President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has appointed a convicted drug trafficker as he adviser for youth affairs.
Musa Suso, a former governing APRC National Assembly Member for Kombo North who was jailed for eight years for trying to trafficker a suitcase full of cannabis to Europe by a local magistrate in May 2001, will advice the president on issues relating to advancing the welfare of youths in the country.
Mr Suso was a prominent supporter of former President Yahya Jammeh and enjoys the backing of youths in his Kombo North constituency.
But in 1999, he was arrested together with his friend Ndenneh Faal by police with cannabis on his way to the airport following a tip-off.
Halfway though his sentence, he was pardoned by former President Jammeh after he allegedly implicated the former director of Prisons, David Colley, in a corruption saga.
Months later, Colley was recalled to the post after the allegations made by Mr Suso were found to be false. Suso was arrested and later given a six month jail term for giving false information to the president.
Really??
This fellow?
Am I missing something?
Musa Suso, National Youth Adviser??
It’s a real shame. There are so many better role-models out there who could serve as advisors on youth maktters.
First, it was the non clarity on whether he will abide by the agreed 3 Year Term or not; then it was the creation of the President Barrow Youth Movement; and now the appointment of a political big wig for a position he is not qualified to man: are these the early signs that Mr Barrow is planning to sit tight?
Mr Suso is, without doubt, brought into the fold to play the role of a Youth Mobiliser for whatever political organisation is being planned.
Disappointing as it may be, Gambians deserve everything we get.
Bax, I’m now reclined to President Barrow serving for the full five years term instead of three years agreed; as that’ll always win the legal argument as the legitimate constitutional mandated provision against any moral arguments; politicians are mainly driven by partisan endeavours shrouded & embedded in public servant dispensations…
I’m resigned too, that he may go for re-election again by all indications & if mandated by the people, he will serve another five years term; but that’ll be the last & final term; never again will any president serve for more than two terms in the Gambia again from henceforth…
He should say so now and spare us all the speculation about his term.
He has a right to complete a full term and seek re-election, but reneging on what has now been openly confirmed to be a 3 Year agreement doesn’t tell well on integrity and trustworthiness.
Already, there are a lot of unhappy people with President Barrow’s maneaverings and undecidedness, even within the ranks of the UDP and that can’t be good for our hard fought victory.
I believe, it hasn’t got much to do with Barrow himself personally; it’s a UDP partisan manoeuvre, hence they presented him on the coalition nomination contest; it’s my fervent believe whatsoever Barrow is currently doing in his individual capacity has the full backing of the general UDP leadership & the personal blessing of Ounsainou Darboe & the UDP hierarchy…
If it’s true…………..
I’m an APRC supporter but one who detests this man and his mannerisms to manoeuvre with his hypocritical and evil tentacles for pure personal aggrandizement.
I detest anyone who gets into DRUG trafficking because it’s one of the most destructive/selfish/disgusting businesses on earth. I knew Gambians here in Holland who went into this illicit business (in the 80s and 90s) and shrugged at us as useless and time-wasting people because we were reading for higher education while they were amassing fast money in the land of TUBABO (the white man). Today most of them have bitterly learnt from their own lessons while some have their children as drug addicts.
Drug traffickers are hypocrites, liars, cruel and very selfish people. And it’s difficult to get these attitudes out of them even if they pretend leaving the trade.
They never care about the damage/destruction they cause to society at large; the daughters and sons of other families. How many people did Musa Suso introduce into the cannabis trade and/or consumption?
We know that most Sabaji boys are addicted to cannabis consumption which has serious social and economic implication on the families, villages, towns and our country.
When Musa was arrested, everyone in and around his constituency was relieved of an obnoxious and evil parliamentary representative. He could live his private life which he was/is entitled to after his prison punishment, but from the Jammeh days, this man should have been appointed to a responsible public position. It was wrong and it is still wrong.
But who knows if they were close buddies before Barrow’s ascension to power? “Tell me you mate and I’ll tell you who you are”. “Birds of the same feather flock together”. Were they paddies in the same illicit trade, be it drugs or real estate? Or is Barrow trying to consolidate his power and popularity bases around the Kombo North area first, one of the bastions of electoral votes, at the cost of the UDP? Musa Suso with his cheap drug popularity at the youth base, could be a benefactor.
