PRESCRIPTION
FOR RESISTANCE




In 1995 when a government-sent team of killers headed
by the notorious Lance Corporal Batch Jallow appeared
at the residence of Lamin Waa Juwara in Brikama and
tried to abduct the gentleman by a Mercedes Benz
without registration number, it was Lamins’s own
resistance with the help of his neighbors that averted
the disaster. By all indications then, the politician
was quite likely to have met his death that night if
he had followed Batch and his men with the hope that
being the government officials they were they should
respect his rights and ensure his safety. But Mr.
Juwara resisted in the best way and means he could,
alerting his neighbors in time who scared and
literally chased the cowards away. Given the Gambia
with its smallness as we all know it, where one can
say with authority that everybody knows everybody,
batch was recognized and the case reported to the
police. For over five years now nothing was done about
that case. If Juwara was abducted and eliminated, the
consequence at most would have been an inconclusive
government investigation insulated to hide the truth
forever.
Those were the outrageous dark days of the transition
when the Gambians were still adjusting to the
nightmare of the deadly presence of the AFPRC bandits
who had hijacked their nation overnight. It was during
that same period that the same Batch-led team at
Denton Bridge almost killed Dr. Baba Njie after being
stabbed with a knife and left for dead that night.
That attempted murder, as every one perceived it was
never ever investigated. Yet the terror persisted
sweeping along the dear life of Koro Ceesay another
lingering crime still awaiting action from The Gambia
justice department. Of course the heinous event of
11th November 1995 was another AFPRC crime against
humanity also documented among the chronicles of their
evil legacy. It was a subject fully treated in my
earlier pieces on Yaya’s dubious coup plots
occasionally staged like the recent one to wipe out
the soldiers he fears or found too intelligent for his
bony head. Yes, signals reaching me indicate that Yaya
and his intellectual whores/ vampires are cracking
their evil heads in order to come up with a twisted
story justifying the latest arbitrary arrest and
detention of Officers Lalo Jaiteh and Omar Darbo.
Former commissioner Captain Alagie Kanteh is also said
to be among those Yaya would implicate in the foolish
story they might eventually fabricate.
On the abductions and attacks of civilians per contra,
it was hoped that such actions would stop with the end
of the transition; and for a while it had at one time
appeared to many Gambians as so until Momodou Picka
Jallow emerged in the post-transition period.
The sucker seemed to have taken it from where Batch
left the terror. When Shygle Nyassi was kidnapped from
his house in Brikama, Momodou Picka was the ringleader
identified to have done the dirty job. Again with Dumo
Saho’s case the same 22nd July Movement terrorist was
still reported to have headed the abduction team. To
crown it all, Modou Picka is now the key terror
campaigner in the nation after Yaya and Baba Jobe.
This guy must be stopped by all means necessary in
whatever way feasible.
Paradoxically, as evil as Picka is, god in his
wonderful ways created and deprived him almost
everything that qualifies humans to be termed
intelligent, normal or good, making him a very easy
target to resist or even eliminate. He is a person
very well known in Serrekunda and, I assume, in
Brikama too. The extrovert takes his orders directly
from Yaya or Baba Jobe and would do anything, go
anywhere to fulfil a mission with minimum thought for
his personal safety. He doesn’t work for any
government agency per se making it ever more necessary
for the Gambians to be prepared to hit this guy with
the language he understands. If it could be done
clandestinely, so be it. That is how he usually
operates anyway.
Amazingly, it is now an open secret that the Picka
kidnappings are cases beyond The Gambia Police Force
powers and all his victims end up traceable at the NIA
headquarters. How can this be explained in a nation
claiming to have respect for its constitution and laws
designed to protect its people?
Anyway its about time we looked into my prescription
calling the Gambians, especially the youth of
Serrekunda, Brikama and Bakau, to adopt a modus
operandi on how to defend their people and communities
from Picka’s deadly terror. This is not a UDP versus
APRC matter, Jolas versus Mandinkas, or soldiers
versus civilians. This is about mad men on the lose
bent on causing havoc to innocent and peace loving
Gambians with an evil government absolutely
sanctioning their crimes. Yesterday it was the UDP,
today the ex-MOJA activists and tomorrow, who knows
whether it would be the NRP or the ex-PPP ministers
with confused Buba Baldeh on top of the list.
In one of the latest cherished massages forwarded by
Ebrima Ceesay, his source has alerted the ex-MOJA
personnel, giving them point by point precautionary
measures on how they must protect themselves from the
state terror being secretly planned against them. For
sure the warning tips are wonderful and very much
welcomed although I seriously think that the warning
should be a national one extended to all Gambians in
the country. So in addition to the tips highlighted by
that concerned Gambian, I would like to add that
neighbors must organize themselves in preparation to
face Picka Jallow who thinks with Yaya’s instructions
he could lead his thugs to any location, abduct and
torture anybody and get away with it. As the elections
draw near, Picka will totally go bananas to say the
least. As a result starting from now on, family
members, friends, neighbors, name it should all come
together prepared to take on this coward wherever he
is seen carrying out his dirty action. For example if
Dumo Saho lives where he used to live at Bundung, that
area could have been the perfect place to corner Picka
and deal with him once and for all. That’s the only
way to deal with the beast.
One of the greatest regrets of the Jews of the
holocaust era was the submissive manner in which most
of them followed the Nazi monsters that herded six
million of them into gas chambers within less than
