IT IS A NEW DAWN, GAMBIA!

Good Morning! It's only a customary greeting but certainly not good mornings in Gambia.

Our hearts and prayers with Solo Sandeng and his group, Lawyer Darboe his executive and others arrested in connection, for peacefully marching. We're with you and your families.

DISAPPOINTED but no longer SAD. These folks living in horrible conditions for the past few days knew the risk involved in wanting to break chains of oppression but they knew it had to be done. They put country first, even before family. Revolutions or critical changes in anything goes this way. They might be hurting but they live with a clearer conscience as they pave way for a chapter, newer and needed in that country. Brevity, Yes. Dutiful, ABSOLUTELY. Do not listen to anybody telling you otherwise.

The Gambia did not have an Independence Struggle from the British as did some other African countries like Bissau Guinea, Kenya, etc. But our struggle to free us from a two-decade dictatorship is equally painful. That our own would do us worse than the colonialist he castigates from day one, makes this an even bitter, sharper pain. So I am proud of these people. I wish Solo was my Dad. I wish my father did what Ousainou, Kemeseng, Femi Peters and folks in their 60s are doing for the Gambia. I adore and respect Mrs Jawara and the womenfolk who risk it all. Inshallah, even if this battle is not won, things shall never be the same. The unchallenged aggression by the State is unsustainable. Sooner than later, like the empires and kingdoms of evil before it, shall fall. We cannot relent. Forcing a people's hands into forcefully cutting chains and cuffs comes at a price. And our love and commitment to mother Gambia would lessen that cost. Yaya and his people want to perpetuate violence to burn down the Gambia because they either do not know better or do not have much to lose. To you and I who live and breathe love and patriotism, we are on the right side of history. We will triumph. And I hope it is sooner.

When your back is against the wall, it's either him or you!