(JollofNews) – Musa Ceesay, the PDOIS candidate who unsuccessfully contested last April’s National Assembly for Busumbala Constituency, has resigned from the party.
Mr Ceesay, who walked into the offices of The Standard to make the declaration, said his move is motivated by the recent comments directed to the Coalition government by Halifa Sallah.
Ceesay said as a member of the Coalition, Mr Sallah should have helped the new government to fix the problems he is outlining.
“I don’t think Halifa has any justification to say ‘nothing seems to have improved in the living standards of ordinary Gambians’ because the freedom we are enjoying alone is unprecedented,” he said.
He added: “This is unacceptable and I want to register my total disappointment in Sallah. I also want to announce through this medium that I have resigned from the PDOIS and have disassociated myself from the party’s activities henceforth.”
Ceesay said Halifa should have known better that government requires teamwork and no one person alone can make a difference.
He said the PDOIS leader must stop taking advantage of the difficulties faced by the new administration “because Gambians themselves knew better that it would not be easy to fix all that has been broken by Jammeh.
“You cannot change horse in the middle of a tight race. Halifa must stick with President Barrow to the bitter end and find a solution to anything that worries him.”
He said President Barrow and his Coalition government have no magic hands to do what is not in their capacity or mend what has been damaged for 22 years.
Writing by Omar Bah
I am not a PDOIS Member, but I wish you all the best in your political career, as you embark on a new endeavour. I think you are absolutely right to leave the party if you disagree with its leadership. My only disappointment, which raise a few questions in my mind, is how you chose to communicate your decision to resign. I would think that the right approach, given that you were an official of the party (being NA candidate), would have been to address a resignation letter to the party, wait for it to be accepted and then inform the public, through whatever medium you choose.
Obviously, it seems that you chose your interview to simultaneously announce your resignation from the party, which does not show much respect for a party that gave you a platform to seek public office. I may be wrong in how I understood this story, and if I am, then I apologise to Mr Ceesay in advance.
I hope the general PDOIS membership accepts Mr Ceesay’s resignation in good faith. I have no doubt that the party leadership will.
Resigning from a party could be based on personal convictions: belief, religion, financial, self aggrandizement, hypocrisy etc, etc………………..
How many Gambians swapped loyalty from one party to another since the days of Ex-President Jawara(PPP) and Opposition leader Pierre Sarr Njie (UP), Lawyer Ousainou Darbo’s lodger and benefactor? From Momodou Cadi Cham, to Jahumpa, Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, Lamin Waa Juwara……….?
That’s normal in a political arena. Cambodia’s Pol Pot was a government Minister at the same time a traitor, a Guerilla leader before he finally toppled his government with his guerilla forces acting on reliable government information. But how did he end up? He died lonely, in the bush in one of the most abhorrent manners. Always at double stands, traitors end up miserably!
Politicians, most especially political leaders should always expect traitors, double-tongued members and infiltrators. But once they stand to work diligently without any form of corrupt or nepotic tendencies, they will always prevail over their saboteurs.
How many traitors have left the APRC, a party that gave its utmost to the Gambian people? But that’s politics.
My best wishes to Halifa, I’m not PDOIS anyway, at this trying moments. I commend him for standing high to deny any form of LIES, CORRUPTION, CORRUPT PRACTICES, TRIBALISM, NEPOTISM..
Cheer up, Halifa. We need solid opposition personalities that would eventually FLUSH this CORRUPT and INEPT administration out of our august seat.
Barrow is NOT a COALITION “president”, he is there to serve the needs, aspirations and wishes of his UDP, that his party at heart. Don’t FOOL yourselves about his affiliation.
Africa is full of “little” men wanting to be big men, so there nonperforming frustration boils over and they start to bang a gong and shout “Hey ! I’m important too ”
Man goes to Doctor and says” Doctor I am having problems below” Doctor examines man and say’s “You’re impotent”
Two weeks pass and man goes back to doctor wearing a bowler hat. Doctor say’s to man, “why you wearing a bowler hat ? ”
Man replies, ” Because you said I’m important”
Mike,
There are absolutely no problems in “little” men wanting to be big men. What matters is how and for what “little” men want to be big. A billion “little” men of Africa becoming legitimately big for good purposes means a big Africa of good meaning.
Guess what the man would think to have heard if he did extremely well at home that very evening. A misdiagnose …?He would likely wear a bowler’s hat and feel impor.tent. Such a man has his good reason to raise the V-ictory sign up high. Then he wouldn’t need to see an audiologist. Why won’t you give it a broad smile??
Bax and Babu Soli,you have said it all.May Allah continue to protect and guide you.In this trying moments of the country,your contributions are well very important to people who sees and believes in the truth.Keep it up guys.
I learned that communication was a problems between inter party lines. A chain of command with support of a good communication is lacking.
