The interim leader of Gambia’s former governing party, Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), has urged the government of President Adama Barrow to end the unprovoked attacks on his party supporters.
Fabakary Tombong Jatta said Monday and Wednesday’s attack on his supporters in Mankamang Upper River Region (URR) and Busumbala were carried out by thugs who are given a free reign by the authorities.
He warned that while his party cherishes the country’s peace and stability and continues to adhere to the various laws of the country, they will not allow the unprovoked attack on their supporters.
“Let me say this, the greatest party in this country is the APRC and let this be the last time that we are attacked. We will not attack anybody but henceforth if we are attacked, we will defend ourselves,” he said.
The former majority leader of the Gambian National Assembly added: “As we speak, they are still attacking APRC supporters especially those wearing green t-shirts and the government is paying deaf ear. Is this democracy? You see we are all Gambians and love our country, but enough is enough.
“I urge the government to take a stance on this issue. It is inexplicable for the government to fail to restore peace in Busumbala for almost 48 hours. What about if it was happening in various regions? For us, it is because they are not APRC and that is why they enjoy that. If what happened in Busumbala had happened in an APRC stronghold, the entire villagers would have been arrested.”
Mr Jatta said he is surprise to learn that the police are yet to effect a single arrest on individuals who assaulted and damaged the properties of his party supporters
“What surprises us is that there was no arrest made. I must emphasise that if we continue to be taking sides whenever we are attacked, it will become a habit and therefore it is the duty of the security forces to ensure that the highways are secure for people to go about their business,” he added.
By its mere existance the APRC is a provocation to any Democrat.
Old man go chew your colanut and ask your supporter to respect the Gambia people ,you are very shameless and not know the value of human existence, you exactly knew where the provocation started and you trying to twist the whole truth and putting blaming on the innocent people .if you don’t lost the test of Piccadilly and you cola nuts how dear can you and your supporters put on a t shirt bearing a murderer a thief a barbaric saying,he yaya jammeh should come back to the Gambia, yea you right he should be back when he has a valid passport and his x five star hotel is well prepared for his welcoming. Look what you guys a up to we knew it because you wan to interrupt the jammeh commission.id you people want war let get on it and see who are the pure sons and daughters of this great nation.
Well done for your perseverance within your steadfastness. Those who challenge your existence are undemocratic. Don’t mind your detractors. Only Allah knows, the next government could be APRC.
The next government won’t certainly be APRC, Babu; I can bet my last Dalaso/i on this….
Whosoever thinks yaya devil Jammeh will come back to Gambia & roam freely in the street like you & I can get to coocoo-land in utopia; because I can bet my all, that this will never ever happen….
Why will the victims of the kanilai barbaric killer devil be ever denied the justice deserved, if not for mentioning the other numerous crimes wilfully committed in the name of whatsoever reconciliation will not be effective nor serve anything meaningful for the community & humanity in general but the contrary…
If anyone is in doubt, yaya Jammeh can bell the cat & come back willingly, with its right guarantee & save us the hassle to go after it hiding on the Equator for prosecution which will start when the Truth Commission deliberates & formal indictment procedures ensued diplomatically…
The truth is, neither aprc, nor their kanilai thing in hiding on the Equator can finance with our stolen ‘sweat & blood’ & instigate any provoking into any blackmailing to any forms of blanket amnesties; the only way to real meaningful reconciliation is through prosecution & justice for victims, in deterrence for future would be murderous devil in kind; otherwise, whosoever is in doubt, ‘the prove of the pudding’…?
God bless Gambia….
Realistically aprc can only be the ‘next government’ on election mandate win; I can take upon time & comfortably speculate that aprc won’t win anything politically beyond the Foni regions; with the pungent records of the past events, freshly in memory which marred the kanilai darkage fiefdom period which a(f)prc served as among the mechanisms to enable & sustain wilfully…
Aprc as a political party under the law of the land are entitled to opinions & peaceful politicking equally in anywhere as anyone else without denied & attacks by anyone aggrieved; this is where the Constitution mandated NCCE to enlighten the peasantry population for the peaceful coexistence into progressive posterity…
But aprc (assuming in any body’s myopic mind) can’t take the country hostage, in ransom for unreasonable ‘general amnesty’ for the evil kanilai Murderdom devil & cohorts without rightful prosecution for justice & fair play….
