Let us tell Seedy Njie that he cannot control the narrative about the actions and inactions of Yaya Jammeh. Seedy Njie has no capacity in any way to attempt to cleanse Yaya Jammeh against the overwhelming evidence of the atrocious nature of that regime. He will only serve to destroy his own soul if he seeks to defend the indefensible.
Let Seedy understand that the issue of Yaya Jammeh is about the life and soul of the Gambia. Let Seedy enjoy his politicking freely and openly, thanks to Gambians, but let him not seek to ridicule, mock and dishonour the lives and dignity of Gambians. No amount of democracy or partisan politics should make a human being toy with the very lives of fellow human beings. Because of Yaya Jammeh, hundreds of Gambians and non-Gambians have been killed and hundreds more live in pain and misery today.
For anyone to come out openly to celebrate such a despicable despot and his regime is the height of imbecility and self-destruction. Yaya Jammeh is merely a dishonest, corrupt and unfortunate son of the land who betrayed the trust of the people, abused our institutions and plundered our resources and then used them to torture, rape and kill fellow human beings. No decent human being must laugh about that much more seek to cleanse such a murderer in the face of his victims. It is callous, unpatriotic and immoral.
If Yaya Jammeh knew that he was innocent of the murder of those West Africans why then would he compensate for a crime of which he was innocent? Yaya Jammeh was not required to compensate, rather what he was required to do was to ensure accountability. Since 2005 his Government never took anyone to court for the murder of those human beings. We know that those victims were arrested and detained by state agents from the Navy and the police and then handed over to the Junglers who killed them.
The only person who could give such orders was Yaya Jammeh. If he had not given the orders then he should have stopped the killings. But he did not. He had the legal authority and obligation to bring perpetrators to justice but he also never did that even though he knew who the perpetrators were.
To therefore hear Seedy Njie hide behind the so-called agreement and compensation to attempt to cover up for Yaya Jammeh only serves to further expose this despot. UN and ECOWAS did not agree with Yaya Jammeh on anything about that crime. The UN and ECOWAS only came to investigate but Yaya Jammeh’s government refused to cooperate and only gave them a false narrative. The UN or ECOWAS cannot do anything more but to go back with what Yaya Jammeh gave them that his government was not involved in the killings.
The idea of compensation was Yaya Jammeh’s diabolical and unintelligible idea; thinking that he can fool people that he has a sense of humanity. Those families do not need compensation. They need justice. Therefore let Seedy Njie know that he cannot control the narrative anymore in the Gambia particularly in his false and disgraceful attempt to defend and justify the atrocities of a tyrant. Seedy is too little to carry such a job.
Madi Jaalo Jobarteh,
In as much as you ask Seedy to shut his mouth in his attempt to “cleanse” President Jammeh, I am asking you to equally shut your filthy mouth in your futile attempt to tarnish the gallant President Jammeh.
In your futile, banal attempt to scale down the APRC, whose banning you idiotically called for on several occasions, in your undemocratic attempt to silence a part of the Gambian population, you have once again come up with your usual shallow rantings on who should talk and who not. Who are you Madi jaalo Jobarteh to decide what Hon Seedy Njie says?
Dr Sarr, Andy Pjalo, Bax, Kinteh(Kemo), Madi jaalo Jobarteh & Co…..
Please read about your INCOMPETENT and CORRUPT “president”
Gambia: Breaking News: Building A Multi million Dalasi Villa And Transforming His Hamlet Village As A Modern City, Were Among Gambia’s Rookie President’s Achievements Since He Got Elected!
May 18, 2018 5464
MANKAMANG KUNDA, UPPER RIVER REGION—Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow has inaugurated his new multimillion dalasi home during his two weeks vacation. The Presidential villa is situated at his home village of Mankamangkunda, in the Upper River Region of the Gambia. The rookie president, in a span of one and half year, into his presidency, has managed to transform his onetime hamlet village as a modern city.
Access to clean drinking water, good road network, street lights and good sanitation were rare things to come by in Mankamangkunda prior to Mr. Barrow ascended into the presidency. But that’s history now. Mr.Barrow has built a new presidential villa in Mankamangkunda.
