IF JAMMEH CAN ORDER MURDER AND RAPE, WHY IS HIS FAMILY SAFE?

The best among you are not those who do not miss their five daily prayers or frequent churches every week BUT watch innocent, defenseless people get oppressed and murdered and endorse it even tacitly. Jammeh's misappropriation of our state resources, overstay, rudeness are bearable but appointing himself as God's deputy on earth taking lives at will has to stop. The Gambia has been an oppressed nation for the longest, but blatant killing and murder by the oppressor earns no condemnation from a supposedly religious people.

You do not have to be invested in our politics to see the sad, urgent developments that have our country impregnated with explosive potential chaos. We can scream about how religious and tight-knitted we are as a people but we're not God's favorite country or people, and are not any better than the countries that went this path to destruction before us. We earned the right to meet force with force.

JAMMEH SAID:

"I don't see the point. People die in custody or during interrogations, it's really common. This time, there is only one dead and they want investigations?, I will not. No one can tell me what to do in my country."

Yaya did not only confirm Solo Sandeng's death but reiterated his lack of care and concern for Gambian lives especially that 'this time there is only one dead'. Well, when  someone dies in state custody thorough and expeditious investigations are launched to establish cause of death to rule out or ascertain any foul play. This hasn't been the case. No admission of death nor the dead body given to the family for befitting burial. This lack of empathy or remorse is evidence of the level of respect Yaya has for you, me, our families. But we are the enemies of the country we're all born in and have everything we love in? We are the violent ones?

It's no secret that Yaya has no iota of regards for any regional or international bodies because he is confident that they're not going to do anything serious that would affect his presidency. No sanctions or travel band of any kind worries this idiot who is richer and wealthier than his country. This is our fight and it is apparent that before you have any serious international intervention of any sort, things have to get worse or at equal severity with countries like Myanmar, Syria, etc.

Gambia unfortunately but deservedly will have to stand for herself against the barbarity if the state and leadership are the perpetrators of this sadness. We would not love to take lives but we have to kill in defense of self, family and nation. We're getting there. This isn't acceptable and we can't say it can't be helped. Instructing to have an already beaten woman to be raped is sadistic, and whoever has the guts to even think that should be murdered.

The arrest of Solo Sandeng, his brutal torture and subsequent murder; the arrest, torture and sexual assault of the women arrested with him whom from their sworn affidavits left no room for speculation that rape is a standard weapon of torture by our state agents sanctioned by the president; and the arrest of our elderly, frail parents and senior citizens in Ousainou Darboe, Femi Peters, Kemeseng Jammeh, Lamin Dibba among others, and the use of unnecessary excessive force to the point of beating and to bloody them in the process by fatherless security officers born to unfaithful mothers of street prostitutes - are enough for Gambians to fend for themselves. We have to meet force with force, which I'm aware cannot be if we go one-to-one with the state that has all the weapons and machinery at their disposal. However, we can take on the state and still prevail.

Every Gambian has a family or friend in our security outfits. Darboe, Femi, Solo, Nogoi, Fatoumatta Jawara, Daba Marena, Deyda Hydara, Chief Manneh, and all who got killed, torture and detained in the 22 years of Jammeh's brutal regime, have someone in the Army, NIA, Paramilitary and Police. How do you live your lives knowing that your mothers, wives, sisters and daughters were undressed, beaten and asked to be gang raped by your coworkers for Yaya Jammeh? How? So I struggle to understand why are these people watching criminals torture and kill their relatives and do or say nothing about it. It's no secret that those who murdered Gambians and put hands on Darboe, his people and those before them are in your midst. You know who did what and where. You are not able to defend your parents, stop these heartless criminal nor are you able quit your job in protest to name and shame them. You go home, cry alone and go right back to work with them the next day. Your lives are a waste and you will die unhappy and guilty.

