Mawdo ahali gonga tiggi. Jarama Dr Mawdo Baba Galleh Jallow
Muhammad Bai Drammeh
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On Wed, 21/12/16, Baba Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: [G_L] You said it, Mr. Jammeh
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Date: Wednesday, 21 December, 2016, 17:08
You said it, Mr.
Jammeh
By Baba
Galleh Jallow
“But this is where the
All Mighty
Allah said, your time is up and I thank the All Mighty Allah
for His decision.
I will never question this
decision.”
Hello Mr. outgoing
President Yahya Jammeh. Please allow us to have a small
conversation with you
in the light of the current dangerous situation you have
created for our dear
country. Do you recognize the quote at the top of this essay
Mr. Jammeh? Sure
you do. They are your own words, uttered on Friday, December
2nd,
2016. You see Mr. Jammeh, we truly believe that God has
spoken and you said so
yourself on Friday December 2, 2016. So we cannot stop
wondering just how, not
why, you decided to deny the All Mighty Allah’s decision
after submitting
graciously to it. Don’t you think that Satan the great
deceiver has deceived
you, just as he deceived our first ancestors Adama and Awa?
Anyway, let’s take
a little journey back in time to December 2nd, 2016
to look at what
you said on that day and what its implications are for you
personally and for
our dear little country, especially our women and children
whom you profess to
love so much that you will die for
them.
In order to
make sure that our history is properly recorded and that we
can easily remind
you, we have taken the trouble to transcribe your entire
speech of Friday, December
2nd, 2016, most
parts of which we will share with you as we remind
you that your All Mighty Allah has indeed spoken. Here is
how you started your
concession speech that day, which you have since disowned as
if it never came
out of your very own horse’s mouth. As usual, you started
by invoking the name
of the All Mighty Allah and thanking him four times:
“Bisimilahi Rahmani Rahim.
Alhamdulilai Rabilalamina, Alhamdulilai Rabilalamina,
Alhamdulilai
Rabilalamina, Alhamdulilai Rabilalamina.”
“Fellow Gambians and
friends of The Gambia, APRC supporters, militants, yai
compins, campaign managers,
the women of The Gambia, the
children of The Gambia, my children. First of all, I want to
thank every one of
you, for the support for the past 22 years. I have always
made it very clear I
will never rule this country without your mandate since we
started elections.
And I will never cheat or dispute the elections, because
this is the most
transparent, rig-proof elections in the whole world. You
have spoken in no
uncertain terms. Remember that I have always told you that
even if my opponent
leads by one vote, I will accept the results because they
are transparent. Our
system of election is winner take
all.”
Now Mr.
out-going president, you certainly cannot deny that you made
the above remarks
about never ruling the country without our mandate and that
you will never
dispute the elections because our election system is
rig-proof? You certainly
cannot deny that Mr. Barrow won the election by at least one
vote. How then can
you turn around and say the elections were rigged just
because you lost? Just
in case you failed to notice, electoral commissions do not
steal elections for
opposition candidates in Africa. If they do steal at all,
they steal for
sitting presidents, if only to save their own skins. No one
has ever heard of
an African electoral commission rigging the vote for the
opposition, although
there are countless stories of how they rig the vote for
incumbents. So how can
you say that the Gambian IEC rigged the elections for Mr.
Barrow? Surely that
is just a piece of unfunny smutty fiction in your mind that
you are now trying
to impose on the Gambian people? And then, how could you
make those remarks if
the All Mighty Allah did not will that you speak them? You
know very well that
you cannot open your mouth if the All Mighty Allah does not
will it. You know
very well that whatever happened on December
1st and
2nd
could never have happened if the All Mighty Allah did not
will it. It was by
the All Mighty Allah’s will that the following words
poured out of your own horse’s
mouth:
“I wish to
take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Adama Barrow for
his victory. It’s a
clear victory because our system says simple majority. I
wish him all the best
and I wish all Gambians the best. As a true Muslim,
who believes in the All
Mighty Allah, I will never question Allah’s decision today
or at any material
time. I came on a
Friday 22nd of the
month of July 1994.
Today Friday the 2nd of
December 2016, you Gambians have decided
that I should take the back seat. You have voted for
somebody to lead our
country, this is our country, and I wish you all the best. I
have wished that
we continue our program of development. But this is where the All Mighty Allah said,
your time is up and I thank the All Mighty Allah for His
decision. I will never
question this decision. I believe in the All Mighty
Allah. As a slave
and servant of the All Mighty Allah I will never question
what happens to me
because nothing happens without the will of the All Mighty
Allah.”