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There is no word as to the source of his new property and the developmental structures he invested in Mankamangkunda. Mr. Barrow’s monthly salary is two hundred thousand dalasis (D200,0000.00), which is about $4,500.00 United States dollars. His investments in Mankamangkunda, has been estimated to be over one million dollars.
Mr. Barrow is a former “small real estate” operator. He has in the past accepted handsome gifts—ranging from cars, and other valuables from “philanthropists” his State House wouldn’t name.
Our findings have revealed that the company contracted to construct the developmental structures at Mr. Barrow’s home village, was the Gigo Construction Limited. Site workers and laborers interviewed said the president recently moved to his newly built multimillion home with his family.
Constructing recreational amenities, and a magnificent house in Mankamangkunda, were among Mr. Barrow’s topmost priorities when he assumed the presidency, critics say. His critics also jokingly teased him for having accomplished his first dreamt project for the presidency—that’s to transform his village as a modern city.
Mr. Barrow is not alone in this new presidential phenomenon of developing his home village. His predecessor dictator Yahya Jammeh had also invested heavily at his native village of Kanilai. Kanilai, has now been transformed as a military base by the new Barrow led Coalition government.
Over 48 percent of the Gambian population are living below the national poverty line. The average Gambian survives below one United States dollar per day. The country’s per capita income is below $400 dollars.
Gambia must refrain from new government borrowing, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday, after its debt stock reached around 130 percent of gross domestic product at the end of last year, according to Reuters. More than half of the debt is owed to external creditors, IMF said.
“Maintaining debt sustainability will necessitate refraining from contracting new government debt or contingent liabilities before additional fiscal and borrowing space has been achieved, and leveraging more private investment,” the IMF said.
While on his recent vacation at his new villa in Mankamangkunda, Mr. Barrow received guests at his home. Though some of the visitors to his home, weren’t happy with the reception accorded to them by the president’s staff. For example, they said the president, never offered them breakfast upon arrival at the provincial village. They had a chat with Mr. Barrow amid a long journey from Banjul to Mankamangkunda.
On lunch time, Mr. Barrow called his closest associates to join him for lunch. The visitors couldn’t join him since their names were not mentioned when Barrow made the announcement for lunch. They were also not given water and food throughout their visit to the new presidential villa.
Mr. Barrow returned to Banjul on Friday after ending his two weeks vacation. Mr. Barrow is expected to leave Banjul during the weekend for Belgium, where he is expected to take part in a donor’s funding conference.
Babu Soli,
I think your missing the point,
Dr Barrow can do no wrong, as long as he is not killing Gambians directly. besides these are the strappings that comes with top teir politicians and presidency. They just live in a different realm, that’s why it’s hard for them to step down when their term is up. Unlike western top teir politicians, PM’S and presidents they move into better paying positions with companies such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan as board of directors or company consultants etc, which are very lucrative, golden hand shakes etc with less scrutiny.
Africa needs to consolidate.
My thoughts inform me that, the more things change the more they remain the same.