My prophecies are coming to light. We have worst days ahead. The result of poor production is in the selection of a poor quality (of anything).
Birds of the same feather flock together, no wonder Professor soli is a die hard supporter of evil professor Jammeh.
Bax and Bajaw, this is everything to do with Barrow and the UDP.
With the taste of victory in the recent elections for representatives to parliament and the sycophancy with the attendant turf war, there was little question as to where the UDP was headed with it’s agenda.
This is exactly what happened in the case of Yaya Jammeh when Gambians, in their own selfish interests. urged him to switch the military fatigues for the Khaftan to run as a civilian candidate. Boy were the RAG-TAG pseudo Kwame Nkrumah retinue and MOJA-G wrong on this. One by one, Yaya Jammeh worked to break their wings with sackings, HUMILIATION and arrests.
There was a gentleman (PBOH), together with his ugly Nkrumah-philic cabal, that professed that the tradition in Africa is that whenever a military “strongman” leads a coup, it follows that he’d take off the uniform to run as a civilian candidate to benefit from the state machinery as did Jerry Rawlings. I shook my head in disgust in the belief that the young, uncouth and malnourished lieutenant, in the name of Yaya Jammeh, would never deliver. The same enablers are still there disguised as Banjul and other elders.
Now, it’s become clear, through the commission of inquiry and other revelations, that the plunder started in earnest with the very first donor funds that came out of Taiwan. And then everyone else went on to profit from the plunder. Even the seemingly honorable Gambian ladies that served in various capacities were not above the muck!
Where Gambians allow the UDP and Adama Barrow (UDP Treasurer) to entrench themselves in their power base with the benefit of, again the state run machinery in a poverty culture, we will undoubtedly pay the price again. I urge everyone to take a cue from the words and actions of Hamat Bah, the leech and cheerleader in chief that is prone to putting his foot in his mouth. He makes a good litmus test subject.
The appointment of Musa Suso, a self-proclaimed prince of Kombo (Mansaringo) presents a very disturbing scenario that doesn’t befit an administration led by supposedly decent people with the proper moral grounding. Folks, I have no ax to grind with Musa Suso but wish to state that the fellow is badly tainted. It is said in Wollof that, KU NYEP TUFLI, DINGA TOYE. Musa’s stint as an MP and thereafter has been a constant case of scandal, graft and shady deals. Those that know him well in Sabiji will tell you privately that he’s been an informant, a leech, turncoat and an avid womanizer that regards women as pawns in his ugly game. The image of Musa Suso, in the same room with President Barrow, in an advisory capacity brings ample reasons to question the UDP’s moral barometer. Yes, politics is all about winning Sir Dawda Jawara will tell you. However, this young government/UDP must tread carefully in its quest to shore up political gain in this nascent stage of the journey to redemption. Yes, you all can say, MBANG WULENKEH, NTOLU (UDP) LEH BEH KULO KANG SILANG as the APRC was wont to do. However, you will also own up to what you dish out as the blunders unfold. It’s about The Gambia that I like to label, NYO LONG KUNDA/NDAGEP NAARR.
Is the same old movie unfolding again??
Musa Suso?
A FELLEH NGA BAA BUNGO KARRFA SULUO MA.
Musa Suso DU MUS A FECHA BEH GOROM REH!! The befitting word in Manding is FISSIRR WALLAY.
I typically, in true optimist fashion, do not say this but I’m gonna say, WE SHALL SEE with the Musa Suso nomination/appointment. Where Barrow means well, he must put a long pole between himself and the MORR NDAGEH of a Musa Suso that we all know. Now I am tempted to go back to my roots and start spewing out the BAA MAALU in disgust. Bajaw, JII SUMAA SAMBA NANG.
Pa Njai Girrigarra, please take it from here!
DEGA’ANGI DORR DI TUKKI GAMBIA DEH.
Who is advising President Barrow on his appointments? A convicted drug trafficker as adviser ……..Wrong! wrong! wrong and wrong and can never be right.
Please Mr President listen to Gambians if they are not in for muse suso get rid of him immediately, we don’t need people been convicted of drug trafficking and did lots of harms to our people,and musa suso is one of those,Gambians
are don’t want to the likes of musa suso period.
