A while back I told Gambians that Kukoi is always roaming for free
accommodation. Ghadaffi has more to worry and is busy trying to fend off an
impending Bushwhack, thus he evicts Samba and other leaches. General Manneh
of Bissau is dead. Charles Taylor is caged. Sanko and Mosquito are dead.
Fidel has no use for you. Mobutu is dead. Mozambique and other war torn
and chaos ridden nations have enough of your type. So, "the chicken has
come back to roost", right where you started, in The Gambia. You started by
using your ethnicity to feed off on the neurosis and stupidity of Jammeh, a
co-idiot. Any other government in the Gambia would have hauled your behind
to jail to wait for trial for your criminal and cowardly behavior of 1981.
But you found comfort in the skunk that is Jammeh, the reason you tapped
into his tribal tendencies.
You come here with your ramblings you call your message. Are we that dumb
to let someone like you who caused the deaths of hundreds of Gambians
because of your twisted mind in 1981, just show up here to preach to the
choir? You must be full of yourself to think that Gambians have time to
entertain your fantasies. I am glad that you decided to show up here, so
some of us can tell you what you are in your face. Yes, we are going to
deal with Jammeh alright, but make no mistake, we will deal with your behind
too, it is just a matter of time. You now realize the world is getting very
small for you and you are quickly running out of options. Since 1981, where
have you worked for a living? Please indulge us. What happened to your
Marxist-Leninist foaming of 1981? During your stay in Libya, Bissau, Cuba,
Liberia, Sierra Leone, DRC, Mozambique, etc., what service did you perform
for them? What was the nature of your visit with Yaya, in 2003? You showed
up in Gambia like you represent a country or something, what did you discuss
with Jammeh, the same person that accused you of trying to get rid of him?
Any thoughts of the mayhem you created in 1981?
These are the sorts of things you should be talking about, not coming to
disturb us with your noise for a message. "Abudou Joof Damala Respeste, teh
maangilaa warne" my foot. It is not enough to have a thief and con in Ebou
Jallow to steal from Gambians only to be entertained with his habitual lying
and fabrications. Now, we have Dominic Sanyang come to preach us about
democracy, investment, good governance, and shaping/restructuring Africa.
What is Essa Sey, Che Yassin, and others going to tell us next? Why are we
so endowed with such buffoonery? Why?
Chi Jaama
Joe Sambou
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>Subject: Koukoie's Independence Message to Yahya Jammeh & Gambians
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:53:53 EST
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>
>MY DEAR BROTHERS,
>MAY ALLAH'S PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE UPON YOU WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST IN
>YOUR
>DAILY STRUGGLE TO EDUCATE OUR PEOPLE AND FREE THEM FROM MENTAL SLAVERY.
>FELLOW CITIZENS HERE IS MY MESSAGE TO THE GAMBIAN INTELLECTUALS, OUR
>OPPRESSED AND EXPLOITED PEOPLES AND TO OUR BOY PRESIDENT FOR THE
>INDEPENDENCE
>ANNIVERSARY.
>PLEASE MAKE USE OF THIS DOCUMENT TO RAISE THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS OF OUR
>PEOPLE.
>THANKS
>KOUKOIE SAMBA SANYANG
>
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>--------------------------------------------------------
>JAMMEH THE DICTATOR ISSUES ONE WAY TICKET FOR GAMBIA
>---------------------------
>(FROM KOUKOIE SAMBA SANYANG’S DIARY)
>Another futile celebration without pride for the historic date for Gambians
>the Independence Anniversary celebrations the 18th of February is due and
>we
>here witness Gambians have
>achieved nothing for their real and genuine emancipation, freedom, justice
>and the rule
>of law.
>I ask Gambians which way for the Gambia and Gambians headed by an
>embezzler
>with a deserved reputation as a ruthless opportunist and an authoritarian
>thief and terrorist.
>We are called to adopt a strategy which will aim to advance the Gambian
>state by bringing key national and international stakeholders and build
>Opportunities for growth and prosperity in the Gambia.
>We need business leaders and a government society to fine tune the Gambian
>engine to run at full throttle to create something of enduring value
>within
>the context of our impermanence.
>We have to fight the culture of silence among Gambian Intellectuals and
>with
>all means and possibilities create an opportunity to adjust and enhance
>our
>strategies to identify new initiatives for an exclusive and very effective
>Environment for government and business networking.