Bajas, I’ll bet my last Euro, the APRC will hold the key to the next government. There is widespread frustration disgruntleness among the electorate. New parties are being formed. These parties will intrude into the hegemony of the UDP, which will never gain a mayority to rule. Only the APRC, GDC and PDOIS will maintain and increase their support.
To dream even the impossible is a god given right for all mankind, but to dream of APRC ever ascending to power again in the Gambia maybe a dream too far. There is hope for GDC and PDOIS but APRC will always remain a protest movement rather than a potent political force because of their complicity in the barbarity of Jammeh and his government. They are empty barrels and are bound to make a louder noise.
Correction:
Bajaw. Sorry for the error!
Yaya jammeh will not risk coming to the Gambia, the chance he took to leave was the best for him. His protection in Equatorial Guinea will be revoked if he attempt it. ECOWAS deal will be violated and annulled. He is wanted by justice.
Bajaw and Co.,
Have you seen your corrupt Barrow’s bungalow at his Mangkamang Kunda village, built in less than four months?
Corruption will be very hard to eradicate in this lovely Gambia. Mr Barrow could HV waited a little bit later in that construction. Even though he could have afforded it no one will believe it now
Fabakary and Ousainou are cut from the same cloth, just sewn differently. The APRC party is responsible for the most heinous atrocities ever committed on Gambian soil. Trying to absolve this party of guilt is the highest height of moral decadence.
I wonder how any pig can face the children of Deyda Hydara and many more to tell them their fathers and mothers deserve death because Yaya Jammeh built a new airport and paved highways from loans and grants for Gambian people.
APRC supporters and the entire leadership are equality complicit in the reign of Yaya’s terror visited on Gambians for 22 Long years.
I am honestly contemplating if a law should not be passed in the National Assembly to make the APRC politically impotent.
Ousainou on the other hand is equality a political cultist. The lack of substance in his political doctrine is reminiscent of Dawda and Sheriff. Both Ousainou and Fabakary are clueless about politics centered on issues and citizens.
To help bring back sanity, coalition members should go back to the table and assess the current political and economic situation of The Gambia will a view to paving a way forward.
In the service of The Gambia and Africa, I remain.
Lamin,
Can you desist from irrational and irresposible comments that can only be indicative of your shallow mindedness? Should the hundreds of thousands of APRC supporters be estranged from making their rights manifested in any political stake? Stop your Hitlerian behaviour and predatory opiniones, please!
Barrow and his clique are just CORRUPT and INCOMPETENT. I predicted their corrupt tendencies a long time ago. We’ll see the worst of this bunch of USELESS administrators in the coming months.
You may be right Lamin, we witness the others opposition parties being threatened in foni districts, that even cause all opposition parties to avoid fonis area during campaign for the stake of their safety,because it is a APRC strong hold districts. So today gambia is change those days of dictator yaya jammehs time will not be repeated, jammeh fail Gambia big time, Lets we all try to bring a decent society and tolerance and mutual respect among our selves, we must remember at the end of the day we are one Gambian.
Babu, you are entitled to your opinion; the bungalow you mentioned (though I haven’t seen myself) is affordable to President Barrow as a business man even without the presidency; that alone can’t provide any evidence yet for corruption on his path; please provide any other tangible evidence/s you may have…
How about Royal Kanilai mansion ?
