It is now several weeks since Pres. Barrow received 57 vehicles from an unknown person or entity yet refused to declare the gifts to either his office or the National Assembly as required by Section 222 sub-section 12 of the Constitution.
Instead Pres. Barrow merely further donated these vehicles to members of the National Assembly. The National Assembly itself has also failed to find out the source and reason for the donation of these vehicles to Mr. Barrow. This is indeed a tragic incident that poses a clear and present danger to our democracy for which both the Executive and the Legislature have failed the people of the Gambia.
Political patronage is a cancer and the mother of all political corruption, human rights violations and abuse of power in a democracy. Political patronage is when individuals, businesses and other entities shower gifts and praises on elected political leaders or public officers in anticipation of favours. Without that political office, these individuals or businesses and entities would not have given any gift to these elected or appointed public officials simply because they do not hold any political position or public office through which they could give any favour.
The purpose of political patronage is to cause an elected official or public officer to therefore grant or give government contracts, appointments, money or other favours to these individuals in exchange. Hence political patronage is a means through which political leaders and public officers are corrupted. Political patronage allows for abuse of office and human rights to take place with impunity. It obstructs the delivery of justice, stifles accountability and denies equal opportunities to all.
We recall during the first republic how Jawara was a major recipient of political patronage, as chiefs, alkalolu and their communities would donate cattle, sheep and farm produce to him during his country tours. We have seen the same practice being used by Yaya Jammeh all throughout his misrule.
In both cases, Jawara and Jammeh became larger than life individuals who showered appointments and contracts and other favours to individuals, businesses, communities and other entities. Songs and public places were named after these leaders and their families. In the final analysis, the capacity of the people to demand transparency and accountability was weak because of patronage.
The end result of this patronage was that both leaders were able to perpetuate themselves in power longer than reasonable while plunging the country into untold poverty and underdevelopment. The way and manner both the Jawara government and the Jammeh regime were removed attest to the fact that political patronage was indeed the basis of their prolonged and misguided leadership.
Hence when we come this far, all Gambians must be hugely concerned that Pres. Barrow has started with the practice of political patronage that is dangerous to the health and stability of the Gambia. Within days of assuming office, Pres. Barrow went to Senegal only to receive gifts of houses from a Senegalese businessman. This was also not declared at all. Now that he has received 57 vehicles from another source, citizens must be concerned that the president has taken a path that potentially leads to corruption, abuse and self-perpetuation in power.
For that matter, I wish to demand that the National Assembly and all citizens rise up to demand a complete and immediate stop to political patronage. Pres. Barrow must be compelled to declare the source of these vehicles and to refrain from receiving gifts from any quarter. The Gambia Constitution is totally against the receiving of gifts purposely because the constitution wishes to protect the government and public officers from being corrupted hence abuse power and violate human rights.
If Pres. Barrow continues to receive these gifts it therefore means he will begin to succumb to the wishes and desires of the donors. By submitting himself to those desires it will only cause him to circumvent laid down government regulations, rules and the law regarding government contracts, appointments and delivery of social services. It means he will begin to use public resources to pay off political patrons. It means he will begin to make promises to communities and entities on the basis of their gifts and patronage. This attitude will only serve to derail this country for the worse.
Raise your voice against political patronage in all its forms. Demand that Pres. Barrow declare the source of the vehicles. If he fails to do so, let us demand the parliament to open a public hearing to summon the president to declare the source of the vehicles. Let us protect our republic by defending its constitution and sacred values and standards of good governance. Failure to do so will come to haunt us sooner or later. We have enough experiences in our history to tell us that we must stand against political patronage.
Mr. Barrow must realize that we elected him not only to replace Yaya Jammeh, a despot of unimaginable proportions, but more importantly for him to lead this country to effective system change. This requires that he abandon old and backward practices and attitudes of former leaders. Rather we expect him to set high standards and uphold sacred values in building a new society based on democratic culture. We expect him to demonstrate transparency and accountability in all of his decisions and actions in line with the rule of law. This is the system change we envisage.
God Bless The Gambia
I agreed with you Madi. There is no genuine reason why the source of the 57 vehicles for the National Assembly members should not be disclosed. If the donor felt obliged by his faith to be anonymous in giving out gifts then he and the president should have known better that the National Assembly is not the right place for such a gift. They should have taken it to the Mosques and Churches or elsewhere. In fact in some cases it is encouraged by religion for certain good acts to be made public in order to to encourage others to emulate and this is that such act.