Bourne,
Stop talking/writing BUNKUMS,
These useless analogies do not fit into the Gambian society any longer. We are not talking about the DEAD. We are talking about the LIVING Gambian people under a very CORRUPT and INEFFICIENT administration which promised everything lucid only to fail flat.
What has Jammeh got to do with Adama Barrow’s appointment of a drug trafficking convict who was arrested, tried and jailed? This is a clear manifestation of Barrow’s ineptitude, selfishness and adamant laissez faire attitude to the people’s dire needs.
You see, I’m not the least worried/bothered about what Adama Barrow does, because I know from the onset that he’s uncapable, unqualified, inefficient, corrupt, tribalist…
My preoccupation is the amount of damage we’ll incur from his poor administration before he’s flushed out. He’ll surely account for it.
I have never expected anything positive from him and I’ll never expect it. It’s his enablers who hang their mouths open at the disappointment from this USELESS administration with a British Argos Watchman in presidential attire.
Mr Soli the am Sure the President will be worried about your critics ,but Stop this useless Tribal incentiments Comments we Need decent Arguments important towards Development and to bring gambians together.thanks
Don’t ever give up (hope) Bourne; for ‘when the storm gets tough, the tough (must) gets going’; pessimism doesn’t exist in vocabulary for one like Bajaw; for ‘where(ever) there’s a Will (collective efforts with dedicated/resilient determination of a people together), there (always) will be a (some) way’ (somehow)…
The walk is still in (within) the woods; (the head of the serpent has been chopped successfully but the lifeless body will continue to wriggle for somewhile) we have some way still to go yet on the resilient march together to the promise land; we’ll have to expect to encounter some of these happenings (sporadic hitches); politicians world over exploits loopholes for political domineering & domination, some of which are being exhibited in indications; what is very clear is from henceforth, is that every misuse of public funds & resources used among for illegal trivial partisan advancements will be accountable in the successive inheritant governments to come after…
With more civic awareness elevation of the nation community, things will surely improve but with eventual progressive graduation with time; when people can vote out abusive governments in elections & through impeachments resultant from such exploitation & abuse of responsibility; not automatically, for there’s some fair work to be done yet sociopolitically to make the unschooled population to understand our roles in shaping the future together; to stop/extinguish such from happening completely…
Babu Soli, with the level of education that you claim to have attained in the Netherlands, a tolerant society where I also went to school, you cannot be seen to be an avid dissenter and saber rattler that puts on blinkers.
Babu, the position that you’ve chosen is untenable. You claim that Yaya Jammeh brought schools, roads and hospitals to The Gambia. The question is, at what cost the nation over 22 years?
Let me say this. Where Yaya starts at near Zero, his administration can only go up from there. I believe the blame for the Gambia’s stagnation should be laid squarely on the Sir Dawda and the PPP’s doorstep.
You may also agree that Yaya took the PPP ideology, together with old PPP enablers, to craft his own plunder of our national resources. The Gambia should be miles ahead of its current standing if Yaya and his cabal weren’t avid looters and squanders. Take Note of his rag-tag security chiefs and military officers enriching themselves at the expense of the Gambian people. The national funds spent on Kanilai and other frivolous undertakings alone could have done so much for Kiang that is largely deserted today.
So Babu, you can go harping on Barrow’s incompetence all you want, given that there’s ample square pegs in round holes, but that doesn’t obviate the fact that Gambia’s underdevelopment today rests squarely on the PPP and the APRC.
We should all strive to use valuable educational achievements for the benefit of enlightenment and further refinement of our thought processes. Babu, you’re biting into your own gains and watering down your standing.
So be yourself and be real OK.
Well said my brother.
Babu, Musa Suso as aprc mp was jailed for full term by the criminal court on the drug traffic, released & re-jailed again by yaya Evileness on cooked up ‘he said, he said’ charges; after his release again, Musa was re-appointed the deputy Councillor to West Coast Region by the same kanilai killer devil; a position he held until his recent adviser appointment…
Ensa Jesus Badjie (the best police inspector evil yaya claimed ever to have appointed) & other so-called security services personnel, for example, have been transiting & peddling killer yaya’s cocain & other illicit drugs in the streets until when ‘walls developed ears’; then Jesus was arrested for no reasons advanced, to be silenced in tortures; Jesus wept in kangaroo court of farce begging the judge to ask the mercenaries in state security gears to stop beating him into comma in the prison…
Please do yourself some (pleasant) favours Babu…
Bajaw, please drop what appears to be the role of an apologist or water carrier for Musa Suso. Yes, no good and fair system should be in the business of re-litigating a crime. And yes, everyone deserves a second chance and possibly a third in this life. However, when one gets accused of witchcraft (that I don’t believe exists) in the African context, one cannot be seen to be walking around the neighborhood with a kid’s shin bone slung over the shoulder. Here’s a good example of the misplacement of priorities with this appointment.
