited by agents,some of them African, who pay minimum wage or in cases I know of hold back wages, because they know of the workers status/Rents go unpaid/ Childcare is unpaid/ Go without food for several days/ Have no rights to sick pay/ paid leave/ or pension/They pay tax and NI from their earnings. Yet they still turn up for work, because they are conscientious and committed and valuable servants to the community. I mean what else would they do all day ? window shop ? Sit in parks? stay home and lock their doors? Get assaulted, abused misused ?
I think I could safely say that The NHS and our Care homes and live in care to the terminally ill/ would collapse and leave the UK’s most vulnerable citizens in chaos/ The whole system would collapse. There is much argument in the UK right now about social care and how the lack of it impacted on The NHS this Winter/ Speaking for myself; I had a difficult kidney transplant on 21st August 2015 followed by an acute heart attack six hours later and almost died. If it had not been for such an African care assistant who stayed with me for 5 Months washing me, cleaning me and feeding me, I would have probably given up and died. So my interest in this situation has been handsomely repaid. She charged me nothing. Absolutely Nothing/ I paid her £40 a month mobile phone bill to phone home;
The government need to understand just who is giving this care right now? The sensible option would be for Government to offer an unconditional amnesty to those who can prove they are trained and competent Doctors/ Nurses and Care assistants/
The Care Homes themselves are staffed by competent managers who work to very high standards of care.
Foreign Secretary Lawyer Darboe should be at the forefront of this situation.
My e/mail is well known to Gambia/ But can be found through Jollof News.
I am not a legal expert on these matters. But what I have learned troubles me and my sleep.
I think it’s time for people to stay and work in their country. I believe everyone can make it in the Gambia and I know how hard is to leave your home and love ones away for long time. It’s sad most people left their wives and children for years all in the name of trying to better their lives. Africans should believe in Africa and should strive hard to develop Africa
“dr” Isatou Sarr
“The reason why Gambia and most African countries remain poor is mismanagement by idiots like Yahya Jammeh.”
Look at this idiot calling herself a “dr”. Poverty was inherited by President Jammeh. Poverty and lack of progress were the dons of the British and their empire that enslaved and colonized us and handed that malfeasant mismanagement to Ex-President Jawara without any form of addressing those ills.
You are a neocolonialist, a sellout, a reactionary, an unpatriotic fool and sycophant pointing an accusing finger at a man who had done far more that the two-tier administrations he inherited from.
You are illogic, stupid and idiotic to call President Jammeh an idiot. You are untruthful, hateful, vengeful and egocentric. Your analytic views are partial and void of any progressive insight. You are just STUPID!
Babu you are from the same mold as your benefactor. You stand in the middle of the playground with your potbelly inviting a girl to a fight. You should be ashamed of yourself. Instead of being contrite and apologize to the entire country for the 22 years of devastation that Yahya inflicted on Gambia, you are angry because your chop is gone. It’s time to get a real job .
Get over it. He is finished. Gone and forgotten . Get a life!
Dr to Babu: “You stand in the middle of the playground with your potbelly inviting a girl to a fight” … HA HA HA! Etta James in the Soul Classic WOMAN: “Muhammad Ali, he might be the greatest but he can’t go a round with me cause I am a WOMAN, yer”. Its a TKO Babu!
In Babu’s dreams. Even for $1B he will never have the pleasure of me finding out that he is impotent!
Ouch! Below the belt, Dr! Goodnight Babu.
Dr Sarr remember your oat. If he come to you as a patient you may have to feel for his prostrate ha! Ha! Ha!
Oh dear/ and we were trying to give experience and knowledge and hope/ Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion no matter how obtuse.
Dr Sarr I can only apologise for others who see only darkness and hate and history that drags the beast of time back into relevance. Let’s move on and ignore yesterday’s nightmares and see far to make clear sight of the new horizon for African’s at home or abroad.
When Africa and in particularly Ecowas sit to ponder historical international relationships, My wish is that there can be negotiation of putting African citizens rights at least on a par with the rights of citizens of Europe and America. On this there can be no compromise.
The Irish are not Brits !
Buba/////
You are so funny hahahahahaha
Dr Sarr is more than capable of dealing with enlarged Prostrates and little willy’s/
Buba I like your vision ? you and Dr Sarr are so cool
Xx.
So it has now come to people measuring each other’s strength or otherwise in fields that are reserved for the bedroom in many African cultures and sure not a priority for Gambia at the moment! It’s really laughable to read things as low as how much one may consider before agreeing to find out another’s power or powerlessness (potent or impotent)! Folks I believe that is for the bedroom!!! No offence intended!!!
Let’s take on the issues that is confronting The Gambia!
Bambo’ Well said my friend>>> size isn’t everything
I know ;
“dr” Isatou Sarr,
“In Babu’s dreams. Even for $1B he will never have the pleasure of me finding out that he is impotent!”
I can recall that I once told Buba Sanyang that the small “dr” and the double-inverted commas with which I address you are due to the lack of seriousness in your postings and your uneducated and childish nature of addressing issues. Your statement above proves me right.
Of course, I’m impotent before any woman that is NOT my wife. I was brought up in a strict Manswanko tribal setting/norms turned Muslims where promiscuity is very SINFUL, INDECENT, CHEATING, TREACHEROUS and EVIL. I can never perceive myself asking another woman, besides my lovely dear wife, to open up to me in bed for any act of INDECENCY. Especially with a “dr” Isatou Sarr!
What can I gain from you, “learned dr”? Absolutely nothing as a female dandy! Nonetheless, I presume you have annoyingly resorted to this desperate term on the virtues of your ulterior indecencies in the absence of your “husband” or lover.
I will never support a bunch of incompetent parties. We have more to lose than gain from this inept government, and I will be proven right.
Keep to the issues, avoid coming down heavy handed on President Jammeh, ’cause you’ll receive immediate responses.