The Gambian police must not mistake the concept and principles freedom of speech and of expression for hate speech. The principles of freedom of expression and, of speech is a right enshrined in our constitution and may only be limited as prescribed in law. In some of these “hate speech” perpetrators must face justice, I think the police are abusing due process.
There is a thin line between freedom of speech, and of expression and hate speech. The police must not use the penal code to muzzle freedom of speech and of, expression in the guise of fighting hate speech.
We must resist all retrogressive effort that retards us back to the days of gagging, silencing, and disappearing citizens. Even assuming the sponsors were politicians we don’t like, our rights to free speech must also be protected and those incite hate speech must be punished.
On hate speech among Gambians, I think the Diaspora Gambians gets the medal for extreme tribalism of a most disturbing nature, especially displayed in open online forums. Sometimes just good old dreadful witch-hunts. The police need to act, set an example.
The police must be serious if we are to fight hate speech, incitement of hate and contempt in our country. The way the police inaction about the current agitation of hate speech, bigotry, narcissism, misogyny and tribalism are amateurish and largely unprofessional. Why are perpetrators for inciting hate speech are not arrested, charged and arraigned before our courts with hate speech and incitement of violence.
The police fixation with drama, even where such drama is unnecessary – what is stopping the police force from arresting party supporters and surrogates in cases of hate speech, incitement of violence that can be successfully prosecuted before our courts or build strong cases capable of prosecution.
I am convinced that hate speech and incitement of hate is reactionary to appease and diffuse public anger from the sadistic utterances by party supporters. Whereas a few leaders have made utterances capable of being considered hate speech and incitement of violence. Majority of those attacked in the minority are victims of bigotry, hate speech, harassment, intimidation and misogyny.
It seems there is the Gambia Police for a section of the citizenry and another “Gambia Police” for the rest of us. The police MUST be consistent in their actions. What does it mean when the government says the police force is “apolitical” must be seen in action and not in empty rhetoric during press conferences.
We must condemn hate speech and equally stand up for freedom of speech and of expression. If we do not, then the Inspector- General of Police may just summon haters actions against people!
My Challenge to Koto Yoro and I hope he replies and accept my challenge. Here is it: I invite you to a debate on any platform of your choice that there is no “tribalism” in The Gambia. I can easily pass my contact details to Jollofnews for us to get in touch and arrange a date, time and other settings for us to go on air. You can choose a moderator for our debate all in the spirit of broadening and deepening the democratic space.
Whilst anticipating your cordial response, I remain in service.
Lamin, 100 dollar bet that Yorro will NOT accept your challenge to a debste. If he can’take put a coherent argument forward in writing, how do you expect him to do so in the heat of a live debate?
But I will be happy to take your challenge even though I am aged. I will give you a head start to select the topic and prepare – but only tell the topic to me once we are on air. Good luck!
Dida I think we should arrange a public service program in The Gambia and debate some of our national challenges.
Team 1.- Dida, me and Alagi
Vs
Team 2. – Lamin, Babu Soli, Xenophobes
Rules – Each team has 30 minutes to discuss 2 ideas that they feel will be most impactful to the lives of young Gambians and the economy. 10 min rebutal. Discuss to be supported by facts and figures.
I bet on Dida’s age and wisdom any day.
Dr. I will feel comfortable in your team for its REALISM (I bet on Dida’s age and wisdom any day);
But I will love to be in Lamin & Babu’s team for it’s DREAM (I am a hopeless romantic at heart!).
Well Dida, I will say Koto Yoro has a different style of writing. It gives me personally, great taste and pleasure to read and consume material from him. It’s his prerogative to dodge the debate totally or remain silent for reasons that I do not have to know. On the other hand, if he positively responds to my challenge, I will be honored if you will send the $100 to The Gambia to feed an under privileged family for a week or two. Maybe, your former watchman might be in Ramadan financial worries. You will be lightening his burden.