Musa Suso’s credentials listed here amount to warming the seat of office period. So Bajaw, do I gather that you argue that Musa Suso is a good candidate if not the best to fill this role?
Musa Suso, a former policeman, APRC MP, turned convicted drug trafficker, Assistant Governor etc… has had numerous chances at redeeming himself in the eyes of Gambians but sadly hasn’t done that at all.
Musa’s case has always been that of JII BII LAA NING WAAMO BENG TA. Lucky, lucky and lucky. Why do Gambians like to deal with untenable situations? Is that because the few elders that would speak truth to power, TONYAA FO LALU, are either dead and gone or have been emasculated by Yaya Jammeh.
I may add that Ensa Jesus Badji is in the same boat with Musa Suso. Birds of the same feather and scoundrels they are.
I will also add that Musa Suso kept a personal cellphone in jail as did Baba Jobe.
They were all entrenched in illicit drug running and other mind numbing practices that served them well in jail.
It is clear in my mind that Musa does not offer any credentials that could earn him the role of National Youth Adviser. Just as Lamin Kaba Badjo should not be sitting at the helm of the GFA.
Musa Suso may fit the role of a UDP Youth Moblizer yes, the turncoat FISSIRR WALLAY and opportunist that he is, but certainly not an entry into a national level position. This is a fellow that couldn’t read and follow a simple proposal let alone a program plan that requires level headed leadership. Barrow and Ousainou Darbo could offer him other forms of compensation for favors that they may owe him but certainly not put Musa in a position that adds to the overall Yaya Jammeh misery.
Musa Suso is an empty barrel in my book that neither delivered the goods as MP for Kombo North or did he work to shore up goodwill from constituents. But who am I to say that as I may be proven wrong with time.
BARI, TAMANSEROLU BI JAY LEH DEH the old Manding elders would say.
Nope, Andrew, far from being an apologist to anyone at anytime time; more so Musa Suso…
What I’m trying to say is that everyone has the right to re-integration into the collective societal communal endeavours after duly serving a legal correctional punishment as sentenced…
I for one, won’t be appointing Musa in such an advisory role (if left to me only) but if the president chose to appoint him, there’re many others too who all equally aided & abetted the evil kanilai Murderdom but still are in the service of the Gambia government such as Mr Abdoulie Bojang the Gambia representative in South Africa & neighbouring countries; unless, Musa prove to re-offend again, (which I will doubt much) he could as well serve a better role model to the convicted among us, that, indeed after a turnaround with abandonment of mischief in one’s fooleries, there’s some life at some point after some misjudgement in one’s life in the past…
Maybe, we can’t holistically agree on this one; It’s quite unfair to condemn a fellow human being permanently for life; into perpetual exclusion & denied rehabilitation for a fallible crime (less than wilful murder) which he’s already served in prison for according to rule of law; that can only serve the opposite & drive them into some re-offending & into more heinous crimes…
The justice system isn’t all about punishment & perpetual banishment in condemnations but equally about, rehabilitation & re-integration into the community after serving the correctional punishment of sentence…
We can’t rule out entirely some current public servants having smoking cannabis; can we…
At least, Obama (US), Blair & Cameron (both UK), for example, were reported to doing cannabis at some point in life…
Folks. I will now save my powder for worthier arguments than the Musa Suso head spinner. All I have is an old fashioned SUKU SUKO PULO.
My teacher used to say, KONI (Poularr), MBADEHEN HAWA SEDA, HADAMA SEDA, MOMARR SEDA EH BUKARI SEDA. WAYE MASANEH TUNG? MOJAANI DEH.
Andrew, for my last take; we have lots of Musa Suso & the likes in the civil services currently…
My reason for sampling Abdoulie Bojang, for example, the Gambia ambassador extraordinary to South Africa & some of the neighbouring countries had also been engaged in same cannabis traffics before, by lending his official state vehicle to some soldiers who were intercepted at some point when he was aprc speaker of the house of Parliament; he’s never been cautioned, neither prosecuted….