Halifa should lead in this, barrow should govern, others should implement on what best for the government, but antagonizing each others mmmmm not a way of forward .(opie
Mr Musa Ceesay even though as a militant of PDOIS I am yet to know you in person or as a member of the party, I wish you good luck in your future endeavors. I guess if you were a member at all then you might have hasten into the membership of the party before knowing it; Otherwise you should have known that criticism or even self-criticism has never been an offense in PDOIS. In anyways good luck and bye !!!!!
I am taken back a bit by the reaction of fellow forum contributors to the public resignation of Mr. Ceesay. Bax half-heartedly acknowledged the man’s right to part company with pdois but decried the channel the man selected to announce his resignation. Hon. Sallah always reserved himself the inalienable right to say his opinion even when some might believe such opinion is best served through discreet channels especially since his role as special adviser to Barrow began.
Scales blames every thing on our low self-esteem (little men) for the boring low intelligence spats in public. Although just days ago he gave Hon. Sallah Thumps up for casting the change in the Gambia so far as nuts.
Babu beat the bush again searching analogs for Mr. Ceesays moves as if someone is questioning the right of people to switch parties. But ok analogs serves as balsam for impending dooms.
Fabaks fail thinly short of insulting Mr. Ceesay. Some how civility held him back for the nerves are really stretched. I admire the self control. You see Scales, all is not lost in pdois or in the Gambia.
Yes here we are with new developments derailing the message Hon. Sallah may have sincerely wanted to underline at that August gathering of zealous diaspora Gambians. It means time and channels as Tafel opined, are crucial in ensuring the message reaches the receiver intact.
Kinteh (Kemo), why are you taken aback? Don’t you think that Mr Ceesay’s approach is abnormal? Surely, you can’t be serious that Mr Ceesay’s sensationalised resignation, is derailing the message that Halifa was underlining.
I don’t want to speculate about motives but Mr Ceesay’s sincerity is in doubt here, as his reasons are neither convincing, nor reasonable at all to me. I would not expect someone to quit their party because the Secretary General of the party has expressed opinions, which may reflect the party’s position, against people who are essentially, his political opponents, even if they have a temporal coalition agreement to pursue certain short term goals; an agreement which was jettisoned and completely torn up, after the first phase of the project was accomplished. That doesn’t make sense to me.
What I would expect is that one would have good reasons to quit a party if the party had departed from the ideals, values, principles and policies that attracted them to the party in the first place. Mr Ceesay is not reported to have said anything about PDOIS’ departure from those factors that attracted and made him believe in the party.
I don’t know if Mr Ceesay has been underreported or even misquoted, but some of the things he is reported to have said is very revealing. He is reported to have said that Halifa is not justified to say that “nothing seems to have improved in the living standards of Gambians” and further pointed to and claimed that the freedoms we are enjoying today are unprecedented.
My first reaction is: when did he start living in Gambia, because Gambians had enjoyed freedoms far greater than anything we are enjoying today. Wasn’t it just the other day that Madi was asking questions about military check points? Let me tell Mr Ceesay a bed time story, since he doesn’t seem to be old enough to know: Once upon a time, Gambians didn’t know what a check point was and when we demonstrated against the government, the worst we get are batons and truncheons from the Field Force; not flying bullets that rip our tummies open.
My second reaction is: what Gambia does he live in if he can’t see that living standards have not improved much, if they’ve improved at all. Yes, we understand the situation and Halifa is not saying there is a quick fix, but what he said is the fact. Or are we just supposed to be happy, thankful and content with the free environment and shut our mouths up? Is this The Gambia Mr Ceesay want for us?
And hear the cheeky fella: “Halifa must stick with President Barrow to the bitter end..” No, he doesn’t have to, because President Barrow never stuck with him when their hard worked Memorandum Of Understanding was “ripped”, “torn apart” and “flung” into the “dustbin” by people who weren’t even present when they were putting the pieces together.
Let Mr Ceesay hasten and go join President Barrow and stick with him to the bitter end, but he is the one that is not justified to leave PDOIS. I don’t know what Mr Ceesay’s motives are, but his sincerity is questionable.
Well done Kemo You are really trying to sort this reaction out with rational.
The ambition of followers versus leaders is rife all over the world. It occurs in Industry, Politics and anywhere there is a group of people. So nothing to worry about. Only the intention. I would discard this spat as a soon forgotten issue of absolutely no relevance to Pdois Sallah or me and you.
You see if you place a piece of string on the table in front of you and push it,,, It folds up.
If you then pull the piece of string it followers you. The lesson is if you push it folds and coils and becomes stagnant.
If you pull is follows…its leader.
So you either follow your leader with support through thick and thin…or you fold and blame it on someone else.
Lesson over.
Halifa Leads>>> his ambition is dialogue and to sell his policies. I don’t believe Halifa is a pusher at all. He has too many idea’s/
Unlike the rest who have no idea.
Indeed, it is easier to criticize than to act. I was disappointed when Kalifa not only refused to take a responsibility in the executive branch, but also he denied all his party members (very bright folks) to participate in this key important body of African governments. The whole party chose to sit in the parliament to wait for the executive decisions to be criticized, scrutinized and rubber stamped. By doing this, they hope to build some political capital in the next elections and use this capital against those, who participated in the current executive body. If Kalifa believes he is part of Barrow’s government, then he should not be portioning the blame; he should be sharing the blame for the any failure of this government. The Gambian electorate should punish all of them, and they should not take Kalifa out as a clean guy or a saint.