It is disheartening to hear some member of the national assembly like Mr Madi Ceesay trying to defend the indefensible by saying that those National Assembly members who did not take the vehicles on the basis of not knowing the source should be ask by the people why they did not also ask about the source of their salaries and allowances. According to him it is the National Assembly Service that give them the vehicles and it is the same National Assembly Service that pay their salaries therefore if they question the source of the vehicles, they should also question the source of their salaries and allowance. This man is not that ignorant to know that the salaries of national assembly members is part of the budget estimate which they themselves approved and is public knowledge. Now I wonder why a man of his caliber would made such an argument to justify taking such a gift. With this I feared that this National Assembly members could be on the verge of following the foot step of their predecessors [former APRC National assembly Members]. That is why this time around the people must insist that their to recall their representatives even before the expiration of their term be clearly stipulated and entranged in the constitution and not to be left to the parliamentarians to decide. If that is done they will never become up with an act on how the people can go about recalling them. The modalities must be stipulated in the constitution itself. That is how could prevent our representatives from taking us for granted.
This man is not that ignorant not to know….
Correction..That is why this time around the people must insist that their right to recall their representatives even before the expiration of their term be clearly stipulated and entranged in the constitution and not to be left to the parliamentarians to decide.
I agreed with you Madi. There is no genuine reason why the source of the 57 vehicles for the National Assembly members should not be disclosed. If the donor felt obliged by his faith to be anonymous in giving out gifts then he and the president should have known better that the National Assembly is not the right place for such a gift. They should have taken it to the Mosques and Churches or elsewhere. In fact in some cases it is encouraged by religion for certain good acts to be made public in order to encourage others to emulate and this is that such act.
It is disheartening to hear some member of the national assembly like Mr Madi Ceesay trying to defend the indefensible by saying that those National Assembly members who did not take the vehicles on the basis of not knowing the source should be ask by the people why they did not also ask about the source of their salaries and allowances. According to him it is the National Assembly Service that give them the vehicles and it is the same National Assembly Service that pay their salaries therefore if they question the source of the vehicles, they should also question the source of their salaries and allowance. This man is not that ignorant not to know that the salaries of national assembly members is part of the budget estimate which they themselves approved and is public knowledge. Now I wonder why a man of his caliber would made such an argument to justify taking such a gift. With this I feared that this National Assembly members could be on the verge of following the foot step of their predecessors [former APRC National assembly Members]. That is why this time around the people must insist that their right to recall their representatives even before the expiration of their terms be clearly stipulated and entranged in the constitution and not to be left to the parliamentarians to decide. If that is done they will never come up with an act on how the people can go about recalling them. The modalities must be clearly stipulated in the constitution itself. That is how we could prevent our representatives from taking us for granted.
sorry for the errors.
In Africa only a President can put the country on a straight and lawful path.
If the president is honest everyone else will try to be honest.
If the President does not care then no-one will care.
If the president is sleeping then the rest of us will snore. LOL.
Madi Jobarteh,
There are points that I don’t agree with you and others that I do agree with you. Above all, that is responsible nation building and adherence to democratic values and dispensation.
Most people believe that with the going out of President Jammeh, opposition to this bitty “coalition” and inefficient administration should cease. NEVER!
Since January 2017, Gambians have become more dissatisfied than ever, with this administration crudely alienating the population from national decisions as if the Gambia is their Barrow Kunda, Darboe Kunda, Tambajang Jallow Kunda households. They are just wicked and very selfish!
This is flagrant disregard for the people’s rights to know, while the blind-folded sycophantic followers e.g Nasty Natty Dreadful Dread, Jack the Jackass & CO continue to say yes to everything that a 10-month-old administration is woefully doing is very unproductive and provocative.
Shuttling around the world to receive per diem emoluments, visiting Marabouts in Senegal, wives and buddies going with them on pilgrimage to the Mecca, wives driving with entourage of YAI KOMPINS to attend football matches, appointing unqualified buddies to the already bloated inefficient civil service, receiving gifts from Senegalese corrupt business tycoons, indebting the country further with foreign loans without self-initiative development programmes, ignoring rising crime rates by foreigners, ignoring price hikes in basic food commodities and education bills at all levels, high cost in rents, unaffordable houses in the metropolitan areas, rising youth unemployment, rising abuse of our women, deliberate curbing of the people’s civic rights to demonstrate, environmental pollution by plastic and other wastes etc, etc……
Sadly enough, all these symptoms of VERY BAD administration are compounded with INEFFICIENCY, CORRUPTION, TRIBALISM, INFLUENCE-PEDDLING, BLATANT DISRESPECT FOR DEMOCRATIC dispensation and the sinopsis of your posting-POLITICAL PATRONAGE.