>I strongly believe that the Gambia is a unique country, which demands a
>unique
>Approach to strategic thinking.
>To rescue sinking Gambia we need to adopt a practical workable programmed
>for
>The Dalasis revival and adopting a crisis Prevention Strategy and crisis
>Resolution Strategy to achieve the following.
>1/ Unity of action and purpose.
>2/ Freedom from mental slavery and the adoption of the attitude of monkey
>See monkey do, or parrot hear parrot repeat.
>3/ To be masters of our own destiny
>4/ Good governance and the rule of law.
>5/ Accelerating poverty reduction and strengthening sustainable Gambian
>economic growth.
>6/ Mercilessly combating corruption, laisser-fairisme, exclusion and
>discrimination.
>7/ Create a society that will never violate the standards of its moral
>integrity by adopting
>and consolidating Democratic institutions through accountability, probity,
>and transparency.
>8/ Free market economy and a distributive justice system.
>9/ Independent Judiciary system
>10/ Respect for human rights and administrative justice. etc, etc, etc.
>In order for the Gambia to polish its image for the future we need to look
>back to her past history.
>A DESPERATE HUMAN STORY
>-------------------------------------------
>A careful reading of Gambian history suggests that we badly need committed
>fearless visionaries and significant educators who understands what is
>really
>wrong in the Gambia and dare to share that understanding with the general
>public.
>The future of the Gambia lies in the hands of committed Intellectuals and
>just leaders and they must be willing to seriously engage in a practical
>form
>of political education and political mobilization that in a sense will be
>Irritating to the centrist custodians of the status quo.
>Unlike those theatrical parlance politicians they should be educators and
>dedicated leaders to meaningfully reawaken Gambians to a sense of their
>own
>capacity and leadership potential for political freedom, change and with
>responsibility to partake of society's leadership needs.
>Oh Intellectual educators and peoples leaders you have a major stake in
>changing the Gambia by educating Gambians so you are called to adopt the
>strategic consciousness-raising and clarification functions and programmes
>of our
>society.
>As we all know that the future is not and will not be shaped by evil
>leaders
>and our
>enemies who don't believe in the future.
>I believe that the future will be built by educated conscious people who
>sees
>the complexities that lies ahead since we will not be deterred by the
>peoples
>enemy because we are educators and dedicated leaders who are conscious of
>the
>flaws in humankind but not overwhelmed by the doubts and anxieties of life
>for we are people with the vitality to shape the future of our people and
>dear country whatever the odds.
>I believe that significant achievements will be brought about by
>responsible
>Gambians
>with at least a touch of irrational self-confidence.
>Men and women of vitality have always been prepared to bet their futures,
>even
>their lives, on ventures of unknown outcome.
>If they had all looked before they leaped, we would still be crouched in
>caves
>sketching animal and hunters pictures on the walls and caves.
>Oh fellow Gambians we are in a crucial need of worthy sons and daughters
>who
>will tell us what is right for Gambians that is acknowledging human
>fallibility
>but believe in oneself: acknowledging the complexity of today’s problems
>in
>the
>Gambia but still be prepared to act.
>We Gambians don't need a President who is yearning for to be a nuclear-age
>philosopher-king who can only lead our beloveth Gambian brothers and
>sisters
>to generalized disappointment or even to the end of democracy, justice and
>snatch away our freedom and rights.
>One thing is certain and still valid that Jammeh is still a military ruler
>of
>a Pinochet type who has something wrong with himself.
>I strongly believe that if we bravely struggle for freedom, justice and
>the
>rule of law we will be able to built a free society for Gambians based
>explicitly on free competition, most particularly competition in ideas and
>opinions and by frank discussion of alternative national purpose and
>goals.
>One thing is very important for concerned responsible Gambian educators in
>particular and a vigorous press that must ceaselessly attack ignorance,
>apathy
>and mindless nationalism of a dominated nation the classic enemy of a true
>democracy.
>Our citizens must resist energetically sentimental and rhetorical
>patriotism
>
>that espouses everything as a matter for top priority, but in practice
>eschews
>the tough political programmes that must be begun and implemented.
>What is needed is a far more thoughtful way of looking at the leadership
>and
>at citizens responsibilities.
