A word to our dear political leaders not to be victims of the bad leadership
sickness


*Our political leaders should know that the assumptions or convictions they
hold as true about people they govern, concepts, or things determines how
the people generally behave in accordance with their beliefs.*

As a people's leader, they should know that their beliefs directly impact on
the leadership climate, cohesion, discipline, training, and combat
effectiveness of the people.

The great danger of President Yaya Jammeh's Genocidal Democracy
(demonocracy) in the Gambia for over 15 wasted years is a tragedy for our
nation-state. There is no guarantee for democratic, free, fair and
transparent elections in the coming November general elections. It is a
pre-set election results. President Yaya Jammeh will not and will never hand
over power voluntarily to the Gambian people. President Yaya Jammeh's
limited ability to lead Gambians flows from his misplaced individual
beliefs, pride, bad human values, negative character and uncivilized
behavior. Jammeh is a crime.
Unfortunately "President Yaya Jammeh does not know that leadership is an
influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes
that reflect their mutual purposes."

I wish to shed some light on what ethical leadership is all about. Leader's
Ethical Leadership must be a role model.
• A leader must develop his subordinates ethically.
• He should avoid creating ethical dilemmas for his subordinates.
• Either leading or following, people model ethical behavior in either
role.
(1) Leaders set standards of ethical behavior.
(a) Define and affirm core values.
(b) Provide clarity.
(c) Act as standard bearers.
(2) Followers embrace those standards.
(a) Embrace core values.
(b) Ask for direction when uncertain.
(c) Meet standards.

The four Essential Character Traits of Ethical Leaders.
• Ability to recognize and articulate the ethics of a problem
• The personal courage no to rationalize away bad ethics
• An innate respect for others.
• Personal worth from ethical behavior

Explanations on Presidential Vision Statement: It must be a guiding picture
of a desirable, ambitious future. The Criteria for a quality vision
statement: its nature, value and aims must be futuristic, must be
challenging, must preserves core ideology, must be applicable to individual
or organization, must inspires radical, positive and qualitative change,
must be compelling, must be clear and concise.

The Mission Statement: must purpose and reason for existence. The Criteria
for a quality mission statement: should be clear and concise, should be
consistent with values, must be action-oriented, must be measurable, should
drive or direct all decisions and actions.

President Yaya Jammeh must develop Ethical Fitness to be able to govern
rightly the Gambia. To model and create a good people's leader here are
three Levels of Personal Moral Development.

1. Pre-conventional
• Rulebook
• Self-interest
• Blind Obedience/ Compliance
• Acts based on reward/ punishment
(Requires leader's presence.)
2. Conventional
• Fulfills others' expectations
• Society's obligations
• Law abiding
• Identification
• Acts to become a recognized member of the group
3. Post-conventional
• Internalized universal principles
• Balances concern for self and others.
• Independent
• Complete belief in the values

President Yaya Jammeh should develop his plan for establishing an ethical
climate in Gambian political environment. He should avoid adopting the
Self-Interest Model. Frankly speaking President Yaya Jammeh is self-centered
and egotistical; his primary goal is self-preservation. He does not know the
act of maximizing return that must "conform to the basic rules of the
society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom." A
good people's leader assumes that people will be decent and the law will
appropriately punish unethical behavior.

• Purpose - maximize return
• Contract - act within laws and customs of the land
• Driving assumption - corporate self-interest provides the greatest return
to the greatest number
• Primary means - tangible efficiency methods
The Drawbacks of the Self-Interest Model
• Self-interest is ethically dysfunctional
- Validates self-aggrandizement
- Does not create mutually beneficial approaches
- Focuses on results not the means

• Self-interest is not pragmatic
- Its priorities do not produce excellence
- It filters out others
- It focuses on making profit not meaning
- It limits activities to those that reward self.
- Results in mediocrity.

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter
regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been
caught." A good concerned and responsible people's leader always asks who
might get hurt besides him. Am I perpetuating a dishonest and fraudulent
relationship with my followers? Whose needs am I considering in my
definition of the problem? Have I tested the other person's needs directly?
Here is how His Excellency President Yaya Jammeh's inefficiency corrupts his
leadership role in three ways:

1. It Undermines the need for moral thinking
2. It Encourages self-delusion
3. It Promotes greed
President Yaya Jammeh should ask himself pertinent questions to Break
through his Ego Barrier.
• What is my intention?
• Have I invited and tolerated dissent?
• Have I rubbed elbow with subordinates?
• What have I omitted from my analysis
• What if I get caught?