But, Kalifa is taking a separation principle: Politicians in the executive body and politicians not in the executive body. Therefore, any failure of the current government, such as his statement that ‘nothing improved in the lives of people’ and that the current government (meaning executive branch) is not different from the former regime’, should be blamed on the bad decisions and bad actions of the politicians in the executive branch, not on the politicians outside the executive branch. This is a campaign strategy to start expanding a political base in preparations for the next rounds of elections.
We can debate the gifts and donations to new government, but to say that ‘nothing has improved in the lives of people, and that the current government is not different from the former regime’ is a deliberate ploy to distract and misinform the innocent Gambian electorate.
Good development is expanding the freedoms: freedoms of person, property, mind, religion and human lineage. These are also known as fundamental human rights. Under the former regime, these freedoms were constantly threatened and sometimes absent. Today, no one can deny that these freedoms have not been expanding under Barrow government.
On the economic part, the government should minimize market distortions, provide level-playing grounds for the economic agents, and leave majority of economic supplies to be determined by the demand.
On the governance, the parliament, where Kalifa comfortably and honorably sits, should not wait for the executive to propose the changes required to institute governance in the country. They should lead the executive branch in proposing laws and changes for the good governance of the country. Any governance failure should be blamed on Kalifa and his fellows in the parliament, if we are allowed to portion blames.
A very good, relevant and mature contribution @ Sillah, but I disagree with some of the views and statements made, and would like to react by extracting from his post, and responding accordingly.
1. ” The whole party chose to sit in the parliament…..they hope to build some political capital in the next elections…. The Gambian electorate should punish all of them….”
Response: Firstly, if building political capital for next election is the motivation, then I would suggest that they have made a very terrible and elementary error of judgement, because between the two institutions of state (Cabinet & NA), the NA is the least effective place for that, as far as Gambia is concerned, especially when you are seen to be opposition. Cabinet, particularly the Presidency, is the institution credited with anything perceived good in The Gambia, and you only have to follow social media today, to see this fact for yourself.
But alas, it’s not an error of judgement, nor is it for the purpose of building political capital, but a very calculated decision with a lot of wisdom behind it, as unfolding events show. I have already shown why it cannot be for the purpose of building political capital, because it won’t yield much gains in the Gambian context.
Why do I think that it is a calculated move? You see, PDOIS is different from our opposition parties in many respects, not least of which, is the approach to governance and direction to take for national development. That is why it has always insisted on a non partisan, independent approach to coalition building, with an agreed common reform programme, because it knows that the environment would not permit any single party to win elections and gain the mandate to implement its own programmes in government. This way, the possibility for these different parties to work together harmoniously in the executive to achieve their common and agreed reform agenda, would have been created and enhanced.
The MOU, in my view, provided that framework necessary for guidance through the Transition Period, and when it was abandoned, the Coalition Government was left with no agreed alternative choices, except two:
1. Either the President (and his party) sets the agenda and Cabinet would be duty bound to assist him achieve set objectives or, 2. A new coalition agenda is discussed and agreed on.
oops..disregard the “agreed” before “alternative choices”…that portion should read: “the Coalition Government was left with no alternative choices, except two…”
If you are PDOIS, this is the worst possible scenario for you, as far as serving in cabinet is concerned: If you serve in cabinet, then you might very well dissolve your party and call it a day, because you may very well be implementing an agenda that you have vowed never to implement. In fact, you might have to implement an agenda, your opposition to which may be the very the very basis for your emergence as a political party. How could you come out and oppose the very policies and practices you implemented and followed in Cabinet for 3/5 years, when the coalition ends? Going into fresh negotiations to agree on a new coalition agenda is out of the question at that point in time. We all know how we got to the MOU.
At that point, taking cabinet positions is out of the question for PDOIS, and that leaves only the National Assembly, which is independent from the Executive, and from where they can still be part of the coalition, or completely withdraw from the coalition altogether. The decision to choose to serve in the NA was therefore the right one for PDOIS, the coalition and the Gambia.
Secondly, if we sincerely want to examine the accusations of political capital building, establish the truth about it and determine who employed the tactic, we must go to a period where the status quo was constant; and that’s pre-December 2016, when Jammeh was in power.
The status quo then, as we vividly recall, was that Jammeh and his APRC were the dominant force, being challenged by Darboe and the UDP, followed by the rest. However, their challenge was not strong enough to effect change through the polls through their own efforts, but being the recipients of Jammeh’s harsh treatments, they profited politically, even if not by design, from this status of being the victims of Jammeh’s brutality and as long as the status quo continued, that public sympathy, which would definitely impact votes gained, will continue. When you follow social media, you can see that the public’s perception of UDP, as the victims of the regime, has played a significant contribution to their success at the NA Elections.
