PA NDERRY & SEEDY CEESAY WILL NEVER GET IT!

HERE'S what we, or I, should be ashamed of when I want to apportion any sort of blame to the opposition for what's going on in Fass Njagga Choi. Ousainou Darboe, Kemeseng Jammeh and a lot of the old, defenseless men and women at the standoff, are OVER 50 - 60 years old. The youth in the Gambia, including the LAWYER who texted Pa Nderry M'Bai, to challenge Darboe's position but scared to make his name public, are sitting at home or behind our computers to be TOUGH! That is the reason I'd be ashamed to throw dirt! The two were unprofessional in the press conference devoid of any respect for Darboe, their colleagues and the audience with both their questions and mannerisms.

Pa NDERRY & SEEDY made it clear on the radio that they've not or are not donating a dime to what's going on in Fass. That open pronouncement is an indication that they're not supporting the cause that they're expecting to start violence. As far as I'm concerned, Pa and his team are comfortable that their 'analysis' is enough contribution to the cause. That WE should be grateful to them. That's unfortunate.

Let's put a few things into perspective. We're arguing that the opposition leaders are old and over age, should step aside and give chance to others. That's only valid IF OUR YOUTH ARE WILLING TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE. Why are we not calling on the same old people to go home instead of sleeping outside? WE thought they're ineffective to run parties but we expect them to face the machinery and be killed.

The radio, blog and Facebook thugging is good but not adequately effective on the ground. Let's not get too  bigheaded. DARBOE/OJ/HALIFA/BAH/MAI went to register their parties and promised, swore to uphold the law and operate within the confines of those laws. So to ask that they face the security forces to help in breaking laws and hop into a violence project that could lead to cost of lives. As crazy and frustrating as things are, THERE ARE LAWS IN THE GAMBIA! To deny that is to be silly.

Pa Nderry and Seedy Ceesay have FAMILIES in Gambia. Pa has families who clearly, definitely declared loyalty to the same regime killing, maiming, disappearing people and breaking laws. Pa never openly mentioned or called them out for supporting the regime and should stand up to it. So if we can understand that the political environment on the ground is afar forces them to, we should be reasonable enough to understand that we can't push others to ram on that same reckless, dangerous regime head on barehanded.

Seedy was allegedly attacked and injured in England by govt supporters. Nothing came outta it. He has since been going to Senegal,  hours away from Gambia but wouldn't go in. The reason being, those same bad laws are there. Seedy could go and challenge them. Or at least called friends and families of his to join the standoff in Fass so they can help force their way out.

There's absolutely NO FALSE IMPRISONMENT in Fass. They're #refusing to LEAVE! Let that be clear! Anywhere that there's a repression of the kind in Gambia, the approach is always going to be different. That is why the Wade/Senegal comparison makes no sense. That's why the MLK quote is misplaced.

We can't always be dragging behind anytime we make some gains. And we'd always thank Pa and Freedom for consistently doing that. It never gets old. It's a numbers game, I guess.

Tough, but this too shall pass!

Peace To The Planet!

Pata PJ

Gambia Democracy Fund Supports The Opposition

Defiance is the key! There will always come a time that Gambians have to say 'No More!'. The diaspora have been doing their quota. Considering the political constraints on the ground, we do to some extend understand the degree of their effectiveness or the lack thereof. But like other places before, there's always a window of opportunity that which when cracked open, becomes a floodgate for necessary action. Fass Njaga Choi could be our much need catalyst. The Gambian opposition are stepping up!

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Hello All,

On behalf Gambia Democracy Fund, we thank you for always helping us disseminate useful information to the wider Gambians and friends of The Gambia out there via your public medium outlets.
Please find attached a press release in our efforts to support UDP current saga and all the political parties.

Thank you

Gambia democracy Fund.