Your age cannot and should not stop me from having a conversation or debate with you. In fact it’s a fantastic way to bridge the generational gap that often leaves holes in the chain of knowledge in history, politics, societal development and heritage. So yes you and I can set a positive example on the myth that those who have different opinions are not enemies. This can go down well in the current political discourse and help the current leadership understand that they have to battle it out on ideas, policies and programs and not lineage and ethnolinguistic sentiments.
Would you like to debate for or against the motion?
Am game Dida!
Give Yorro a chance first! He might reconsider chickening out.
Clearly you have not been feeding the “poor” in The Gambia recently: $100 dollars will last TWO MONTHS.
I did not say two months. I said a week or two. Lol
Let’s wait and see….
Yes, YOU said “a week or two”.
I said: “Two months”! (LoL to you too)
Are you sure you know the meaning of xenophobia or xenophobe? Because that word will not fit the context of any present discussion we are having on this thread or any of the threads.
I guess you are confusing my resistance to your colonial lords with xenophobia.
Here is your lesson: one is geographically marked, the other is an ontological superimposition.
If your aim with your public service program is to gain your little moment of fame, it will be a sign of disrespect to invite me to such.
On the hand, if it’s your goal to critically engage with the issues that are affecting us as a people and a nation, on television, radio or any other medium, that will be a sacred duty for me. I won’t say to that Doc.
You bring me to giggles sometimes. You are calling for a debate with the intention of humiliating your opponents and you think it’s fair not to have a discussion over the rules of engagement and come to a concensus. No, the Doctor is too for that. Is that not dictatorial?
I don’t need fame. My aim is to inform the public. Yes it’s dictatorial and I am sure you can take orders from a woman .
Easy on my Lady, Lamin … someone here (you or Babu) asked me to stop playing the “LUNTANGO” and land for the Revolution and my Good Lady took it to be xenophobic (“Land” as in Hamat Bah’s “I am landing” … what happened to him? He is so quiet these days – Doc?). So my Good Lady’s “xenophobe” accusation was just a mistake … my Good Lady was brought up in FAJARA and does not really understand the native’s language much – having been brought up on the Queen’s English! I bet you, unlike Lamin, Babu and I she has no clue what Trump was alluding to when he called us “Shit-Hole countries” (poor Trump was trying to stir Revolution in us – MAGA – Make Africa Great Again). Doctor and other Elite Africans objected because they had NEVER seen a Shit-Hole toilet in Fajara – or in posh Karen in Nairobi (I am from Nairobi’s GHETTO called … California … I joke not!)
You really are a challenge Doc. After writing that sentence, it took me 30 minutes before I can write this one. And I intend to leave it at that.
ELECTION RESULTS – UDP SWEEP
BANJUL
Rohey lowe UDP =2,836 (27%)
Lie Bah. INDE=2,292 (21%)
KANIFING
T. Bensouda UDP=29,325 (43%)
Rambo JattaAprc=17,392 (25%)
Adama Bah PDOIS=2,941 (4%)
Dawda Njie GDC/Pa Nderry Mbai =2,247 (3%)
BRIKAMA AREA COUNCIL
Sherif Sonko UDP=32,698 (49%)
Baks Sanneh Aprc=24,697 (37%)
MANSA KONKO
Mr L.Sanneh UDP=10,882 (73%)
Mr F.L Sarr GDC = 4,111 (27%)
JANJANGBUREH AREA COUNCIL
Janko SannehUDP=9,145 (47%)
Mr S. Camara GDC=7,463 (38%)
KUNTAUR AREA COUNCIL – 43 Vote difference – possible recount.
Saiko Jawara GDC=6,308 (37%)
Mr Jobarteh. UDP=6,265 (36%)
Mstapha Jobe NRP=4,593 (27%)
KEREWAN AREA COUNCIL
ML I Bojang UDP=16,483 (50%)
Ablie Jallow GDC=12,628 (38%)
BASSE AREA COUNCIL
Foday Danjo UDP=14,109 (51%)
Pateh Baldeh GDC=9,767 (36%)
Ansu SonkoPDOIS=3,530
Thanks for the update. Congrats to the elected.