Jammeh’s defeat and departure alters the reality on the ground and takes away that victim status which translates into electoral gains, and the UDP knows that the only way this could be compensated for, is by being seen as the party in government because incumbency is a very big pull factor in Gambia.
That is why Lawyer Darboe’s statement that President Barrow has gone back to his UDP home, would only make sense, if viewed from this context. He wants the nation to see President Barrow’s Government as a UDP Government that has accommodated opposition members, and when his “tactical alliance” that sought to maintain the identities of the individual parties in the NA is considered, as opposed to independent candidates proposal, the whole picture becomes clearer: He wants to build up the political capital of the UDP to maximise their gains and position it as the dominant party at the end of the transition period in 3/5 years.
The UDP Leader, during their 3 party press conference, even stated that much when he argued that individual party’s contributions in the National Assembly must be seen by the public, so that they (the parties) can be judged based on achievements.
Well Sillah, why would a party leader want the public to judge his party by its achievements in the NA, after he has successfully presented an “independent President”, as his party’s president? Are you connecting the dots? No? Well, let me help!
-With Jammeh gone, the public sympathy as his main victims, over time, will go and so too, the “sympathy votes”;
-Without being seen as the ruling party, there is no guarantee that non UDP votes will be captured in significant numbers to assure a clean victory at the end of the transition. I would say that, with an open and fairly equal access to public media, the chance of capturing those votes will be slim, particularly the mass APRC votes;
-Hence, the building of UDP political capital by exploiting their privileged position within the coalition, due to Barrow’s candidate, to station their party as the next dominant one. The only party that has succeeded to build its political capital, from the gains of the coalition, is the UDP. Apart from ministerial salaries and privileges, what exactly are the other parties getting?
I will deal with the rest of Sillah’s post in due course.
Sillah
Maximum respect my brother. Your honesty and rationality is above all else. I can’t agree more with what you’ve said. Frank and unbiased contributions like yours make me proud of calling myself a Gambian. Keep up the good work brother.
Jack,,,,go to the top of the class…..am smiling broadly …….>>>>><<<<<
Because am important lolol
Interesting contribution Mr Sillah….and easy to read and understand. Perhaps you should join the Executive/s Press and information release team…That would be a great improvement I feel….Best Regards.
Jack you naughty boy….I was slow to see your connection with “little” men and impotence…….hahahahaha
I didn’t make any categorical criticism on Musa Ceesay’s resignation from PDOIS. However, what I can’t square up is the swift manner of his resignation at “remarks” made by a party secretary general which could have beeen addressed at the party meeting if he felt offended. I find it paradoxical, though it’s his right to decide where to stay and where not to.
But would Musa Ceesay resign if he were the sitting Busumbala constituentcy NAM for PDOIS, a position he failed to attained at the last parliamentary elections?
With the NAMs’ fat salary at Gambian standard, a new vehicle from the corrupt Adama Barrow, fringe benefits, allowances, per diem emoluments, trips abroad, an AC office at Parliament building in Banjul, respectable social status; would he RESIGN just at hearing Halifa’s usual outright opinions?
This is the dichotomy in Gambian politics. As long as the politician is “anointed” all other things are “EQUAL”!
Bye brother Ceesay, I’m sure your resignation has given more strength to PDOIS.
Correction:
he failed to ATTAIN.
Sillah was wholly constructive and his insights indeed analysed to a great lenght the difficult task and perilous state Halifa’s political manoeuvrings threatens to render pdois irrelevant. The average Gambian voter or laymen does not understand Bax’s educated opinion. Just as a Brexit voter like Scales could not grasp David Cameron’s ill conceived half-hearted argument to stay in the EU. No wonder people like Mr. Ceesay are abandoning pdois. Maybe Hon. Sedia Jatta will jump ship next. He will then once again exemplify the traitors Babu see in many of his countrymen especially from a particular ethnic group.
Is that a wish? About Hon. Jatta jumping the ship…..Sillah was constructive but he ignored important facts and you cannot do justice to the issues touched until you have considered all facts; and that means your points of reference have to include the periods preceding the coalition “breakup”.
About “people like Ceesay abandoning PDOIS”, you seem to have a short memory Kinteh (Kemo). How many people were paraded on one political platform or the other as “new arrivals” from another party? Have you forgotten the Majanko Samusa’s and Waa Juwara’s or the Suku Singhateh’s? There is nothing special here and no significance should be attached to this resignation. He wouldn’t even be missed.
Kinteh (Kemo), I just saw a very interesting video on face book. Hon Hamat Bah, Minister of Tourism, cried on the floor of the National Assembly when thanking Hon. Jatta and Sallah for what he called, “their selfless service” to the nation. I was moved and I would have cried, if I was a witness in the chamber on that day. That is very touching and it shows a lot of sincerity and appreciation, under the current political climate.
Hon Darboe, on the other hand, was on Kerr Fatou recently, where he stated that people were “antagonistic” to the UDP by refusing to rally behind his party led agenda. And that if the convention had chosen anyone else, other than a UDP candidate, they would have lost the December election. The implication of that statement is probably lost on him: That he would still have been in Mile 2. I wish he would show a bit of appreciation for the efforts and sacrifices of non UDP members of the coalition.