Recent efforts by the Gambia government denying the United Democratic Party the right to assemble and address its members has created a crisis that warranted Gambia Democratic Fund to convene an emergency meeting on 4/17/15. Members present at the meeting unanimously agreed to disburse one thousand US Dollars ($1,000.00) as a donation to show solidarity with The Gambian people currently in Fass Njaga Choi. These funds will be utilized to enable all political parties coordinate with their people and meet the UDP members in Fass Njaga Choi. We are also urging all Gambians in each region to gather and show solidarity with our comrades.
Just a reminder that the GDF is a Diaspora organization that is 100% dependent on donations to enable us provide emergency funds for situations like the present. Please send donations to: 237030054103. (Bank of America). SWIFT CODES; BOFAUS3DAU2, BOFAUS3DAUS, BOFAUS3DCCD.
Sincerely,
Gambia Democracy Fund

UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY (UDP) HAS ENOUGH OF JAMMEH'S THUGGERY!

There will always come a time when an oppressed people will be obliged to push back against their oppressors, when they continued to be denied the ventilation they needed. It is only natural that patience and perseverance run out and the innate instincts to defend self kick in. This is the state of the Gambian opposition and United Democratic Party in particular.

Since its formation in 1996, the United Democratic Party (UDP) endured the nastiest and most undeserved wrath of the military junta camouflaged as a political party, with persistent persecution. Jammeh and his regime certainly did not anticipate the kind of resistance they had, after they had succeeded in unlawfully proscribing political participation of parties and certain people from the first Republic. Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), National Convention Party (NCP) and Gambia Peoples Party (GPP) and their respective leaderships were barred from political activity with Decree 89. The uneducated young lieutenant and his gang of average minds were able to hatch against the Gambia and Gambians with the help of many disingenuous and greedy legal luminaries and technocrats, to marginalize the Gambia’s finest. From the onset, Yaya and his crew never planned on cede power once they had muddied their hands with coagulated blood and looted riches. 

Unbeknownst to them, there were determined and crafty Gambians who saw through their mischievous plots and refused to let them set us for doom. Foolishly complacent, they got blindsided by the emergence of newer, fresher politicians in United Democratic Party and National Reconciliation Party. With the new lifeline handed to PDOIS from PPP dominance, these Parties would come to challenge Jammeh and threatened his political career especially in the first two election cycles – 1996, 2001. Things have never been the same since.

Threatened by the UDP, a party that would go on to be the biggest opposition party in the country, Yaya ventured in to unsavory political stratagem that would see him morphed his new civilian government into a quasi military regime to intimidate, harass and torment his opponents. He took a page from the books of those autocratic leaders he’d looked up to, to not only consolidate himself in power, but muscle and strangulate the lives out of the people.  Jammeh is still bent on doing just that.

When news broke that the UDP’s caravan was intercepted by the police in the Nuimis for a supposed lack of permit, I was gobsmacked and left in awe. Knowing how calculated and law abiding the leader of the UDP Lawyer Ousainou Darboe is, to the point of being branded soft and afraid, it was immediately conclusive that the State and the ruling APRC were daring, and wanting to rake the ground of a possible confrontation that could set the country ablaze. They are luring the UDP in what could be dubbed ‘Battle of Fass’. I was angry that Yaya’s uninhibited indiscipline has gone too far and he might have gotten away with it again. I was wrong. I became proud and satisfied that the UDP stood their ground refusing to budge. That was pleasant! The UDP just like APRC, have the right to freedom of assembly and movement. Blocking their path is an infringement of their right which could almost tantamount an illegal arrest or taking hostage.

For a very long time, supporters and non UDP affiliates were frustrated by the inhumane treatment meted out to the party and its leadership that was not adequately met with equal and measured resistance. Of course Darboe and the party fought and defended a lot of the barbarity in the courts, without success. It is insulting that our country’s law enforcement chiefs do not know their job but most worryingly, would want to execute an unlawful order that could seriously threaten and destabilized that country. 