Revenge and Avenge! Hurt and Kill Jammeh's agents of terror and oppression in retaliation for what's been unlawful killings of your people. Attack in revenge, those who give such orders and their families. Make them live in similar perpetual fear that has you dread nightfall. If you cannot in a face-to-face combat, use any weapon to kill Yaya, his children and mother, and anybody who stands in your way in defending and protecting your family. You know where Asombie Bojang lives. You know where Muhammed goes to school. Attack and kill them. You do not have to do that for country, but yourself and family. If Yaya thinks he has monopoly over killing, he's right because you let him. On suspicion of target or harassment by Jammeh loyalists you either join in wrecking havoc on your own people to prove loyalty OR threw away your uniforms and run for your lives leaving your families at his mercy. Cowards! That's what you are. For 22 years there's never been any attempt on the lives of any of his family or property in a country where he chooses who lives and dies, while you put your lives on the line for him and family before he turns around and murder you. What do you think your parents and family think of you?

Pata PJ

YAYA JAMMEH BLEEDS. HE'S MORTAL. SO 'GET HIM'!

 I've watched President Jammeh rally in Farafenni and the disgust and rudeness was what I'd expected. In fact, the only surprise was that it came a little late. I'd expected him to give a televised address to comment on the current political events, and issue his usual threats.

'They're opportunistic, being used by the west to destabilize the country'.
'I'll kill and bury anybody 9 feet deep'.
'You'll regret why you were born'.
'Nobody will see you for million years'

Yaya certainly is sick, but much of his behavior is rudeness, disrespect of a power-drunken fatherless president. Yaya isn't as stupid or oblivious. He's wearing a front. He's cognizant of the 'powerful', immortal-like evil leaders before him and how they perished in the hands of their citizens. EVERYONE OF HIS KIND GOT BRUTALLY MURDERED moments after they'd growled and groaned, beating their chest about their immortality. He wouldn't be an exception. He knows it that is why he's having his convoy flanked on all sides, by armed soldiers clinged to it like bees on a hive. He's seeking cover, AND USING THESE IDIOTS AS HUMAN SHIELDS. Yaya doesn't want to be killed alone.

Now Yaya planning to not go down alone is expected. What is NOT wise is for any reasonable person to want to be killed with or for Yaya cos he's not going to die for any of you. He's taking the first available exit when he's sure they're coming for him and his defense line is broken. This constant disrespect and daring from a man who sleeps in body armor vest in a fortified housing, are all a mask to present brevity.

Gambia and Gambians made Yaya. We've seen the Almamo Mannehs, the Musa Jammehs, Tumbul Tambas, Bombardes, Solo Bojangs got used and murdered and/discarded. YOU, competing for recognition today are ending the same way. YOU who are crying and unhappy, but scared to death for fear of coming for you tomorrow, are sitting and watching Yaya humiliate and kill your parents, family and friends. Do something before the Dracula comes for you. #KILL #YAYA. It is legitimate cos it will be in defense of self, family and nation. KILL HIM and anybody standing up for him at the expense of the country. He's human, and he bleeds. That is what is going to save you and your country. His life isn't any precious than those he killed and those he's threatening to kill.

Pata PJ

SOLO SANDENG IS GAMBIA'S STEVE BIKO! LET THIS BE THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION

For those who fought the white domination in an Apartheid South Africa, the sons and daughters in Palestine against Israeli occupation, Civil Rights movements in the United States - ALL designated as Terrorists, WE the Oppressed Gambians understand your struggle. We can sit in our corners, accommodate and apologize for Jammeh and his ruthless barbarism by pretending to 'WANT TO SAFEGUARD OUR PEACE' but the Gambia is only peaceful to you as long as Jammeh's interests are not threatened. To a caring, concerned and reasonable Gambian, peace has been an illusion since 1994! If you're counting the absence of gunshots and bloodbath, you're myopic in your definition.

The tall walls of the prisons, NIA and many detention centers, the woods and streamlakes in Sting Corner, Nyambai Forest, Kanilai wells, Sofaniama bolong, the many covers of darkness are a witness to loud/silent cries, the blood and last breathes of countless Gambians in the hands of Yaya Jammeh and his killers. Peaceful, is what Gambia IS not.