Babu Mad Professor Soli
Same old tired dishonest labeling and accusations. The issues you listed above mostly existed long before President Barrow came to power but you being a gutless amnesiac fool with no sense of reality or partiality will ignore any facts that is there for all to see pertaining the mismanagement of our monetary affairs during the 22 years misrule of Yahya Jammeh, the buffoon. You are just a dishonest partisan unpatriotic cock sucker who only thrives on insults, blame game, character assassinations, innuendos peddling but no ideas as to how we can make our country prosper, improve the living standard of our people. Your hateful insidious dark propaganda will surely not dent or slow our march towards a better society, better governance than the one we experienced during Jammeh’s despotic rule.
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread, Bajaw, Jack etc,etc are non partisan. We condemned this government for actions they had taken that we deemed inappropriate and we are still waiting for you to do likewise with regards to Jammeh’s litany of crimes against our nation and people. We are as equally unhappy with the slow progress of our nation’s affairs but with realism as we know the tasks that lie ahead, what were and what was inherited from Jammeh’s discredited government.
Continue dipping your fingers into the Gambian blood as that is what your fellow evil prof do best.
Is it true that 15 of the 57 vehicles donated to NAMs have been involved in accidents? Some of these vehicles are said to have been written off already.
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
You LIAR! Where and when did you condemn your INEFFICIENT administration for the unwanton squandering of our resources after 10 wasteful months into their nasty administration? You idiotic buffoon who continues to say yes to every evil deed of this HOPELESS administration.
When did the listed issue start? During the colonial days; during the Ex-President Jawara administration, during President Jammeh’s administration…? When?
You are so STUPID in all your analyses that you always tally/accept/ this IDIOTIC administrattion’s failure with any illogical allegations about the resourceful administration of President Jammeh.
It’s you and the senseless opposition in the diaspora that continue to frown on all the EXCELLENT work President Jammeh did in 22 years. The truth on ground, back home, is that our poor masses have started to echo their disillusion and disgruntleness for a CORRUPT, TRIBALIST, INCAPABLE, INFLUENCE-PEDDLING bunch of SELFISH and INEFFICIENT people with a British Argos watchman in presidential clothing.
You USELESS and UNPATRIOTIC thing!
Babu Mad Professor Soli
In our Gambian culture, reverence is given to people for their age, but in your case Natty Dread will have to go against tradition and tell you without any apology to go fuck yourself hard, you dishonest hateful nincompoop. I disagreed and condemned the government when APRC were denied Licence to commemorate their so called anniversary. I disagree with the way the interior Minister was removed from office without a clear explanation of why he was removed. I disagree with the way the 57 vehicles donated to the government were handled. What did you disagreed with when it comes Jammeh Babu? I haven’t known an old man as stupid, as ignorant, as wicked, as uncultured, as mannerless and dishonest as you Babu. The only professor i know dumber than you is Yahya Jammeh. Go fuck yourself again old man.
IDIOT Nasty Natty Dread, Jollonews 27th November 2017
Stupid Idiotic Dunce! You have LIED again. The Gambian elderly people are accustomed to insults from the younger generation as this has become the norm/tendency of the present era. I have heard a lot of annoying insults from UNCULTURED, UNRULY, STUPID, NAUGHTY people like you. The best way to treat an unruly fellow is by becoming unruly as s/he is. That’s the order of the day!
Didn’t you remind yourself when you started all the nasty acts of insulting Babu that he will respond without retracting and will never never give in to a very naughty uneducated beast like Nasty Natty Dread. There is a Mandinka saying, “If you slap your father, your son will one day slap you”. “If you insult an elderly person, a toddler will one day insult you”
I care a damn about your flagrant disrespect for me ’cause I know you were born disrespectfully.
Your difference with me lies in our perception of matters. I have on several occasions told your STUPID head that I never accuse without tangible evidences which you do. The Barrow administration accusations are tangible. They haven’t done anything in 10 months while they have shuttled across the globe to receive money from the poor taxpayers’ coffers. You refused to condemn those damning occurences. These people stayed in hotels for months with the excuse that the Banjul State house was haunted with Jammeh ghosts. Yet you didn’t condemn that, forgetting that they wasted millions of dalasis while we had water and electricity shortages.
Look, I’m not going again into the same chronicles of the Barrow administration’s crimes which you know fully well, but always blame President Jammeh for the wrongs of this INEPT Barrow administration.