An indictment, extradition and trial of former President Yaya Jammeh in the Gambia within this decade would do more harm to the Gambia and Gambians especially, with reference to ethnic group, regional and family co-existence than it would accomplish or achieve. The Gambians are very inter-related by marriages and residential patterns. Thus, despite as well as inspite of Party Politics and intermittent ethnic group manipulation by Politicians of the Past Regimes and Present, Gambians find a way to Peacefully Co-exist and resolve their differences without resorting to Deadly Communal Violence of the kind other African countries have experienced. Currently, this valued Gambian character and disposition is been tested and retested. It has for the most part succeeded in tempering the inner demons and lust for blood that a few may let loose on their fellow Gambians. An eye for an eye, thus, living us one eyed or blind to each other’s shared humanity. If Jammeh is to be tried and the trial seen as “Fair” and Legitimate, he should be charged, indicted and tried in a Neutral Country. Equitorial Guinea won’t do either. Nor an European or in American venue. Such a venue would be a demonstration of ineptitude and Continental failure of Africans and Africa at a grand scale. It is a “public secret” that Jammeh is in Equitorial Guinea because the host President is a “friend”. I am not sure, but the second reason may be because Equitorial Guinea is not a Signatory to the Rome Statue which empowers and legitimizes the ICC. In an attempt to get ones pound of flesh from those who transgressed against you for, don’t stab yourself in the process. Former President Yaya Jammeh is in relative terms a young man and as such has many years ahead of him. The Gambia and Gambians especially, the government has many pressing needs at home that needs to be attended to forthwith. These are, the need to handle the economy and financial state of the State of the Gambia. The potential uncontrollable, run-away Deficit Spending Budget with hyper-inflation due to the government’s “Borrow-and Spend” “policies”. Security or more accurately the Personal and State insecurity in the Gambia. Reformation of the Judiciary and the Law Enforcement Branches, Revamping Agriculture, Education and Healthcare are claring exhibits confronting Gambians. Stabilize the Gambia and give Gambians an ability to sustain themselves and their families in a secure and peaceful environment for all without ethnic group or regional considerations. Meanwhile, collect the relevant documents and evidence that is “beyond a reasonable doubt” for a Legal Case of “Jammeh VS. Plaintiffs”. Caveat, the Gambians and especially, the leadership should be aware of Foreign so-called “experts” who come bearing “gifts” of “Expertise” but are infact, in quest of a “Career and Resume” building adventure at the expense of the unsuspecting country and its citizens. The same so-called “experts” would not be allowed nor permitted into the Legal or Fact Finding Mission (s) of similar Cases in their home countries for example, in America or any given European country. How many of us would be entertained by their countries to permit our audacity to carry out what these “Upstarts” and sometimes “washed up” Interlopers for their selfish, self-serving Career and Resume adventure “Glory” are allowed and permitted to do in our countries? No questions and or in-depth background investigations of the Culprits are undertaken prior to allowing the same itenerant “Career and Resume” building American and European immigrants into our affair. Who is financing them? To what end and purpose? Of course, this is not a Gambian issue or trait only. It is pervasive throughout Africa. It is Africans who are arrested for “human rights” Violations and tried internationally for all to see how “despotic, murderous and uncivilized Africans are”. At the same time, those who violate and murder their own people (usually minorities and those labeled as “radicals”, “terrorist” and other names) by American and European countries’ governments’ and leadership are protected by laws and institutions they designed and imposed on the rest of us. African Despots of all kinds must be Sanctioned and Punished. However, it should be undertaken in Africa and by Africans with an African Characteristics. After more than fifty years of “Independence”, we should not be Crawling but walk up straight to the World Stage with all of our African-Ness and with our own Cake cutter to partake of the World’s Cake. All countries have gone through growing pains. The British, Chinese and American Civil Wars. The French and Russian Revolutions and the First and Second World Wars (the later being Tribal Wars between Caucasians that they internationalised), are an example. Least we forget, remember the European 30 Years War? Yet, they managed to overcome it all. We must do likewise. If not now, when? Africa and the Gambia are more than the Sum Total of its Conflicts. We must as Gambians and Africans resolve to settle our own affairs in a deliberate and dispassionate disposition. If not, we shall forever and evermore be guests to our own Passages of Rites and remain Adolescents in Need of Supervision. It is time, we stop holding the donkey by the hind legs. Only those not familiar with the danger present in such an ignorant act would dare do so. There is a time and season for everything…
There are constitutional means and maneuvers that could have been employed to hand to the APRC a long rope to hang itself and make it politically insolvent. Am afraid that might already be a missed opportunity since the disintegration of the coalition agreement. That disintegration came about because of Ousainou’s insatiable greed for power and control.
We might like to dream that the demon of Yaya has gone to sleep. This is far from the reality. I’ll go as far as to say the biggest threat to Gambia’s fragile democracy and political stability is the APRC and it’s henchmen including Yaya himself. All thanks to Ousainou because he lacks political tact.
As for seedy Njie, well he has everything to loose with the demise of that cultist party so he is holding onto it for dear life.
It will be fatal to underestimate how dangerous these people can be.
See how they claiming innocence for a mass murderer, a liar and a thieve of grandious feats? That’s the cue.
Woe onto them and all who are conniving with them.