>The best global Insurance to prevent a criminal autocratic President in
>the
>Gambia lies in investment in education, encourage open non conditional
>brotherly dialogue, exposing evil deeds in the Gambia, and rigorous
>political
>organisation in the renewal of our organisations and mass movements and in
>the
>strengthening of citizen-politic at all levels of society to blow away the
>rhetoric and empty sloganeering.
>My brothers and sisters I must clearly state that with President Jammeh
>our
>National
>Heritage is been destroyed and slowly perishing before our eyes so we
>cannot
>remain indifferent.
>President Jammeh's regime cannot free us from the colonial imposed
>imperfect
>taste
>of dictatorial governance by binding us to his neocolonial autocratic
>imperfect taste of dictatorship without denying the principle of freedom
>upon
>which our society is built that is diversity and liberty instead of
>conformity
>oppression and restraint.
>THE DARK UNDER BELLY OF THE PLIGHT OF THE GAMBIAN PEOPLE
>________________________________________________________
>
>Looking through the Democratic myopia one can arrive at the conclusion
>that
>Gambians don't have a democracy of the people but a Jammeh
>special-interest
>democracy.
>To construct a genuine and lasting democracy we have to agree that our
>decisions and actions must shape our Gambian African world of Freedom and
>Justice.
>Misguided and surrounded by his own enemies who are the worst enemies of
>Gambians who wrongly advise him in defence of their egoist interest
>President
>Jammeh with vast unlimited powers at his disposal is cut off from reality
>and his power is inevitably misused.
>Today with Gambian politics clearly there is need for the people, the
>media
>and our laws each in its own ways, functions, and duties to work hard to
>greatly lessen both the power and the aura of divine right that now
>wrongly
>surrounds President Jammeh.
>The concentration of so much powers in the hands of President Jammeh has
>come
>to be seen as a source of problems in the Gambian society.
>Seen the complexities of all these problems what judgment can be reached
>about the accountability of President Jammeh?
>How can the Gambian people hold President Jammeh answerable to all the
>crimes
>his antidemocratic government commits against humanity, abuses of power
>misuse
>of public funds, abuse of human rights suppression of free Press and free
>speech, murder, intimidation and violence?
>With Jammeh's State terrorist regime the Gambian oppressed and exploited
>peoples have no means by which in a democratic manner influence,
>overrule,
>or
>even remove this irresponsible regime with an absence of clear goals.
>Within the Gambian context accountability free of influence or dictation
>implies not only responsiveness to majority desires and answerability for
>actions but also taking the people and their views into account.
>It should also imply a performance guided by integrity.
>What our beloveth Gambians need is that important decisions that will shape
>their lives and future should be explained to them to allow them the rear
>opportunity to appraise how well Jammeh their President is handling his
>responsibilities.
>Jammeh's arbitrary rule and dishonesty has denied Gambians their
>fundamental
>rights and an opportunity to construct their country.
>As Jammeh's regime moves into its lame-duck phase due to the lack of fore-
>thought behind his infantile foolery, wickedness, arrogance and pride
>which
>in fact is a reflection in some serious conceptual weakness and
>misguidance.
>Misguided Jammeh's behaviour and actions are questionable and his multiple
>goals are in partial conflict with one another.
>In a strict sense, in fact Jammeh's government is always Jammeh's
>government
>and a few hypocrites who are accommodated and those paid terrorists who
>wickedly uphold his regime.
>Our concern here is that Jammeh's tamed government operates in the name of
>Jammeh by Jammeh and for Jammeh so it is not by nature alert and
>responsive
>to the views and interest of the general public.
>Here it is a question of how President Jammeh and acolytes will win to
>oppress
>the Gambian masses and how the oppressed will triumph over injustice.
>The public and their representatives are not given a chance to evaluate
>President Jammeh's priorities if really they exist, his evil deeds, his
>greed,
>his unchallenged power to oppress, to exploit, to murder, to intimidate
>and
>give their views.
>Today in the Gambia substantial controversy exists over the extend to
>which
>Jammeh's cruelty and inhumanity shapes our destiny.
>With all these ills Jammeh cannot and can never guarantee justice, freedom
>or wisdom and impact on our lives.