Have I listened to other opinions? Can I tolerate hearing them directly, or
only filtered through political communication channels?
• Did I address the facts? Precisely what value am I creating?
• At whose expense am I creating value?
• Have I articulated factual information in as objective and impartial a way
as possible?
• Are my decisions or behavior having a positive or negative impact on the
relationships involved?
• Am I rewarding ego-dominant, relationship-destroying attitudes in others?
• Have I laughed at myself recently?

"If the political and democratic environment penalizes or simply threatens
to penalize ethical decisions, many political leaders will be unwilling to
apply these morals to any other frameworks. If the only choice for a
political leader is private moral norms or career suicide, then very few
political leaders will have the courage to stick to their principles, and
even fewer will be fully aware of how often they compromise them."

"Good for nothing political leaders can be fooled by their own self-inner
good intentions, a leadership and managerial problem-solving approach, and
sometimes financial success into complacently accepting a business ethic
that falls short of their private ideals which is sheer infantile foolery."

Ethical leaders do the right things for the right reasons all the time, even
when no one is watching."

• We need to move beyond refraining to do wrong
• We need to incorporate a Covenantal Ethic that promotes the well-being of
others.

Dear Gambians what should be done to rescue our flagellant democracy? Are we
going to continue lamenting without pain over our miseries?
What miracle are we expecting to happen to liberate our sinking nation?
Do we expect neocolonial foreign powers to act on our behalf and physically
remove President Yaya Jammeh as you all know it will be against their vested
interest to remove him?
Plenty talk, long endless well articulated political speeches, beautiful
brilliant essays will never resolve the Gambian political and economic
crises except a concerted revolutionary ACTION.
To save the Gambia requires faith and courage--faith in reason, and courage
to proclaim what reason shows to be true. One has to multiply [liberating]
revolutionary thoughts to the point where there will be no enough policemen
to control them.
In the Gambia we need "Freethinkers who are willing to use their mind
without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with
their own customs, privileges, or beliefs."
This state of mind is necessary for correct thinking, and where it is not
present, "discussion is apt to become worse than useless." Frankly speaking
we do not need those who do not give reason "free play" and are not
freethinkers. Their minds are in bondage.
We in the Gambia need men who prefer to see clearly in all matters; in
politics, religion and in philosophy.
Gambians who believe willingly only what they understand and they admits
that there are things they do not know;
We need Gambians who value application above speculation, simplify ethics as
well as doctrine, and tries to direct it towards useful virtues;
We need Gambians who like a moderate political system that preserves natural
liberty, the liberty of conscience, of speech and of the individual, reduces
evil as much as possible. . .
We need Gambians who have a deadly hatred for hypocrisy, fanaticism and bad
taste; they do not limit themselves to detesting them, they fight them to
death.
This will be in compliance with what Dr Amilcar Cabral said
« Always bear in mind that people are not fighting for ideas, for the things
in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better
and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of
their children ».Remember that we are struggling against an unjust society
and the creation of a new humanity in the light of the Word?
The results of our revolutionary action to liberate the Gambia should be:
• Our ethical actions should provide the best balance of good over evil.
• Any of our acts must be right if and only if it will result in as much
good as any available alternative, for the greatest good for the greatest
number of people.
• People generally behave in accordance with their beliefs.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. And the day will
came when the risk to remain tight in a bud would be more painful than the
risk it will take to blossom.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go
through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in
it. This is a kind of death.
Let us wake up and stand on our feet and take our responsibilities to free
our dear country. It is forbidden to continue shedding tears for others in
the Gambia.
Two facts should be uppermost in the minds of Gambian readers of Koukoie
Samba Sanyang and other Gambian intellectual's documentation of the reign of
terror that engulfs the Gambia and West Africa in the "Dirty neocolonial
War" waged by the state security forces and their paramilitary associates
from the early 1994s that must be combated mercilessly and without
compromise. State sponsored violence in the name of state security is not