If I had a job opening in diplomacy, I’d offer it to the Luntango in a heartbeat for
he’s indeed a master at his art!
I’d however, go to sleep with one eye open. Don’t let the age thing fool you one bit. Smile!
I felt that we had something of substance going on in the exchange between the Doc, Bax, Lamin and the Luntango until….
Luntango-Gann Gi, Olof Njai Nena, GANN DU YEWI BEYE.
Na Kiswahili?
Una Kuwa M’Gambia Shiku Hizi?
Really? Is that the literal translation of “Luntango-Gann Gi, Olof Njai Nena, GANN DU YEWI BEYE”?
Well, I have ALWAYS being a Gambian (I adopted the “Luntango” to rub the noses of the xenophobes in it – LoL!)
How did you learn Swahili so well Andrew? We much start Swahili classes in Kotu (I am sure Lady Dr Sarr will be the mwalimu’s first student)
“been”, “must” – sorry!
Dida Halake and Mr Lamin you have enough space to live with your frustrations: I will not debate with you folks:
I will not waste my time to debate Dida Halake or with one Mr. Lamin a coward who failed to show his identity. I have known Dida Halake at the Daily Observer, he has attacked me and the Independent newspaper as a jester, a dishonest person who served as propagandist for Yahya Jammeh until he was publicly humiliated by Yahya Jammeh. I will only debate to a person who is intellectually and emotionally balance.
I tried to ignore Mr. Alake and Mr Lamin but they have flown their kites too close to the sun and it must be burnt. It must be scorched.
Once, and I thought inviting me to a debate is a brotherly jest, but to me they look like a cat. They had come to my articles and made exorbitant assertions that lacked truth and were full of lies. I tried to ignore, and they had the caustic observation that a cat may look at a lion.
Animals may envy each other for the Creator gave them different portions of creations largesse I am not like Lamin or Halake who thinks as a donkey would declare its donkey hood so that the more disciplined animals should envy their display of maleness in market places. I ignore them the way domestic cats ignore even their keepers and they cannot disturb their sleep?
Social media has become a place for nudity where the women are bold enough to remove their clothes and the men inadvertently expose their mediocrity in trying to be Einstein, Bernese Lee and Christian Bernard all at the same time.
Farmers keep thoroughbred animals but sometimes they find ticks infesting them. Some people are ticks and their provident appearance in our society is one of the key reasons for the failing Gambian nation If I write that I am the animal that is shy of the sun and lives its life summersaulted amongst trees, have I become a bat.?
Yorro, on the Daily Observer criticism, you know what the facts are: The Independent was paid by a TOUBAB to attack the Gambian Ex-Girlfriend who is supposed to have “fleeced” the toubab of a million dalasis. The Gambian lady came to the Daily Observer for to her say and you objected saying to Buba Baldeh the MD: “She should have her response in the Independent”. I asked Buba Baldeh to allow the lady to respond saying: “sending the lady back to the Independent is like sending a rape victim back to the rapist for justice!”. I wrote the editorial which asked: “What is the Independent’s beef anyway? If these toubab had spent to years with such a pretty woman in a London hotel he would have had to pay 10 million dalassis – not one”!
Yorro, you guys then warned the lady that you have more secrets on her!!!
But Koto, I am glad that Lamin and I are “not disturbing” your “sleep”! WE ARE JUST JESTING – DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY!
The Gambian lady attacked by the Independent on behalf of the toubab later married a Gambian/Belgian Footballer and then married a Sierra Leonean Vice-President. I forget her name.