When a political leader uses words like “antagonistic” to describe opposition to his political ideas, we should not wonder why the political climate is so toxic and ominous. No doubt, a very good man on a personal level, but a lot to be desired as a political leader.
Kinteh(Kemo)
There is no bigger traitor than Babu Soli himself, as only traitors rejoiced at the demise of their fellow countrymen and women while praising the one who caused their demise. Babu Soli should be given the irrelevance in par as the defeated monster chased out of our shores with his tail between his skinny legs.
Fire Burn the traitors in our midst.
I would agree with the latter Bax….100%…But would have some reservations on the complexity of your massive contribution. Meanwhile, The MOU, or something like it was necessary for all to agree and sign and form a Manifesto.
Halifa and others stood by it. Mr Darboe claims he did not. But wait, I do not understand how Mr Darboe got a job and salary and expenses with the coalition, when he denies the existence and validity of The MOU. He then gained a high position and then caused much consternation because he did not abide by the consensus that only independent candidates should vie for the National Assembly ? Whilst he may have approved of Barrow in his candidacy for President for Mr Barrow then to lead a transitional government for 3 Years then resign, Surely Mr Darboe and the UDP should not be members of the coalition. There is no document signed by Mr Darboe entitling him to be part of the coalition. Mr Barrow stood as leader of the coalition, not the leader of the UDP, or on behalf of the UDP.
Can someone explain ?Please
Come on Kinteh (Kemo). I need an explanation too.
Kemo; for the record; I said I did not vote in the Brexit referendum. For I was undecided. My heart said we should leave but my head said we should not. Please don’t link me with the Tories….”Call me Dave” committed political Hari Kari by having the vote. Mrs May almost did the same. The English have been in protest mood since austerity ruled the waves.
2. @ Sillah: ” …Kalifa is taking a separation principle….. Therefore, any failure of government…..such as his statement that ‘nothing improved in the lives of people’…..should be blamed…on executive branch.”
Response: I don’t quite know whether this is intended as a criticism or not, but the “Separation Principle” is not the making of Halifa. It’s a Constitutional provision, so Halifa should be praised for upholding it.
Under the Constitution, both the Executive and Legislature have got their roles clearly spelt out for them. Why should a member in either arm accept failures of the other? Can somebody tell me why a member of the executive should be blamed for a bad law, even if he/she conceived the bad idea, drafted the bill and presented to parliament. At the end of the day, it is the legislator who will pass a motion to support that bill becoming law. So the blame is on the legislator.
A policy decision of the executive, like the fuel reduction and reversal that has created the fare chaos, should be blamed on the executive, isn’t it? Why should Halifa Sallah (a NAM), for example, accept responsibility for such a poorly conceived and ill advised policy? That’s the decision of the executive so they should receive any blames for the chaos.
Quote @ Mr Ceesay: ” “I don’t think Halifa has any justification to say ‘nothing seems to have improved in the living standards of ordinary Gambians’….”
Quote @ Sallah: ” “such as his statement that ‘nothing improved in the lives of people’ ”
Response: I haven’t had the opportunity to listen to all of Hon. Sallah’s speeches and could not find any publication where he was supposed to make the above statements. I am even confused as to what he is alleged to have said, as different fora report different statements. I have posted the two references above to show what I mean.
It can be seen that whilst Mr Ceesay, the guy who resigned from PDOIS is reported to have quoted Halifa as saying that “nothing SEEMS to have changed….”, Sillah is quoting Halifa as saying, “Nothing improved (meaning changed)….” Notwithstanding the similarities, there is a difference between the two and if Halifa was rightly quoted by Mr Ceesay, then what is being alleged by critics is a complete misunderstanding of what is being implied by the statement.
Let’s consider these two statements:
1. The sun doesn’t shine here. (definitive statement; no relativity: there is simply no sun here)
2. The sun doesn’t seem to shine here (relative to the perceiver: the sun can be shining, but I don’t feel it. It cannot mean that there is definitely no sun here, like 1).
So, if Halifa have said that “nothing seems to have changed”, it doesn’t mean that he is saying that there are no changes. What he is saying is that there may be changes but people don’t perceive or feel it. It’s not impacting their lives significantly enough to be different from the previous regime, hence that analogy, and this also needs to be further understood within the context of the question he was answering.
You cannot understand this statement within the context of free speech, personal/property safety or the open political environment, if the question was about detentions beyond 72 hours, for example, or the executive’s powers to hire/fire chiefs without giving any explanations. That would constitute a distortion of the man’s statement and views.
Very interesting discuss… The notion that “The average Gambian voter or laymen does not understand Bax’s educated opinion.”, has been peddled far too long in The Gambia and I believe it is becoming stale now. PDOIS’s consistent message to The Gambian electorate is bearing fruit. The message coming from the so-called Average Gambian Voter or Laymen toady is, “The Sleeping Tablet” that politicians used to give “The average Gambian voter or laymen”, has expired and that the type of discuss and analysis given by people like BAX is no more beyond the grasp of the majority of Gambian voters. When the human mind tastes that level of enlightenment, it is almost impossible to dribble them in the political arena.
