EDITORIAL
AN IDLE MINISTER VISITS OBSERVER AMIDST REVELATIONS ON HIS BROTHER DR. TAAL
Octoger 14, 2005
When you call him an idle Minister, you make no mistake. When you call him
a sympathiser, you make no mistake. When you call him an enemy to the
media, you make no mistake. Bai Mass Taal Minister of Fisheries visiting
the Daily Observer to sympathise with his disgraced brother Dr.Saja Taal,
following ALLGAMBIA'S editorial captioned "DAILY OBSERVER STRANGERS ON
RAMPAGE AGAIN -WE CAN SMELL THE SMOKE OF MARIJUWANA IN THEIR OFFICES." His
visit is indeed revealing due to the timing .

This is ridiculous and unacceptable to Gambian tax payers. Bai Mass Taal's
attempt to abandon his office, just to feed his brother with an editorial
published by The ALLGAMBIAN is unacceptable. We expect any state Minister
who worth his or her salt to remain in office and work, rather than
meddling into trivial matters of this nature. Bai Mass Taal's conduct,
seem to have confirmed previous concerns raised by The Gambian Community
that some of our Minister's are idle and not sensitive to their plight. We
don't see the rationale behind Taal abandoning his busy offices, just to
inform Dr.Taal about an ALLGAMBIAN editorial, which he (Bai Mass) could
not withstand or digest due to the truthful nature of its content.

We are not the least surprised by Bai Mass action, as we are reliably
informed that some of his colleagues are also engaged in such secret
activities bent on creating a negative picture about The ALLGAMBIAN. We
are not stopping anybody from down loading our pieces, but we wouldn't
hesitate to caution Yahya's Ministers to speak the truth and avoid
misrepresenting The ALLGAMBIAN. We have no axe to grind with genuine and
patriotic Gambians. Our concern is focused on those hiding in the name of
governance to cause havoc and instability in The Gambia. The ALLGAMBIAN
will continue to expose such so called politicians or intellectual
prostitutes without morals or principles.

We have nothing against Bai Mass Taal and his brother Saja Taal. We are
against Dr.Taal's insincerity and dishonest nature, who is not only a
disgrace to the current Gambian generation, but to the country's future
generations. If Saja Taal was a man of conscience and principle, he
wouldn't allow Jammeh to remote control him as a toy. Taal is only
interested in lining his pockets with money and not his integrity, which
is gone from the very day he allowed to be hired and fired at random.

We expect so called intellectuals like Taal, to be innovative and be able
to create their own things without been employed by government. But the
picture Dr.Taal is trying depicts is that without Jammeh, he will not
survive or he will die of hunger. We want our intellectuals to think more
than that and be self reliant. Dr.Taal has to some extent contributed to
the current governance crisis going on in The Gambia, as he never bothered
to guide the boys, if whereas they are going astray. A man claiming to be
a political scientist ought to know better. It is better for Taal to
change now, so that he can leave a good legacy for his children and grand
children. To many, it would be very difficult for him to revamp his
battered image and credibility. But it is never too late for one to make a
second impression.

To his brother Bai Mass Taal, we say continue with your state Ministerial
job and stop meddling into trivial matters like this, which was provoked
by your brother Dr.Taal himself. The Gambia is currently engulfed with
economic and political uncertainties and we expect you to tell us
something about the much talked about Gambia's oil. By the way, what is
the latest on the said oil? We really want to know, because your boss
Jammeh promised us last year that drilling will start before year end and
still we haven't heard anything about the said promise. Weeks and months
passes and nothing is done yet. What is going on with the oil sites you
discovered?

Bai Mass Taal, we urge you to try and stay in office, before Jammeh's iron
broom will be extended to your door. We know you have already survived two
planned firings. Therefore, you should remained focus and stop the
pettiness. We are not intimidated by your recent moves to discuss our
editorial with your brother Dr.Taal. Go ahead and do whatever, you wanted
to do. We cannot be cowed by such moves.

We know you will be surprised as to how we know about your Observer visit.
We have sources in the heart of the Daily Observer, who are working day in
day out to keep us posted about happenings there. Your brother have
already constituted a secret task force to trace our this insider
correspondent(s). But we want to remind him that he will fail woefully and
miserably. He may end up touching the wrong people, which is unacceptable.
Saja, please leave the boys alone. They are patriotic Gambians, unlike you
who is bent on kissing the ass of the current administration.

On a final note, we want to inform Fisheries Minister Bai Mass Taal to
know that The ALLGAMBIAN is capable of digging information at his own bed
room. We have the know how and the experience to get such information. We
cannot be bullied by his malicious actions. We remain committed to report
the truth and nothing but the truth. So God help us in our drive to expose
the evils in our mother land. We rest our case.

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