Now Mr.
Jammeh, how can you say such things and then turn right
around and question the
All Mighty Allah’s decision? Do you know how many times
you mentioned the All
Mighty Allah’s name in that short segment of your speech
Mr. Jammeh? Seven
times! We took time to count them because we wanted to make
sure that you know
that you are denying the will of the All
Mighty Allah; the very All
Mighty Allah in whose name you like to swear,
swagger and brag. We are sure you know that the All Mighty
Allah is pretty mad
at you right now. Beware God’s wrath, Mr. Jammeh. If you
do not redeem yourself
right now, we dread to even imagine what the All Mighty
Allah will do to you.
You are making light of the All Mighty Allah by questioning
His decision.
And as you
know Mr. outgoing president Jammeh and soon-to-be former
Babili Mansa, the
voice of the people is indeed the voice of God. And we were
so proud to see
that you took time to recognize that the Gambian people have
spoken, which of
course means that God has spoken. Here are more of your own
words on the
matter, transcribed word for word from your own horse’s
mouth. You said:
“You the
Gambian people have spoken and I want to thank you for all
the support for the
past 22 years. I will always love you. I will live and die
for you. But this
time around, not as a president but as a champion farmer.
This country, I’m
married to this country. I’m not moving an inch. Some of
the members of the
cabinet and some of you civil servants who may not have a
job, come to Kanilai
Farms if you want to be a farmer, because farming is in my
blood and I want to
eat what I grow and grow what I eat. This is a program I had
for all Gambians
as a president. Now that I am no longer the president, I
will continue my
program and vision because eating what you grow and growing
what you eat makes
you healthier and more independent. I want to once again
that the youth of this
country. I want to thank the women of this country. And I
want to thank the
schoolchildren of this country who stand hours under the hot
son to show me
their love. I will always love you. I will always love you
and I will live to
love you because you are the future of this country. I do
hope that the free
education that we promised, it was not an empty promise.
Whatever I promised
you I swore to the Holy Quran.” (Here you raised the Holy
Quran from your desk,
and then you continued) “The Holy Quran belongs to the All
Mighty Allah and as
a Muslim, to prove that what I am saying is not false, I
swear to this Holy
Quran.” (You lowered and lifted the Holy Quran up again
and continued) “It
is only to this Holy Quran that I swore, that I will always
rule this country
with the mandate of the people and I will never cheat at any
election.
Whether if, even if, the election system is different, I
want to make sure that
when I rule this country, I rule with a clear conscience
without any question
mark hanging over my head because if I cheat I’m no longer
a Muslim. Allah doesn’t
like cheating. Allah doesn’t like lying. I have never lied
to you Gambian
people. Whatever I have said is genuine and I live by
that.”
Well, well
Mr. Jammeh. ‘Nough said now. You just swore to the Holy
Quran that you will
only rule this country with the mandate of the people. How
come you now say you
do not accept the mandate of the people? Did you not swear
by the Holy Quran
that “Whatever I have said is genuine and I live by
that”? Now Mr. Jammeh, you
certainly are not living by what you said to the Gambian
people on Friday
December 2nd? How do
you explain that? Don’t you think that Satan
convinced you to lie at least this one time in your entire
life? We think that
Satan the great deceiver is deceiving you into denying the
will of All Mighty
Allah after you accepted it. We are sure you know that’s
Satan’s specialty
dangling seeming truths and worldly power and riches and
pleasure before our
eyes in order to lead us into hell and then abandon us.
Beware the great
deceiver Mr. Jammeh. Beware the fire of hell which as you
know, the All Mighty
Allah promises to fill with stones and men who deny His will
and fall for the
juicy temptations of Satan the great deceiver. Repent Jammeh
and redeem
yourself before it’s too late. Here you are again, word
for word, from your own
horse’s mouth. It was you who
said:
“On this
note once again, I want to thank the president-elect Adama
Barrow. Let him
forget the past, what happened during the campaign. I want
you to understand
that he is the president of all Gambians irrespective of who
voted for him and
who didn’t vote for him. And I want to assure you that he
has my support in
maintaining peace and security in this country. The peace
and security of this
country, the stability of this country is what guarantees
prosperity and
development for every Gambian. Without peace and
security, not a Muslim,
not a Christian, will be able to worship the All Mighty
Allah. So I
hope that he will be able to rein in his supporters; let
them understand that
we are all Gambians. As I
said, until I hand over to him, peace
and security, I will not compromise. And as long as I live also,
because I’m not going anywhere I’m going to my village,
the peace and security
of this country is
sacrosanct.”