What many had seen and/or heard from Fass Njaga Choi, was the type of defiance they expected from the country’s largest opposition party. That they would love them to be law abiding, but should be able and willing to defend their rights and die for them should anybody wanted to confiscate them. That the numbers that they have behind them, must count and put in play to show Gambians that they are indeed an able, qualified Government in-waiting. That there is a reason Yaya Jammeh sees them as a threat, and that should be an impetus for them to show him that Enough Is So damn Enough! Lawyer Darboe and Youth Leader Solo Sandeng embodied and manifested that in this impasse as they should. Yaya is a coward and he is not ready to die.

I have spoken to Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and a couple of people currently in Fass to extend support and solidarity, and I was impressed. Darboe and uncle Kemeseng Jammeh were in very high spirits, adamant that this silly lawlessness would have to come to an end. That Jammeh cannot continue to play a demi-god role to have the rest of the country subservient. These are people in their 60s, filling the shoes of the youth who should have been in the forefront of the battle to liberate Gambia had it not been for Jammeh’s reckless and irresponsible type of governance that had the crème da la crème of our youth risking to die at sea in search of better lives, or stay at home scared to even think for themselves.

Whatever the outcome of this standoff, would set a precedence going forward especially into the 2016 elections. Should the UDP back down, Yaya would take that for a weakness, a scored point and would do just that to continue the intimidation. Should they refuse to obliged and forge on with their tour, a huge political gain for them because Jammeh would then understand that Gambians are ready and willing to take our country back at all cost. That no amount of thuggery would make them relent. The latter would be an important catalyst to a possible victory at the polls with a United Front because the Gambian electorate would need that myth buster. Yaya is a TV thug. A coward and bully who is scared to death of confrontation. That is why he will never try this audacious stunt in Banjul or the Kombos.

The election violence that marred the keenly contested elections in 1996 and 2001, were the confirmation of the type of a leader and politician Jammeh is. That employ whatever it takes to silence and crush anyone who poses a perceived threat to his reign. This would follow series of arrests, abductions and torture of staunch opposition figures like the late Momodou Lamin Shyngle Nyassi, Lamin Waa Juwara and other members of the Opposition. Deadly confrontations spearheaded by the late Baba Jobe and his defunct July 22 militants, would cost a few UDP members their lives and one Alieu Njie, an APRC supporter who was killed in the URD in 2000. It has continued and Mr Amadou Sanneh the party’s treasurer became victim. Unarguably, they bore the worst brunt of this regime’s terror and they seem to be ready to halt that. However, it is a fight that no one person or party can win alone.

The show of solidarity from Gambians especially from the other Party leaders is a mark of the dire urgency of our situation. That is why this must not be seen as a UDP fight. It is often always them because they are Jammeh’s migraine but every party and their leader are a potential victim. Ultimately, Gambia stands to lose should he prevail.

“We must either be a nation of laws equally applied to all or succumb to a nation run by clique who would commit crimes and repress the people with impunity.” - Karamba Touray

The Struggle Continues, by ALL means Necessary.

Peace To The Planet!

Saidykhan.

JAMMEH'S KILLERS INDEMNIFIED WITH TROUBLED CONSCIENCE!

It's that time of the year again. Never gets old. 15 years on, the pain and agony of one of the darkest days of our nation's history remains fresh in our minds. The massacre that went unpunished, persistent ache and sadness of the families and nation with no closure. We pray and mourn.

Like every recurring April and year, we'll continue to hold Jammeh and his administration accountable. They've slaughtered Gambians and drive over the blood and spirits of innocent Gambians in those Kanifing streets EVERYDAY like nothing ever happened. Yaya loses no sleep over it yet we're having Gambians continue to play politics with the Gambian predicament with nonsense talks of 'peaceful' and 'reconciliation' chess match.

I penned this piece last year and I'm republishing it as it still represents my feelings and position today. While you are at it, here is what President Jammeh said on April 16, 2000 as he addressed the nation, after he refused to cut short his visit to Cuba. Allegedly, he'd ordered the security forces to 'kill the bastards'. Upon return, he'd promised full investigations only to reject the Commission and the Coroner's Reports respectively, and indemnified the killers.