My Recollections and Thoughts on the Past and Current State of Affairs in the Gambia’s Political Dispensation, Party Politics, Regionalism and Ethnic Group Politics:
Most of the Comments above are Relevant and Significant Contributions to the need for a Gambia and Gambians who are willing to Talk to each other, Listen to each other and Hear each other out without resorting to the Narrow Minded and Ethnic Party Politics. Nativist, Kneejerk Reaction by Ill informed and Uninformed “Party Militants” who React first and think last is not a Sustainable or viable Option. The Gambian President and the Current Gambian Regime are from the same Gambian Society those who engage in the Uncivil and Uncivilized Violent Behavior and Actions that seek to Destroy Persons and Private Property come from. If the Public Domain is Divisive and Fractured along Ethnic Group Party Politics, Regionalism, and Nativism, how can those from the same Public Domain, the President alone Prevent the Violence of these Misguided members of the Public Domain? It would take all within the Gambian Public Domain and the “New” Gambia’s Political “Leaders” and Stakeholders to STOP ENABLING THE SMALL VIOLENT MILITANTS OF THE UDP and Others by bluntly calling on the UDP Party Leadership and other Party Leaders Out and Demand that they Step to the Plate and STOP the Violent, Destructive and Destabilizing Behavior and Actions of their Members or those who claim to be Members of their Parties, who engage in Violent Destructive Enterprise. If Ousainou Darbo and his UDP Party’s Leadership (Arguebly the Party in Power), by Commission or Omission fail to Exercise their Due Diligence and Responsibility of “Tempering” their Militants Behavior, the Gambia would be in a State of Civil Disturbance the likes of which the UDP and Other Party’s Leadership and Party Militants may regret not “Taming”. As long as Non UDP GAMBIANS are the Victims, the Insidious Silence from the Current Gambian Regime Under President Barrow and Ousainou Darbo and the UDP Party Leadership as well as Others in the Gambia and Abroad, would be read as an Indication of Indifference and Calculated Political Negligence. Infifference and Calculated Negligence Unworthy of the Gambians and Gambia. Instability Scares away Potential Investors. It also undercuts and slows down any gains made in the Economic, Governance and Peaceful Co-exitence. All Business, Civic and Political Leaders must come Out Forcefully and Collectively or Individually Out of their Conforth Zones and Speak up Against these Thugs from any and all Party Militants Involved. Gambia is More than the Sum Total of One Ethnic Group or Region. The Presidency and President Barrow alone cannot bring about a significant Long Term end to the revived Party Politics of Violence of the Old PPP and UP which was not Based on Ethnic Group Politics, but on the Politics of Nativistic Regionalism. UP Supporters were Attacked and Harrassed especially during Elections simply because they Supported UP and P. S. Njie. To wear “Green” (the UP Color), is to be Subjected to Harrassment and Physical Attack by PPP Party Militants (at least in the Kombos). The PPP Color was Blue and was the preferred Color at least by those who don’t want to be Victimized even if they are not PPP Supporters. My mother and sisters wore the PPP Colors as “Ahsobi” to PPP Political Events. My brothers and sisters wore the PPP Colors to the PPP “AZICO” DANCES AND POLITICAL EVENTS. UP Supporter’s Fences, and Businesses were Torn down and or Vandalised for just being UP Supporters. The deeds of the fathers, brothers and uncles has come Full Circle. Like the PPP Militants who were the aggressors when PPP was in Power, it appears UDP Militants are unforturnately repeating the same History. These are my recollections of the State of Affairs in the then “New” Gambia. The Intolerance and Violence was Unacceptable then and Should be now too. The difference then was that Jawara intermittently or at least through his Main PPP Leaders in the Kombos, Pa Sanjally Bojang of Brikama and N’famara Wasa Touray Spoke up against such Violence. The other difference is the role the Police and therefore, Law Enforcement Officers played in Clamping down on the Culprits, when they are identified. They are Arrested and Detained as well as made to pay restitution in Cases where Property and Personal Financial Losses are Quantified. The downside presently is almost a State of Affairs that is Diametrically Opposit that of the PPP Regime. This must change and change quickly before it is too late to Tame. I repeat, Gambia is More than the Sum Total of One Ethnic Group or Region.
Under normal circumstances, I won’t be replying to the person who happens to direct his words at me in this thread.
And I hope this will be the last time we will have anything to say to each other.
This is what I have to say: even the hard of hearing and those compatriots not gifted with eyesight are witnesses to Yaya’s blood thirsty massacre of innocent lives. That he did not commit the crimes alone is abundantly clear to all and sundry. Who are his accomplices? His party (including the “religious” hypocrites) and the hoodwinked men and women of the “security apparatus”. They can be the one million APRC supporters and I would still seriously consider passing a law to incapacitate this criminal gang and any such blood thirsty grouping for as long as the sun shines.
But I have to remember again that this party is still on the rampage because Ousainou refused to go into any political alliance to contest the National Assembly election. That would have spelt the natural political death of the three snakes. Namely Fabakary, Yankuba and Seedy.
Anyway, depicting me as shallow minded and dictatorial is very much welcomed because it means am trying to put thieves, liars, killers, rapist etc out of business. It means am trying to put a rebel and his minions out of business. I’ll gladly carry that as a badge of honor.
But again I have to remind myself that history was never and will never be kind to those foolish enough to try to falsify it. I will urge all victims and their loved ones to take comfort in the above unbendable truth. The good sons and daughters of The Gambia will dry your tears with justice and a Gambia worthy of emulation. There is hope. Still.
Yours in the service of The Gambia and Africa, I remain.
Lamin,
I have to confirm once again that you are bais, untruthful and full of hate.