Now, now,
Mr. Jammeh. You got to be kidding us, right? You said you
will not compromise
the peace and security of our dear country, but is that not
exactly what you
have been doing since your ill-fated rejection of the All
Mighty Allah’s will
on December 9? You very well know that your ill-fated
decision to reject the
All Mighty Allah’s will threatens to destroy the peace and
security you swore
never to compromise and bring about fitna,
the very fitna you
so solemnly warned
against when you continued in the following words, coming
directly from your
own horse’s mouth:
“Allah
doesn’t like fitna and we should not encourage fitna for
whatever reason,
because at the end of the day, we lose. Each time we Africans fight, there are
mothers carrying babies, running across. Some are raped in
the process. Children
are raped. Some drown, some die in the sea. That is not our
wish for this
country and it will not happen in this country as long as I
am alive. I
have no reason to interfere in the government, the new
government that you have
elected. You elected your government, you have your
government.
But the peace and
security of this country I
will not compromise because if there is no peace, God forbid
I will not be able
to worship Allah the way I want to and nobody can deprive me
of that.
Let us work for peace.
And I want all
Gambians to reconcile. We’ve made decisions. We voted.
There is a winner. Make
sure you all work for peace. For APRC supporters, maintain peace
because this is our philosophy. Maintain peace and stability
because this is
what is good for this
country.”
Yes indeed,
Mr. Jammeh. We voted and there is a clear winner. And yes,
indeed Mr. Jammeh
you said it: Allah doesn’t like fitna.
But you Mr. Jammeh are the very one causing fitna
in our dear little country. You just said that when there is
fitna, women and children are raped,
mothers with their babies suffer; some drown and some die in
the sea. Yet, you
Mr. Jammeh are the very same Mr. Jammeh who is bringing
fitna to our country by denying the will of the
All Mighty Allah.
We can only hope and pray that Satan the great deceiver does
not succeed in
making you do such an evil thing, even though he seems to
have a very powerful
grip on your soul right now and you are hell-bent of doing
his will rather than
accepting the will of the All Mighty Allah and doing the
right thing.
One thing
that really baffles us now, and has really baffled us for
the past 22 years is
that you seem to believe that The Gambia is your personal
property and that
only you have the right to be our president as long as you
are alive and
kicking. How many times have you told us to our faces that
you will rule us for
a billion years, whether we like it or not? How many times
have you told us to
our faces that neither elections nor coups can remove you
from power and if we
don’t like it we can go to hell? Your current rejection of
the will of the All
Mighty Allah is further evidence that you really want to
impose yourself on the
Gambian people whether we like it or not. The strange thing
is that when you
did the honorable thing and conceded electoral defeat on
December 2nd,
you reminded us that The Gambia belongs to all Gambians and
not to any
particular tribe and by extension, any particular
individual. Yet, now you are
insisting that you personally own our country and will not
step down even
though the All Mighty Allah says you should. But let’s
hear what you said on
the subject again, directly from your own horse’s mouth.
It was you who said:
“This
country also, let me assure you, belongs to all of us. It
does not belong to
any particular tribe. One thing we must avoid in this
country is ethnic
conflict. We have seen ethnic conflict, the devastating
effect of ethnic
conflict. We have seen it in Rwanda. We have seen it in
Central African
Republic. Let us not be tribalist. But above all, let
us believe in the All
Mighty Allah and that the All Mighty Allah created all of us
equally.
Tribalism or racism is evil. It’s unacceptable. During the
(garbled word here)
I made it very clear, how racism and tribalism started.
Under my guard for 22
years, blacks, whites, greens whatever they are lived in
this country
peacefully. For 22 years of my rule, nobody was ever beaten
in this country for
being white, brown, Asian or whatever. Because that is what
a true Muslim
should be. And I thank The Gambia for being a truly, godly
smiling coast.”
Now, Mr.
Jammeh we need not dwell on this ugly tribalism thing.
Suffice it say that
before your 22 years of rule, we had no tribalism or tribal
politics in The
Gambia. It was you, Mr. outgoing president and soon-to-be
former Babili Mansa
who started insulting certain tribes and making ugly
insinuations about tribal
politics. We thank the All Mighty Allah that so far, you
have failed to stoke
the flames of tribal hatred among Gambians because we are
all good Muslims,
good Christians and good neighbors regardless of our ethnic
or religious affiliations.