five years. At least if nothing works, persons being
abducted must scream or call for help so that somebody
around would be able to take a look at the bandits
before they disappear. With that for a positive start,
sooner or later the people will muster the courage and
start hunting for the wild animal. It may not be a
pleasant thing to say or hear but this is exactly how
Liberia under Doe, slowly but surely degenerated until
Charles Tailor a civilian took the risk to wage that
bloody war which claimed over 150,000 lives and more.
Without the soldiers taking the urgent risk of
toppling Yaya, a concept not quite popular among many
pacifists, I would not be surprised if a Gambian
Charles Taylor, Foday Sanko or Kabila emerges from the
wilderness with a scorch-earth agenda.
There has been serious condemnation of the Gambia
military to where many Gambians now think that a
post-Yaya government should finally do away with army.
I do not wish to argue on that issue because of the
negative legacy of the GNA since it was formed in
1984. Anyway all I have to remind everybody is that
the British in 1958 had ventured into such experiment
when the Gambia Regiment the de facto army at the time
was disbanded and replaced by a small paramilitary
unit named The Gambia Auxiliary force. That unit was
just before independence in 1965 renamed the Field
Force. The rest of that story could be traced in our
archives with Kukoi Samba Sanyang the civilian
international rebel leader taking the center stage in
the Field Force’s final chapter.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with having a
proper army. What we should worry about is having the
improper one, which would always pose a threat to the
very people it, is meant to protect. The main reasons
why the GNA failed to perform to society’s expectation
was the abuse of the institutional policies that were
meant to raise the young army in the right direction
by the very authorities entrusted with its
administration. It’s a long story that could take me
volumes of writing to explain what I exactly mean.
But just look at the likes of Chief of Staff Baboucarr
Raspotin Jatta and a lot of my untold story would be
imaginable. About a week before it was made public,
the Daily Observer printed a headline story pertaining
to an interview Jatta had with them in which he
refuted the arrest and detention of Officer Lalo
Jaiteh. To support what he said he had added naked
lies about how the appointment of the president’s ADC
was improperly done during the PPP days. Everything he
had uttered about that procedure was lies, lies and
lies. Now that the truth is known about Lalo Jaiteh
and Omar Darbo, the buffoon chose to avoid the
Independent journalists when they sought to interview
him last week. But since he was more comfortable with
the Observer I think the editors of that paper owe it
to their readers to make a follow up of a story that
they were so keen to put in their front page. No need
to “sutura” the pathological liar. He should talk
again for the benefit of those of us curious to know
whether he was talking about something he did not have
a clue about or merely lying to cover up other crime.
This is how they have been lying since they butchered
our children.
On a final note however, soldiers must be reminded
that working for Yaya Jammeh in a nation that has long
since given up on the need to maintain their presence,
protect their rights or fight for their fair treatment
is like learning to swim in a pool of wild crocodiles.
Any moment they could be snatched bitten and chewed
away without a ripple in the waves. Almamo Manneh was
not a great soldier but looking at the flimsy evidence
presented at the courts in Landing Sanneh’s trial, as
Kebba Dampha would put it, one does not need to attain
a law degree to know that the case is developing into
a foolish outcome. Yet both Almamo and Dumbuya were
murdered for their alleged role in that so-called
coup. Are there any Gambians complaining? Certainly
not.
Lalo and Omar were among the most intelligent young
officers recently commissioned in the GNA, The former
is a bomb disposal expert while the latter proved to
be an expert in field tactics. By academic standards,
they are ten times more qualified than Yaya if the
idiot’s fake credentials are put where they belong, a
dustbin.
 Anyway what I suspect is happening at the State House
with these Landing Sannehs, Almamos, and lately Lalos
and Darbos are not coup plotting as such but perhaps
their discovery of the fact that Yaya is after all
just another nonsense person they follow around. Some
one who live in a dream world that would collapse in
the very near future, so they try some clumsy moves to
distance themselves from the superficial glamour and
ambiance often associated with being around the
presidency. What they may fail to realize is that
staying around Yaya long enough would expose them to
many things the animal would term secretive and would
therefore go to any length to keep such secrets from
the public even if he has to kill for it.
From now on soldiers must take their dressing from
Captain Alagie Kanteh’s method, who battled it out in
his own special way and saved himself for his family
and a possible better Gambia that I know will come
soon. Run if you smell the danger around you. Contrary
to what may happen to the civilians, crying for help
will not gain you any sympathy from the locals or
international world. After being identified with Yaya
and what he stands for, the world has already made up
its mind that you are all the same demons of similar
hearts and soul. To clear yourselves of that dirty
image, your only last chance is to topple the despot
and usher in a progressive civil government within the
shortest possible time. Only then would it come to the
open that it was Yaya who was behind all the crimes
attributed to the soldiers including the order to kill
the unarmed school children in the 10th and 11th April
massacre. Our heart still bleed with pain for what
happened to our dear children. Yet the Kaninlai thing
was reported dancing with joy for the whole world to
see how happy he is. Let him know that the souls of
the children were also present to take note. His days
are over.

Yaya will go soon!

Ebou Colly


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