(“YEEN NA NGEMBA SEN MBORR”)
YOU CREATED YOUR MONSTER!
By OUSAINOU MBENGA
What happen when you create a monster you can't control? That monster can go
on a rampage and destroy everything in its path including the people who
created it. There is a common saying in Jamaica that goes thus: “sorry for
magga dog, magga dog turn around and bite you”. We did warn you about these “tin
soldiers”, that they are trained to become potential monsters against African
people. Everything we said about the AFPRC-APRC is coming to past.
The recent spate of arrests, dismissals and re-deployment of his “
sympathetic sycophants” befits the monster-like behavior of Jammeh, a creation of the
most unreliable sector of Gambian society. Jammeh’s recent victims like his
past victims sang his praises of a job well done for the country and that we “
his critics” just don’t understand the man; we should give him a chance. We
wonder what is going on in their minds now that the terror has smacked them in
the face and they know how it feels to be in prison.
What is shameful about all these arrested “civil servants”, army officers
and hired gangsters, is that all of them will claim to be innocent of the
crimes Jammeh charges, but none of them will dare ask for evidence or challenge
the charges. It is also true that most of these sycophants are equally as
guilty and greedy as their accuser, Jammeh.
As revolutionaries and freedom fighters, we ordinarily would have come to
the defense of the arrested “citizens” as we did with Dumo Sarho, Waa Juwara,
the victims of the April 10 and 11, Koro ceesay, Ousman Sillah and most
recent, Deyda Hydara. But these days we have become highly selective in choosing
the people we defend against the APRC. In the past ten years, some Gambians
have become overly shameless to the point of being deaf, dumb and blind to the
destructive behavior of the AFPRC-APRC as long as they share the crumbs
dished out by Jammeh. To put it in blunt terms, these sharers of Jammeh’s crumbs
deserve every treatment from the monster they created. How else can such
malicious behavior be accepted? For ten long years, none of these sycophants have
the moral strength to dissociate themselves from APRC’s deeply resentful
indignation for Gambians, until they fall out of favor with Jammeh. This position
we have taken against Jammeh and his sycophants is firmly grounded in ten
years of concrete evidence, not on spite or a lust for personal attacks.
We have paid close attention to all the charlatans and sycophants of the
AFPRC-APRC; name us one among them who was ever critical of the regime’s crimes
against the Gambian people while serving Jammeh and even worst after their
being unceremoniously dismissed.
Following the coup in 1994, there was a massive rush by herds of hyenas, lam
e-lions and toothless bull dogs seeking positions in the AFPRC. This was the
beginning of what we called “sucking up to Yaya”. Many of these “positions
seekers” were fundamentally motivated by the scores they wanted to settle with
the Jawara regime as oppose to contributing to genuine national development.
Yet others were solely motivated by a combination of greed and the lust for “
power”, the majority of whom constitute the AFPRC-APRC to this day.
Unbeknown to these “position seekers”, they were in for a rude awakening. They
quickly found out that these “tin soldiers” were in this only to feather their
own nests and whosoever blocks their access to loot the meager resources of the
country will end up like Koro Ceesay.
The most disappointing of these “positions seekers” were the so called “
MOJA militants” who were under the illusions that just because they had contact
with Jammeh during the heydays of the movement, they can impress upon the
AFPRC-APRC to adopt their “revolutionary theories”, and thereby impact changes
from within. Jammeh and the other soldiers reacted in their usual reactionary
trademark, detention, murder and intimidation. They were determined not to
allow anyone to spoil their chances to “chop and quench”. These illusions were
as a consequence of the movement’s “political blind spot” which obscured
the true character of these “tin soldiers” they were vying to associate with.
In rivalry to these “MOJA militants” were the fragmented intellectual
technocrats who practically designed the apparatus that carried out the functions
of the “failed state” of the APRC.
Indeed, change does come from within but what these “comrades” failed to
realize was that when a system has rotted, no amount of good will effort can
change it from within; it must be replaced. When greed and lust for reactionary
power becomes the driving force of any “government”, change can never come
from within. It never did, never will. In fact, all the “good intention”
supporters of the regimes such as the AFPRC-APRC quickly discover that these
regimes will not hesitate to chew you up and spit your bones out.
There were rare individuals who saw the inherent weaknesses and lack of
direction of these “soldiers with a difference” and genuinely wanted to give the
country direction but made the fatal error of depending on a bunch of
unreliable pseudo-intellectuals who became Jammeh’s prominent “ass kissers”. The
entire terrain was infested with predators willing to sell their souls for a
position. Following the coup, a treacherous competition to be a trustworthy
supporter of AFPRC-APRC ensued among Gambians.
Finally, I was pleased to read that my sister, Saptieu Jobe was able to
muster enough courage and bravery to dissociate herself from the tyranny of the
AFPRC-APRC by making a public apology and asked for forgiveness. This is a
step in the right direction but the sister must understand that an apology alone
is not satisfactory; it is only a part of the process to redeem oneself. You
must become part of the solution to end the nightmare of the Jammeh regime
that afflicts our beloved country. You have opened your clinched fist so that
other Gambians can consider shaking your hand, don’t stop here; step forward.
To the rest of you “kiss ups” and sycophants, this is the end of the line;
the next stop is over the cliff. The choice is yours, redeem yourselves or
get eaten by the monster you created. Take heed, APRC will melt in 2006!
DARE TO INVENT THE FUTURE! ‘TIL VICTORY ALWAYS!
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