Onus is on Ousainou now to democratically disempower the criminal enterprise of the APRC.
Looho bu takka gayindeh, looho boobu mooko firri, in Wollof.
In mandinka, buloo ming yé jatoo siti, wo buluu kilingo lé kaa afiring.
Lamin,
You are out of touch with the political reality. If it were not the fragile opposition and independent candidates, (the coalition was just a grouping of opportunist and selfish people thus its quick death!) the APRC is the single largest party in the country that has a political base in all the regions. It’s strengthened on President Jammeh’s determination and dedication to work. He did it that’s why the APRC will remain and In Sha Allah return to power. Only the Almighty Allah can deny that. Not the wishful Lamin thinking and banal analysis of the Party. Woe betide Lamin!
Grim Reaper,
How can you condone the lavish squandering of our meagre public resources for personal use when the country is still emerged in hardship: electricity/water outages and shortges, rising prices on basis food commodities and transportation, rising prices on education bills, rising insecurity…..?
That’s your nefastous politics of accepting whatever this CORRUPT and INCOMPETENT administration illicitly does.
I am talking about political credibility/decency on the part of this INCOMPETENT and CORRUPT administration, the credibility/decency of all their “intellectual” supporters in the diaspora who arraign President Jammeh for building a mansion in Kanilai while patting the back of Adama Barrow for doing just more than that in MankamangKunda. It reflects their naivety, docility and lack of real political fervour to work for any meaningful improvement in our country. Your type, Grim Reaper! You may slavishly support him, that’s your business and will, but the Gambian people will one day get rid of this group of INCOMPETENT fools/clowns, bring them to court for mismanaging our resources. What is more deadly than squandering a nation’s resources without an iota of improvement in over 1 year 5 months? Then tell me your terms and definitions of killing a people. As long as we are denied our right to access amenities for our better livelihood we are being massacred. That’s what the INEPT, TRIBALIST, CORRUPT British Argos watchman and his bunch of VERY SELFISH and USELESS camaradas are doing!
Barrow and his groups are good psycho analysts, though. They can easily read your flimsy mentality, tread on your docility and naivety and do what they want with our money and get away with it. Because fools and people that are easy to fool, are around them clinging onto the tip of their cloak! They are stooges and opportunists!
Aha Babu; just hear you ‘noon-day-dreaming’ in Kerewan Samba Sirreh, ‘down town’, Gambia…
Aprc is a “decapitated headless panting carcass” in motion, of the kanilai Evildom anaconda that rared once; in reminiscent of the twirling & curling that ensues of the lifeless body once a snake is killed; aprc anacondas have been decapitated by the Gambia women; we all know what happens when the Women folk kill their snake…
Aprc as the tribal-party had no ideas to sell to voters & only campaigned on ‘tribal lines’ against Kanifing Municipal independent candidate Mr Bakary Badjie in particular (according to horse’s own mouth on media); that “jola’s mustn’t vote for him (Bakary) because he wasn’t a real jola”, etc, etc; the same is evident in Foni for very same reasons, which can never send aprc to power even if the whole region votes so….
Aprc is still being funded, utilising from our stollen blood-moneys, by the Predatory Evilness kanilai Alligator; the funds can be spent but certainly NOT; I can take upon the “OLD PA” up there (SWT) & dare predict HIM on this…
The Bloody records of innocent lives wantonly wrecked, indelibly dried & cemented in history into posterity….
Meanwhile, you are entitled to your Slumber, absolutely Babu; but you are fooling none but self only; time will proof this; Insha Allah…
God bless Gambia…
Rectification please – kanilai Evildom anaconda that reared once; thanking you…
The bloody record(s) of hundreds of innocent tender lives wantonly wrecked, indelibly dried an cemented in history till posterity are found in the mass graves dug by the 1981 genocidal murderers. That’s what you always wish to bury. You can never speak that out from your deliberate intent to thwart history. That sounds the hypocrite’s trumpet. Tribalism in the Gambia starts from the Mandinkolu, Wolloflu, Akuwolu, Fulolu, Kasinkolu. The least tribalists; the Jolalu and my tribe the Manswankolu
Babu…
I am no fan of the old man (Jawara), but I think he had a legitimate right and constitutional responsibility to reclaim his mandate from the criminals who attempted to seize it in 1981.
