It’s time to let the Gambia’s political dinosaurs go extinct? The old guards of the first and second republic political dinosaurs are tackling the 21st century problems with obsolete ideologies from the 19th century. Where is the future of the youth in the Gambia? What is the future of the young people in New Gambia?
Why is the Gambia so saddled with leaders who ought to be enjoying their retirement in peace and quiet, instead of in the unforgiving political corridors, be on the campaign trails and taxing political brinkmanship that challenge even the youngest leaders?
At the very least, all political parties can make more conscious efforts to improve youth participation in their organizations, develop new leadership cadres and ease people into retirement. For two generations of the Gambia, the country’s post-independence politics were also predominantly about the age-old politicians. But the nation’s political change has unleashed long-repressed voices that are reshaping how the country thinks about its past. Under a septuagenarian, the Gambia is on its way not gifting a young generation a new history.
It is true that wisdom is something that accrues with age and is indispensable to making political choices. But the Gambia must also have leaders who look more like the people they represent. After all, young people are the ones who will be dealing tomorrow with the consequences of the decisions made today.
The Gambia’s sepuagenarian politicians never leaves the political scene. They may be old, very old, even dying, but the burning zeal to serve us never leaves them. Even when the whole world knows they are as stale as yesterday’s baked bread, they would rather class themselves as vintage wine – the older, the better. They are like the creature called salamander. It holds on to whatever tree it clings to, even in death. It seeks, too, to defy nature, regenerating its dead organs.
The Yahya Jammeh government in 1994 banned old politicians from its political experiment and attempted to supplant them with a new breed of leaders. Yahya Jammeh said then that he wanted a saner political environment free from corruption and failures of the past. A brand-new generation of political faces soon sprouted in the nursery bed of the Jammeh political experiment.
As Jammeh moved forward in that experience, he routinely banned and unbanned even many of the new breed as they proved to be worthy copycats of the old order. The new breed soon became the new greed, greedier than the greedy. Today, the new breed of the 80s have become grandparents on today’s political turf, doing it the old, ugly way. Staying put forever.
Today, in the Gambia, there is a scramble for positions in the United Democratic Party, the People’s Progressive Party (I read that Halifa Sallah said that this National Assembly will be his last term as National Assembly member for Serekunda Central not sure of Sidia Jatta) by a coterie of old men and women whose goals and motives are never clear. In the Gambia, political parties have the worst reputation in parading men and women who will never know when to quit.
At a recent political gathering of one political party, at the high table, what we saw were aged men and women who took to their seats but still would sit tight and insist that they were not tired. These are men and women who are old and aged. We know that while age is in the number of years, ageing may not necessarily be so. Some are aged because they’ve been around for decades. Some get aged at noon, spent and ineffectual in everything. Now, we have a combination of these banding together and branding themselves as leading lights to a future which nature won’t allow them to be part of.
And there appears to be no difference across the viable parties. If what we operate were a monarchy, we all would surrender to the finality and consequences of our choice. After all, Japan has an Akihito, 82 years, who took over from his father, Hihorito, in 1989 as emperor. And there is Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, 86 years old, fifth emir of Kuwait who had previously been foreign minister for 40 years. And, of course, there is Elizabeth II, 90-year-old Queen of England since 1952.
The Gambia is a democracy, and democracy works best for the people only when the best is allowed to rule the rest. And, it is not as if today’s sit-tight old men and women had spent their long years in public space promoting the greatest good for the majority. They have always seen the Gambia as their company, even at their old age.
We cannot insist they are the best of us with a tired engine and a creaking chassis. Even if they have been very good to the people, they still cannot be the best forever, no matter the sweetness of their goodness. Nothing, in truth, is evergreen and that is why nature applies brakes here and there, replacing trunks with shoots.
Some will blame the young’s “unseriousness” for the tenacious resolve of the Gambia’s aged to continue to rule parties and governments. They will point at the tepid fire in the youth of today and the deficit of ideas in some who have strayed into power in recent years. We would rather insist that the forest consists of crooked and upright trees. The chaff and the grain won’t cohere for long; water will always find its level. The disappointment in some conspicuous young ones should not be seized as an excuse by the old to ventilate their lust in perpetuity in a space that is supposed to serve everyone.