We may be viewing & digesting issues from different wave lengths but the records are already there….
In Holland & some European countries & some parts of the US, cannabis is termed a class C (soft drug) recreational drug; that’s why I also sampled Obama, Blair & Cameron, who won’t have got to the helm in their countries if only left to some of our perceptions on here…
The Gambian concept tend to spend more wasteful energies on presumed exceptations rather than realistic practicalities on the ground; that’s why we spend much time on ‘layman’ arguments not making much headways into effecting realistic meaningful realisation on the ground…
God bless Gambia….
Welcome back, Jollof News; or is it only Bajaw who finds difficulty in accessing the media pages, at least for the second time in jollof News’ case this time around…
Right; here goes the story which was in public domain (NOT from Bajaw)…
The story was, a ‘love triangle’ between yaya devil Jammeh, Tuti Faal & Musa Suso; [my apologies to Tuti & Musa for unintentional venture into their private lives but for clarification purposes only]; devil yaya was said to have first had some suspicions from informants when Tuti arranged some nationwide political tours including Sukuta Sabiji on her own where she freely associated & mingled with Musa & others behind the kanilai devil’s back; [fast forward] after devil yaya divorced Tuti, Musa was said to be frequenting Tuti’s residence somewhere in Latri Kunda Nganya Yiro koto (Yiri Nganya) area, where Musa’s vehicle will be spotted outside the compound until very late hours into the night…
Some people also threw Ndeneh Faal’s name in the fray into the equation giving it a fourth dimension of ‘love rectangle’…
What was evidently clear, both Musa & Ndeneh were prosecuted & jailed some time in 2007 (if my memories serve well)…
The current Gambia cannabis/drugs regulations are based on colonial laws much of which (laws) are outdated as being evident in the Western countries themselves who formulated the very laws; everyone in the know, will agree much of the painkiller drugs which we all take differently when we get ill & sick are processed out of cannabis sativa; hence the re-catagorisation of cannabis out of hard (Class A) drugs into a distant third class of ‘soft & recreational’ drugs in the advanced countries….
Now, when Musa have been selectively jailed & duly served his sentences for cannabis traffics in his own personal vehicle while Abdoulie Bojang sanctioned our state owned government vehicle for the same cannabis traffics which is a bigger crime in magnitude in comparison, while Abdoulie continued in the National Assembly speaker role to the end; only for Musa to be recycled into civil service at some point again for devil yaya’s politics until we sent the kanilai murderer hastily fleeing into hiding on the equator…
Then the current government, decided to keep both Suso & Bojang for compromise & reconciliatory purposes; why should Musa in his adviser role be condemned in exclusion for life, when another like Abdoulie, for example, is still included, representing Gambia in a bigger ambassador extraordinary capacity role…
Bajaw,
You were not the only who lost the contact. I did. I’m gratified that this second to none on-line paper, non partisan has come to inform us again.
To Jollonews, I say keep up your excellent job, sisters and brothers. May Allah bless you for the excellent work. If the temporary black out is financial, tell us how and where to send any meagre contribution.
Bajaw,
I don’t share your Musa and Abdoulie Bojang comparisions though both of them are sellouts to me for accepting the Adama Barrow offer of office.
1) Musa Suso was caught with cannabis, Abdoulie Bojang wasn’t.
2) Musa Suso was arrested, tried and jailed. Abdoulie Bojang wasn’t.
Whatever your comparison, Musa was a more exposed criminal than Abdoulie. Abdoulie’s criminality lies in your claims which one could take as hearsay.
