MARIAM YAYA JAMMEH: IS IT HER AGE OR INNOCENCE?

Addicts do have a nag for beating a dead horse but sometimes they have a legit reason to.

I've seen and heard a lot of possibly reasonable conversations and arguments on Facebook and Radios of people that I thought were personal, and I stayed out of it. Some of these people are public servants, so we could have easily said their personal lives aren't so personal.

TO ME, Mariam Jammeh's is different. Different not because she's not human or has no rights, but by virtue of her position, her behaviors, conduct, lifestyle etc., sponsored by our taxes, cos of her privileges as the first daughter.

But before I go further with the comment I want to make, here are TWO questions I'd want answers to, for they will determine my subsequent comment:

- Is commenting on the pictures Mariam shared on her Facebook embracing her friends calling her 'bitch' a violation of her privacy and/or rights as a minor?

- Mariam is going to a very distinctive, expensive school on our tax Dalasi that you, I and many Gambians at home couldn't afford. Yaya built those schools over the country but didn't think they're good enough for his daughter. Is commenting on Mariam's school tuition a violation of her rights and encroachment as a minor or is it cos she's innocent and has nothing to do with the $80,000 paid on her?

Innocent my ass! I'm disappointed that Yaya Jammeh would punish, kidnap and kill kids way younger than his daughter but people fighting to end that brutality are protecting the President's 17 year old daughter cos 'she did nothing. It's her father'. Don't you all see/hear a three month all baby sleep on a jail floor with his mother? Mayne, #Mariam #Jammeh is a whore. Zainab a whore too. #FOH. You guys aren't ready for a legitimate fight if you have to cherry pick!

Those crying in her defence thinking she's been bullied, well... I shared her photos, followed that with commentaries, and I (deliberately) called her and her mother names which was NOT the core of my message. Now I'll give my rationale behind my position after the following questions

- Did you find the pictures disgusting/distasteful/Inappropriate? If the answer is YES, should she have posted them on her page? If they are not, what exactly about sharing appropriate photos of the first daughter did you find NOT cool?

- Are you having issues with people's position on this cos She is a Minor or she is Innocent? Maybe that would establish the commission of crime or something unfair. Or Not.

NOW to me And my rationale. I am very aware that Mariam did not perhaps know what is going on in the Gambia. Although I found her going to a school on our tax dollars that cost that much to be unfair and unreasonable when the rest of Gambians go to the schools her father, the president so brags about, that may not be something she could be blamed for. We can establish that too. However, if the president is setting and holding Gambian kids and their parents to a standard (moral, religious, etc), would you expect the standard for his family (teen daughter to be specific) to be any lower? If not, what is your disapproval of those people's disappointment in his hypocrisy?

I consider myself to be very measured even when I do something wrong. My argument and contention in relation to the pics which I think may be normal for normal teens (which she is not by virtue of who she is), is that any parent who has a teen or child in your household behave inappropriately before they hit adulthood, the parents take the blame for that failure. Am I wrong? So I am holding Yaya Jammeh accountable, responsible for the public conduct of his daughter when he is in the Gambia blaming parents for the  wrongs or not-so pleasant behaviors of their kids. How is that disgusting? How is that a retribution or an attack on the daughter and not holding Yaya's feet to the fire?

Pata PJ.