A festival that alienates the young will soon be spoken of in the past tense, even lost, forgotten forever. Any system that fast-forwards to the past cannot serve the future. Anywhere there is no regeneration, decay and death set in. The Gambia’s politics and apocalyptic solution to the suffocating influence of a blundering generation of old men and women who won’t let go of a dying country should not be funny at all.
We have simply lost faith in the system, lost faith in the operators of the system and lost faith in life. Persons of their generation who silently think same as solution are many. It is what we get when a nation suffers an army of ruinous old men and women, assisted by misdirected young men and women, misgoverning and sitting tight at all levels. They kill hope and set off such suicidal possibilities in the hopeless
Let’s think and reflect on Africa’s two octogenarian leaders: Inside the minds of Robert Mugabe and Abdoulaye Wade, though, they had initially won praise for championing one of Africa’s best education systems and for holding their leadership deteriorated as they became more autocratic and pursued damaging economic policies. They oversaw corruption and patronage, broke with international creditors and eventually oversaw one of the world’s worst bouts of hyperinflation, which led to the scrapping of the Zimbabwean currency and a reliance on US dollars.
As economic conditions deteriorated, they resorted increasingly to state intimidation to stay in office. Mugabe and Wade had a history of outmaneuvering their rivals, but their refusal to groom a clear successor triggered a bitter battle within their respective political parties. As their health failed and their leadership flagged, Mugabe’s younger wife, Grace Mugabe and Abdoulaye Wade’s son Karim Wade, began openly angling to be successors, using a clique of younger generation politicians to purge the party of rivals.
One political pundit said it was a sad moment for Africa, after nearly decades of what he called a gerontocracy ruinous rule of the continent.
It certainly time to let the Gambia’s younger people- under 40s, please- have a go at running the country they will have to live in when the fat old men are long dead.
Much of the progressive world embraces the innovativeness of youth — its energy, vibrancy, adaptability, willingness to embrace change and enthusiasm to learn. In the Gambia, on the other hand, wobbles behind, unable to keep pace, thanks to its conservative aging leaders.
I think it is rather the question why middle age Gambian politicians are unable to create a dynamic political Party and go onto command large followings. Jammeh cannot be counted because he grabbed political through a coup.
And to your question, I think your notion is faulty. The current crop of leading politicians in the country have contributed immensely in building these parties to what they are today. A process of renewal at the top is crucial and even necessary but I think that should be a gradual process and the newcomers must be tried and tested. The example of Adama Barrow and Papa Njie showcase a need for due diligence to prevent heaving opportunist to the top.
You cannot expect an entity to build a house during 22 or more arduous years, only to have people who are not committed to the ideals of that house come in and hijack the pillars of that house for their own political expediency.
Simple reason:
1. Gambian political elites are immature and lack clear vision and direction.
You need proven hand and maturity to guide the affairs of State. Young talents who are capable of leadership will emerge naturally, and old women and men will quietly retire. As long as the young are restless and immature, this natural process will never occur, as it is in most African nations.
Finally it is a fallacy to suggest young is better or necessary in our political metamorphosis, as it is in all African countries, the young have made a mockery of our democracy.
Allow me to attempt to hit two birds with one stone.
@ Kemo; “I think it is rather the question why middle age Gambian politicians are unable to create a dynamic political Party and go onto command large followings. Jammeh cannot be counted because he grabbed political through a coup”.
@ Dr Sarr; Finally it is a fallacy to suggest young is better or necessary in our political metamorphosis, as it is in all African countries, the young have made a mockery of our democracy”.
Kemo, middle aged Gambians of Manding origin in particular cannot form political parties on account of the mistaken albeit deep seated belief that any younger Mandinka running against Ousainou Darboe would be seen to be committing a travesty of long held NNA YAA traditions. They’d be labeled, excuse the language, DING KURUNGO.
Why else would Ousainou travel the USA and only speak in one ethnic tongue at all venues?
Give us a break Kemo!
