(JollofNews) – The Barrow Administration through its Attorney General must be hugely commended for their submission in the Supreme Court in favour of the GPU case to declare sedition unconstitutional and void. If the unfolding news that the Supreme Court is heading towards such declaration then this would be an[Read More…]
Opinion
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: Can We Have A Complete Break With Our Past- Political Processes?
(JollofNews) – On 1st December 2016 we went to the polls and booted out not only an entrenched incumbent but also one of Africa’s most notorious, dangerous tyrant. It was the most unlikely, the most unexpected. It happened though, by a people who who were dogged and steely in their[Read More…]
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: APRC. Celebrating The Birthday Of A Despot! SHAME!!
(JollofNews) – Just as the true carnage of the Tyrant Yaya Jammeh is gradually being exposed, members of the Killer Party APRC gathered themselves together to celebrate a so-called birthday in Kanilai. Apart from the bodies that were exhumed, we now know that Yaya Jammeh has in his name 131[Read More…]
Gambia: Chief Justice Jallow Speaks For Me
(JollofNews)- The most important news in The Gambia since the election happened last week. It’s not the Attorney General’s bombshell news briefing on the freezing of 88 bank accounts, 131 landed properties, and 14 companies belonging to or directly associated with the exiled despot. Nor was it Lawyer Awa Sisay-Sabally’s[Read More…]
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: Ambassador Sheikh Omar Faye, Apologize! Period
(JollofNews) – Former Gambian ambassador to the US Sheikh Omar Faye gave a very unfortunate interview to Gambia Talents Radio on May 26 where he sought to sanctify himself as a saint who stood for the best interest of the Gambia. He presented himself as a man of faith and[Read More…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: Jammeh Had Enablers Too; All Culpable
(JollofNews) – There is near unanimity that Yaya Jammeh was a tyrant and a very divisive, corrupt leader too. At least current investigations tell us he in deed was. That is not news worthy. What is baffling to me, however, is our fiery, combatant attempt at exonerating his cabal or[Read More…]
President Barrow And The Gambian Diaspora: An Impending Political Binarism
(JollofNews) – Warneford Hall, Oxford, UK (2017-05-29) – In an article titled ‘Jammeh and the Gambian Diaspora: New Political Binarism’, published in October 2013, I cautioned H.E. Yahya Jammeh that the Gambian Diaspora has become a redemptive political force and a revolutionary vanguard, armed with the resources (the ability to[Read More…]
Gambia: Legislate An Act Providing For Reparation And Recognition Of Jammeh’s Victims
(JollofNews) – The National Assembly must enact a Human Rights Victims Reparations and Recognition Act, and create an independent Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board to administer a compensation fund for the human rights victims of former President Yahya Jammeh. This fundamental legislative policy shall be intrinsic in our laws, such[Read More…]
Gambia: My Ramadan Confession
(JollofNews) – Ramadan Kareem to you and yours. May Allah forgive us our sins and grant us our prayers and fasts in this holy month of Ramadan. Ameen.. In his penultimate post of yesterday, Madi Jobarteh, my dearest friend and brother, requested that we all seek forgiveness from The Gambia,[Read More…]
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: My Ramadan Confession And Seeking Forgiveness
(JollofNews) – As Gambians, we can disagree on a number of things about the PPP and the Jawara Regime or APRC and the Yaya Jammeh Regime or about the new regime of Adama Barrow. But what we cannot disagree with is that between 22 July 1994 to 19 January 2017,[Read More…]
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