I think their is a perfectly plausible explanation why interim President Barrow rushed to lift the age restriction on holding executive office; and it has nothing to do with Madam Tamberjang.
If I were opening a betting book on who will be the next President it would go as follows.
Lamin J Darboe…..even money.
Hon.Halifa…..2-1
Mama Kandeh,,,,, 3-1
Adama Barrow,,,,, 4-1
Hamat Bah,,,,5-1
Yahya Jammeh,,,,,, 25-1
Mai Fatty,,,,,,33-1
100-1 Bar
The educated opinion of my fellow contributors in this forum is indeed refreshing and I gladly join in.
The problem though is that pdois and operatives do not speak the layman’s language. Mr. Ceesay’s reasons for parting with party, if analysed, hints at the unwillingness or rather the inability of Hon. Sallah to use the unique access to Barrow he acquired during the presidential campaign, coalition win and the followed expulsion of Babili, to pdois’s advantage. Of course as often narrated here in this forum, the supposedly stumbling block is manifested in the person of Darboe. Now is darboe to be blamed if the elected president is deemed to be quite close to him? Is it not a question of competence and intellect to influence the president to lean to your side of the argument. Hamat and OJ are currently present at the cabinet table and they influence the president’s decision just like any other minister. Mr. Ceesay decried this unwillingness of his leaders to engage the president at that high level- at least my logical conclusion. Hon. Sallah even got a special presidential role like Steve Bannon. Why didn’t he use that unique access to influence the president’s decision on issues fundamental to the “Change” pdois want to see accomplished by now. Hon. Sallah also has yet to table a single far-reaching legislation in the NA that would encompass the change pdois want to see happen. Are we still going to go after Darboe for being Rasputin and also for killing off Hon. Sallah’s legislature effectiveness? As an observer, i can just predict that the aforementioned competence deficiencies, signals great danger for the future viability of pdois as a party. That is why I wouldn’t be surprised if Hon. Jatta jump ship. There are people in the pdois who want to see Barrow succeed as president on his own right and they want to lend hand irrespective of the politics of UDP as a party. Hon. Sallah may have set on fire the bridge with his open critic which Barrow evidently took personally. That for sure may have the potential to annoy the wing in pdois who are willing to lend Barrow hand in governing a country that regained it’s normality barely 10 months.
I’m non the wiser, Mike
Kinteh (Kemo), if Sidia jumped ship, that would be a bombshell indeed, but it won’t spell the collapse, as you seem to suggest. Big names quitting parties is not new. We remember late Mr Dibba quit PPP to form NCP. Both lived to 1994. UDP suffered a worse experience when big names and founding fathers, like Gumbo Touray and Waa Juwara, not only left it, but switched loyalty to the APRC, either immediately or much later, as in Juwara’s case. So if Sidia quits (very unlikely, but if it happens), I’m pretty sure PDOIS will carry on.
I’m not sure if your statement about some within PDOIS wanting to see Barrow succeed in his own right, is implying that Halifa doesn’t want to see Barrow’s success, but if it is, not nothing could be further from the truth.
In the National Assembly, Halifa never raises a short coming or matter of Public concern, without offering a suggestion, but there were 2/3 instances where Halifa’s efforts to diffuse a potential “banana skin”, are plain for all to see.
Interior Minister, Mai Fatty, acknowledged this in the NA, in relation to the Kaninlai incident.
The Bakoteh incident is another tricky situation that Halifa helped to diffuse. You can still access videos on YouTube and see the tensions before his “magic” worked.
There was also the case of the deported youths, who visited Foroyaa Office and vowed to go into the streets, but again, his “magic” worked.
How can anyone say that such a person wants the President to fail?
About “competence” and “intellect”, well, let’s just say that a “father” may not always possess these for a “son” to lean towards him.
Bax If your middle name was Moses, I would gladly follow you to the land of Milk and Honey.Or perhaps Hon Halifa could grow a beard and explain the future in 10 tablets of stone. As Kemo said….Much kudos to the honourable company of Jollof Men. The
breadth and depth of thought and opinion is breathtaking. Its such a pity we could not form a government. But I guess we would be as divided as Gambia. So I would say we are reflective of the status quo. That can only mean we are all relevant and current.{are you studying Law by any chance ?} I would be happy to employ you as my Barrister anytime. You are so convincing and genuine.
I’m layman in law, Mike, but nice one…
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
You see how STPID and IDIOTIC you are. I don’t think you know what the meaning of the word TRAITOR is. Only President Jammeh and the APRC could refer to me as a TRAITOR, if I swap sides to another party, another vision which are contrary to their policies.
I have on several occasions, told your STUPID DUNCE head, and very categorically for that matter, that President Jammeh is NOT a KILLER to me! I have not seen him killing another and to me he is not liable for killing anybody. If he did, the courts are there to redress that matter and unless it is proven beyond reason doubt, I personally exonerate him for all the STUPID, IDIOTIC and SENSELESS allegations of his “killings”.