Dr Sarr, what’s perennially holding younger politicians back is that the old guard would never let go unless they’re shoved out of the door! We must begin to question the Wolof adage that MAGG BAHNA CHI KERR and go further to ask, WHAT KIND OF MAGG DO WE WANT TO KEEP.
When Yaya Jammeh came in as his sorry self and looking like he was just dug out of a hole, wasn’t it the elderly Gambians in the Tamsirr Jallows, Musa Bittayes, Cheyassin Seckas (PBOT), Fafa Mbais, OB Konatehs, Aisatou Njai-Saidys, the Bai Faal’s and their ilk that propped him up. These are Aye MAGG/elders that clearly should have known better but urged Yaya to take off the military uniform to run as a civilian in the expectation that they’d make hay while the sun shone.
Boy were they wrong?
Dr Sarr, I hold the strong belief that the younger generation offers an immense pool of talent and that we (The Gambia) must learn to spot talent, identify potential and work selflessly to grow leadership in the belief that smarts no longer reside exclusively in one domain.
Andrew, the bottom line remains. People of manding origins do not make up the entire Gambia. At most this is a mere 40 percent ( probably lower). Why do you discount the majority 60 % of the population. Why don’t we get a dynamic middle age person from this 60% of the population, who is capable to command respect and following from the broad spectrum of the population?
I think that remains the question.
@ Kemo: I finally found someone who is willing to host and moderate our debate. For a start you can send me a line on Facebook so as to go on working out the details. That’s if you still up to it.
Hit me at “Sankananki Kekoleng” on FB and we will pick it up from there.
Yours in the service of The Gambia and Afrikka, I remain.
Mwalimu, I appreciate your efforts and I am willing to engage you on any issues concerning our country or otherwise.
Here are some constraints on my side:
– I am not on Facebook— old school and overwhelmed by message floods,
– in the next 4weeks I am underway in Gambia;
As it stands now, I could be ready for the debate in June.
Here is my email address: kemo.kinteh@gmail.com
Hello Gambians. Government, that is the Cabinet, the Presidency and the appendages of the government in power such as the Ambassadors and Parastatal Institutional Directors and Managers should not be a Geriatrics Ward or Retirement Dumping Ground. As a Nation, Gambia is young but its historical leaderdhip has been mostly populated by older cohorts. This may be due in part to the fact that most Partys were Founded by people who are of an approximate age group. This is a function of our Social stratification in terms of age group socialization. Another contributing factor to the preponderance of the Geriatric Party Politics and Governance, is due to the fact that there is a believe that will age comes wisdom, knowledge, and responsibility. This dogmatic traditional believe in old age has been misplaced and misapplied into Affairs of State Governance and the result has been Unaccountability, and Corruptive Practices by Default. Not all older people are wise or responsible nor honest. If they were or are, the Gambia and Gambians would not be in fix it is today. They say, “Proximity breeds contempt”. In the Gambia’s case, it is a case of “Proximity breeding Mediocrity”. Like minded age group spread out and across the top of the Gambia’s Political Partys, Government Offices and Paratatals have not retarded and undermined Gambia’s and Gambians economic, political and social development, it unfortunately, robbed its young and dynamic youth from contributing fully to the Nation Building Task. The young and women were relegated to the background and in many cases until recently as in the past decade or so Empowered to a certain extent. The unfortunate fact is, some young Gambians have been nurtured and socialized with the old age preference for Government of Geriatrics Ward, for Geriatrics and by Geriatric Cohorts. These group of youths find comforth in the blame game but are afraid of getting their hands and feet much more their person dirty in the Service of their Nation, in this case, the Gambia. We can all do better by demanding that Partys be age conscious and diverse at the top, middle and bottom. It is not a good thing to have a Nation of too many Geriatrics and little Youth and Women in the Governance of the State. Like wise, it is not a good thing to have the opposite either. The best outcome should be a well balanced composition of the entire Societies age, gender and ethnic groups. For Gambians and Gambia’s Political, Economic and Social well-being, let’s Collectively end old dogmatic traditional believes that hinder Progress while tempering and carefully managing Youthful excesses that is likely to manifest itself with the Youth who are politically engaged and in Public Service of the Nation, the Gambia.
