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BY YJ

The Guilt In US -If there is any


I am sure we will keep being in these forums, either as readers or contributors, but the bigger question now: Are we read by our intended audience? What results are there? What are the tangible solutions? Are we trapped in fighting wars we cannot win?

 
In all honesty, Gambia's political struggle is not with a positive direction as it is just now. As soon as I mentioned this, I am sure many folks picked it up right there. We need to start strategizing. What that would mean here is for us to revisit the problems as they are and stand firm to fight. The problem being the Jammeh administration and its cronies. So what do we do? Two years are gone already since Jammeh was sworn to a five-year term. What this means is that we have three more years to go for another presidential election. The ways things are going, it is silent like the graveyard. All efforts to re-group the big political heavyweights proved unsuccessful. The differences (whatever they are) are unresolved. One would wonder in a traditional thinking way, if they didn't dine the 'white bull' together instead of the normal 'black bull' as our traditional oracles often dictated, according to hear-say. It looks like we are cornered and scolded hard on the necks, hardly breathing. That is a sad state of affairs because it means we submitted to tyranny willingly with full force or partially accepting it by our unwillingness to unite. 

 
Here is a guilt: For example, Sister Fatou Jaw Manneh has been given her due attention (& thanks to all of you.) But do we have any guilt for not pushing so hard for others like Lamin Fatty of the banned Independent, Chief E. Manneh of the Daily Observer, Yaya Dampha of the Foroyaa, Justice Darboe of the Point just to start a long list here? I am sure these folks as well have families and well-wishers. How do they feel currently seeing us fight hard for Fatou and not their love ones as well. And I ask: Am I thinking too hard here? Am I expecting more than we have? To these questions, nil. The challenge is 'prevention is better than cure,' so waiting till when the damage is done to me is less effective. As at now, we are all fired up and ready to go (Courtesy of Obama) but the bigger picture is that we have to get this problem resolved from its root cause. 


O good brothers and sisters (Gambians and all their friends all in one), what options do we have now to solve our problems? Many Fatou Jaw Mannehs will be arrested. Many Chief Mannehs will be kept in communicadoo. Who knows the next hit? Probably poor me, poor you or poor others! That would mean another D250, 000.00 to be raised, or possibly half a million or a million, because if what Fatou uttered constitute conviction (The Buba Jawo Verdict), then some of us here and there are already dead under such kangaroo judiciary systems. Hell yea!


Honestly to be put, our great educators in these forums has paved the way, notably the great Foroyaa, The Point, The then Daily Observer, The Online Community at large (Newspapers, forums and blogs), moreso the media fraternity. The essense for these enlightenments in my humble thought is to keep the struggle active. That would mean action movement. Great ideas has been put across and continues to be. Will we still keep repeating these ideas without practical application? If that is our stance, I am afraid that we are sinking to the bottom of the waters like a rock. Many here support Jammeh to be out by all means necessary (The Malcolm X verdict) but not a coup d'tat. Why? The reason for that is simple. Coups have a tendency for bloodbath. It is also not a democratic way of coming to power. With that in mind, who will be our savior? By that I mean under God's power, who is going to come down on earth in a Gambian soil to free our political captives and make the political environment condutive for all of us? Proably, the many of you have the better answers. 



Aluta Continua!











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