Their silent evil treatment of our people squarely lies on people like you who pay lipservice to their mistreatment of our people while citing the Jammeh side for every blame.
I have told your STUPID head that I am not exonerating President Jammeh for some “wrongs”. ” Wrongs” which are being taken care of at the Gambian courts and at the illicit Commission of Inquiry. Unless the verdicts of the courts and the Commission explicitly expose his “wrongs”, Babu as a true democrat, will never hold Jammeh responsible for any wrongdoing!
That’s your difference with me. I can’t hold Jammeh for stealing, killing, maiming or raping, as you irresponsibly do. Simply because there is no credible account to make me believe.
When the courts and Commission rule, in favour or against, you will hear Babu. In the meantime, I’ll avidly hold onto my decision.
Babu Soli
You are without a doubt a damn dishonest lying son of a BITCH. When and where was all the fellow countrymen and women you accused of corruption convicted of that crime? and by which court of law? All men and women are innocent until proven guilty by a competent court of law, a concept accepted by all sane individuals but denied by a disgraceful undemocratic idiot by the name of Babu soli. You accused countless number of fellow citizens without them ever been convicted by any court of law but you wouldn’t hold Jammeh for being the biggest thief of our generation. How did he acquired 149 landed properties, 14 companies, 88 bank accounts etc,etc,etc? You calling yourself a true democrat is like Kim Jong Un calling himself a Mullah. You are nothing but an inconsistent hateful lying son of a BITCH who defend only what is bad about our country. You defend a monster who destroyed all fabrics of our society, cultivated tribal disharmony, entrenched bad governance, legalized illegality and killed, maimed, raped, robed for fun. I enjoy insulting you old man because you have given up that right of being an esteemed Gambian elderly man. You are a smelly hairy monster like Jammeh, unworthy sons of our motherland.
No one in this forum expect you to be anything but an ugly dishonest, hateful, lying dickhead, no ideas, no class and no common sense. Go fuck ya self old man.
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
Child of a BITCH and a HOUND! What a BASTARD you are at insulting. I have known your bastard attitudes in insulting for long. I care less about a child who is bred a BASTARD and only knows foul language. You ill-gotten child.
Which people have I blindly accused without evidence? Not your CORRUPT, INEFFICIENT, USELESS administration led by a fat-bellied illiterate, anyway.
You VERY STUPID ASS. Don’t you know that Jammeh has lifted the decadent image and nature of that poor country which was ruthlessly plundered by the Ex-President Jawara regime? You are a STUPID dunce who couldn’t equate matters to find a solution.
The Gambian people are far ahead of a very STUPID IDIOT in the name of Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread exploiting the impoverished Mauritian citizens with his/her illicit projects. Gambians have already taken their firm decisions about this dysfunctional administration. And the more conscientious Gambians in the diaspora who have realized the failures of this INEPT administration have already frowned at their activities. The only BASTARD, the only STUPID IDIOT who’s still barking like a lame dog/bitch is Nasty Dreaful Natty Dread!
I’m proud to become old, which in itself is another achievement in life. You may not live to see, know and learn from that old age. You DOOMED BASTARD!
Babu soiled himself
Natty dread is a BASTARD but he look around he can imagine another ugly BASTARD by the name of Babu Soli, the lying professor. I ain’t like you or Jammeh, the two mad pompous heartless wicked professors who rejoice at the demise of their countrymen. I love the impoverish Mauritians wholeheartedly, provided them with employment and pay them handsomely. I represented the image of my country with dignity, fairness and hard work. You stand in front of a class and fart your smelly gases out by lying to your rotten tooth something you excelled in very well. You were born a liar and will die a lying scum. Natty Dread also care less about an old man who is bred a BASTARD, live a BASTARD life, fathered BASTARDS and knows only foul lying language.
EVIDENCE? plenty being revealed at the commision. Motherfucker ye ain’t interested to know or hear. Traits of a true DISHONEST BASTARD.
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread, The All TIME BASTARD Jollofnews 29th November 2017
I was closing from work yesterday when I saw your last BASTARD IDIOTIC posting.
Hey you “sa na fo BITCH” as the Banjul Aku Wo Lu would term such an element like Nasty Natty Dread.
You see how the Supreme Court of the Gambia has thrown out Darboe’s litigation against the constitutional clause that prohibits demonstrations without permit? The truth about President Jammeh’s rule is gradually comig out , You BASTARD, child of a BITCH and HOUND fathers.
