JAMMEH, MAMA SINGHATEH & FAFA MBAI ARE THE ENEMIES OF PEACE AND JUSTICE. NOT DARBOE & CO.

I go to bed with Lawyer Darboe, Kemeseng Jammeh, Femi Peters, ML Sanneh, Lamin Dibba, Juguna Susso, Fatoumatta Jawara and ALL the UDP folks entangled in this calculated political persecution in Banjul in my thoughts and prayers. And their families. Daily, I pray for Solo Sandeng and his family.

The mercenary Nigerian Judge Dada is expected to give verdict and just like Darboe and his executive, we're expecting conviction not because any crime was committed that they're guilty of, but cos the Kangaroo courts under the directives of President Jammeh are directed to do what he wants. All these cases have been going on without any representation for the accused, since their team of lawyers withdrew. Only in the Gambia.

In as much as we want to hold the Nigerians in our judiciary responsible/accountable for not doing the right thing, WE CANNOT let go of our own. There's been GAMBIANS WHO from 1994 fornicated in their matrimonial beds with Yaya Jammeh to persecute, prosecute Gambians. Key among these is EDRISA FAFA MBAI. From Attorney General to Prexy of the Appeal courts, Edrissa #Fafa M’bai, #Awa Bah and #Mama Fatima Singhateh have been conniving in their heartless, vindictive ways to help Jammeh in his ways to put away, silence and kill Gambians. Fafai Mbai and his nasty soul, greedy and ungodly self with Awa Bah refused to do what's right, and denied a bail application for people who pose no risk to anybody. I hope these people burn in hell, and karma comes to haunt them to their families for failing in their sworn responsibilities.

Solo got murdered for a noble cause. Darboe and his people are doing what most of our parents wouldn't conceive doing. They went to demand answers the loss of an innocent soul. So while Gambians go about their businesses as these elderly people fight for their lives, if we can't show solidarity and support to them and their families, we cannot dishonor them in anyway. Sometimes you wonder if it's worth all these when the people you're fighting for are either disinterested or unappreciative. It is a national liberation struggle, and FEW pay more costly prices than MOST. Whatever the outcome, these people shall remain patriots and decent human beings.

Pata PJ.

July 19, 2016

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.

YAYA JAMMEH NEVER FAILED TO EXECUTE HIS THREATS. YOU CANNOT DOWNPLAY HIS MOST RECENT

MOST of us remember when Yaya Jammeh and his Military Junta threatened to deport the defunct INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER proprietors, bona fide Gambian citizens to Guinea when they were fearlessly holding the regime's feet to the proverbial fire. Understanding he wasn't able to do that, he dastardly BURNT their offices and machines down.

So what makes MANDINKAS any different, special? He would have said that to anybody he perceives an enemy to his perpetual reign. Remember, he'd deported the late Kenneth BEST, a Liberian refugee who founded the Daily Observer before it was bought to become the instrument of oppression and propaganda. So the deportation threat was vain talk and shouldn't bother anybody who understands these issues.

WHAT most concerned people are scared of and worried about is the THREAT TO KILL Opponents because they're Mandinkas. I cannot understand for the life of me why anybody would take that to be an empty threat. Yaya never promises to kill and did not. NEVER!

** In 2006 angry televised address to the nation after the alleged coup he promised to 'set an example'. Daba Marena, Lt. Ebou Lowe, Lt. Alieu Ceesay, WO2 Alpha Bah, Sgt Malafi Corr all allegedly implicated were being transported to Janjanbureh prisons only to be extrajudicially murdered in the bushes of Kanilai.

** At his inauguration in 2011 at the Independence stadium, he swore and promised that he'd be 'more dangerous' in the coming five years than he was when he was in uniform.

** In August 2012 before the country's religious leaders, he promised and swore that those in Deathrow #prisoners are going to be killed. Under the cover of darkness, a dozen were secretly whisked away from Mile II to be slaughtered.

** In 2013 at the launching of Operation Bulldozer, Jammeh issued a 'shoot first and ask questions later' to his Security forces. Binta Jarjue and her Boyfriend, had bullets rained in their hired taxi, for the driver allegedly refusing to stop at a security checkpoint. She was murdered.

** At a political rally in North Bank in 2015, Yaya promised and swore that most of his political #opponents wouldn't witness the 2016. 'One by one, they'll all die', he promised. Well, Solo got picked up on a political reforms mission, murdered in cold blood.

NOW WHAT is there to believe that his threat and promise to kill MANDINKAS in their numbers will be any different?

Here is a fact that we all should acknowledge: The threat to kill a certain ethnic group came from Ousman Sonko the Interior Minister and Yaya Jammeh the President, two people known for their murderous ways who happened to be Jolas BUT ARE #NOT A #REPRESENTATION of the Jola ethnic group in character and sentiments. I do not see any two tribes or more picking up weapons (guns, machetes or Stones) to kill each other. So that is not my worry. It never was my worry cos this was not a inter-tribal threat. We surely are ALL Gambians but certainly all belong to various tribes. And admitting that isn't a problem because we've forever embraced and celebrated    that ethnic diversity. Therefore, in as much as we want to encourage tribal harmony and discourage anything that would charge tribal acrimony, IT'S DANGEROUS TO DOWNPLAY OR BRUSH ASIDE Jammeh's threat as 'distraction from the real issues' or 'falling for his craziness'. That would be falsely attempting to mitigate a real threat that had bloodthirsty tyrants struggling to cling on to their reign and lives at all cost, plunge relatively peaceful nations and people into a bloodbath.

 Yaya does not need any singular tribe or group of tribes to execute his threat of mass murder. He only needs a few Gambians loyal to him and willing to kill and die for him. You think no Gambian would do that? Those who murdered Nov 11, 1994 coup suspects were Gambians. All those who pulled triggers on April 10/11, 2000 were Gambians. Those who murdered Deyda Hydara, the 40 Ghanaians, Daba Marena and co., Solo Sandeng and tortured defenseless women to a near-death ARE ALL GAMBIANS. So please dead that 'No Gambian Will Kill Fellow Gambians for Jammeh'.

And again, I recognize the need to amplify our oneness as Gambians, but in doing so, brushing over Jammeh's threat as distraction could be deadly. And I'm not with that at any cost. We may not be able to stop him but let's NOT dare him. What we must do is be cautious, alert and sound the alarm to keep the world in the know of his intentions. Those who matter. Not just in rants but through diplomatic channels. Yaya is a dangerous being with the power to do anything to Gambians. And thus far, we've not seen any impacting consequences to his abominable actions.

Pata PJ

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