So, I believe you should use your terminology TRAITOR in a more adequate context.
I’m a democrat and will never pre-judge anybody on hearsay and unfounded allegations.
On the other hand, your bitty INEPT, CORRUPT, TRIBALIST, HOPELESS, USELESS, INCOMPETENT, UNDEMOCRATIC administration at Fajara has explicitly exposed its vices to the Gambian people by squandering MILLIONS of dalasis on USELESS trips, ceremonies in less than 10 months of government!
To me the killers are the past PPP administration that brought invading Senegalese forces into the Gambia in 1981 and asked them to inhumanely murder over 800 innocent Gambian women, men and children. Raped and maimed our women and citizenry. Those who remain silent, like you STUPID ASS Nasty Natty Dread, about that gruesome episode in our political history are the TRAITORS who collude with foreign enemies to annihilate our people.
The story continues today, with the image of another killer administration, with the presence of the same invading forces from Senegal, invited by the USELESS man in presidential clothing. Only to keep his illiterate head in power and continue to drain our resources for poor Senegal.
YOU are the STUPID and UNPATRIOTIC TRAITOR.
You USELESS object, trying to piece up livelihood in that Mauritian enclave by cheating the poor citizenry with your dubious business.
Once you refered to Babu Soli as someone living in EXILE. A refugee who has just returned from his home in August. A refugee who wrote from his home during his 2-month stay to portray the dysfunctional nature to the useless administration. You are just FOOLISH.
Babu Soli
You idiotic cock sucking asshole who contradict himself a countless times in one single piece of ranting. My terminology in calling you a traitor is wrong as you assumed that i didn’t know the meaning of the word but you used the same terminology to address my humble self. You flipflopping dictator loving nincompoop. You have betrayed the unwritten rule of being your brothers keeper by rejoicing the spilling of Gambian blood while praising the monster who spilled their blood. This is what made you a traitor fool! You are not the first idiotic professor i know. I know another by the name of Yahya Jammeh, so it is not a surprise for me to see such irrational, uneducated and fabricated tired ramblings from you.
You are just jealous of me, an African doing very well on the continent of Africa, unlike you economic migrant who piece up livelihood by teaching imperialist heirs, who call you nigger, monkey and all sorts. Wear your woolly jumpers and your woolly hats fool and serve your masters.
Once an idiot always an idiot. Babu Soli is an idiot from birth and will die a damn idiot.
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
They know I’m qualified that’s why I’m here to teach the imperialist. I’m proud about that. But they uqually know you are a STUPID DUNCE, that’s why you not here but lingering in that enclave to cheat the poor. I was qualified at home and qualified here thus I stand on high ground to give any qualified input. Not a STUPID DUNCE NINCOMPOOP like you who cannot stay in his/her “home” to give, but to waste away. You wasteful good-for-nothing.
The spilling of Gambian blood took place well before President Jammeh came to flush the culprits out of power. But an IDIOT and UNTRUTHFUL person like you would shut his/her ASS about that episode.
What an IDIOT on the African continent. You are kidding yourself about Babu’s jealousy of a good-for-nothing.
Babu the anti colonialist. What is it exactly you teach in Holland. I bet the Dutch have not made a background and psychological check on you to let you stand in front of their students much more lecture them. What is it exactly the subject you lecture?
Come on.., it’s no problem telling us you work in the circus. It’s a noble job that makes kids have good fun.
You go; ‘stupid dunce’, ‘stupid dunce nincompoop’, ‘idiot’,’untruthful’, ‘idiot’. Would a qualified teacher in Holland write like this even if he or she is going anonymous. Holland needs teachers!
Babu Soli
Oh! Oh! i got deep into the skin of the professor of idiocy. You disgraceful flipflopping dictator loving asshole. You are qualified in telling lies and sucking cocks, laugh when it’s ain’t funny, placate those you castigate as imperialist and proud of being a damn fool. You ain’t the first one to call yourself professor but you are still useless, wasting your time on good for nothing like Natty Dread. You fucking coward. Bring it on Babu, cos i am immune to your insults. You petty self defeating ignorant asshole. You disgraceful traitor.
Fire Burn the damn traitors in our midst.
Jack, The JackaASS,
How many times would you ask the same insane questions and how many times do I have to answer your insane head?
I’m not into answering trivial, silly, childish and senseless questions. When questions make sense I do answer adequately. But once you side with the STUPID DUNCE in the element of Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread, I brand you the same. So no answers to questions I have answered earlier.
Besides, you have already made up your mind about the calibre of person I am, my professionality…so why do I have to try in convincing you? I don’t waste my time on FOOLISH people.
If the Dutch made a mistake in contracting my excellent professional service for many years, according to your STUPID analysis, it only shows how narrow-minded and uncouthed you are. The Dutch are more educated, more intelligent, more rational than your shallow brain can think.