It's been a month and two days since Solo Sandeng and co were picked up, a month since Ousainou Darboe, Kemeseng Jammeh, Femi Peters, Lamin Dibba and some senior members of the UDP executive have been arrested by disrespectful sons in uniform and confined within the inhumane walls of Mile 2 prisons. Dragging them to and from court in what is clearly a political persecution, while Solo was last seen brutally tortured, laying lifeless on the ground at the NIA exactly 30 days yesterday. #WHERE IS #SOLO? That question must be answered as we struggle to understand Jammeh's obsession with dead bodies. And to my disappointment, the country is fluid but still calm. Let Solo Sandeng be our Steve Biko who was brutally murdered in state custody and sparked a new breathe in ANC's freedom struggle.

You need NOT be party affiliated to be concerned and disgusted by the murder of a father arrested on broad daylight who did not resist, or the torture and sexual assault of mothers and daughters in the hands of the State at the orders and okays of a president who presents himself as caring, God-loving and God-fearing man. Solo Sandeng, Modou Ngum, Kafu Bayo, Nogoi Njie, Fatoumatta Jawara, Fatoumatta Camara and unnamed many, committed no crime other than legitimately supporting an opposition UDP. And their quest on their day of arrest was not even a selfish party issue but a national project seeking fairness and betterment of our democratization process. That was their only crime.

Yaya Jammeh, his mother, wife and daughter are enjoying a 24-hour assured security at your expense while he orders and derives pleasure from the arrest and unreasonable detention of your parents and sons, and violent rape of your mothers and/or all females in your lives. What would you do should you set eyes on a stranger doing that to your family? Would you celebrate them or lay your life down for the defense and protection of your family? This tragic episode isn't any different.

In 1994 when Jammeh and the unruly soldiers violently overthrew the first Republic and suspended the constitution, everything they sold us then became a lie today. On that 22 July morning, they claimed was bloodless but more Gambians have been murdered, killed, disappeared and exiled than during the British colonialism and the PPP years combined. Denying that would be an affirmation that YOU, a disingenuous soul who would slap their parents before God.

In as much as I get frustrated with adults seeing all what's wrong with Jammeh and his 22-year regime but still support it, my problem has never been your right to political association. My disappointment and sadness are because YOU chose to side with EVIL instead of GOOD. Yaya isn't good and never has been. Truth is a painful thing for him and lies and hatred are a fuel to his soul. Disrespect and disregard for Gambians and Gambian lives come so natural to him, and we let. The day Yaya will be killed like Qadafi and Samuel Doe, or be banished and caged like Laurent Gbagbo or Charles Taylor, he'd be concerned about himself and his family. YOU, who are killing, torturing in his name are going to be at the mercy of the Gambia and her people. And we will NOT avenge but certainly will pursue and dispense justice.

To Gambians with conscience and love, we have to fight for the country and what is left of it. Yaya is only 50 years old and he doesn't own or love Gambia any more than you and I. The myth that he's the best the country ever has is wrong. The myth that he's all so powerful than Gambians has been proven to be untrue. So join the great, patriotic and brave sons of the country in defense of what is right. Go out to the courts in show of support and solidarity to defy and change this undeserving government and leadership. Doing that would not be for Darboe and the UDP but for you, your kids and I - GAMBIA! This has to end, and we can end it without violence which evidently has only been coming from one side (Jammeh and his savages) against perceived enemies but innocent, patriotic civilians seeking a new Gambia.

Pata PJ

YAYA JAMMEH RESORTING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT AS FORM OF TORTURE?

This floored me. I found my cheeks soaked in tears reading a Court affidavit of this woman Nogoi Njie who was only part of peaceful protesters, arrested and tortured in a fashion that premedieval barbarians wouldn't subject their enemies to. This cannot be Gambia.

How do you treat a woman who could have been your mother, aunty, sister and daughter or mine like this only because you thought they belong to the UDP? Yaya Jammeh, born to a woman, married to one and having a daughter is subjecting women political opponents to rape and humiliation as form of torture. Overpowering a woman and assaulting her in groups isn't manly. As a matter of fact, this is evidence that these animals would jump their mothers and rape them for Jammeh, intoxicated or not.

