The smiling coast of West Africa is now turn to crying coast of West Africa. The Gambia is rank today into catalogue of failed nation state. Our nation is looming into crisis and with the dictator in power any peace prevailing in that country is fragile. Yaya Jammeh is following the pathway of Africa's bloody dictators. The historical reality is that when their days in power is numbered, they further embarked on expensive public relation exercise such as hosting African Union or Organisation of African uniity summits just to shape their images, which in actual fact accelerate their exist in power through bloody civil uprising, elections, coups or armed struggle. For Gambian situation any which way is possible. AU is nothing order than a new wine in old bottle. The organisation will never learn their mistake after another transformation embracing dictators who are committing genocide and crime against humanity.The hosting of the summit will further increase economic hardship.
  Our nation is in crisis and the people are bleeding into increasing condition of absolute poverty while the butcher of Kanillai remain richer than the state. Looking into the way forward are our people prepared to effect a change of Government in the coming Presidential and Parliamentary election in september?The answer is YES but to be rational but therationality is is that even with the fact that our people are determining to effect a change Yaya Jammeh is preparing the ground to rig the election by all means necessary. It is a sick joke to think that there will be free and fair election. The election laws crafted under military dictatorship as electoral decree are unconstitutional. Secondly the so-called Independent Electoral Commission whose members are hand pick by Yaya Jammeh is a mockery to principles of democracy. Yaya Jammeh with his absolute power had undermined the creadibility of that institution. Gambians have witness frequent interference and political
 manipulation in the work of so-called Independent Electoral Commission.
  I was flabbergasted with the recent silence of IEC about the issuing of national identity cards to Non Gambian and the concern raise by opposition about the timing of supplementary voter registration. The Department of Immigration have been used to promote criminalisation of the state by the regime like many other government institutions. I am not surprise about the arrogant remarks from their public relation officer. The civil service is seriously eroded with massive sacking of officials as part of Yaya Jammeh's methodology of politicising all institutions to his authoritarian dictatorship. In the run up to 2001 election a similar incident happen in which the Department of Immigration officials were found issuing national identity cards to Non Gambians at Abdoulie Kujabi's compound which was reported in the media. We have also witness armies of Yaya Jammeh's supporters from Cassamance hosted at The Gambia College during election day who voted in the presidential election.
  The mission of any Electoral Commission should be impartial and fair play and for IEC to be term as a credible institution in the eye of Gambians and International organisations, it should be determining to promote good standard and regulations to combat electoral fraud by the incumbent in power. We have witness in many occasions the absolute power of the regime when opposition parties are and still deny access to National Radion and Television. The Gambia Radio and Television is turned into peddling only the ideas and images of Yaya Jammeh and his APRC party when it is finance and maintain by the tax payers. The question is will it remain the same when election is just few months a head? GRTS has been turn into institution or a think tank group manufacturing the conscience of Yaya Jammeh's dictatorship. It is about time for Iec to realise that their role is not only to conducting elections but to  also enlightened the government to tolerate freedom of expression and also
 tolerate the use of the national media by opposition parties to shape the Gambian enlightenment. It is what functional democracy is all about without which our country will remain a failed state.
  With the frequent sacking of one senior manager after another in the run up to elections and also with with more than 95% coverage on Yaya Jammeh and his activities, the aim of which is to turn every Gambian into APRC fundamentalism as doctrine, and such reminded me of how relevant is the masterpiece of scottish philosopher David Hume's treatise of human nature is to today's Gambian condition. I wander when half feared and half-ridiculed heroes will emerge to shape our nation Radion and Television as a vihicle to the public enlightenment that a genuis likes David Hume was referring to when he was making experiment on himself on the effect of appetite on brain by trying to postulate the efficacy of intelligensia for social and political change.
  Yaya Jammeh is drunk with power and is ready to rig the election by all means. Gambian masses most prepared to get into the street when such happens. The opposition leaders should also be ready to go to jail by voicing out that the election process is not free and fair and call for masse protest than turning to bogus and philistine legal process the judgement of which will be decide by armies of mercenary judges like Justice Paul and Savage who have currently dameging our judiciary. Yaya Jammeh knows that he has unpopular support in that country and because of that, APRC is ready for electoral violence as we have seen in the bye-election in Kombo East.It is a strategy in place to further enhance the state of fear. To challenge Yaya Jammeh's madness the message is that at this moment in time, Gambia does not need opposition leaders with fainted heart. Unite to confront the devil or take a back seat and give chance to others ready to redeem our people by all means necessary.
   

 		
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