Alagi Yorro
I am immensely disappointed in you. You are just the Babu Solis of the Gambian fraternity, arrogant, shortsighted and easily agitated when faced with facts contrary to what your narrow minded self convinced you to believe. Lamin and Dida are the the most thoughtful, insightful, smooth in their execution to enlighten unlike yourself, a white wanna -be with your crusade to champion homosexuality in our homeland. You are the one with the donkey brain here bro.
Babu you are learned fool – a person with deeply worrying issues and insufficient personal morality consumed personal vengeance filled with hatred. Sad soul a defender of dictator. You donkey!!!
“Intellectually and emotional imbalance” I mean
Stop lying brother:That is typical of the Dida Halake we have unfortunately come to know – a person with deeply worrying issues and insufficient personal morality to restrain him from selling his soul down the road, let alone to prevent him embarking on a campaign of all-consuming personal vengeance filled with hatred.
Many of us in the Gambian press are aware of – the object of Dida Halake’s poisonous wrath, have tried hard to save Yahya Jammeh in the past. Ultimately, as Managing editor of the Daily Observer, it became impossible to keep Dida Halake and to protect him from himself.
It is deeply sad that a man with a good brain should be tortured and destroyed by emotions and sycophancy he cannot control, so that he ends up a victim at the mercy of his own self-destructive inner turmoil
Yorro, you said: “Stop lying”.
Gambian journalists at JollofNews and other media houses were in The Gambia and witnesses to what I described above – re: you, the Gambia Lady and the toubab.
If it is “lying”, please tell us how?
Folks, again I would urge that cooler heads prevail here.
Let’s not go there!
If we truly believe in the authenticity of what we each share on this medium, our conscience must serve to guide us in all our dealings.
Thus there’s little need for foul language and/or airing dirty linen in the public domain.
It would also be absolutely imprudent for honorable folks to so readily and unwittingly show kinks in the amor! Doesn’t tell well at your level either!
Andrew, here theither ABUSED is to everyone who disagrees with Yorro: to Lamin, Babu, me. Clearly Lamin now owes me $100 since I have won the bet. Kweli?
Well well well……the water is already muddied whilst I was having my good nights sleep.
I will keep my part of the conversation civil and educative for the sake of the 1000s of readers who come to this medium time and again to be informed and enlightened on issues that affect us all.
@Yorro: If you don’t want your articles to be read, analyzed critically and fact checked, why put them out in the public space? That’s baffling to say the least.
@Yorro: Perhaps, you misconstrued my intention to challenge you to a debate. It was not a personal affront to you. I saw it as an opportunity to engage with the citizenry thereby creating broad awareness. Isn’t that a noble intention that you are insulting with every abrasive word in your arsenal?
@Yorro: Info: I don’t personally know you, and I have no ill intentions towards you. You might think you are countering an attack on you, from me, but you throwing blows into thin air. Am not interested in pulling you down or anyone else for that matter.
@Yorro: Everyone is at liberty to use pen names or be anonymous in cyberspace. Why should that threaten you? It’s the content that am putting out there that matters.
@Yorro: If you feel my comments on your articles are a witch hunt, am only putting out an alternative view and a different opinion from a different angle. All in the spirit of sharing and caring.
@Yorro: I have learned a long time ago that working together instead of against each other, is what brings desirable results to fruition. So I might one day be engaged in bringing the independent newspaper back to its feet. Bad blood will not be capable of that.
@Yorro: I also, can fight fury with fury or fire with fire. But in this case, what will be achieved through that method?
@)Yorro: A person of your standing should know better that starting such squabbles over little nothings. Don’t we all have bigger issues confronting our collective existence as children of The Gambia?
Yours in the service of The Gambia and Africa, I remain.
Good debating skills Lamin; points well made, you make your Alma mater proud.