>Today Gambians are forced to devise a defined task for workable and
>purposeful
>adjustment of the conflicting interests.
>Fellow Gambians let us be serious to note and acknowledge that today
>President
>Jammeh is a captive of his own evils, deficiencies, self-centeredness,
>greed,
>arrogance, pride that serves no purpose, lack of a genuine political
>ability
>as
>he plunders our wealth, embezzles public funds, theft, corruption, and
>misuse
>of public funds with impunity.
>Jammeh's acts which are or would be indictable as the worst criminal
>offenses
>and abuses of office and power or breach of trust and violation of our
>constitution constituting criminal acts are well documented.
>What Yaya Jammeh is doing for Gambians defies human imagination so if
>Gambian
>politicians are genuinely interested in the struggle for Freedom and
>Justice
>Democracy and the rule of law, they should avoid the "blame-the others"
>tactics.
>We have to understand that Jammeh is a wallflower leader and nothing
>different
>can come from him or out of him.
>Alarm bells should be ringing in Banjul, throughout the country and
>worldwide to alert on Jammeh’s holy war against Free speech, Free Press
>and the rule
>of law that conjures up images of the “NIA” The Notorious Injustice
>Agency
>breaking the law with impunity.
>In the Gambia today the “Pinochet Option” of dirty tricks to bring
>down or
>eliminate freedom loving peoples is being institutionalized as a policy
>The open killings of political opponents and journalists (the roots to
>consolidate our Democracy), arbitrary arrests and detentions without fair
>trials,
>and politically motivated disappearance of Gambians perceived by Jammeh
>and
>cohorts as anti-Jammeh is now part of the NIA's doctrine and is been
>exercised.
>For Jammeh these activities as he assured the NIA criminal agents will be
>conducted without any judicial oversight.
>Terrrorising the people, intimidation, killings, arrests and abuse of
>human
>rights will be executed to further Jammeh’s agenda of according to him
>why he
>too should not wickedly rule over the Gambia, oppress and exploit the
>Gambian peoples for thirty (30) years like Sir D.K.JAWARA a natural right
>as he
>claims.
>For me as a Freedom fighter this represents a seismic shift on policy
>“we
>are made to believe at the initial stages of Jammeh’s style revolution
>that
>Freedom, Justice and the rule of law will be the order of the day but in
>actual
>fact it is a Machiavellian rationale where the end justifies the means.
>This makes utter nonsense to the belief that President Jammeh will ever
>engage constructively with the Gambian people after he has given unlimited
>powers
>and rights to these NIA criminal and mad dogs of torture and
>assassination.
>I call to the conscience of Gambian responsible politicians, intellectuals
>and concerned citizens that there are many methods and strategies to be
>deployed in the struggle against Jammeh’s regime but the most important
>one is
>TRUST and STRATEGIC ALLIANCES.
>We should be aware that if Jammeh’s neocolonial regime that tolerates
>dirty
>tricks been carried out in its name and blessings with impunity across the
>Gambia does little to enhance or earn the goodwill of either his supporters
>and
>collaborators.
>THIS IS WHY ALARM BELLS SHOULD BE RINGING IN BANJUL AND WORLDWIDE.
>In our struggle to promoting Democracy in the Gambia, our emphasis should
>be
>naturally centered on Liberty, Freedom, Justice Democracy, the Rule of Law
>and Dignity for Gambians.
>Our common interest should be built on candid cooperation and constructive
>relationships that will embrace our common interests but still recognizing
>our
>considerate differences about policies and values.
>We have to bear in mind that it will be very hard for dictator Jammeh to
>digest any attempts for a tactical and strategic alliances to oust him from
>power.
>Instead of Gambian politicians trying to neutralize each other in their
>struggle for power we have to note now they have no other choice or option
>but to
>expand our mutual engagement which will inevitably lead to Jammeh’s
>downfall.
>As serious people who care for the future of Gambians we have to
>demonstrate
>to dictator Jammeh that no right-minded Gambian man, woman and child wants
>to
> live under tyranny.
>No Gambian would like to be deprived of his/her free speech and free
>movements, we all aspire to.
>Gambian politicians should be aware that with dictator Jammeh deeply
>entrenched in power spreading and building democracy throughtout the Gambia
>is not
>like spraying perfume or fragrance.
>Solid non conditional dialogue, understanding and empathy are required.