Sadly, these animals are our people. They are Gambians. Let's quit excusing them with 'oh they're non-Gambians from Cassamance' cos they're NOT. We live in the same homes with these bastards, work and hang out with them. If I'm in that room and saw a non Gambian torturing and raping women and I did nothing about it, I'm complicit. The said Mr Jeng that she'd identified, is a part of them. So was the interrogators and the Doctor who examined them. They knew them all.  This cannot be Gambia.

Where is Solo Sandeng? From Nogoi's narration of what she'd witnessed, only confirms our suspicion that the poor man was murdered. And we watch as a nation! As a people! Solo and these poor women did a honorable thing for our nation and we are betraying them. I'm ashamed and disgusted.

Clearly, Lawyer Darboe and his executive had credible information about what these people had been subjected to. They need not be UDP members for any man with conscience to be disgusted and want to do something about it. And my understanding is that Darboe had consulted or at least informed his colleagues in other parties before he took to the streets. What are we seeing from them? What do we hear from them? I'm ashamed. We can say the Gambia's 'crusade' is an all-Gambian fight but this particular 'BATTLE' is a UDP affair. WE have left it to them. Yaya and his criminals are treating them like animals cos of their affiliation with the YELLOW Color. And I'm going on a limp to say that ALL other party leaders know that, but it doesn't concern them. I SAID IT! They could not even come out with a strong statement of condemnation, even after hearing, seeing this in court! This is a Shame.

The Gambia will burn, and it will be Yaya and his cronies making. These women came from homes and they have families. If the state is failing to protect them and WE as a people watch them endure  humiliation and death, it becomes an obligation on their families and their party to defend them AT ALL COST. The perpetrators of these horrendous acts have families. They have mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. AN EYE FOR AN EYE is justified. Subject their families to the same fate! If Asombi, Zainab Jammeh and any of Yaya's family should get raped and killed, it is going to be understandable. That's what, where we've gotten to. THIS cannot be Gambia, BUT it IS Gambia. I'm sad, disgusted and ashamed, and I understand today than ever before why Darboe was almost in tears and wanted 'to go where solo is'. That is what stood him out and apart from the rest.

While I sympathise with Nogoi and these women, I'm proud of her courage to narrate their ordeal and expose the criminal enterprise in Gambia and their ways. We cannot and must not stomach this barbarity.

Pata PJ

SAM SARR WILL COMMIT SUICIDE BEFORE HE 'FUCKING FIRES AT PROTESTERS' FOR JAMMEH

For the country's deputy ambassador at the United Nations to want to 'FUCKING FIRE AT THE PROTESTERS IF I WERE IN CHARGE' shows how hateful Sam Sarr is, and the type of a lowlife Jammeh recruits to work for him. The people he so wanted to slaughter are our parents, brothers and sisters. But I'm sad that Sam is type that lowers the remaining tattered reputation of a body like the UN. They have to up their standards cos Sam wouldn't have gotten access pass to that building even as a visitor had they vetted him. He deserves no respect, and will be addressed as such today.

In the very short years that I've lived, I've heard and read about many maniacs and satanic humans but very few sit lower in the peat of filth than Yaya Jammeh. That was what I thought until I came across the cronies who do not only endorse him but help market his merchandise of hate and evil. Of those people Sam Sarr is the decayed faeces of them all.

I mean from the onset, one could watch and see through the manipulative and shameless frame of this coward who has zero conscience and character devoid of any respect and better upbringing. This man should commit suicide at a family dinner to wash, cleanse himself of the filth and shame he muddied his family with.

Spare me the cliché that we sell of a person hailing from a great respectable family in the country when they fucked up. Sometimes, the apple does fall far from the tree. When I read Sam's tales of what he'd endured in the hands of Jammeh and the military junta, and how Jammeh never had the interest of the Gambia at heart, with his unloved and unpleasant upbringing made him a heartless murderer when he was EBOU COLLEY, I sensed a lot of hurt and bitterness in his cries though I was sure that most of what he'd said about Jammeh were true. I was still cautious. Then came the reconciliation bullshit when he came on the radio to recant all what was said in his book and more, turned his rusty dagger on the folks trying to rid our country of the animal and wasted sperm holding us hostage. Sarr was not hiding the plot to run back to the master like a dog despite all the horrible torment he'd gone through. Even after Yaya referred to him on TV as a liar and failure. But what do you expect of a man who has no integrity or shame, who'd been a scam and mental fucktard, breastfed by the demon's concubine?

