LETTER TO THE EDITOR:Is Yahya Jammeh Not an Idiot?                     LETTER TO THE EDITOR:Is Yahya Jammeh Not an Idiot?
  Dear Sirs, 
  Please find my little response to Jammeh 's foolish threats to Senegal. 
  Thanks. 
  Letter to the Editor 
  Is Yahya Jammeh Not an Idiot? 
  By Baati Jollof 
  Fellow Comrades and countrymen, it is just unbelievable what one hears and see these days in our beloved Gambia. Over the past 12 long years we have been really unlucky to have an illiterate as a President. Now, what is much more serious is that this illiterate had gone nuts. Listening to Jammeh on Saturday, April 15, at the Maccarthy Square in Banjul, I felt like striking him death. It is very hard for some of us who listens to the President’s speeches to believe that he is anywhere near normalcy. Jammeh seems to have gone out of his head completely. His utterances are always covered in lies and deceptions, which he uses as a pretext to threaten the peace loving citizens of the Gambia. 
  Some few years ago, Jammeh threatened that if Guinea Bissau and Kumba Yala should try him, he was going to wipe Guinea Bissau out of the map. During this period he boasted that the Gambian army can take on any country in the whole world, and anyone who wants to wage a war against Gambia should be ready to fight a battle for 100 years. Funnily enough, after reconciling with Kumba Yala, and getting out of his drunkenness, Jammeh invited some Guinea Bissau military instructors to come and train some members of the Gambian armed forces. I am quite sure that some of us can still remember that incident that happened in Farafenni, when the Guinea Bissau instructor and one or two Gambia Soldiers died while operating an old model anti-aircraft gun that the Egyptian Government gave to the Gambia. It misfired and killed the instructor and at least one Gambian soldier, while the others received serious injuries. Is Jammeh not an Idiot? 
  Jammeh tactics over the years looks more like he is copying failures like Saddam Hussein and Hitler. He tries to intimidate the country by threatening to wage a war against neighboring countries, in order to put the citizens on the defensive. Jammeh’s recent provocative speech indirectly against the Republic of Senegal should be taken with a pinch of salt. For those military officers who understand him well, they surely know that such statements are wild bluffs, as the man enjoys being associated with someone who is suicidal, when truly he does not have any intension to die now, not even for the Gambia he pretends to love. Jammeh has no guts to face up the Senegalese army. Why did he ran away from Kanilia and spent a night at Yumdum College, when the Senegalese army bombarded the border area in hot pursuit of the Cassamance rebels, some of whom Jammeh have armed. 
  What type of Military might is Jammeh talking about? We as Gambians know very well that prior to 1994, the Gambian army was roughly about 2500 men. However, since 1994, Jammeh speeded up the military intakes in order to enlarge the army. This notwithstanding, today as we speak, the Gambian army stands a little bit below 5000 men and some very few women. We all are fully aware that the Gambia has no air force. Yet still Jammeh will open his dirty mouth and brag. In the entire arsenal of the Gambian army, there is only helicopter, which is not even fit to be called a helicopter gun ship. Similarly, Jammeh had managed to purchase a rag –tagged jet fighter which he displayed in front of the Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade, some few years ago during the infamous July 22 coup celebrations. That so called jet fighter is currently rotting at the left wing of the airport, covered with a military camouflage. We also do know that presently in the entire army, it is only Lt.
 Colonel Peter Signateh who can fly these ancient toys that Jammeh brags about. Three other soldiers who have been identified for training to fly the toys have since left the country after facing some serious threats to their lives. 
  Jammeh himself is very much aware that modern warfare is fought and won in the air, while the ground troops do the clean up job. No doubt during his training programme in Alabama in the United States, Jammeh made frantic efforts to be trained as a pilot. He could not make it however, because of his poor background in geography, physics and chemistry. His intension therefore is to engage our sons and daughters in a futile suicide mission, while he plans his escape. 
  The truth is that given the present circumstances, the Gambia does not stand anywhere near Senegal. Senegal since after the Gulf war in 1991, have been continuously armed and trained by the US army, coupled with the gifts they receive from France occasionally and the continuous training sessions they have with the French army that is stationed in Senegal. These guys can boast of a fleet of fast moving fighter aircrafts, and a well equipped marine unit that can whisk Jammeh away. In addition, to this the Senegalese army along with Ghana is the most disciplined and fast growing armed forces in the sub-region backed by experienced and intelligent men and fighters who have performed remarkably in so many fronts in the world, from Lebanon to Gambia. 
  The officers of the Gambia armed forces should be wary of Jammeh. Before trying to sacrifice our sons and daughters in a futile mission, the officers should try and sacrifice him first. Jammeh is a lunatic and the earlier Gambians realize this and remove him from power through the ballot box, the better for all of us and our families. 
  Editor’s note: Baati Jollof, we are not inline with your call for the army to take over Jammeh’s government. Agreed, our people are facing untold suffering under Jammeh’s watch, but this is not enough reasons to justify  any military take over. Let give chance to our ailing democratic process to prevail . The voters should decide their own destiny. The army, civil society, including you and my very self are part and parcel of this electoral process. The military are the same. Coups are not the solution to Africa’s political predicament. The watch word now is how to effect democratic change in The Gambia, come October. Having another military government, will cost our country dearly. It will only derailed our efforts to change Jammeh through the democratic means. We have learned enough from Jammeh’s forced rule. The so called soldiers with difference are today taking our country into ransom. Just a thought. Thanks for the contribution…..
    
Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 (Archive on Thursday, April 27, 2006)
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