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INDEMNITY? HOW ABOUT YOUR CONSCIENCE? 

On December 15, 2012, a former Bad Boy Rapper G-Dep walked into a Harlem Precinct, turned himself in after confessing to a cold case murder. G-Dep owned up to killing a young man on a botched robbery on October 19, 1993.

Twenty-three summers and winters ago this year, a New Jersey man, Steven Goff, turned himself to the police for the stabbing to death of a teenager in 1990. A body that would be found 6 months later in December, 1991. It was so badly decomposed that the cause of death could not be established.

What do these two scenarios have in common? Two people who have taken innocent lives with no witnesses at the time. The perpetrators could have gone to their graves with the crimes bosomed in their chests but their consciences were never to let them be in peace. They have wronged God, the victims and their family. As a matter of fact, their souls that had lived all those years were being eaten up excruciatingly gradually, that were forced to come plain.

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ORDERED THE BRUTAL KILLING OF UNARMED GAMBIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN? 13 YEARS ON, WHERE ARE THOSE ON THE GROUND WHO PULLED THE TRIGGERS OR WITNESSED IT? They cannot possibly be of an undisturbed conscience all these years. Who is going to do the right thing and tell the truth?

Conscience is that one faculty that however dangerous and/or evil a man is, could hardly succeed in cheating. You may attempt drinking, smoking or praying them away but the horrendous wrongs you commit would haunt and torment your conscience till the day you die. Now whether that haunting would push you enough to free your conscience of the burden by confessing may depend on the degree of the wrong. The case of April 10/11 in the Gambia is not any different.

On Monday, April 10, 2000, one after another, students dropped. Some took their last breath in those virgin streets of Kanifing others in ambulances and chaotic rooms of Hospitals and Clinics. The smell of Gambian blood blended with tears of unbelief and despair muddied our clouds. Innocent unarmed students were slain in broad daylight. Within a very close proximity, heartless uniformed men masturbated their weapons discharging live ammunition into crowds of children. Their only crime was peacefully assembling in protest for justice for two of their colleagues; a male student allegedly tortured to death my firefighters and a girl allegedly raped from a Junior School in Brikama-Ba. The sameness in these two cases was SCHOOL CHILDREN and MEN IN UNIFORM paid to protect and serve State and People. A Calculated and a very responsible student body, GAMSU, exercising due diligence, had been in consultation with the necessary authorities to have the accused be brought to justice. Realizing that the Government was stalling on any efforts to do what was right, GAMSU applied for a permit to stage a peaceful congregation to show solidarity with their own. A permit request that the Ministry of Interior denied. Determined, that peacefully concocted assembly of students in Kanifing (NOT even Banjul) was to go ahead. The rest was/is a sad history.

14 years on, NOBODY with a conscience would own up to what happened on that day. From the Head of State to the private soldier or police constable on those Kanifing streets that pulled the trigger. 14 years on, they replay the events of the chaotic moments of seeing our brothers falling down from the bullets that escaped their AK-47s. 14 years on, some or most of them have kissed their children goodbye to school/work and welcome them home daily, knowing that they had robbed other parents the joy of parenthood and denied the country of potential resources.

Meanwhile, Mariam and Muhammed Jammeh are ‘enjoying’ 24-hour days of armed protection as children of the first family. Some of the ministers and top Government officials have whisked their children out of the Gambia to study, live and work abroad. What is even more hurtful is that, never have the Government in these long, hurtful and agonizing years showed remorse. There was never any State candle vigils, no public holidays or national prayer days in honor of the murdered children. In fact, the last time there was ever any reference to these events from the State after the bogus findings with all blames thrust at the students for being unruly, rebellious and suicidal, was when they INDEMNIFIED the security officers. I remembered holding onto The POINT and FOROYAA Newspaper editions detailing the irrational reasoning by the Government in not only failing to let justice take its course, but protecting the criminal(s) who ordered the shooting and those who pulled triggers. Indeed shameful.