We also don’t like the fact that you said “for 22 years
of my rule.” Presidents
don’t rule, Mr. Jammeh. They lead. But no surprise here
because you are a
self-described “dictator for development”, whatever that
means. Anyway, after
suddenly disowning tribalism, you proceeded to thank all
Gambians and
reaffirmed how the All Mighty Allah willed Adama Barrow and
the Coalition’s
victory. Here you are again from your own horse’s
mouth:
“On this
note, I want to thank every one of you. Those who supported
us, in one way or
the other, those who campaigned for us. Allah has decided. Allah has decided that
2nd,
that today Friday the 2nd of
December, you the Gambians have decided
that I’m no longer going to be your president. I will hand
over, Inshallah
without fail to the president-elect, Mr. Adama Barrow in
January. He
can work on his transition team if he wants. If he wants to
work with us also
it is, I have no problems with that. For the sake of you the Gambian people and
for the sake of the country, with my experience I will help
him work towards
the transition whilst I pack . . . (here your audience interrupted you
with applause) to go and work on my
farm.”
Mr. Jammeh,
did you hear yourself say that “Allah has decided” and
that “Gambians have
decided” that you are no longer going to be their
president? Did you not
promise that you “will hand over, Inshallah without fail,
to the president-elect,
Mr. Adama Barrow in January”? Why then are
you now denying Allah’s decision and the decision of
Gambians Mr. Jammeh? Why
do you make light of Allah’s decision Mr. Jammeh? Why did
you go on to assure
us Gambians that you love us, that you will die for us, and
that you will
always stand for us when you are now threating to bring
about death and
destruction to our country? And why would you wish us and
Adama Barrow Godspeed
only to turn around and try to bring mayhem into our
country. Just in case you
don’t remember, here you are again in your own words,
direct from your own
horse’s mouth:
“On this
note, I wish you Godspeed. And Adama Barrow, I wish you
Godspeed. But remember
that the country is greater than any tribe. I wish you all
the best. Gambians I
wish you all the best. Thank you, for being with me for 22
years.” (Here you
got a standing ovation from your audience. And then you
said): “Asalamalekum
waramatula watala wabarakatu. Alsamaday!
(Here you waved your
right hand as if in good bye, stood up, and started
shaking hands as your audience starts leaving the big table.
But then you sat
down and started talking again, affirming your undying
loyalty to your party,
the APRC. You said): “Let me also make it clear, that I am
APRC to the core. I
will never betray the party. I live for the party because
this is the greatest
party we have ever created.” (Here your audience claps for
you again, and you
continue shaking hands; then you sat down again. Your
audience returns to their
seats and you continue talking, asking all those in service
to continue serving
our country. Here’s how you put it directly from your own
horse’s mouth): “And
for those in service, especially the civil servants, serve
any government that
comes if the government wants your service. Your service is
to the nation.
In the event that you are not wanted don’t lose hope.
Whatever becomes of you
is the
will of the All Mighty Allah. And if you become bitter about
it, if you become
bitter about it, you don’t believe in God. This is
destiny. Everything is
predestined. Have faith. Believe in
God.
Thank you.” (Here there was some half-hearted clapping
again. You turned off
your mic and picked up the phone to talk to Mr. Barrow. It
was, to use 2016’s
word of the year, a surreal moment for all of us. Here you
are again, in your
own words, from your own horse’s mouth):
“Hallo Your
Excellency President-elect, Mr. Barrow. I’m fine. I’m
calling you to wish you
all the best. The Gambian people have spoken and I
have no reason to contest the will
of the All Mighty Allah. I wish you all the best. The country will
be
in your hands in January, and you are assured of my guidance
on your
transition. I don’t mean in selecting people who will be
in your government,
but you have to work with me as I pack to go to Kanilai
while I hand over the
State House to you. You
are the elected president of The Gambia and I wish you all
the
best. I have no ill
will and I wish you all the best.” (Here your
audience claps for you as you listened to Mr. Barrow speak
on the other end of
the line, and you say): “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Though I will be a farmer
in Kanilai. Pardon? Convey my congratulations to your entire
team. This
is transparent. This is the will of Allah and as a Muslim I
accept it in good
faith. The Gambian people have chosen you. After 22 years I
am grateful to the
All Mighty Allah for that. I remember I came on a Friday the
22nd
of July. I lost on Friday the 2nd of
December. Allah is
telling me that my
time is up and I hand over graciously, with gratitude to the
Gambian people and
gratitude to the All Mighty Allah to
you. Yes. What date?