legitimate unless the consequences of such action are to eliminate a still
greater evil. Fighting those fighting for freedom and justice is a greater
evil than dictatorship.
The first is that Gambia's "democra-tatorship," as I term this amalgam of
democratic form and totalitarian terror, as the worst human rights record in
the African continent in recent years, no small achievement when one
considers the competition.
The second is that Gambia has had accessories in crimes, primary among them
the government of the United States under President George W. Bush son and
today by President Barrack Obama, for sure Britain our former colonial
master, misled Muslim countries collaborating with President Yaya Jammeh in
the name of Islam, and others have also helped to train and arm the
assassins and torturers of the narco-military-business owners network that
maintains "instability" in the Gambia a country that is rich in promise, and
a nightmare for many of its people.
In many occasions Jammeh's neocolonial regime announced publicly criminal
plans for active practical support and cooperation with rich rebel Taiwan
state; petro-dollar rich Muslim countries in the fight against arrogant
imperialist powers oppressing and exploiting rich and weaker Muslim nations
in a bit to mislead and fool Muslim countries to obtain financial support
and military equipment for the Gambia, allegedly "for anti-terrorist
purposes." The propaganda machinery set by Jammeh's regime was "justified"
by the fact that "Gambia has a hidden false democratic form of government
and does not exhibit a consistent pattern of gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights due to intimidation and silencing
journalists by illegal arrests, disappearances and murders."
President Yaya Jammeh's neocolonial barbaric regime has never allowed and
permitted the free investigation and publication by an independent
Commission of Human rights; Justice and Peace to document atrocities since
his coming to power including over hundreds of politically-motivated
killings, in "social cleansing" campaigns. Political killings averaged five
a month, with ten people murdered in their homes or in the street and one
"disappeared."
According to security agents reports under cover who do not want to be named
or identified "the vast majority of those who have disappeared in recent
years are grass-roots political organizers, journalists or union leaders,
leftist politicians, human rights workers and other revolutionary
activists".
But one may note that "Jammeh's false democratic form of government" did
everything possible to emerge without stain, and with no "consistent pattern
of gross violations" of human rights through restrictions and seizure of
press freedom. Throughout these years, as usual, the primary victims of
state sponsored terror were freedom fighters, journalists, soldiers and
school children.
The Gambian Minister of Justice Hon Edward Gomez commenting on the
application of the death penalty articulated the evil doctrine of "total war
against the Gambians to serve as a deterrent to future coup plotters" by
state power "in the political, economic, and social arenas."
Freedom fighters and Human rights activists are the official targets, but
«the real danger," is "what the revolutionaries call the political and
psychological war," the efforts "to control the popular progressive
elements" and "to manipulate the masses." According to Jammeh's neocolonial
regime the "subversives" hope to influence unions, university, high schools
and colleges, media, and so on, and his government had to counter this "war"
with its own "total war in the political, economic, and social arenas."
Reviewing Jammeh's doctrine and practice, the watchful eye study concludes
realistically that the "internal enemy" of the state terrorist apparatus
extends to "labor organizations, popular revolutionary movements,
underground indigenous organizations, oppositional political parties, silent
rebellious peasant movements, brutally honest intellectual freedom fighters,
God fearing religious leaders, patriotic youth and student groups, passive
neighborhood organizations, patriotic diplomats and civil servants who
parted partnership with Jammeh," indeed and any group that must be secured
against undesirable influences. "Every individual who in one or another
manner supports the goals of the enemy must be considered a traitor and
treated in that manner.
These initiatives "ushered in what is known in the Gambia as the National
Security Doctrine, . . . not defense against an external enemy, but a way to
make the military establishment the masters of the game . . . [with] the
right to combat the internal enemy, as set forth in the NIA and 22nd July
Green Berets boys doctrine, and the Jammeh doctrine: it is the right to
fight and to exterminate social workers, trade unionists, men and women who
are not supportive of the neocolonial establishment, and who are assumed to
be revolutionary extremists."
The "Dirty War" escalated in the early 2000 when Jammeh's regime began to
lose wholesale support from the masses and wants to extend these programs