CORRECTIONS:
I MEANT TO WRITE: “Like minded age group spread out and across the top of the Gambia’s Political Partys, Government Offices and Paratatals have retarded and undermined Gambia’s and Gambians economic, political and social development”…..
Bourne to your statement, “Let’s be right, honest and graceful in our heart and with our hands and get it done or, stay the way we are to rot in poverty and aimlessness”.
Couldn’t agree more! Unfortunately, in a situation like ours, the rotting starts from the core and it tends to be latent. So by the time we get to see the symptoms, the fellow is already too infected to treat.
We can’t wait for that Bourne!
So don’t you all believe that it’s about time that yourself, Dr Sarr, Njundu, Madi, Alagi Yoro, Samba, my humble self, Mwalimu, Babu, Sidi and a host of other folks of honor on this medium get together to offer a meaningful and refreshing change to the endless buffoonery, JOSTLING and FANG KOTO BANG BANGO that has been passing for politics in The Gambia. Yes we will need to tame a few wayward folks but at the end of the day, we will come to grips with the substantive tasks at hand!
We’ve FOR FAR TOO LONG BEEN TAKEN FOR IDIOTS by the very FOLKS that have, from time immemorial, presented themselves as the raggedy faces of Gambian politics. Men and women!!!
@Andy: the governance situation in Gambia right now can best be described as a bastardization of every fundamental pillar of a functioning state. All brought on us by none other than the self praise singing leader of the United Democratic Party. Out of sheer desperation, one could only sometimes be inclined to throw hands in the air and be ready to call it irredeemable. Which in the first place is a non-starter. But in unity is strength. Perhaps a few committed individuals from an online community will be able to achieve a feat that has eluded us for fifty four good years of independence. If I can do anything within my power to lend credence to that effort, I’ll be honored.
@Kemo(Kinteh): thanks for supplying your email address.
You will hear from me.
NB: are you coming to sympathize with Ousainou? lol in good humor.
Nope not meeting Darboe.
I am on a cultural road trip. We all should once in a while visit the length and breadth of our country. Meet and greet the people- especially people whose lives are different to ours. To understand their mindset and to see and feel that despite our political views, good faith exists in us all.
As stated before we are in grave danger in The Gambia.
Why?
1. Our minds and body are LAZY.
2. We love to point our crooked fingers at others for our problems.
3. We love HANDOUTS, we can’t wait to extend our wretched hands.
Until our so called young people understand clearly that.
1. Only we can FIX our country.
How.
1. Stop stealing government resources.
2. Stop asking “Them” for handouts.
3. Country first before party and self.
4. We can do it, if we choose to.
If we don’t.
Our children will be SLAVES to “Them” just like their parents.
Yes it is true and you know it.
So Sidi, here’s what I’d add to your commentary.
In 1965, upon attaining what was deemed “independence” from Britain, our Gambian parents, uncles, brothers and sisters took over positions left vacant by the colonial “expats”.
The categories of “Offisarlu, Kumandangolu, Kalarkolu, Paymasterlu, Seyfolu, Alkalolu and Konsimbelolu all suddenly discovered new found importance, honeypots and corruption that came with Domorr Bundaalu (Firingo/Harrjay/Worrsag) ostensibly bequeathed to them by the whiteman/Tubabo.
While the Hakuu Kebaalu (Krio), the Pa Davies, Pa Grants, Pa Mahoneys and Pa Forsters lived a frugal lifestyle and putting money away in rainy day accounts, the Commissioner Jagnes, Joofs, Seckas, Renners, Jorbartehs, Sissohos. Darboes and Bojangs (you get my drift) found honey pots in departmental, Divisional and recurrent expenditure budgets. They chose to live like the colonial expat (Fa Tibabu/Mba Tibabu), smoking pipes, signing up for membership at the Fajara Club, Teyrry Kafolu, meetings with Mam Baaten (Lord Mountbatten) together with all the trappings that came with being a “Senior Service/Civil Servant”. The “Big Man Syndrome” at the time was that they all wanted to live the big life but didn’t want to work for any of it or give anything back but all while squandering resources and bamboozling the average Gambian into believing that they were hard at work for the folks in Kiang Dumbokono or Sami Pachonki! Nothing could be further from the truth. Or else we wouldn’t be here today! Thanks to the PPP that set this odious trait in motion.