The deaths of 1981, unfortunate and sad as they were (I lost a peer and friend), were the result of the complete breakdown of law and order; a consequence of the criminal actions of that band of criminals whom you, Babu, have so far failed to condemn.
Under such a circumstance, with no one in full control, I cannot see how you can justifiably blame a man who had the right to reclaim what was legally his, never mind justify the label of “murderer”.
But whilst you readily label the old man a murderer for deaths that occurred in a situation of chaos and disorder whilst he was not in full control, you have failed to even acknowledge the deaths under Jammeh, preferring to wait for a court verdict. I wonder what court found Jawara culpable for what you continue to allege. This is the level of your inconsistency.
May be it should be pointed out to you that the label of MURDERER fits Jammeh more than Jawara, because even during the Kartong and Farafenni attacks, there was not a single instance when law and order broke down or when Jammeh lost control during his 22 year rule. He was always in full control and therefore a lot of deaths under his regime could rightly be called MURDERS.
Amongst these are the murders of Deyda Hydara, Chief Manneh, Jasaja Kujabi, Masireh Jammeh, November 11th, April 10/11th, Ghanian nationals, etc.
These are the facts of history that you cannot change, no matter how hard you try.
The blame for the mass grave of 1981 slay squarely on the shoulders of those who attempted to seize power illegally, released dangerous prisoners from the prisons and flooded the streets with weapons, resulting in the situation giving rise to lawlessness and unnecessary destruction of lives and properties.
The intervening Senegalese soldiers had the right, even under international law, to defend themselves when fired upon and they were fired upon indiscriminately by an opponent who wasn’t disciplined and knows nothing about the rules of military engagement. Worse still, it was an enemy that was mostly high on drugs and alcohol. That’s your revolutionary bunch that Jawara should surrender his mandate to. You can really be disappointing at times.
Babu Soli
No one wants to point his accusing left finger at his/her father’s village. From your postings i doubt anyone will find your self righteousness amusing but divisive, tribalist, hateful and too economical on the truth. You have highlighted this sorry episode, albeit incorrectly on numerous occasions while blinded to our recent past is no less a sounding of a hypocrite’s trumpet.
The truth is known about the 1981 kukoi samba Sanyang evilness; except the innocent lives caught up in the “devils’ path” the few dead weren’t fighting for Gambia, otherwise, they could’ve sought the peasantry population’s mandate legitimately at the ballots as per Constitution; (fact) both kukoi & kanilai alligator tony daa(kala)kumbah were never legal & legitimate from the Gambia people mandatorily; all other administrations are….?
Babu; please get aprc back to power; the onus is on you….
God bless Gambia…
(Fact) Bakary Badjie is no Mandinka or any of the tribes you mentioned above, (who is) alluding to this fact of those responsible for what they accuse everybody else of…?
An illegimate administration is one that fools around with the conscience of its unschooled population to deliberately squander their resources without delivering; the case of the two hopeless PPP and Barrow administrations. When such an illegitimate administration continues in power, it should be whisked out by any force. The PPP was illegitimized by falling to deliver, thus the rights and duties of Kukoi and Jammeh to do the deal in the name of the Gambian masses. The defunct hopeless coalition, that defrauded in collusion with Momar Njie, is already illegitimized for stealing to cater solely for their families and buddies.
Our history is important, I get it, but why are we fixated on 1981, on Jawara, on UDP and even Jammeh. So much time and emotional investment in subject matters that will yield no meaningful fruits to the average citizen moving forward. As if we don’t have enough pressing issues like:
Poverty
Hunger
Unemployment
Babu forget APRC, forget UDP, PPP etc. Accept we are all Gambians hoping for the same bright future. A peaceful and prosperous country for the next generation. Can we collectively discuss how to accomplish this huge task of nation building, bearing in mind our present political reality. We are joined at the hips and our future good or bad is inseparable.
God Bless The Gambia.
