State of fear and its effect for political change and development in The Gambia.
    
 
  Many contributors in the cyber discussion groups on Gambia and related matters have commented that any effective political change to unseat Yahya Jammeh have to within. Many a time I wander whether our people are prepared to arrest the present madness? I cannot imagine how many years it will take to effect such a change with disunited and a fragile opposition, and also with a population in a state of fear to challenge dictator of Kanillai with mass action. There is no easy walk to freedom and it will be illusive to think that there will be free and fair election come October 2006 presidential and parliamentary election. Yahya Jammeh have entrench himself into power and to effect any change our people have to prepared for the worst case scenario if the election is rig.
   
  Folks, important institutions which are to promote human rights and democratic value are none functional or in existence in our country because of the state of fear. The state have promoted and continue to promote terror on the media by enacting all types of dragon laws all of which is aims to muscle free speech and put our people into darkness. The famous slogan of the regime such as accountability, transparency and probity has vanished into Gambian cloud while the bloody dictator becomes even richer than The Gambia state.
   
  It is about time to stop underestimating the trend of Yahya Jammeh’s criminalisation. He is very manipulative, divisive, corrupt, brutal and greed for power. It is these qualities he possesses that is bleeding our nation and also fuelling the conflict in Cassamance. APRC regime has a blood in their hands. Framing innocent souls for coups that never happened and the killings of our citizens by the mercenary regime will one day put into accountability.
   
  There are many dishonest elites and people who have or are collaborating with Yahya Jammeh to dehumanise our people. With his quarter baked education after taking power in July 1994, Yahya Jammeh those not know how a nation should function. It is his unholy alliance with some armchair revolutionary elements of MOJAG that have subscribed and promote the dictatorship in our country. They are the architects of all the grandiose projects such as 22nd July movement- a militia wing of the regime which was and is still involved in torture, arrest, detention and killing of opposition elements. I cannot imagine how utopian ideals of scientific socialism and communism have evaporated in the cranium of Sarjo Jallow, Buba Senghore et al. I cannot belief when Sarjo Jallow defended Yahya Jammeh in the murder of innocent student in April 10. Folks, such actions are a classical or show case examples of intellectual dishonesty and greed for position which is a character of many Gambian
 elites.
   
  Today our country is isolated and is not counted as a democratic country. Gambians are living on the edge confronted with all type of problems such as lack of human rights, poverty, underdevelopment, disease, population growth, degradation of natural resources etc. The solution to such problems required what American Social Scientist Susan George referred to in her book- a fate worst than debt as 3-D Solution and that is debt, development and democracy. Gambia will remain a backward nation and will be unable to address its sustainable development problems if our leaders do not value and respect the people and their fundamental human rights. It is about time to effect a change in order to do away with the roaring time of Yahya Jammeh’s misrule. It is about time to eliminate the state of fear, because of which we are paying the price for greediest decade in our history.
   
   
   
   
   
   

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