14 years on, the unchallenged audacity, the preposterous arrogance and machete callousness of an executive to have the Head of Government continue to say that the children killed themselves is scary. Late last year, the Vice President was exonerating herself when she said she was not on the ground, didn’t know what happened but only went on National TV to “say what I had been asked to say”. This was before any investigations could have been done. Well she was the #2 and her boss was out of town. A few weeks ago, the President was having audiences with WAEC officials and said because they have chosen to do away with corporal punishment, students grew unruly and indiscipline. So who is standing up for our school children when the government is putting them in the line of fire?

The Gambia Government is not one of ample testosterone to assume responsibility of its shortcomings. This Government is that 14th Century egomaniac African Man who sees accepting wrongs or inabilities as a weakness and signs of impotence. That is why they find it easier to always apportion blame – thus the constant firing and recycling of low and high-ranking public servants while the heads of affairs remain eunuchoid.

President Jammeh and his regime cannot be any hypocritical than their dealings with the Gambian students. Much of his regime's infidelity had been towards the students because he is aware and afraid of the insurmountable capabilities of a learned and educated group. Anti-Democratic agents operate that way. So it wasn't a surprise when they set out for the systematic demise of a vibrant body that clenched its fist in defending their comrades. Venomously they poisoned and annihilated GAMSU by christening NAPSA. The financial inducements and scholarships principally to mute one of the strongest civic bodies into being a closet so bare as a pet cemetery. Our students have been legally prostituted and politicized. Handouts given with the right hand while the left snatched their ostensible innocence. Something, among other things, I'd tried campaigning on when I ran for the University of Gambia Students' Union Presidency in 2002. An election I'd come to lose.

In retrospect, that massacre of the children in school uniform was the virginal try of this administration at testing the Gambian people's level of tolerance and resolve for it was the first open assault on a non militant or political group with brute force. When nothing came out of that from any quarters, random outrageous acts followed suit. The culmination of the little 'justs' that we brushed off, gave birth of the various magnanimous alleged state-sponsored crimes up to Imam Baba Leigh's abduction.

Sooner than later, however, those enjoying the blanket amnesty with the so-called Indemnity Clause, ought to know that they haven't eluded the wrath of requisite justice. Not in the sense of witch-hunting, but for fairness and justice for our murdered children that thus far went unpunished. UNTIL THAT TIME, WE POUR OUR HEARTFELT SPIRITUAL LIBATIONS FOR THE DEPARTED SOULS AS THEY REST IN PEACE. And for their families to continue garner the strength to carry on as this time of the year snails by yearly.

Continue To Rest In Peace!

Saidykhan.

PRESIDENT JAMMEH ON THE STUDENTS' DEMONSTRATION

After massacring 14 unarmed students who were to stage a peaceful procession to demand justice for the murder and alleged rape of their fellow students by security forces, President Jammeh refused to cut short his trip to the communist nation of Cuba. He jetted back in town and give this address to the nation 5 days later. See for yourself if what he promised in this address was fulfilled.