Babu the anti colonialist,
Welcome to the job, education, intelligence and rationality of the colonial master. What an authentic idiot of self-contradiction!
I may sound childish to you but I know what the choice of words of professors would look like more or less, especially when they seem to be engaged in constructive debates.
Oh!, and as a piece of good advice to you.., don’t you ever ever again get foul mouthed at me otherwise I will get real real mad at you! Do you get that in your coconut shell??
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
You hibernate then come from your filthy hiding to insult Babu. When Babu responds, you get jittery, irritated and weird. That’s your NASTY nature. Once you don’t appear, there is nobody on this forum, except your equally STUPID Jack, the JackASS that I respond harshly. Because the other contributors are not the NASTY DREADFUL NATTY DREAD. Until you train your IDIOTIC STUPID manners to become more educated, Babu is here to professionally respond to your IDIOTIC narratives. YOU GOOD-FOR-NOTHING!
You can and will NEVER be immune to my insults, as long as you continue to insult Babu, expect harsher words. YOU DUNCE.
I know how to get into your ugly nasty nerves to get you rant. That’s how to tame an IDIOT. You either shut your ASS, or you get the stick stuck in it!
Hey Babu!, the authentic jackass that belongs to Jammeh. I missed this other bloody stinking one from your exhaust pipe. I have seriously warned you to clean your tubes and exhaust. Your level of co2 emission in the atmosphere is unacceptable! Your are a crafty lunatic just like your boss. You are presenting the Armed Robber News like a Never Heard Before, when the average Gambians were aware of the fact the most horrific ones took place during your regime, when victims in incidents of armed robberies were decapitated. Didn’t you heard about the holdups along the Trans-Gambia some eleven years ago, just another one among various incidents like it?
You crafty idiot …., what did you expect after your boss of a militia leader president, who got his donkey ass glued to power, was embarrassingly beaten in election and refused to step down creating a political impasse?? Wasn’t he, through his lunatic tricks, systematically looting the country, hauling stolen million Dollar vehicles and letting his cronies of ruffian militia men unaccountably getting in thin air with loads of arms? Are you seriously surprised that an arm robbery is reported in the Gambia today? The criminal incident that you are highlighting now is terribly frightful but I guess the possibility of such crimes occurring in the country today, among many other natures of crimes are the cause of many Gambians worries surrounding that provoked political impasse and its aftermath. Your boss had his plans laid in advance and that’s for the country to become a hotspot for already cultivated outlaws and frustrated absconded militia men.
This is all you got to know prof;
“Mi throw mi corn but mi Neva call no fowl”
ARMED ROBBERS STRIKE
STANDARD NEWSPAPER October 26, 2017
armed, robbers, strike
By Momodou Jawo
AS MAI FATTY IS LYING ABOUT SECURITY IN THE GAMBIA, THIS IS WHAT GAMBIANS ARE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT: THE RISE IN CRIMES! READ ON, idiots nasty natty dread and jack the jackass!
Babu
A gang of armed robbers broke into Reliance Financial Services offices and other shops in Kuntaur, Wassu, terrorising and took away cash and other valuables, police sources confirmed yesterday.
According to eyewitnesses, the armed robbers first attacked the Reliance offices where made away with D466,000 from a safe before proceeding to the Wassu branch of Yonna Forex Bureau and a shop belonging to Mauritanian businessma Saloum Hydara.
From Hydara’s shop, they took D55,000 and CFA250, 000, along with 35 packets of cigarette and two crates of soft drinks. However, they did not take any money from the Yonna forex bureau branch as they could not locate any.
A Kuntaur resident said the robbers fired shots in the air before embanking on their looting spree.
Meanwhile, traces of the robbers’ loot including an empty suitcase believed to have contained the looted money. were found in nearby Ngunda village.
Police spokesman ASP Foday Conta said his office was aware of the heist and that the robbers are believed to have come from Senegal.
He disclosed that their investigations have revealed that the robbers scared the watchman at the Reliance office by firing in the air and in the process petrifying the villagers. The GPF spokesperson added that the robbers then later moved to Yonna Forex Bureau and vandalised all the computers at the bureau searching cluelessly for money before going ahead to rob the Hydara’s shop.
PRO Conta said the police contacted the military post at Laminkoto but the robbers escaped in a white Toyota pick-up vehicle before the reinforcement of soldiers arrived at the scene..
The soldiers, he said, pursued the robbers but could not find the elusive armed bandits and only managed to recover the empty suitcase. “As we speak now, the matter is under investigation,” Conta said.
If the robbers came from Senegal, then it is going to be very difficult to stop the robbery, unless the security has intelligence in advance. That’s a very long and porous border and Gambia simply doesn’t have the resources to secure it.
It’s a very distressful and disturbing situation and I hope Senegal will help to curb this menace. Government should also try whatever it can to improve security and prevent these criminal gangs from terrorising our communities.
Babu, this is the danger of arming a criminal gang like the Cassamance rebels. Who knows whether these guns are actually from our armouries, paid for by us and supplied to Cassamance bandits by their deposed chief patron, Yaya Jammeh?