Lamin I’m happy to admit that I owe you an apology for my comments and I will be happy to engage you any time, you are free to criticize and add value to my write-up so that I can improve and those of our readers. I reacted because of Dida Halake’s vainglorious, dishonest, bigot, who is already in the public eye for decades, has a well-deserved reputation as a braggart and a liar, and deserves to be met with nothing but skepticism. This man has accused me of being a CIA when he knew that I was a NED fellow and a program officer. I ignored him and become unapologetically opinionated, incorrigibly insolent and out rightly delinquent and even delusional! There is so much HATE, ANGER & BITTERNESS from Halake. He will even before reading my post to understand my position, jump in to criticize or spin my work. Mr. Lamin please accept my apology and I believe we too may well learn to adapt to this new communication environment so that civil and productive interaction remains the norm online as it is offline. I’m optimistic, this is just a different game and we must evolve. Ramadan Kareem to you and to all our readers.
Thank you Yorro for the confirmation: U R CiA because NED IS CIA – check Wikipedia! Otherwise apology accepted!
Yorro’s NED from Wikipedia:-
Does PRECISELY what USA is complaining what Russia tried to do in USA Presidential Election 2016: interfere in other countries domestic political processes!
1. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 with the stated goal of promoting democracy abroad.[1] It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress in the form of a grant awarded through the United States Information Agency (USIA).
2. The U.S. government, through USAID (United States Agency for International Development), contracted The American Political Foundation to study democracy promotion, which became known as “The Democracy Program.” The Program recommended the creation of a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
And DOES precisely CiA’s work under-cover:
3. “Libertarian congressman Ron Paul also argued against NED funding in 2005 stating that NED has “very little to do with democracy. It is an organization that uses US tax money to actually subvert democracy, by showering funding on favored political parties or movements overseas. It underwrites color-coded ‘people’s revolutions’ overseas that look more like pages out of Lenin’s writings on stealing power than genuine indigenous democratic movements.” [36]
4. “Investigative reporter and editor of Consortiumnews Robert Parry has characterized NED as a “neocon slush fund,” whose founding was the brainchild of Reagan Administration CIA Director William Casey and its leading propagandist Walter Raymond Jr., then on the staff of the National Security Council. The idea was to set up an organization funded by the U.S. Congress to take over CIA programs that attempted to influence foreign elections by promoting the selection of candidates who supported U.S. policy and would “do what the U.S. government tells them to do.”[37]
Non-beggar countries, such as China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc, have long banned the work of the CiA’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and George Soro’s Open Society Foundations that aim to subvert local political stability in targeted countries (for example Guinea where Soro’s funded the election of the government so that he can take control of the mining).
Yorro apology accepted. No human is infallible. I very much appreciate your gesture of meeting me half way through.
Time and energy permitting, you will be seeing a lot of me around giving it my best.
Feuds and acrimony are not my cuppa. So i will prefer to stay out of the fray.
Thank you.
Ok Lamin. Got it. You were flexing your muscles in the ring with poor me, now in the face of “Oga” Yorro, you are suddenly a man of peace. I am sure this won’t be our last engagement. Got your number now. I will call in reinforcements.
Lamin is scared of the CiA Dr (waterboarding and all that)!
Doc, how I like your fighting spirit! You never quit, eh.
But here is the thing: Yorro was quick to realize that despite my sharp words and precision analysis, I meant good. For our country, the silent readers here, the regulars etc.
YOU were/are a totally different ball game. You keep on hitting even though you know I was right and you were wrong.
Am definitely a man of peace, if not, you won’t have gotten away with calling me “rude and arrogant” in your face kind of way.
Still, I commend you for bringing the best out of me and being a hard nut to crack.
Let’s keep it going Doc.
Alagi Yorro
Were you sent by the CIA to corrupt our ways of life, our cultures and beliefs by trying to champion homosexuality in our homeland. I knew something sucks about pal.
Solo, don’t be so mean! Yorro is a good guy who is “promoting democracy” through homosexuality!
I was sent to learn circumcise the Halake family! You coward
Well Dida, let me say this in good humor. Yorro plainly deprived the good watchman of old days a $100.
I owe you a 100 Bucks.