STATEMENT TO THE NATION

16TH APRIL, 2000

 PRESIDENT JAMMEH ON THE STUDENTS' DEMONSTRATION OF 10TH & 11TH APRIL, 2000

 BISI - MILLAHI ARAHMANI

 FELLOW CITIZENS

 MY TASK TODAY IS INDEED A VERY DIFFICULT ONE, AS IT IS WITH THE DEEPEST FEELING EVER OF IMMENSE DISTRESS AND UTMOST GRIEF THAT I ADDRESS THE NATION ON THE UNFORTUNATE AND TRAGIC STUDENTS' DEMONSTRATIONS THAT OCCURED LAST MONDAY AND TUESDAY. ON THESE TWO DARK DAYS IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY, THIS NATION SUFFERED IRREPARABLE LOSS OF LIVES AND INCALCULABLE DAMAGE TO PROPERTIES.  MOST REGRETABLE IS THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF THE 12 YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE LARGE NUMBER OF WOUNDED. I THEREFORE WISH TO TAKE THIS SAD OCCASION TO JOIN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF THE GAMBIA AND THAT OF MY FAMILY, TO EXTEND DEEPEST CONDOLENCES AND HEARTFELT SYMPATHY TO BEREAVED PARENTS, FAMILIES, RELATIVES, FRIENDS, CLASSMATES AND LOVED ONES OF OUR DEPARTED CHILDREN. LET US ALL PRAY THAT THE ALMIGHT ALLAH RECEIVES THEIR SOULS AND GRANT THEM ETERNAL REST. LET US ALSO PRAY FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED, TO RECEIVE ALLAH'S SPEEDY HEALING AND RECOVERY. WE MUST OFFER PRAYERS ALSO FOR THE BEREAVED AND THE NATION, TO BE

 COMFORTED, TO HAVE THE FAITH AND COURAGE TO SUSTAIN THEIR LOSS. AS WE

 REMEMBERE AND COMMIT THOSE WE LOVED DEARLY IN ALLAH'S CARE, I AM HEREBY DECLARING ONE WEEK OF MOURNING, DURING WHICH ALL FLAGS IN THE COUNTRY WILL BE FLOWN AT HALF MAST IN LOVING MEMORY AND RESPECT FOR THE DEAD

 FELLOW GAMBIANS

 I WANT US ALL TO PUT THIS SAD AND UNPRECEDENTED INCIDENT INTO ITS PROPER PERSPECTIVE, TO REFLECT ON AND INVESTIGATE INTO THE CAUSES AND TO DRAW USEFUL LESSONS FROM THE EXPERIENCE. WHILE I WAS IN CUBA ATTENDING THE G 77 - SOUTH SUMMIT, I HAVE BEEN CONSTANTLY WORKING WITH MY GOVERNMENT ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND. EVERYONE WILL AGREE THAT THE PRIMARY DUTY OF ANY GOVERNMENT IS TO ENSURE THAT PEACE AND STABILITY PREVAILS IN A COUNTRY, SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS OF EVERYONE TO LIFE AND PROPERTY, AND GUANRANTEE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR. MY GOVERNMENT WILL THEREFORE CONDUCT A FULL INVESTIGATION INTO THE EVENTS OF THE 10TH AND 11TH APRIL 2000. IN THE INVESTIGATIONS, NO STONE WILL BE LEFT UNTURNED IN OUR SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH. CONCURRENTLY, A CORONER'S INQUEST WILL BE HELD ON THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF THE TWELVE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT.

 IN THE DAYS THAT LIE AHEAD, I WILL BE COUNTING ON ALL GAMBIANS, RELIGIOUS

 LEADERS, LEADERS OF CONSCIENCE TO HELP BRING BACK THE PEACE AND STABILITY THAT HAS ENABLED US TO HELP NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES TO AVERT THE DANGERS OF INTERNAL CONFLICT AND STRIFE. WE WANT TO BUILD A SOCIETY WHOSE YOUTH WILL BE PROUD OF THE EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO THEM. THIS WILL ENABLE US TO BUILD ON THESE FOUNDATIONS WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE THE GAMBIA A HAVEN OF PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE SUB-REGION AND AFRICA AT LARGE. THESE ARE CERTAINLY SOME OF THE ESSENTIAL PRE-CONDITIONS FOR ATTAINING OUR VISION 2020 OBJECTIVES.

 I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND PRAY THAT THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH CONTINUE TO SHOWER HIS PEACE AND BLESSING ON THE BEREAVED, THE WOUNDED, AND THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE.

 ASSALAMU ALAIKUM WARAH MATULLAHI WABARA KATUHU

JAMMEH MUST BE TRIED FOR TREASON TOO!