Babu, the Constitution is clear about our collective responsibility for replacing legitimate “governments by the people & for the people”; that’s why we still have aprc, no matter how irrelevant they maybe; they are equally entitled (like any citizen) to their voice (opinions) politically without being attacked by opponents physically & to solicit votes from the peasantry Gambians who are the (only) legitimate owners of the legal mandate to enthrone government….
Even Bax’s explicit dissecting, Buba, you still insistently continue to slumber at noon, on the ground beside the tarmac road at the Sapu junctions, insisting (that) you are realistically on bed in Kerewan…?
Dr, that’s how a citizen should see themselves as ‘nation builders’ but the truth is, every one doesn’t think like Dr Sarr….
The Gambia will triumph over any falsehood no matter what & how it takes; we (Gambia) collectively “been to hell & back” together, but as proven, the Gambia have the human resources & potential to sail through trouble waters….
This responsibility upon citizens are naturally bestowed upon everyone by our birthright ‘umbilically’…
God bless Gambia….
“… emotional investment in subject matters that will yield no meaningful fruits to the average citizen moving forward…” it couldn’t have ever been said well, humble Dr…
Most of our “argumentative analysis” tend to sway emotionally, in frustration, evidently(my opinion); this is influenced by factors, ranging from personal to political inclinations among others(reasons); thereby, waste average (limited valuable) time in ‘squabbles’ instead of the ever demanding nation building meant to be; but as a Nation (People) Community, “condemned to Fate” together collectively, it couldn’t have been done & sorted differently because that’s the fact evidently; hence the exchanges because some people will always play “the devil” no matter what…
Setting ourselves “unrealistic targets” in arguments which aren’t “realistically (physically) achievable” on the ground, are no-brainer but “running in circles” only…
There’s nothing “numerically beneficial” about “Economics” which isn’t for realistic benefits utilisation & to advantage of the ‘human person’ (/being) (whom) every aspect of ALL “tools-in-knowledge” combined on earth (world) together, are meant for…?
God bless Gambia….
Madi; Seedy Njie is immature just like the Evil Deadly kanilai Killer Dracula, hands in gloves with together; for the numerous uncountable atrocious endeavours (they collisively) committed under the EVIL kanilai Murderdom, yet to be documented amongst the many already…
Those Ghanaian families were “compensated on the lies that ‘rogue elements’ murdered their love ones”; BUT it’s now emerged that (in fact) yaya Dracula & Devil Ousman Sonko were involved amongst those Sadistic coldblood Butchers of humanity; which is a “fresh evidence” that (now) INVALIDATE ANY other arrangements/settings in place, in the past (before), which anybody can pretend to claim of in foolhardy….
Yaya fled with seedy Njie & co, just like Blood-sucking “Leeches on flee” to the Equator; “hatched a plan” to return seedy, since (on realisation that) Genuine Gambia (in majority) are (only) interested in Salvation/Savaging of the Poor Motherland from decadence (which was) “toshed into the infested-fangs of the Predatory Evil kanilai Tony Daafataba; (Gambia) not interested in any vendetta sort for the culprits, EXCEPT for Justice and & Redress, in” fair play”; not only for victims & families as required & deserved BUT also for deterrence for future any “would-be-devils” in humanity…
They (aprc) can continue to tuck into their Blood-Soaked Booty looted from our ‘soul & blood’ collectively together but days of feeble lies are gone; never to be condoned no more…
Yaya Jammeh belongs to Mile 2, for its own safety; yaya Jammeh is haunted & will continue to be hunted by victims & families until avenged; Insha Allah…
God bless Gambia…
Rectification please – Salvation/Salvaging (not Savaging)…
Thanks
Madi, this “statement” is ghost Devil yaya itself talking in proxy; trying to defend it(scum)self; through Devil-Disciple seedy Njie; the last “yaya must come back” slogan too & other actions ensued by the Devilish-aprc-party on campaigns sometime back were the Late Evil kanilai killer’s attempt to “test waters”…
Yaya Jammeh in particular will never (getaway with rape & murder) live a “free DEVIL” (NOT man) in Gambia; in name of any (so-called) cosmetic-reconciliation enforcement upon the community as a price for the DEVILS’ ransom….?
That will not bring any realistic reconciliation & genuine healing meaningful for true societal cohesion…
God bless Gambia…