Ramadan Kareem to all those who observe it.
So you WERE the Watchman? I must say you were always FAIR even when you attacked me! I await that $100 for my attaya (which you may share) when we meet in Rasta Gardens (my favourite place).
No Dida I was never your watchman and I can never ever be your watchman.
You won a bet and I intend to honor my side of the bargain.
Attaaya under a mongo tree in Churchills Town or Tabokoto not in Kololi or Kerr Serign your posh neighborhood. Grins
No Lamin! I meant the WATCHMAN on Freedom newspaper! !!
I tell you what, if you want me to visit the People’s Centre in Churchills Town again, use the $100 dollars to put a fan there (lol)
Ahhh now i get you. I was never a contributor on any other online newspaper platform. I must however admit enjoying your exchanges with with your in-law Bax when Kairo News was still in the business of reporting fairly and accommodating to divergent views.
You will be highly welcomed at the people’s Centre. We now have a fan and you can even connect on the wifi with your device not to miss any aspect of your cyber activities.
See ya
Aaah! That Kairo News Lamin?
Or what used to be the news medium that brought Kairo and worthy Kibaaro with the news?
It’s strange how online and other media can literally put on blinkers to transform themselves into tools of sycophancy. All for for their own selfish ends!
BTW Luntango-Nijaye, I am not anti UDP or anti Ousainou but someone that’s not a big fan of the unwieldy, lethargic and self-serving governance that has dogged The Gambia since time immemorial. However, I also do believe in according credit where due.
Not an admirer of the GDC by any measure as I believe that their ship is rudderless with everything revolving around a hapless Mama Kandeh. Why is Gambian politics always about personality cults? A question for Dr Sarr.
I appreciate PDOIS and what they stand for albeit dogged in nature that reminds me of the proverbial wrinkly old man with the prayer beads waiting for his turn to the grave.
The rest are just opportunists and scum bags without any meaningful plans for The Gambia!
My advice to Alagi Yorro is to stand your ground, be firm but polite and not let your feathers be ruffled that easy! Not the true sign of an aspiring younger statesman.
Where Baba Galleh Jallow withstood the test of time, you can too albeit that the waters may be testier!
And don’t tell me that you do not wish to be another Baba Galleh (sic).
Well Pjalo, Baba Galleh Jallow is not working for the CiA (sorry NED!)
“Wrinkly old man?”
You are wise Pjalo – you see through the shuffling “I am so old” rope-a-dope style and easily avoid the inevitable south-paw TKO! We wajua vitu vingi – wise.
Dida Halake is a “Jankading”, a failure who did nothing for The Gambia and his country. Don’t worry I engage you mother fucker. A friend of mine has some interesting observations about you and that “he is a man who exhibits mental and emotional fits in his defense of issues”.
He said of Halake as having a “relentless sense of fighting back”, as one “who appears unpredictable and ready to fight”. And added, “He is described as a man living in a mental darkroom.”
“Forget the brute;
he couldn’t have done otherwise!
A woman/wife basher is no better than a school bully who chooses the weakest to bully!
They have two things in common:
Inferiority complex;
Cowardice”
You son of a bitch: I have time for you
Alagi Yorro
You are showing your true self now. Aren’t you the one with sufficient personal morality? You are swapping places now with Babu Soli, the professor of obscenities. The truth is too hot for you to handle. You are weak, very weak indeed pal. Fight Halake with ideas not insults. A white wanna be CIA recruit sent to champion homosexuality. You are going to fail!!!!!!
Who is Babu Soli other than you fool hiding behind pseudo-names.Idiot HALAKE . A belly full of gluttony & mind full of arrogance ends up with shameful consequences.You are a disgrace,a grown up man with a sad legacy, a jester and a cowards hide behind key pads to insult and talk down on people you never would be able to speak to eye ball to eye ball even in the life to come!
You now acted as “Uncertified Professor” who is expert in all fields of life parading yourself on social media and you have an opinion on every single subject under the sun!