>I am sure that Gambians don’t need a "Yes Sir Cabinet" “At your
>orders Sir
>NIA" "No Argument Sir Parliament "but rather to take the path of real
>judgment within the framework of a dialogue not a monologue.
>Watch out again, the people’s enemy will be out there to tell you
>don’t
>listen to KOUKOIE SAMBA SANYANG or KOUKOIE should be arrested.
>As a freedom fighter with integrity I believe that we have to stimulate
>our
>dear peoples imagination never to let them swallow every nonsense that
>comes
>their way or to their ears.
>In order for us to build a free democratic Gambian society we must be
>dedicating our energies to promoting the maximum development of the
>Gambian
>individual.
>I believe that it is our mission to reveal to our beloveth people in more
>than a superficial way some of the relevant and hidden facts about
>President
>Jammeh’s life which must be taken into serious account in assessing our
>wisdom
>of proposed changes and help at the same time world opinion and true
>democrats
> world wide to discover the true face of the Gambian dictator misleading
>the
>nation.
>As mass conscientization is an essential component of our national purpose
>I
>believe we have to awaken the sleeping creative genius of our dear Gambian
>peoples because only those who are liberated mentally can have the range of
>vision and action necessary to create.
>Oh fellow Gambians how can we stop dreaming and wishful thinking and begin
>to
> built a lasting Peace, Justice Freedom, Unity, Democracy and the Rule of
>Law
>in the Gambia?
>TO BEGIN MY DEAR FELLOW GAMBIAN CITIZENS WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE AND BE
>AWARE
>THAT IT IS NO USE TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO HAS FORGOTTEN HOW TO LISTEN.
>That which is demanded of all Gambians is to struggle for an ideal
>Government
> for the people and by the people.
>This ideal government must be in a position to combine the principles of
>both Justice and mercy.
>For me Justice means equity, impartiality and the unerring application of
>an
>inexorable law. As for Justice in the other face of the coin it means to
>treat every man and woman as he/she deserves.
>While Mercy means to treat man and woman better than he/she deserves.
>We have to note that our present day leaders have failed in their mission
>and the politicians who wish to change the status quo give our people
>answers
>to remember rather than workable strategies to solve existing problems.
>Far from being a mercenary or a rebel as many people label me to be but
>rather a freedom loving person for freedom, justice, democracy and the rule
> of
>law I would like people to understand me that I am not the least flattered
>or
>moved by the sugarcoated speeches of Jammeh’s opponents.
>I very much value their words but I am very suspicious of their contents
>and
>meaning full of rhetoric for they carry less weight for possible
>implementation to free our oppressed peoples.
>JAMMEH’S SPEECHES FULL OF BEAUTIFUL MELODY JUST SWEET ENOUGH TO
>ENTERTAIN
>THE PUBLIC AND LULL TO SLEEP THE HYPOCRITES ARE TO BE EXPOSED NEVER TO BE
>ACCOMMODATED IN OUR PEOPLES MINDS AND THINKING.
>MY MESSAGE TO THE GAMBIAN INTELLECTUALS WORKING TO FREE OUR PEOPLE FROM
>MENTAL SLAVERY MUST BE THAT TO WORK HARD TO CONSCIENTIAE AND REDRESS PUBLIC
>OPINION GIVING THE PEOPLE POSITIVE THINKING AND HABITS THAT WILL FIX THEIR
>BEHAVIOUR TO GOALS WHICH WILL FIT WITH SOCIAL NECESSITY RESOLVING THE
>NEGATIVE
>WITHIN GAMBIAN SOCIETY.
>My message to President Jammeh is that the dead do not praise Allah, they
>rather go to Him in silence. It is only those who are alive who can praise
>and
>glorify Allah.
>Mr. President treat our people as if they ought to be, and you help them
>to
>become what they are capable of being to allow them at least praise and
>glorify Allah.
>
>Our people hope for a better future which is like a road in the country,
>there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes
>into
>existence.
>We should allow our people to take out of our country more than what the
>so-called leaders take out of her
>WE SHOULD RESTRUCTURE OUR FATHERLAND TO CREATE MEN AND WOMEN OF INTEGRITY,
>HONESTY AND PRIDE.
>
>KOUKOIE SAMBA SANYANG
>
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