In a nutshell Sidi, that’s when The Gambia became mired in the intricate web and culture of corruption and constantly digging ourselves holes/voids that we could never fill. So from then on, we keep seeing one pitfall after another with our own parents, uncles, sons, daughters walking away with loot that should have gone to fill the gaping pitfalls. Thanks to Haadama and Wisainou for adding to the DIRIMA DINKO of today!
What’s become abundantly clear over the years Sidi is that the Kumandangolu/Divisional Commissioners did absolutely nothing of substance to help lift The Gambia at large, their own villages and brethren out of poverty! Kombo Jamburr, Kiang Dumbutu, Niani Bani, Niamina Dankunku, Badibu Kinteh Kunda, Jarra Kani Kunda and a host of other dusty villages have nothing to show for what could be attributed to the successes and education of their sons and daughters Ding Kendolu). A quick trip to Illiassa tells of a town that has fallen from its past glory.
It’s little wonder that The Gambia has become a nation of beggars, swindlers and plunderers.
Pjalo, thank you for your addition to the historical nature of the Gambian Civil Service. It seems, the more things change, the more they remain the same. Where do we go from here forward?
Andrew (Tando?), I think the problem goes beyond that & sinks deeper than meet the eye…
Whilst undoubtedly, many of those opportuned to work in positions, both civil & private sectors capitalised & still does continue to squander resources there certainly were very noble servants whom I believe strived to serve the nation & community & still continue to do back home to best of their abilities under the circumstances, from independence attainment to date….
Always emember (Adage) – when pointing (one’s) fingers at others always, one’s own thumb (bigger finger) points back at (your own) oneself too; Adage-we all are human (& sinners)…
Just some observations: e. g, Your “Domor Foday” have singlehandedly awarded the State House renovation to UDP financial contributor Alagy Conteh, (your uncle & benefactor) without public tender, I for one never heard you criticised that; you vehemently defended Alagy’s Golden lead company environmental pollution as “providing employments” with some smokescreen suggestions on their waste management, when the repercussions are worst than ever imaginable; you get on abusing Mr Ebrima Sankareh just for defending the government’s policies, which was the job he’s hired for but you don’t trade the abuses to your mum & aunty, Mrs Amie Bojang Sissosoh doing the very same for the same government….?
It’ll be quite unfair & very ungrateful to conveniently sit idly by & try to unrespectfully taint everyone with the same brush including some those who vehemently fought for our independence & built a nation to sustain itself to date despite the shortcomings, which isn’t an exception everywhere; ALL nations naturally evolved through maturity phases; those deemed to be prosperous currently all started somewhere below; the Gambia too will get there at some point with efforts….
“One must climb onto a hill & start cursing, throwing abuses to the ground” – Manding Adage…
Rectification please “One must not climb onto a hill & start throwing abuses to the ground” – Manding Adage…
Thank you
Spurious aspersions Bajaw!
I’ve always spoken out against awarding contracts to friends and cronies without following the proper procedures on the books.
Whether Alagi Conteh, Gai or Sutukung Enterprises, what’s wrong is wrong! The Barrow regime is bringing us sad reminders of everything evil that we worked to get rid of in the first place.
I am not beholden to any business person or public official. So I will call a spade a spade! I will also add that I bear no family connections to either Amie Bojang-Sossoho and Alagi Conteh that, you may be aware, are of the same extended family.
And by the way Bajaw, I have always and will continue to speak out and cast my vote for progress. I hope that you’ll do the same.
Remember that I always write that I will not be caught in a frivolous back and forth cacophony!
Andrew, Alagy Conteh share same mum & dad with your biological mother (B. Conteh?) how come you’re not related?
Amie Bojang’s father (H. Bojang) is same mum & dad with your grandmother (mum’s mother – P Bojang) how come you’re not related? What could be your selective criticism of others when they too are “soiled” in the very same corruptible endeavours while you oversight them…?