1965? So you
were born before independence? So you are few months older
than me; all the
best. I think that’s why they didn’t call you old pa.”
(Here you laugh really
hard showing your big white teeth. And you continued): “I
wish you all the best
Mr. Barrow. Okay? And you have my full support. Let us make
sure that you work
towards maintaining peace and stability because without
peace and stability let
me make it clear you cannot achieve anything in anywhere in
Africa. I wish you
all the best. Yes, we’ll work on it, yes we’ll meet next
week. It depends on
your calendar; you are
the president-elect now I’m the outgoing
president. So,
you give us time, and, and from Tuesday I will be free. Yes.
Balla Jahumpa, Balla
Jahumpa. You know Honorable Balla Jahumpa my campaign
manager. Yes, he spoke to
you this morning as well. Oh, Mr. Barrow you are also
coughing (Here you laugh
and cough into your neck scarf and continued): “Mr. Barrow
you are also
coughing like me (you laugh again). “All the best my dear,
all the best okay? I
have no ill-feelings towards you. Yes, I will hand you over
to Balla so that
you can talk to him. I
wish you all the best Mr. Barrow. And I
wish all the Gambian people all the best whether they
support or not. The
country is greater than all of us. Thank you very much. All the best.
Thank you. Thank you.”
There was
more clapping as you handed the phone over to Mr. Jahumpa,
adjusted your grand
boubou and started talking again. You thanked everyone from
your office staff
to the National Assembly and everyone who served our country
under what you
called your “22 years of progressive rule”. You then
proceeded in the following
words, directly from your own horse’s
mouth:
“I thank you
All Mighty Allah for answering to most of my prayers on
behalf of you the
Gambian people. I have no regrets. I’ve done what is
impossible in Africa” (Here
there was some hesitant clapping by your audience).
“I’ve done what is
impossible in Africa in 22 years without oil, without what.
I’m
grateful to the All Mighty Allah. And this is destiny.
Alsamaday. Thank
you.” (Here you got another standing ovation from your
audience which you
interrupted with more words from your own horse’s mouth):
“I want to thank
members of the security, the armed forces, police, service
chiefs. I want to
thank GRTS, the staff and especially the camera men because
the camera men
especially Sankung, Njie and Agil. And others. I take the
major part of the
dust but I think they take the rest of the dust, sitting on
the back of the
pick-up, trying to film, whether we are on the highway or in
the bush. I want
to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. May the All
Mighty Allah guide
and protect all of you. May the All Mighty Allah grant you
what you wish in
your hearts, as long as it is good for the country and good
for you. And I wish
all the Gambians all the best. I’m grateful that you gave
me the chance to
serve you for 22 years. May the All Mighty Allah reward you
all. The women, the
children, the youths of this country; I have nothing against
men, but through
the 22 years journey, in whatever field of endeavor I was
involved in, if it
were not for the Gambian women and youth, we would have
failed. Thank you
Gambian women, from the bottom of my heart. May the All
Mighty Allah, grant all
what you wish for yourselves. May the All Mighty Allah guide
and protect the
children of this country, the youth of this country, the
women of this country,
and every citizen and non-citizen in this beautiful country
The Gambia.
Asalamalekum waramatula watala wabarakatu.”
And here you
ended your concession speech amid clapping as the video
ends. Now then Mr.
out-going president Jammeh and soon-to-be former Babili
Mansa, if you love the
Gambian women and children so much, why are you putting
their lives and futures
in jeopardy by denying the will of the Gambian people and
the will of the All
Mighty Allah? Why are you bringing fitna
into the lives of the very women and children you call your
own, the very
people you profess to love so much? Well, we are not trying
to make you see
reason because the All Mighty Allah has already decided and
you know what
happens to people who defy the will of the All Mighty Allah.
Alsamaday, Mr. outgoing
president and soon-to-be former Babili Mansa. We hope
against hope that you see
reason and do the right thing by accepting the will of the
All Mighty Allah. On
our side, we might yet have reason to have another
conversation with you again
in the near future, Insha Allah. May the All Mighty Allah
defeat Satan and all
those who follow him and save our dear little Gambia and all
honest Gambians
from fitna. We say unto you Mr. Jammeh,
Maa
saa Allahu. La qawla walaa quwata illah
Billahi. God's will
be done.
There is no power but God’s.
Author’s Note:
Please share as widely as possible. Jammeh cannot deny
the will of God
expressed through the will of the sovereign people of The
Gambia. We must protect and nurture this beautiful Gambian
Renaissance.
#JammehMustGo!
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