The inefficient Darboe has bowed down, the inept Minister of Justice/Attorney general has said he accepts the court ruling. Besides, what else can he say other than accepting the dictamen of the highest instance of power that interpretes our laws. It equally reflects that SOLO SANDENG, the APRIL 14, 2012 demonstrators and the December 30th 2014 terrorist invaders ALL disobeyed the laws of our country.
Only illicit children of a country would take the laws in their own hands, the likes of BASTARD Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread.
I hail the APRC for respecting the ruling that unlawfully barred them from celebrating the July 22nd anniversary. They are REAL Gambians! Not like the horrendous BASTARD, ill-gotten child Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread:
Babu….the truth about Jammeh’s rule is indeed coming out. Watch and follow the “Janneh Commission.” The demonstrators may have broken the law, making their actions illegal, but torturing detainees to death is also illegal. That’s also the truth about Jammeh’s rule.
Before you praise the APRC as good citizens for accepting their permit denial, ask yourself how many times have they been denied permits. Since you have referred to the UDP, we know that they have endured permit denials for twenty years before they even reacted “illegally”. Let’s what until the APRC suffers a similar experience before we praise them. They’ve only been denied permit ONCE, (and rightly so) but they’ve made so much noise about it, that you would think it’s been ongoing for twenty years. So any praises here might be a bit premature.
Exactly Bax, Babu can’t be serious; what the judgement dilated was the constitution provision for the permit obtaining was in good faith; for ensuring to orderliness & protection to humanity, life, property & livelihood among many…
That’s why the police & security apparatus have the mandate to examine the security threats to the community in general at given times; not as had be politicised by the evil kanilai Murderdom in the 22 deadly barbaric years; to stifle dissent & opposed views in diversity on issues which are public, & equally belong to, & of concern to all Gambians….
The same constitution guarantees for one to demonstrate in sacrosanct without permit obtained, like in the occupy Westfield NAWEC event which were just like in the Electoral reform & April student demonstrations too…
How the above events manifestated are for all to attest to in witnesses; I stand to be corrected, if the PPP government before has spilled innocent blood for demonstration without permit…
The indicators have shown a democracy rebirth & reborn to be nurtured; in short, seek for permit; & resort to demonstrate genuinely on diverse community endeavour only out of choice when denied in totality deliberately based upon ulterior motivation….
God bless Gambia; Ameen…
Babu Soiled himself Soli
Go ask your Mummy who your daddy is, you dirty hairy ill gotten child of a whore. How many times do i have to tell you to understand that Natty Dread is immune to your insults. A classless old man of your standing who have no respect for himself, his parents or anybody else. You worthless sick son of a BITCH, a bitch that shagged all men of your village and your donkey father including. You sick worthless son of worthless parents. Go fuck ye self old smelly idiot.
Bax,
The composition and commissioning of the “Janneh” Commission of Inquiry is in itself arguable taking into account the irritating historic testimonies of the members. All of them with flawed records in their past judicial activities. However, it was a membership on patronage composed by the most inefficient “leader”, only meant to vilify President Jammeh. Though we have to conform with it in respect of our laws and democratic dispensation we haven’t seen a fair delivery of its deliberations yet.
When it’s President Jammeh’s turn to defend himself, you’ll be surprised.
Bax, we’ll maintain our differences over the accusations that you have continuously levied on President Jammeh; toutures, rapes, killings, murders maiming, stealing……..
To Bax, they exisited based on Bax’s “sources” of information. To Babu they never existed until the courts and the comissions(inquiry/Truth and Reconciliation) prove them beyond doubts. That’s Babu’s singular perception of matters that have reached the courts to determine/decide.
1. There was a death certificate in court confirming that Solo Sandeng died from torture. Jammeh himself affirmed that he died under “interrogation” and refused to order any investigations.
2. Living victims have testified to being subjected to torture and degrading treatment at the hands of regime forces;
3. Military and civilian witnesses have attested to the existence of a “paramilitary” group called the “Junglers”, who are known to be enforcers ala mafia style;
4. Senior, junior officers and ex-Junglers have all attested to the fact that the Junglers were operating directly under, and receiving orders from, the State House;
Former members of the Junglers have confessed to committing heinous crimes throughout the country, including the gruesome killing of targets and disposal of their remains.
Babu, these are not “Bax’s sources”. These are known facts. You can continue to wait for your court to declare these before you accept as facts (which I doubt you will), but we don’t need a court to believe these crimes occurred and that Jammeh has a hand in them.
