Guys, kindly join me in giving a hand clap to our brothers, Haruna & Suntou.
 
 
 
The Lighthouse Paper & Uncle Suntou's blog: ‘The Call to write’
 
 
By Yero Jallow (Dalton)
 
 
In our era, ours is a battle with pens and keyboards. Since the coming to power of a tyrannical regime in 1994, Gambians at home and abroad lifted theirs pens and laid white open pages documenting the history in the making. This history is the darkest of the east coast since existence. For example, the long time peaceful norms have all disappeared under this callous regime. There is no respect for elders or civil servants. There is no respect for humanity. There is no respect for the rule of law. There is no respect for the press or politicians. There is no respect for the priests or imams. There is no respect for traditional leaders like ‘seefos’ or ‘alkalos.’ Everything is upside down such that you cannot differentiate the head and the tail on a broad day light. The pen owners are the wisest of combatants, because they kill the enemy with sorrow many years before his death. The enemy will be walking a death man infected with poisonous termites.
 
 
We do not believe in guns except in self-defense. Therefore, it is important that we pen with our inks. That’s the battle that we cannot be defeated at. The ink, like the many rivers, will never get dry. The pen manufacturers or keyboard makers will never run out of business. So we will write to document history with all our abilities. We hope some day history will compile all these documentaries, when many of us would have long since answered to the dear Lord. That would be a nice time to read all the documented history with disbelief of the ‘trauma’ under sight of a tyrannical administration, to its helpless innocent citizenry who get maim and tortured to death for expressing their God-given rights-freedom and liberty. We cannot beg for it. It is something we have to demand as our niche share of luck on this earth. We will remain defiant and repulsive to the forces of the soul and voice killers. 
 
 
Democracy is a system of governance where the ruler is a server to the people, and the people form the voice of the leader. The leader should be a good listener; a good administrator with a thick skin to withstand criticism, and one with human feeling. It is good to see differences of the many types of criminal world leaders we have today, from east to west and west to east. They are mere dictatorial pillars, standing lanky tall in their evils. They are in constant panic and fear, such that they don’t trust the shoes or clothing they are wearing. Dictatorship is a cowardly deed. It is the seen devil’s job. 
 
With this nightmare at hand, “the call to write” is given a new birth emulating the great freedom fighters of time immemorial. It goes with courage and wisdom. It goes with consistency and steadfastness. It requires sacrifices, bravely and humbleness. Therefore, none of us on the opposite side to the criminal ruler is wrong. We are all right in it. We are matching forward. We must be together, feet to feet, shoulder to shoulder. It is a continued journey. We didn’t start it, and we will not end it.  We are being oppressed and denied of our rights of freedom, equality and justice. 
 
 
In light of the above, any move for an educative media outlet is worth supporting. The media is out to sensitize people; to fight injustices; to liberate the enslaved physically or mentally; to give hope to the suffering; expose hidden social dangers and foreseen calamities. In the journey for redemptions, no stone will be left unturned. That’s why the ‘the call to write’ must be maximized. In that vein, I congratulate the proprietor of the Lighthouse soon to be and Uncle Suntou's new blog. In God’s name, I give these outlets my blessing and total support while they are another niche to fight for us. 
 
 
Long live all true media outlets!
Down with tyranny!!
Long live the Gambia!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:21:34 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Friends and Coleagues, FYI> To: [log in to unmask]> > We have now moved The Lighthouse journal to a more comprehensive site for > The GDP. We will continue our improvements at this site because it affords us > more facility. Forgive the mess in our continued construction. If and when > necessary, we will commission the creation of a Website. Meanwhile, we encourage > you to visit us at _http://thegdp.wordpress.com/_ > (http://thegdp.wordpress.com/) > > I wish to take this opportunity to thank those who are sending us > recommendations for a law firn in Gambia and we encourage you to continue doing so. We > have tremendously good choices and I am confident we will be proud of our > ultimate choice. Some other considerations such as the strengthening of the > Gambia Bar Association, the development of the fraternity of lawyers, and prior > advocacy work by the ultimate choice will weigh heavily on our decision.> > The old blog-site will stay up to inform some visitors but will be taken > down in due course. Thank you for your indulgence.> > Haruna. > > 
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