When talking about the killing of our innocent people, you ought to point your accusing finger at the defunct PPP regime that massacred over 800 Gambians in 1981 and squandered our coffers for over 30 years.
Bias
Jack,
No doubt you were a toddler on your mummy’s laps to say anything tangible about the 1981 episode that went weird with Jawara’s brutal intervention. Distortion? You are STUPID. We are writing history.
That was a Gambian issue and purely Gambian. Kukoi had his Gambian loyalist forces, NO foreigners, NO mercenaries. Jawara had his Gambian loyalist forces from the police, the the Field Force and civilians who supported him. Why then did he(Jawara) invite British mercenaries, Senegalese BASTARD military forces to invade our country for his personal position?
There was no truth in the application of the Senegalo-Gambian treaty which they used as an excuse ploy to invade our country. The treaty never gave leeway for the other country’s military intervention in a purely national upheaval.
They LIED to the Gambian and Senegalese people just to forcefully return Jawara to power.
Kwame Nkrumah refused to accept the late Guinean President Sekou Toure’s offer to invade Ghana when he(Kwame) was overthrown in 1966. He perceived a drop of each Ghanaian drop as his own blood. Those were the Pan-Africanist patriotic leaders.
The truth about the failure of your INEFFICIENT administration in Banjul is coming up. And Gambians will decide that. Not your irrationality on line, Jack. Our people are not reading your NONSENSE. They want water, electricity, stable food and commodity prices, internal security, affordable health services and affordable education bills for all. NOT YOUR SILLY and IRRATIONAL defence of a CORRUPT, INEPT, INCOMPETENT and TRIBALIST administration with a bunch of unqualified and SELFISH elements!
Babu, it’s certainly laughable when you try to distort history in your calculated half-truths & manipulative twists which gives nothing to imagination & tells lots about your vary own calibre & character; dubious, indeed…
If Jack is younger, remember there’re many more who are older & knew what actually happened factually; Jawara, from the start never took guns to forcefully usurp power & forced himself unto the leadership at anytime; he was first nominated by the people on decent contests & legitimately gained & obtained political mandates; unlike your Murderous Demonic Devils Kufing Samba Saytan & kanilai Predatory Evilness Tony Dakala baa…
What loyal forces were you talking about when Jawara was the only legitimate leader; Senegal in 1981 & ECOMIG in 2017 were legally doing a job mandated legitimately by the peasantry Gambians to salvage the innocent community from your murderous devil-idols who literally fed on human blood & flesh; the only regret was Kufing Saytan managed to escape & died in destitution instead of being ‘Samuel Doed’…
With all your nonsense rhetoric, Jack is right; apart from the police murdered to access the armoury, many people died recklessly in 1981 were self-inflicted because of their lack of knowledge of operating the firearms irresponsibly handed out to them before second thoughts; whilst others took the guns purposefully to go after opponents & others vengefully on grievance to settle scores & murdered them & others innocent people cut out in the tumultuous meele…
Contrary to your twisting, Kwame Nkrumah’s overthrow were masterminded by MI5 & CIA (UK & US); he only declined Ahmed Saikou Tourè’s offer to re-enstatement because unlike the Guinea troupes which had ordinary battle gears, arms & ammunition, he (Nkrumah) recently purchased some fighter jets & other sophisticated arms at the material time for the Ghana arm forces which he knew Guineans hadn’t stood much chance to counter at the time, more so defeat victoriously without an historic bloodshed of a proportionate magnitude; contrary to your (laybon, luppen) storytelling…
Babu, times have now changed; ECOWAS are from henceforth at hand to make sure peace reins in the subregion; more so, the decent selfless Gambians will make sure such things are banished into the past for good; if anyone thinks they can cause trouble by provocative blackmail to succumb the country into a fake blanket amnesty for the evil kanilai Murderdom killer devil & cohorts, they must be in headburried slumber in coocoo-land; Murderer yaya Devil will never come back to the Gambia & free to roam the streets without the justice deserved for the victims; otherwise, I can assure you & anyone in doubt that the victims, families & love-ones will hunt down in avenge & kill it; this is by no means a threat to anyone but the objective fact; if you are in any doubt, let that despicable thing in hiding on the equator dare to come back on its own accord & see…
Rectification please – manipulative twists which leaves nothing to imagination – thank you
Babu soli please mind your words !!!hhhhmm
Rectification please – tells lots about your very own character – thanks