You idiot you post about every single event or person trending! you discuss and analyse people’s very personal issues and decisions when you have your own personal travails to battle, you also results in spreading a lot of hate and stigmatization of the central character. Go get a life with your age-
Babu, the NED/CiA link exposure has rattled Yorro big time. WHY? I can only think of the GIEPA fake “MBA” returnee fraudster sacked recently by Barrow’s Govt. Chei Gambia!
Andy the Kairo News team has fought hard with their pen and microphone. The goal then was to see Yaya vacate the helm of power. They created a phenomenal space for discussions and debates to thrive. The ink never ran dry. On it went.
The moment Ousainou came out of jail and set out premeditatedly to derail the coalition agreement and agenda, the Kairo team became swayed by his infantile sectionalist politics. I don’t use the word “tribal politics“ in this context because it’s a problematic term that I hope to one day have the opportunity to debate on with Ousainou or one of his leutnants.
Those days have seen many seasoned Gambian political observers and commentators only fucused on regime change. What was to replace the old order was ignored at the behest of expediency and the promise of a “new beginning“. Where was the vision to secure a pact that will deliver the freedoms we longed for, the economic prosperity that will stop the young generation perishing in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the health facilities and doctors that will stop every third Gambian from seeking medical attention either in Senegal or the West, the roads and water supplies and electricity? The list can on unabated.
When Kairo Team took of their masks, we became confronted with pseudo-freedom fighters. Now that many of them can line their pockets, the fight for good governance, democracy and the cause of the down trodden became distant memories.
Andy the state of Gambia‘s political parties is indeed a very sad one. The only cure is mass education on that word I so much dreaded called “tribe“. It has to be demystified in context and character so that our people will be free from the manipulations that political opportunist like Ousainou, Dawda, Yaya, Sheriff etc exploited to fatal consequences.
Indeed Lamin, Kaironews, once the most open and engaging platform for the online struggle, has let many down since the departure of Jammeh. Today, I don’t even recognise it anymore and what’s more is there seem to be a subtle campaign of promoting only a certain aspect of Gambian culture, whether that be music, history, values, etc. Their association with the UDP, with some notable members of the party being part of the Kaironews team makes this (new Kaironews) very troubling to me, at the very least.
Bax, Lamin: I think it is just KAIRONEW’s busiest editors such as Suntou Touray got engaged in Government and don’t have that much time for it. And indeed it is a Government they support – but that is normal for even Western mainstream media. YORRO’s COMPLIMENTS to my good-self are framed for posterity here: https://www.facebook.com/Sambagate.Snr
Enjoy!
Dida that’s a flimsy excuse you making for Suntou and co. And remember, am not holding myself to western mainstream media standards. We can agree to differ on that or bring our long awaited debate forth. If you now go to Kairo News, critics of the government are being slowly but surely labeled as detractors and all what not.
They DON‘T have a clear editorial and content policy.
Whether they accept job offers or not, should have been immaterial to that.
Ever wonder why all the active cyber activist migrated to other platforms?
Shika Mor, MuHesimiwa!
Ni Meh Fanya Ku Tembeya Tembeya Tu.
Kama Askari. Smile.
Ku Tembeya Tembeya unapata akili! Mheshimiwa ni wewe.
For Bajaw’s benefit. Translates as, just walking leisurely about like a guard.
Thanks very much for translation, Andrew; poor Bajaw got no idea, what the ‘Karoninka’ is about…?
@Dida: Scared of Yorro? I just hate play ground antics and bravado escapades. That will defeat my purpose here, which as I said to Yorro has no iota of hatred or mal intention for or towards any living soul.
Cheers
Just teasing Lamin. Gonna take half-term off to recharge this old body and get some medical repairs seen to. But it has been a good conversation – Bantaba or Baraza in Swahili. Talk again soon. Chi Jaama.