For the Gambia to realistically progress smoothly forward, avoid & making complete stop to the selfish politicians taking us collectively on general rides, the peasantry voter population including some of our very ‘educated & aware’ selves on here, need real awakening in awareness levels raisings, in civic & other relevant areas of education; otherwise these meaningless ‘layman arguments’ assuming & based on ‘common knowledge’ presumptions in our falsified self-prides in bravado, instead of humbly learning from one another in humility won’t be of any avails at all to ourselves or mother Gambia at large; but will only play into the hands of various exploitative politicians & evidently to our collective detriment as before all along & currently…
Whatsoever is relevant about where Bajaw hails trivially from, for example, when the herculean task of nation building & progressive development should take presidence shows the dire needs for our attitudinal change…
One ‘professor’, ignorantly can simply break down a whole nation’s development programmes into simple common knowledge of ‘my father cleared the land, then I came & build on the land…’ or in assumptions, refer to the Pipeline settlement of Sere Kunda-Bakau area when I explained that some projects such as the TV, the University which started as an extension program between Gambia & Canada, the kombo coastal roads, the Bwiam hospital which was initially programmed for Brikama & others where initiated by the PPP government & already in the pipeline by the time of overthrow & advent of the evil kanilai Murderdom; or even challenged me to quote the relevant area of the constitution where one is at liberty to demonstrate without official permission/police permit, when this is explicitly clear in the statutory rights laws of freedom of assembly & association; yet, out of same ignorance, one can jump, claim & dismiss the economic forecasts positives outright, when the simple evidence of linkage between a person, two or more people finding & securing a job/s in a household/family unit, for example, impacts positively upon the family & community…
But no; one must try to discredit by linking Bajaw to being bias at all costs & redicule his region of birth by pointing to some outdated practices in the past (when every other areas too have similar practices in past, such as FGM, for example) just because Bajaw seems positive in comments about the current government when factually Bajaw at times criticises whenever deemed fit; or accuse Bajaw for honestly calling for the youth to do away with the fatal Attaya vous daydreams, talking down & belittling the youths; while at the same time, differently calling for doing away with the lazy breadwinner-syndrome concepts in turn; which is the very reason why youth can idle in daydream wallows at the Attaya vous; considerably wasting their lives away & expect development to come after them & fetch them away & motivate them into some productivity, instead of self tasks, challenges/motivates; only to go back home & ask for lunch or dinner that he never contributed much towards, if any at all; yet, since it’s Bajaw who said, the law is equally about rehabilitation & re-integration, that soft-drugs convicted criminals like Musa Suso after sentencing deserves some re-integration, therefore even murderers like yaya devil Jammeh who wantonly premeditated & killed enmass & disappeared others, set some devilish mercenaries upon & tortured & raped defenseless women in captivity, who were arrested on pretence for lawful prosecution, etc etc ; therefore, the kanilai devil too deserves some rehabilitation & re-integration equally, like the soft drugs traffickers…
From now on, I declare, I’m not under any obligation to answer anyone’s questions with regards to some attitudes on here; it’ll be based on my choice only pending on the right attitude of the person…
God bless Gambia….
“From now on, I declare, I’m not under any obligation to answer anyone’s questions with regards to some attitudes on here; it’ll be based on my choice only pending on the right attitude of the person…”.
Bajaw, my advice in this modern age is that one is solely and wholly responsible for his/her words, utterances, deeds and actions. Be they in the public or private domain. And don’t go kicking yourself for you alone will feel the pain!
Others are equally free to to make inferences and interpretations on statements and thoughts offered.
Bajaw, we own property along the Latrikunda, Big Tree highway and I am a living witness to Musa Suso’s presence at the two storey white building on the corner, a few hundred meters from the Latrikunda Big Tree. The same building that Tuuti Faal was said to have been residing at the time. However, I neither subscribe to innuendo or offer thoughts that I couldn’t substantiate but will state facts as I see them.
What’s the idea behind convoluted statements above without due regard to syntax or good format? Would that be a new technique for adding NJAMBASSO to the substance of your argument? You may be taking cues from Babu Soli or copying our pal Sidi Bojang.
My thanks to the Jollofnews team for the hard work and dedication to principle!!
I concur, in the interest of a harmonious relationship and SANAWW YAA, with Babu Soli’s statement below:
“To Jollonews, I say keep up your excellent job, sisters and brothers. May Allah bless you for the excellent work. If the temporary black out is financial, tell us how and where to send any meagre contribution”.
My gut tells me that the Soli guy also can be a fine young man.
I have a Soli on my maternal grandmother’s side.
:-))
Just another Soli, Bourne.
Not sure about the blood ties. 🙂
Praise to the Almighty.
Humility should be the mantra.
Bourne,
Allah The Almighty (SWT) said to the Angels, “I’m sending my replica on earth, whatever I say and they make good judgement out of it, I the Almighty will accept it”. The Angels said, “Oh Our Lord, why send creatures that will shed blood on earth while we the Angels only heed and carry out your Divine instructions. The Almighty Allah answered: “I know what you don’t/can’t know, I see what you don’t/can’t see”. We are The Almighty’s representatives on earth!
