Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000
From: ebou colly <[log in to unmask]
Subject: YAYA MUST RESIGN PART ONE
YAYA MUST RESIGN (PART-ONE)
The news that Yaya went to the hospital to see the children he had ordered
for their killing but were fortunate to be saved by god was the climax of his
mockery to the bereaved families and the entire Gambian people. Don’t be
surprised therefore if by next week he goes on the air with recommendations to have
the families compensated financially by government for the death of the
children. The Kaninlai butcher is now on his usual appeasing strategy. After killing
so many Gambians and then successfully wriggling out of them in the past, he
now believes he has perfected that demonic talent to the point where he could
get away with the worst kind scenario. Killing the school children would be
something he would celebrate in his private moments and might perhaps boast
happily about sending the kids six-foot deep. He must resign for this crime.
There are certain things that I am sure he would now be working on to survive
his crime in the eyes of the general public. He would start distancing
himself from Isatou Njie Saidy and her team that tried desperately to defend the
shooting. It is even possible that he may fire some of them if the public
pressure is sustained in the face of his slick efforts. There is no doubt in my mind
also that he would be banking heavily on his newly appointed minister of
justice Mr. Pap Choi Yassin Secka to cover up for him where every thing should
fail. So Mr. Secka must brace up for the two critical options on his drawing
board. If he does not make things good for Yaya and clears his name altogether, he
should be prepared to get the sack very soon like all his predecessors
suffered. For example, if Mr. Secka for a moment tries to confirm the undeniable fact
that there were no rubber-bullet guns used but AK47’s with live rounds in the
operation, he would be seen as deviating from the expectations of Yaya and
would no doubt lose his new job. Certainly, the establishment of that truth
should be the opening passage to almost all the facts, because those who lied
about that would be forced to confess. And their confession would clearly hang
Yaya by the balls. But on a more limited perception, Mr. Secka may choose to join
the bandwagon of the intellectual prostitutes for the purpose of keeping his
job and not considering the permanent destruction of his historical image. The
usual argument that the veteran lawyer is well cultured and schooled and
would not therefore compromise his integrity shall never sway me, especially after
experiencing Fafa Mbye’s era. Too many outstanding intellectuals have gone
down in history with monsters like Adolf Hitler, a reality that still puzzles
the minds of analytical historians. Samuel Doe went down with a lot of them as
well, not forgetting Bokassa and Musa Trawalleh the child killers.
So Yaya the latest child killer would certainly sink with some of them as
well. Apart from depending on his new Minister of Justice to help him out, Yaya
would also retreat to his oracles (jalangs), at kaninlai. He would therefore
sacrifice a lot of cattle and other animals for charity, distributing thousands
of cola-nuts to praying grounds and soaking himself in nasty liquid charms “
saafara”, with the strong conviction that it would work for him to escape his
criminal actions. But I want to remind him how those foolish things don’t work
for him most of the time. After the Farafenni attack for example on the 8th of
November 1996, he instructed his former guard commander Lieutenant Landing
Sanneh to carry out one of the most primitive rituals in the barracks. State
guard personnel were sent to bury several bags of ordinary salt everywhere in the
camp. This could be confirmed with those soldiers serving at 2Infantry
Battalion, Farafenni barracks. When we asked Yaya why, he said he was advised by his
juju-man to do so which would be the final guarantee that no army camp would
ever be attacked by surprise again. Eight months after, on the 21st of July
1997, Kartong was attacked in the most surprising manner ever imagined. When we
met him after, the idiot had totally forgotten about the previous year’s
rituals and had to tell us that he had dreamt about the Kartong attack weeks ago but
that he had performed stronger rituals that made it a failure.
In that same year in 1997, he almost died from another ritual he was trying
to perform with wild bees at Kaninlai village. Captain L. T. Tamba was there
and was a live witness to that embarrassing incident. Yaya trying to mystify
himself before us told everybody including his guards not to follow him under one
big tree where he said he was going to discuss certain things with his
ancestral bees. He even warned us that if we followed him under the tree, the bees
could sting us and that would mean death to any one stung. So we stayed away
from a reasonable distance watching. However, shortly after he stated acting as
if he was talking to the bees buzzing around their hives on the branches, the
insects suddenly attacked and almost killed him while he ran all over the
dusty bushes. If it had not been for the guards, his ancestral bees would have
probably sting him to death. Yet the moron had to later send an old
haggard-looking woman from the village to tell us that the bees attacked Yaya because they
were upset with him for not greeting them when he first arrived in the village
that morning.
This is not a joke Gambians; this is the real mentality of the president
leading our country. If he should therefore dream that killing school children was
the right thing to do as may be prescribed by his “jalangs” he would do it
and later retreat to them to save his neck.
Turning to the soldiers now, it is important for you to know how badly Yaya
has destroyed your image all over the world for the very crimes he has been
committing particularly in this last one. After using you in this unforgivable
crime, he is now pretending not to be part of what happened on April 10. So all
of you have a great responsibility to worry about. You must clear this
negative image by doing what you are suppose to do for the Gambian people. If Yaya
would not resign, you must remove him out of power and call for the civilians to
organize elections within three months and give them the political power that
belongs to them. That would be the only way you can restore your credibility
once more. Yaya being around you will destroy all the prestige and honor you
used to enjoy as professional soldiers.
YAYA MUST RESIGN! YAYA MUST RESIGN!
Ebou Colly
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