You may have reservations with the Commissioners at the “Janneh Commission”, but the documents being put under the commission are not faked by the Commissioners or doctored by witnesses appearing before the commission.
These are legitimate and genuine documents that recorded the illegal financial activities of Yaya Jammeh during the period under investigation, and that’s what matter for many Gambians; not what the Commissioners did in their private capacities as legal practitioners. That’s a completely different issue.
Brother Bax,
Please don’t waste your precious time on this fool. Leave him to me as long as it take. A faked ass professor beaten by a tough lady in the field of nastiness. The only thing he know best is to lash out when cornered by facts just like Yahya Jammeh used to be, common traits of dishonest and lying cowards. It amazes me how somebody like him as he purported to be can go this low, be this ignorant, this senseless or this dishonest. How can an educated Gambian still sing praises of Yahya Jammeh after all the evil deeds he perpetrated against our people. Where is the sanity in this man’s arguments?
Bajaw,
Please copy the Gambian constitutional clause that allows demonstration without permit. Thence, we’ll argue/discuss.
I can’t imagine the existence of that clause, to be recently misinterpreted by our learned judges in the Darboe litigation case.
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
YOU BASTARD LIAR! I’m in a hurry to attend a staff meeting. I’ll come back to address your ill-gotten manner from your horrendous disgusting street mama and jiver father. Maybe this evening or early tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!
Babu Soli
Wow! Wow! Wow!
I can see that you haven’t ask your harlot Mummy who your daddy is. Is your daddy a dog or a donkey? What kind of hybrid are you? human shaped figure with the brain of a pig. You disgraceful thoughtless undemocratic ill gotten son of a BIITTCCHH. I can’t talk about your daddy because i love animals in case he is a dog or donkey. Faked ass motherfucking professor with no brain, no class or shame. Bring it on sad motherfucker as Natty Dread is poise to counter your crudeness.
Remember what you said earlier Babu…… If you insult your daddy, your son will insult you, then why did you made the mistake of insulting your own unfortunate daddy, hence you are being ripped apart by a young no nonsense lady. Shalom fucker.
It’s not been misinterpreted at anytime Babu; what the judgement said was the constitutional permit clause provision which Darboe & co claimed against, was only provided for in statutory, in good faith; for the safeguard to humanity & society in general, which is why police have mandate to deny &/ sanction permits to demonstrate base on societal security safeguard at the material times…
But the learned chief judge opined too that, the same constitution provides for other available avenues for one to explore, & obtain solutions to the grievance which necessitated the intended demonstration when the issue is not sorted amicably to satisfactory conclusion…
Then, there’s the last (& only) ‘out of choice’ option; of resort to demonstrate orderly & reasonably in sacrosanctity, with rights to own human dignity…
That’s the message out of the honourable chief judge’s pronouncements on the issue…
You, for one, either misconstrued it differently or are spinning it to defend the indefensible…
Babu, we are either for the truth (God) for humanity or against for satanic incarnation…
The freedom to ‘assembly & association’ provision in the constitution is the clause that guarantees the right to demonstrate reasonably & orderly with permit…
It does not have to be the specific ‘words &/ wordings’ to say the same thing always…
You & evil kanilai self anointing Professor in killing, will see it blue, & claim it to be yellow…
Rectification please – to demonstrate without permit; it meant to read; thank you…
Bajaw,
I was saying that it would be plausible to have a constitutional clause that allows demonstrating without permit and yet have our learned judges to “interprete” it otherwise. That would be rather plausible given the person who filed a litigation case against the said clause.
Well, if there is a statutory clause in any given constitution, I believe it is mandatory on all citizens and activities and that only the final instances of any country’s law enforcement agencies, thus the Supreme Courts, could have the final interpretation. Could there be any double-standarded interpretation of the same clause?
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
You have yourself exonerated me from all the worthy addressing on your filthy personality.
No wonder you have confirm it. ” I LOVE ANIMALS”, your own statement. Why then do I have to hesitate calling you a BITCH, your street mothe a BITCH, a WHORE and your hell father a HOUND? A BITCH child from animal parents , no wonder, behaves the BITCHY way.
The only advise I would give to your Mauritian lodgers is to care your FILTHY pussy least you infect them with that nasty dreadful puss from HIV.
Who on earth will believe you are giving those beautiful Mauritians, fair coloured Indian-Africans handsome emoluments for their enslaved work? You have other means of paying them NASTY lady, by opening your filthy pussy to make them part with what “enjoyment” if any, they can make out of it.
You NASTY BITCH!