A military court martial handed death sentences in the Gambia? http://www.faturadio.com/index.php/en/component/k2/item/583-death-sentence-handed-down-on-coup-suspects-in-the-gambia. No surprises here but still saddens me that Yaya Jammeh continues to find avenues to kill people for the same crime that he'd committed on July 22, 1994. The secret court martial gotta be bogus!

Yaya and his gang of unruly bandits picked up arms to overthrow a constitution, promulgate military decrees that gave them the blank check to reign terror on Gambians, a thing that continued even after the (formal) military rule.

You're a disingenuous #hypocrite if you see a problem with anybody wanting to oust Yaya and his administration through a coup but you're OK with Jammeh. He confiscated power thru an illegitimate mean which makes his mandate illegitimate. And spare me the 'two wrongs can't make a right' shit.

The reason rape is awfully criminal is because the perpetrator denies the victim the right to consent. They force themselves on them. That's what Jammeh and AFPRC did to the Gambia some two decades ago!

Yaya Jammeh, Sana Sabally, Edward Singhateh, Yankuba Touray and Sadibou Hydara ARE ALL GUILTY OF TREASON should be prosecuted and punished fittingly.

My heart is broken for these guys especially Modou Njie. My prayers for them and their families.

Pata PJ.

NIGERIA CELEBRATES. AFRICA AND DEMOCRACY WIN.

"Nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian. The unity, stability and progress of our dear country is more important than anything else", Jonathan sermons.

This is a rarity. A hard-to-come-by in African politics, that a sitting president would lose after one term. What's even a milestone is for an incumbent to accept defeat and concede graciously. Jonathan Goodluck's official address to the nation after the INEC declared the APC and Buhari winners, is inspiring. http://africanspotlight.com/2015/03/31/nigeriadecides-statement-by-president-jonathan-on-2015-presidential-election/.  Nigeria the nation won, but president Jonathan Goodluck scoop the medallion for being a true, contented democrat! He's perfected his shortcomings!

Jonathan with all his weaknesses, deserves commendation knowing what power-drunken African leaders are capable of. They'd kill a whole town if that's what would keep them in the seat. They'd seal their families and let loose the dogs in uniform to wreck havoc on the people who are only guilty of speaking with their votes.

So I hope the rest of Africa learn that presidency shouldn't be a paternal inheritance but rather a citizens' mandate that they're entrusted with. Serve and quit on the people's accord to avoid unnecessary blood shed.

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari! Your Excellency, best believe that your second coming could be a baptism of fire! Too much is expected of you from a very impatient and demanding young generation. You're not expected to chuck the honey jug in an unreasonable time but lord! you better brace up!

Nigerians have faith in you and have known you to be a tough disciplinarian who was a macho man, with the ability to curb corruption but especially cut out to tackle the national security threat possed by Boko Haram terror group. This is one of the weaknesses of you're predecessor that got you the mandate. Tough as it is, you must deliver!

One of the many daunting tasks is how President Buhari maneuvers and operate as a civilian President of Africa's most populous nation. In the 80s, General Buhari was spoiled with the military decrees that were never challenged in the courts or the streets. They were drastic, repressive and draconian. This time, civilian president Buhari's legal instrument would be the Constitution! That could be a restriction. No carte blanche! This sure isn't going to be fufu and okra soup! Might be a mild bitter kola! :)

My sincere congratulations to NIGERIANS, THE SECURITY FORCES, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK AND PRESIDENT-ELECT BUHARI! The ultimate winners in this are Africa and Democracy! Nigeria is a big brother and they're expected to set precedence. They've done just that! I hope all countries in Africa including my beloved Gambia, follow suit.

Following the peaceful political transition in Senegal a couple of years ago, and Nigeria today, there's a glimpse of hope that beating the incumbent at the polls is doable in Africa too even with all the advantages of incumbency. All that's needed is a fairly leveled playing field.

I hope the Gambia catches that sinus soon. It's doable, but not without a United Front. So let's get to work!

Good Morning And Peace To The Planet!

Saidykhan.