Gambia-L:

Another e-mail from a source in the heart of the Gambia government. Again, I
am sending it unedited and in a rush. By the way, I would have loved to give
my reaction to Yahya Jammeh's latest speech but unfortunately, I have a very
limited access to NET these days. However, I'll nonetheless send a belated
reaction once my PC is connected to the Internet after the 19 of August.

Ebrima

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: The radicalisation of one of Ebrima's sources
>Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 Ebrima,
>At the onset of our campaign to get rid of Jammeh, I considered myself,
>then, that our objective will be achieved without firing a shot. My
>deep-seated conviction then was that the goal is achievable with little or
>no violence. Currently, particularly after reading the verbertim report of
>Jammeh's entire statement to the July 22nd Movement in the POINT newspaper,
>I am, for the first time in my entire life, beginning to consider the
>violent option. A President of a nation inciting the populace to take up
>arms against its own people may have changed my inner conviction that
>change can occur within the civilised boundaries established under the
>Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia. Jammeh's call on his troops
>(July 22nd Movement)to defy the laws within which he was "elected", and to
>which he swore under oath to uphold just to ensure his grip on power
>regardless of the will of the Gambian electorate, has served as a wake up
>call to many of us who felt that a change of Government can be realised
>without bloodshed. I am not so sure any more that Jammeh can be voted out
>of office, even in a free and fair election, without violence. That is my
>gut feeling after observing every movement of this psychotic and despotic
>maniac ever since he was selected by those who led the coup on 22 July,
>1994. For those of you who do not have access to the full story in the few
>minutes after his band of bandits realised that an unexpected power vacuum
>has been created by the swift departure of Jawara. The leadership was not
>decided as they marched from Yundum. The leadership was decide after the
>first radio speech, under advise by one of the soldiers who recommended to
>the trio that they should settle for Jammeh because he was the oldest
>amongst the lot. He was not selected because of his leadership qualities,
>he was not selected because of his intelligence  (he had none), he was not
>selected because of his education (he is a High School drop out). Jammeh
>got to be were he is today by virtue of his age. He was older than the
>rest. But Jammeh seems to have forgotten that. He portrays himself as a
>true and couragious soldier. Any one who knows Jammeh will tell you that he
>is neither a true nor a couragious soldier.
>As I read the verbatum report of The POINT, I started reassessing my
>position about the manner in which a Yahyaless Gambia will be acheived. I
>am slowly convincing myself that this objective will be achieved with
>violence in as much as I dislike the idea. The choices we have as a people
>are (a) to remain as hostages under a geranged moron for as long as Jammeh
>can continue to maintain his deteriorating mental condition or (b) to free
>ourselves from the forces of evil led by a psychopath with the language
>they understand; VIOLENCE. I prefer to effect change through constitutional
>means, but when the chief guardian of the Constitution tells me that he can
>fire judges because they were hired by him to dispense justice according to
>the gospel of the Butcher of Kanilai, then it is time for a re-think. I
>rather die a free man than to live in slavery. I rather die fighting
>against Jammeh and his cohorts than live under a dictator and a psychopath
>with limited  intellectual capacity to distinguish the role of the
>executive from that of the judiciary as enshrined in the constitution.
>Ebrima, I have been warning all of you that Jammeh is NUTS. Although, I
>believed that his mental state will cause him to resign but the evidence I
>have in my possession now has convinced me that the country is not under
>the control of Jammeh, but under the dictates and effective control of
>outside forces led locally by Baba Jobe. Only a counter offensive from true
>Gambians can liberate the Gambian people from this external grip. It is no
>longer going to come easy as originally thought but our main objectives can
>and will be achieved.
>In the weeks and months ahead, I will provide you with further evidence
>that The Gambia has been morgaged to external forces by Jammeh, Baba Jobe,
>Nfamara Jatta, Saja Taal, Ngang Thomas and other members of the junta. As
>at today, please put me in the column of Ebou Colley, KB, Saul Saidykhan,
>Kabir Njie, Obrien-Coker and a few others. JAMMEH MUST NOT ONLY GO. JAMMEH
>WILL GO. Long live the Republic of The Gambia.
>

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