You deliberately avoided teachers & headmasters in your caricatures above of the general bad of the Gambia society, when you & family unceremoniously benefitted from school feeding program food stuff meant for students, when your dad was headmaster; but you can label all the others ‘bad & ugly’ in society; you referred to KMA Mayor Bensouda “narr bauruto”, for example, sometimes back (second class citizen – labels?) how would you feel if anyone references you to Saalou in Cassamance, when you are Gambian through & through…..?
Bajaw, you see. Andrew is throwing Stones while he himself sits in a glass house. Thank you for making these Connections public. These revelations are relevant to the discussions taking place.
We appreciate scrutiny but I think they should be applied equally.
Exactly Kemo; Alagy Conteh’s pollution of the environment is open & very clear to all but Andrew defended as employment provider when the environmental effects & impacts are immensely adverse with detrimental consequences to the whole Gambia & regions, but also (the limited irrelevant employment which it may provide) is affecting & destroying all other employments & jobs in the community of Gunjur & surrounding in the process & other livelihoods which are far better (benefitial) & provides collectively for uncountable population in the Gambia & subregion…
It’s the doubleface hypocrisy of the attitudes that detracts & strains the efforts for collective communal progress of the Gambia since independence; this needs to stop otherwise the struggle to make any meaningful headways together for societal advancement will be impossible…
Rectification please – Saalou – in my last posting above should’ve been – Saaloulu…
Thank you…
Kemo, why latch on to the figment of Bajaw’s imaginations? I have more Badibu and Saloum in me than Kombo. So I may be closer to Mwalimu’s origins than the Darboe Kundanko. Let me also emphasize that I don’t hail from Kunjuru. So stop putting other peoples’ parents and Alagi’s parents names out there as that’s plainly disrespectful. It is clear that I know a thing or two about Gunjur but that doesn’t make me a Gunjurian or Gunjur born.
Forward thinking subscribers on this medium may have already determined that it is quite easy to throw folks off track by throwing shiny objects out there. Take a cue from my Wolof Mansaalingolu Bajaw. Kunjurians, except for Bai Jobe Kunda….do not speak Wolof like I do. I’m just blessed for having been raised in a family that didn’t see the unspoken ethnic divide but embraced diversity of all forms.
Do I see a UDP underhand tactic here? That is to band together to put as many half truths and untruths out there, pad them with enough straw/Nyantang and then set them ablaze!
NTEH LEH BULO BALU KANG Bajaw NING Kemo!
Or do I sense the US Republican strategist, Karl Rove’s approach that says, put enough aspersions out there repeatedly and hopefully something sticks on to your opponents that couldn’t be shaken off?
You’re fingering the wrong Andrew Bajaw. You can feel free to “blow my cover” with the substantive information that you may have gathered in the flawed research that tells that Bajaw is now clearly engaging in KUMA KENSENG FO! He’s got his research all wrong. Remember the statement, Junk in Junk Out? Let me help you out a bit by offering a hint that I am a hodge-podge mixture of Badibu, Fulladu, Kombo and Saloum. So you may take off from there.
So Kemo, the fact that we disagree in principle or on the party platform doesn’t mean that I don’t like you in person. Far from it. I am a progressive through and through albeit that I like to distance myself from what Gambian politics as we know it stands for while acknowledging the PDOIS’s contribution to civil society!
Or am I raising much dander now that I have made my intentions on the political front known. My network hasn’t issued a rallying cry, have we?
Bourne, I’ve got more Mansaalingolu in the bag for the UDP’ists. The reference to Food Aid beats me as I am fully aware of the headmasters and deputies making a killing (TERRETEH) on the School Feeding Program that was destined for undernourished kids at school. Wasn’t that what the UDP would call SUTURO for the teaching cadre?
Tell us more on the proverbial $88,000 from Seattle, the $129,000 from Wassa & Co in New York and the larger haul from Madison, Wisconsin.
The Manding word for a hill Bajaw is KONKO. So while I sit atop of the Konko, I command a vantage point from where I can hurl my stones (KUTU KATO) at the fake Nyantang Bungolu crafted by the UDP, APRC, GDC alongside the Barrow JELLEFENGO KAFFO (BJK). I don’t see any “Glass Houses” from my perch atop of the BERREH KONKO! So I’ll keep hurling stones.