Dida you ought to come here for a taste of the best healthcare money can buy. Ok Lamin, I am not an agent of the imperialist, just looking out for Dida. That’s all.
Ha Ha Ha Doctor. You are hurting this old body with laughter! Jammeh was pissed of because I would NOT even consider his kind offer for a cure; AND Amadou Samba told Jammeh that “DIDA IS A BRITISH SPY “!!!
Oh did I say anything Doc? You and I share something in common and that’s wishing Dida the best conditions of health and wellbeing. If that happens to be China or Burkina Faso, so be it.
Tell me Doc, which side are you now on? Have I succeeded in bringing the phenomenon of anti-blackness and social death (a term coined by a prominent black scholar and activist Sadiya Hartman;check her out) to your consciousness? Or are you still holding onto your notions of the integrationist politics of culture?
Wishing you a fantastic day or as the case may be.
Do all you need to do to stay healthy. That’s suppose to be the primary objective. Wellbeing.
Come back sometime to keep the Baraza lively and critical. The journey has been great.
In anticipation, chi jaama.
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Dear Jollofnews,
I hereby give my consent (as required under the UK’s Data Protection Act and USA’ 4TH Ammendment) to allow Jollofnews to share with all its readers, and with the Hon. Alagi Yorro Jallow Esq., details of any and all names and pseudonyms that Dida Halake aka Luntango has EVER used to post articles/comments on Jollofnews.
Signed: Dida Halake (Luntango )
Alagi Yorro,
On the 15th May, you came up with very harsh words on Babu Soli. On 17th May, two days later, you came up again with much more harsher words, vituperative, but this time confusing Babu Soli with Halake. IAre you refering to Dida Halake or Babu Soli? If you are refering to Babu Soli, brace yourself for a fight at all stages. I will engage you in Holland not only on line!
Clarify my doubt and I will respond swiftly!
Babu, Alagi said “Babu Soli IS Halake”. Nothing to clarify, we are one and the same!
Unlike you, I won’t “fight” Alagi because I like his COMPLIMENTS. I have framed these words, printed it out in colour on Alagi’s photo and hang it behind my desk:
“ Idiot HALAKE … Uncertified Professor … You son of a bitch … a Jankading … you mother fucker … I was sent to learn circumcise the Halake family! Halake you are a master of exaggeration and fantastical ravings … vainglorious, dishonest, bigot, a braggart and a liar …”
I LOVE IT!
Lamin,
JollofNews was always popular because they allowed direct communication without “waiting for approval” and all that.
Luntango,
How much would your rate Alagi Yorro’s level of irresponsibility?
No comment!
Luntango,
That’s OK. I bet to take on Alagi Yorro any time I read his irresponsible postings about Babu Soli. In the meantime, I keep my arms crossed.
I thought the goal was to exchange ideas to improve our motherland. Sure tempers flare because we are emotionally invested, but where is all this undeserved toxicity coming from. Ok guys reduce the level of testosterone on the forum please!!! Ok .
I ran away to hide a long time ago Doc, the coward that I am!
It’s low T. U asked for it. Sorry.
Heartless Dr; how did I ask for it? I simply stated facts. Now Dr, it is also said that I comment “without reading what is written”. OK, I put my hand up, but I am a teacher – if a student gives me a sub-standard essay into which he/her has clearly PUT NO EFFORT, I do not put any effort into marking it: just a huge “?” with a RED PEN which all my students (and my daughter) know means only one thing: DO IT AGAIN – or detention! Same applies to the story above about “freedom of speech and hate speech”!
This is the reason women were central to the abolition movement and the end of colonialism. They bring sense to the table and make social movements coherent.
Let’s see who will be the first to break this important command from the new liberation movement commander.
I guess she is no more on the side of the killing looters.
That’s a move worthy of commendation.
Lamin is already firing RPG and the peace agreement is not yet signed. God help us!
If firing the RPG just for once will bring us back on course, am glad to be the devil then.