Sam was in Mile II when the AFPRC arrested him, faked mental illness, shitting on himself in the cell and rubbing his own waste on his body just so when Edward Singhateh and co. came for their nightly tour of the prisons to torture them he'd be spared. He's a coward, a fraud and disturbed amphibian who can never live a decent life on his own. He thrives on grounds of hate and deception. So for him to want to kill for Yaya Jammeh isn't a surprise, except that this idiot who shot himself to avoid been deployed for peacekeeping, one who survived abortion and should have been strangulated by his mother at birth or drown in his birth water.

How could you blame the guy who taped the conversation when you did not deny saying what was recorded? How could you have wished people be killed for protesting the murderous president and his ways but want to turn around to lecture us about what you'd learned or not? You must have realized that your old and useless ass is about to catch the wrath of the world, and having your unprincipled, disloyal master dump you to have you back into an unproductive life until you die a pauper! What else must Sam had said to others if he could be comfortable enough to speak in such a manner to someone walking into his office to register displeasure with the regime and its heavy-handedness? Gambians are not stupid. If you have no respect for the parents who gave birth to you filth, we do respect ours and cannot watch you or Jammeh have them humiliated and disrespected for wanting the best for our country. These are our fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. They're Gambians! Our people that are paying you to fucking serve and not fucking murder!

To want to call these protesters 'sponsored thugs' is to want to appease the maniac that you share the same cloth with. And to distract from your hateful thought and wish of mass murder. You and your ilk disgust me. I hate your type. Not for your political association but the disingenuous, selfishness and unconscionable extent to which you'd defend Jammeh in the face of the killings and oppression. And these victims and their families are your friends, neighbors and sometimes your relatives. What has become of us? I hope, pray that Yaya invites Sam to Banjul to have him subjected to the same painful fate as those extrajudicially missing like Daba Marena, Ebou Lowe, Almamo Manneh, Tabara Samb, Chief Manneh and Mr Sandeng. This man is not worth much. SO KILL YOURSELF, SAM!

Pata PJ

BANJUL IS IMPORTANT, NATIONWIDE IS STRATEGIC

Already, many have observed that a change in strategy in the defiance against the entrenched tyranny in Banjul is necessary.

The pour of solidarity by our people, trekking to and from Banjul against all state obstacles is commendable. It should continue but sustaining it might be tougher as the constant and unnecessary adjournments continue. It might be a deliberate ploy to stretch our resources and let our momentum wade.

Attending court sittings and flooding Banjul is great but we can do more. Let's mobilize and stretch the state and security's resources. Not just on the days the accused are to appear in court, this outing and defiance SHOULD be taken nationwide, especially in and across the country's business heart - KMC, Serekunda to be specific.

On the days that the state expects people out, let people show them they decide when to come out. Stage countless hours of sit-ins, marches and stay-aways on days of your choosing to make mobility and smooth functioning governance HARD. ALL without sticks and stones. Our voices with KALAMAA/MBAATU raised in the air are enough. It is working. The sight of banners and other apparel with 'END DICTATORSHIP NOW', 'WE WANT DEMOCRACY', same slogans that landed Dr. Janneh in prison, speaks volumes.

Most importantly, in the absence of strong political leadership and vibrant civil society groups, organize within yourselves to birth and enable an emergence of young, level-headed leaders. We cannot leave it to poor, illiterate, crying women. Make it regional. Banjul, Serekunda, Brikama, Soma, Basse. This would help in mass mobilization and efficient coordination. Whatever it is, decentralization of defiance efforts to broader and effective handicap of the state machinery would break their spine.

Sustaining this momentum is key. Strategy is a necessity.

Pata PJ.