The next time around, I will throw in a couple from Faa Demba Fulo! Gonga Noni Mawdo Bourne. Smile.
I experience the discussion as a good natured one motivated by good intentions for our country. The revelations about our family entanglements and connections are also relevant so that those reading our comments have a broadened perspective. I believe in the adage that good words are not enough. Good words must be accompanied by good actions and good behavior/judgment.
I consider Bajaw’s revelations in that spirit. I don’t consider them as name slandering but as a added resource in our discussion and provide perspectives.
For so long Gambians heard Jammeh and Imam Fatty ‘s godly words but little was known about their ungodly deeds day in and day out.
To be fair to everyone, I think exposing double standards is crucial to hold everyone accountable.
@Andrew, I see good faith in you and in the majority of our people. You only have to mingle with everyone and you will find respect and kindness across the board.
Andrew Lamin Jasseey, your peers call you Lanno whilst your late father (Allah bless him & us all – Ameen) calls you Tando….
Despite your habitual twist in fake exhibitions in deceit, I can go on & say much but not necessary (I have better things to do & have made my point); for the fact that Allah knows the truth & will judge everyone; that satisfies the (my) contented soul…
I’ve made known what’s worth knowing in your pretentious bravado & I’m done (so everyone can take you with pinches of salt; for those who don’t know who you are might mistakenly take you genuine; e.g facts are, you’re on records on this medium for abusing Lang Darboe in particular on many occasions for criticising your uncle Alagy’s evil golden lead endeavours….
It’s good for any constructive criticisms for societal progression but one needs to take good long look at oneself before pointing fingers at others…
Thank you…
I haven’t research about you I know you in person…
Thank you
Yeah Right Bajaw! Really! “I haven’t research about you I know you in person…
Thank you” you said.
This is absolutely amusing! Hahataye/Kaakaa!
That’s on account of my mention of connections to Gunjur Jassey Kunda a couple of years back? Yes, that’s my Kotokeh, Karamo Jassey, a retired driver’s home. You missed this one by a mile!
That was red herring that you fell for Bajaw! I threw you for a loop while I was also pulling my Darboe Kundanka buddy’s leg! There’s also a Jassey Kunda in Kombo Faraba and Darsilami as a reminder.
You see why you don’t always have to bank on Bantabaa To Kachaa or what I’d label Kachaa Diyandi Rango! Here’s evidence that the Chong Chongo that pervades certain Gambian circles can amount to Filly Nyaamo hitting unwary subscribers! Wandering about in the wilderness that is. Please save my pal Kemo from this heartache so he doesn’t, as he seems to believe, buy into your theory of where Andrew belongs. Please don’t follow Bajaw into the abyss Kemo. I give him no credit for concocting a theory about my background but will instead keep pulling his leg going forward.
Mwalimu, can you help me whack this stubborn “Benjamin of Animal Farm” on the head? That way he understands that I have no connections to Kunjuru Touray Kunda, Darboe Kunda, Bojang Kunda, Jassey Kunda or any kunda for that matter.
There are folks on this medium that know the real Andy Pjalo but not you Bajaw.
I just happen to be a Kombo Duuringo so it’ll be your assignment to figure me out for the object of blowing my cover. A free clue is that I attended Brikama Primary School and that I also speak the language of KARONE. Awuye Bajaw, Alungaabo? Unam Kofio. I may be closer to the Sambous in Marakissa than I am to Jassey Kunda. Lamin Tando Jassey? Oh My!
Disappointing from Alagie. Age should not be a criteria for leadership, unless when it can negatively affects the productivity of the individual.
The Gambia’s political leadership, old as they may be, are still physically fit, healthy, passionate and capable of holding public office. Their ages, therefore, should not a criteria for their continued holding of leadership positions in their parties.
It is the ideas they have to move our country forward that should matter to us. The Gambia is not being held behind because it’s led by old dinosaurs. Our problem lies in the calibre of leadership we’ve had since independence.
After all, Yaya Jammeh, his Council co-partners in crime and the men in uniform, who butchered and maimed innocent civilians and their fellow soldiers (Jungulers especially), were all young folks, weren’t they. How can we forget that so soon?