Babu Soli
Oh! is that what your Fulani wife do when you are out of the house, open her legs to offer her water pussy to anybody who care to taste the pussy of a slot. Is that what you learned from your parents while growing up? seeing your mum with multiple sex partners, and your donkey father made to watch. From your crudeness i could see what is wrong with you Babu, ill gotten son of ill gotten parents. No wonder you love Yahya Jammeh as he doesn’t know who his father is too. Two BASTARD faked ass professors. You filthy thoughtless motherfucking dickhead. Go fuck ye self old prof.
Nasty Dreadful Natty Dread,
A wonderful Fula woman, like all Fula women she is beautiful and caring. Not the Nasty Dreadful Natty who has to lure men far afield in Mauritius with her BITCHY ITCHY PUSSY. You learnt it from your street MUM, didn’ t you? A woman who taught/continues to teach her ill-gotten daughters how to give away their NASTY pussies as she did herself in the past and continues to open it for HOUNDS to enter in and out. LOL.
The old prof is here to stay and live free to defy and accept with open conscience. Sa na fo BITCH!
Koto Babu and Sister Natty, am pleading with you both to please cease fire. Lets try and bring the debate back to national issues. I have no doubt that many people can learn something from both of you. So please do not deny Gambians the opportunity to gain some wisdom from your discourse. Thank you both.
Brother Buba Sanyang
I will hold my fire going forward as my maximum respect for you and others like brother Jack, Bajaw and others will never be wanting. Apologies for my unrestrained interaction with that old fool.
Thanking you both Bourne, Buba; & indeed Natty Dread yourself for the foresight; I believe Babu too will be in line….
Please let’s look forward together in commitment, in diversity towards our common good for the Gambia ever true…
Thank you Natty for considering our advice. You have risen higher in my estimation. Like Bajaw “Konoba” said lets look forward to contributing more towards nation building. My advice is not to continue to put forward your brilliant counter arguments whenever you do not agree with someone’s arguments moreso Babu Soli. However, sister please do not stoop low to trading insults. Thank you.
Buba Sanyang,
Buba and all those who brotherly called my attention on the latest communication messages which they observed abnormal and disproportionate, well, it’s not to make truce but to set a lasting communication peace with NATTY DREAD.
Buba, I wholeheartedly accept your observations. Besides, no angel is coming from the heavens to caution us. So, ignoring your call is in itself inhuman. I can only share my views with my compatriots, though we may differ on some issues.
Buba, I have known the Sanyangolu (people from Sanyang Kunda) from birth. I’ve had that regional/working relationships with them given my birth links in the CRR and URR. So, I sincerely revere the Sanyangolu. My paternal half sister is married to a Baddibu Sanyango and they are happily living in Bundung Borehole. This brother-in-law is all-giving. He has given a lot to my sister, his three children and all due respect to my parents. I was at Kwinella, Fatoto as a teacher and at KanteleKunda and Song Kunda where I met those great Sanyang families. I briefly taught as a practising teacher at Kombo Faraba Banta where I met the Koringolu. I sincerely love all those Sanyang men and women some of whom knew my dad. They were cheerful, truthful, honest, charming and affording. I learnt a lot from them during my contacts with them.
My sister’s three children; my two nieces and nephew who would visit me at my residence during my summer holidays equally give me enduring love, joy and good company. They are that spirited Sanyang blood in social relationship and in education.
You see, Buba, I can’t say NO to my Gambian compatriots on matters of national sharing, most especially when a Sanyang is involved.
Babu Soli, the Manswanko, who is sometimes taken for a Mandinko because of his CRR/URR birth link will never retract from his word. Hence, I have sincerely dropped the pen that calls NATTY DREAD whatever….I used to call her. Take my word!
That’s what my late Manswanka old man taught me…..HUMILITY!
To Natty, I say SORRY sister Natty, SORRY aunty Natty; SORRY!
Babu Soli
Thank you my brother. I cried reading your piece above. Please forgive me. You will be surprise to know that i grew up in Bundung Borehole and there are chances that i may even know your paternal half sister. My driver in the Gambia is a Manswanko gentleman, the nicest man i have ever known and he too live in Bundung Borehole in a compound called Sambou Kunda. You see how interconnected we are as Gambians. Please find inside your warm heart a place to forgive your sister. I am sorry my dear brother. Big cheers from Mauritius.