To sum up, he who doesn’t/cannot praise his fellow human beings for the good they do, cannot/won’t praise our Lord. Because we represent Him, above every creation/creature He made, on earth!
According Jollofnews any form of assistance should not be perceived as personal recognition for……WHAT?
Let’s be humble at times!
Babu Soli
”To sum up, he who doesn’t/cannot praise his fellow human beings for the good they do,cannot/won’t praise our Lord” What about he who can’t see any good in fellow human beings except those whose hands are drenched in the blood of their fellow human beings? What am i seeing here? Babu Soli condemning himself for impugning the good names, good deeds of fellow human beings. All praises are due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.
This conversation must not take a religious dimension.
Let’s work to find sensible answers to daunting Gambian issues of the day!!
Bourne, Babu, Bajaw and other subscribers to this forum, I wish to request that we not lose sight of the subject of this discourse but instead join forces to ensure that Musa Suso does not remain in the position of National Youth Adviser.
The Barrow administration can offer Musa Suso an entry level, lobbying or trumpet blower position for a chance to redeem himself but not a position at the national level that would accord him the opportunity to rub shoulders with honorable and forward thinking people in the name of Gambian youth.
The records on file in The Gambia speak for themselves. Musa Suso certainly doesn’t represent a good role model for hard working and decent Gambian youth. Tainted and tainted again as he is. He also clearly doesn’t fit the ranks of Gambian youth at his age! Unless he pulled the age old Gambian craft of doctoring his birth certificate to meet his own selfish ends.
Andrew Pjalo
In spite of any political differences, I’ll join any forces that work against the appointment of drug convict Musa Suso in any responsible public office, much more in the crucial youth vanguard, a population he has contributed in “contaminating” with his illicit cannabis trade.
This is borne out of my personal conscience and conviction.
But remember that you are talking to an administration that never listens nor reacts to popular demands on crucial national issues.
1. The office of First lady is in the offing
2. The Adama Barrow Youth Movement is in the offing
3. The Adama Barrow Foundation is in the offing
4. The First Lady Foundation is in the offing
These and many more unnecessary channels to plunder/squander public resources are being run by an administration that neither listens nor reacts to its people’s dire needs.
However, I’ll be adamant on the Musa Suso issue in view of the magnitude of his crimes.
Barrow may “recycle” this criminal in his real estate business which nobody cares about but should remember that Musa is holding a national property paid from the taxpayers’ money.
Bourne,
Stop interpreting the Qu’ran as the Holy Book is Bourne’s. I have a lot of information and clues about the Holy scriptures from my excellent Qu’ranic teachers. That’s enough for me, NOT what Bourne will tell me. Your interpretation will NEVER lead me away from what those learned scholars have told me.
Keep your interpretations to yourself and leave me with mine. Allah the All Knowing is the Judge!
Bourne
There is no point in arguing with you about Allah, The Almighty who is the Overseer of mankind and all His creations. Keep on with your wishful thoughts about Babu. I say my mind and have no fear to do that. If that is what you refer to as pretending, well it’s your business. Above all, pretending about what? I know I will continue to speak my mind without fear for a human soul.
Folks, you may have seen The Point newspaper article in the link below:
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/musa-sussos-appointment-rescinded
I wish to quickly add that we may not have held any influence in the decision to rescind Musa Suso’s appointment but clearly lending our voices to an issue that clearly signals double standards and contradictions to this administration’s pronouncements on good governance.
Bourne, Bax, Natty Dread, Bajaw, Babu and others not mentioned here, my thanks go out to you for speaking against what goes against the grain of the moral barometer.
Drug peddling is a no-go area the world over and should never be condoned in our dear Gambia.
A very welcome decision, and all the more reasons why we should continue being vocal about those issues which matter to us. There is no room for complacency any more.
Andrew, standard.gm (Standard news) too has got some more explicit on the Musa Suso update.
Andrew Pjalo,
I’v e just received calls from friends back home that Musa Suso’s contract as Youth adviser has been terminated/rescinded. What have you learnt recently?
Thanks Bajaw. I will check that out and share updates on this subject as I get them.