GOOD MORNING MR. PRESIDENT  Good Morning Mr. President and Esteemed Readers!  With Lamin Jatta 
  
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January 16, 2006 
Your excellency, I have the pleasure and honor to launch this edition of Good Morning Mr President on ALLGAMBIAN.COM. This column is specially dedicated to an extraordinary mentor, teacher, and a freedom fighter, Mr. Deyda Hydara. One of the outrageous theories put up by the so called "Confidential Report" prepared by the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, unwittingly suggested that his death could be linked to Mr.Hydara's anchormanship of the column, Good Morning Mr President,where he attacked the person of the president and a bunch of other craps. 

Your excellency, we are privy to information that your government has ordered for the immediate termination of Good Morning Mr. President column on the pages of Point News Paper. This morning, we are going to complement the initiative of our sister on line paper, The Gambian Journal, to be coming up with a weekly edition on Monday mornings to serve as a befitting substitute for that of the column on Point News Paper which is conspicuously absent in its pages. I hope you will enjoy reading this column every Monday morning. 

I intend to contribute my little way to keep the great legend's thriving memory and belief for freedom and democracy alive and bouncing it up to the door steps of his ruthless murderers. This, I believe, will not only taut his killers, Mr President, but will prove to them and all Gambians that no body can kill freedom of a great people like Gambians. 

Your excellency, The cliché that our contemporary world is a global village cannot elude the great people of the Gambia. That is to say the entire world, and the Middle East in particular, are embracing democratic principles. Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, among a host of other countries are enjoying the ideals of democracy and ensuring that the freedom of their peoples is guaranteed. We Gambians will not be cowered into accepting a few power intoxicated and dishonest elite condemn us back to the quagmire of the pre-civilized era of our nation's history as a mean to meeting their selfish ends. 

Being a great son of Africa, coupled with his unflinching patriotism, Mr. Hydara as it appeared, has willingly paid the ultimate price and stood firmly on his beliefs until he breathed his last breath. Mr President, of course, this great man is this morning, laying in his peaceful grave , thanks to your government's failure or refusal to arrest the systematic and deliberate atrocities targeting the independent media in the form of arson attacks by the Green Boys that is sending a reign of terror hovering above innocent journalists and climaxed in the gruesome murder of a great man.. 

Your excellency, your failure to provide security and protection to independent journalists in the backdrop of your frequent use of diatribes on the public media that put the lives of Gambian journalists in danger, criminally is a dereliction of responsibility that Gambians bestowed on you and a breach of oath to protect the citizens without ill will or affection. This morning, your excellency, Mr. Hydara is looking at us with total amazement at the extent to which we Nodomie Adama allowed our sinful worldly penchant for power, injustice, and falsehood compromise our very conscience that distinguished us from beasts. 

Your excellency, frankly, the comportment of your government in the wake of the assassination of Mr. Hydara is a frantic confluence of cover ups, defamation of the blameless character of Mr. Hydara, lies, and the involuntary expression of guilt. The world is flinching at the conspiratorial role played by the NIA, police, state control media, executive, parliament, and even the judiciary among other state apparatus in the events leading to and after the assassination of Mr Hydara. Your Excellency, in an all true democracy, all these state apparatus are supposed to serve as checks and balances on one another as opposed to working in cohort to abuse the rights and freedom of their own people. 

The marriage of all these state functionaries was what kept Deyda hollering at you until certain blood thirsty gun men decided that he should be shut up. Mr. Hydadra was assassinated with the sole purpose of keeping him quiet for good as he refused to be threatened into a state of silence. It is reported that even when Mr Hydara would not keep quiet from his grave at the rampant injustices of your government, it took a presidential degree to shut the Good Morning Mr President column with the ultimatum that if the Point newspaper continues to stubbornly relay the voice of Mr Hydara from the grave, it will be made to follow its founding father's path. 

Your excellency, it is in view of your government's excesses, especially in the case of Mr Hydara, that other numerous students and I who passed through his soft and able hands that sparks fire in the fight for the truth, freedom, transparency and accountability, will accept his torch and sword for these principles with the greatest humility, challenge and honor. Mr President, I have always had the suspicion that the killers of Mr Hydara strategically targeted him to decapitate the independent press in our country. I hope that this will prove on no uncertain terms that no living power can kill the voice of the voiceless which is obviously the voice of Allah subhana wa tallah . 

Mr President, another theory for the reason of the assassination of Mr. Hydara is that the assassins thought by so doing they will annihilate the critical Point newspaper as well. But alas! they have failed woefully. Mr. President, today my heart is full of joy as I crave on your indulgence to deliver this important news to our martyr, Mr. Hydara in his grave. Hi Mr. Hydara, the new year has dawn an unprecedented blossom of your dream and beliefs. It is with profound gratification and fulfillment that only matched the sadness, sorrow, and anger that struck us when you were brutally ripped from us by terror, that I informed you that the Point newspaper did not in fact die a natural death as the enemies of freedom and progress had planned. The hatred of terror only serve as a motivation and challenge for our resolve to maintain the fight for the noble principles you were killed for with great enthusiasm and vigor. Not only do we have a daily Point newspaper now, we also have two Good
 Morning Mr. Presidents on hand to, ( insallah) monitor the president and where possible, commend the president or blow the whistle if the ball falls from his clumsy hands. As you rest in your grave, I will make this commitment this morning, that we will move the darkness of the night and the seemingly indifferent of the APRC government to bring to justice your murderers who are cowardly hiding their grotesque act behind the wall of refusal of this government to launch a serious investigation in this matter. 

Mr. President, last night I had a dream. The great Martin Luther King appeared in my dream which coincidentally falls on his birthday, January 15th. I have the honor to share the dream with you this morning: In the dream I saw a Gambia where people were living in a very democratic society that to me is a far cry from what you preside over today. In that dream, the Gambia was a developed and progressive country where journalists were allowed to do their job of informing the people without hitches or hindrance from the government. In that dream, the opposition had access to the public media and are allowed to challenge the government on issues that hinged on national interest, a government where the parliament checks on executive power, the judiciary checks on the parliament, and of course, the citizens were free to express themselves on how they are governed without fear of persecution. Justice finally was done for not only Deyda Hydara, but Ousman Koro Ceesay, all the young victims
 of the April 10 and 11 students massacre, the death bodies found at Brufut, and of course Lawyer Ousman Sillah. Have a good day Mr. President.   


         

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