Thanking you too Babu; this is the Gambia humanity deserves; no matter what our divergent differences; because we all equally own, & literally are entitled to Gambia collectively together; regardless of divergence in opinion…
Hey, don’t praise the kooringolu this much; their bravery nowadays is on food obsession & nothing else…
Touray Sanyang of Faraba was a Sanyang kunda man named after a Touray kunda nka'(hence the name Touray Sanyang); I learnt he used to beat up any of his wives whosoever was on the cooking assignment duties in the day & gets late finishing up the cooking timely; this dude will always be toddling between where he sits in the middle of the compound, going up & down to the kitchen towards the women’s end at the back; urging & reminding the women threateningly, what lies ahead for them if the food isn’t ready on his time…
Any time he fights the women for finishing late, somebody among his own children would run to call a particular Touray kunda man who when he appeared Sanyang would be embarrassed & stop fighting for food instantly…
Because of the constant embarrassments he gets whenever the Touray kunda man tells him off; Touray Sanyang resorted to clandestinely disturbing the chicken daily in the barn where they collectively spend the night together in those days; just for the chicken to make some crowing noises, deliberately on his way back from the Fajir early morning prayers at the Mosque so as to find a way to insist & make who among the women were on the cooking shift for the day to start cooking that very early out a choice; the chicken crows times were among some of their local times keeping mechanisms by then…
Then on a particular night some of Touray Sanyang’s children went out to a sicko dance & stayed out late; on their way back, on reaching home, they saw a figure around the chicken shade area looking like grabbing to be stealing the chicken; while Sanyang also was just from the early prayers doing his old trick, busy to get the chicken to make out some noise, so he can go on his preemptive pounce on the wives…
The child started shouting aloud ‘thief, chicken thief’!!! The whole neighbourhood were awaken in rush out to catch this particular thief; only to turn out that, in fact it’s the old Sanyang kunda man at his usual same old trick again but differently this time…
Then our Touray man, on his way from the same Mosque prayer, went to Touray Sanyang & gave him a stern warning…
Any disturbances again; he made it clear that he will confiscat Touray Sanyang’s personal belongings including his herd of cattle…
That’s was how the poor Sanyang kunda women gained their collective freedom; from a gargantuan bully all because of food….
Bajaw, from the way you narrate this story one can only conclude that it is something very close to home. You have cleverly change the characters but it still exposes the modus operandi of Tourays. Koto Babu said he was in Faraba so i will let him be the judge. You have really cracked me up. I can’t stop laughing. I have a Touray Kunda wife and she is starving me and my children because she eats all the food in the kitchen saying she is tasting the salt.
Koto Babu, thanks for your kind words, it is really touching. I can see that you have widely traveled the length and breath of the Gambia. You have made Bajaw a bit envious of Sanyangs hence the funny and beautiful story about Touray Sanyang of Fara Banta. Can you give the Tourays a tiny bit of praise but not as much as the Sanyangs lol! My dad had a very close friend who was a Soli and his kids and us were like brothers and sisters, thats why i always refer to you as Koto. It is just a shame that i can’t get you out of the lunatic Jammeh fans club. No matter what our differences may be it cannot break what binds us together as a nation. It is good that both you and Natty have listened to us, your brothers. This is the beauty of the Gambia, it is what makes us unique. Like i said to Natty, put your arguments forward whenever you do not agree with someone else’s points but lets all bear in mind that there are lots of Gambians young and old who follow our discussions and we will be doing them a disservice if all what we do is go very personal. Although i must admit, you and Natty sometimes sound like old married couples when you are just arguing without insults. Which can be rather very amusing (smile).
Yes Buba, the Sanyang in Faraba had a Touray Sanyang; they must have heard his name; he’s one of their venerable grandfathers in the past along the line; the story’s narrated to me; our old Touray man who used to scold him at the time, was said to always be remarking to the young Sanyang kunda children & the women whenever he meets up with them & about in the village; ‘where is our notorious fowl thief?’; they will all reply back ‘he’s at home’….
Meanwhile, I met up with your brother in town again this evening; with the Saafara bottles in hand as usual by the market area; his is Nyang, which is the same & short for full the Sanyang surname…
Bajaw, i will get you for this. I know a very prominent Touray who does the daily market shopping (ndugga). He goes to the market early morning to get the best cut of meat or the biggest fish on sale. He use to hide from whenever he saw me and my siblings. I will ask the descendants of Touray to punish you for this story you wrote here. They will come and occupy your house for a month.
I’m not scared, tell them to come; I just need a to arrange with a supermarket for feeding…
Just give me some prior notice to arrange for the food stock delivery before hand because if not my neighbours will be embarrassed by your gargantuan siblings grumbling…