throughout the sub-region, to leave it devastated, strewn with hundreds of
thousands of corpses tortured and mutilated people who might otherwise have
been insufficiently supportive of the neocolonial establishments, perhaps
even influenced by "subversives." This is a bit to instill fear in the
masses not to join the revolutionary struggle demanding for freedom,
justice, rule of law, respect for human rights and participative democracy.
This concept of Jammeh's special warfare, which consists in murderously
eliminating every endeavor of the popular revolutionary organizations under
the allegation of revolutionaries or terrorism as the conduct of these
leaders is injurious to the welfare of his autocratic regime." According to
President Yaya Jammeh it is the right of the military and those who provide
them with the proper orientation who are entitled to determine the welfare
of the nation, not the beasts of burden toiling and suffering and expiring
in their own lands.
The official cover story for the participation in crime is the war "against
the freedom fighters and journalists and narcotrafficking operations of
which President Yaya Jammeh himself is a narcotrafficking super Lord in
collaboration with other Drug Barons in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau."
"It is important to explore . . . what weight the culture of terror has had
in domesticating the expectations of the majority vis-a-vis alternatives
different to those of the powerful." That is the crucial point, wherever
such methods are used to subdue the "so called internal enemy."
We have to clarify that all confessions obtained by torture in the Gambia
are of course meaningless, the real purpose is not confession. Rather, it is
silence, "silence induced by fear." "Fear is contagious," "and spreads to
the other members of the oppressed group, to silence and paralyze them. To
impose silence through violence is torture's real purpose, in the most
profound and fundamental sense." The same is true of all other aspects of
the doctrines that have been devised and implemented with their guidance and
support under a series of fraudulent guides.
To impose silence on the so-called internal enemy is necessary in the
"democra-tatorships" that Gambian policy has sought to impose on its domains
ever since it "assumed, out of self-interest, responsibility for the welfare
of the world neocolonialist capitalist system,"
Neocolonialist policies sees it necessary to impose silence and spread fear
in countries like Gambia, Guinea Bissau and in the Casamance region of
Senegal where the people are most deprived of their basic human rights and
where the poorest farmers subsist on under 3% a country where 60% of the
population live in "absolute poverty," unable to satisfy basic subsistence
needs and 28% live in "absolute misery "Poverty is the world's worst human
rights crisis.", unable to meet nutritional needs.
The record of horrors is all too full and for "justice, freedom and
democracy," "respect for human rights," and guarantees for "the endless
inviolability of all forms of life and liberty." The record is endless, and
endlessly shocking.
Such macabre scenes, which rarely reached the mainstream in big cities and
abroad are designed for intimidation. The watchful eye just testifies that
the "People are not just killed by death squads in the Gambia, Casamance and
Guinea-Bissau they are deprived of the basic needs of human life.
Men are not just humiliated by the NIA and 22nd July Green Beret Boys; their
properties seized, their severed genitalia are stuffed in their mouths.
Gambian, Casamance and Guinea-Bissau women are not just raped by the NIA and
22nd July Green Beret Boys; they are told that if they reveal these
atrocities their husbands will never return alive to them. It is not enough
to kill political opponents; they are electrocuted, ditched in acid water,
dragged over barbed wire until the flesh falls from their bones while happy
torturers watch and film the event for Jammeh's viewing pleasure." "The
aesthetics of terror in the Gambia is religious." The intention is to ensure
that the individual is totally subordinated to the interests of the Kanilai
Fatherland, which is why death squads are sometimes called the "Army of
Kanilai" by the governing APRC party.
According to President Yaya Jammeh peace and order must be guaranteed by
ferocious repression, and its contemporary counterpart follows the same
course: "Just as the black man was branded a savage beast to justify the
white man's civilization mission, and guarantee his exploitation system, so
those who have sought social revolutionaries, or terrorists, or drug
dealers, or whatever the current term of art may be." The fundamental
reason, however, is always the same: the savage beast may fall under the
influence of "subversives" who challenge the regime of injustice, oppression
and terror that must continue to serve the interests of foreign investors
and domestic privilege.
Throughout these grim years, nothing has been more inspiring than the
courage and dedication of those Gambians who have sought to expose and
overcome the culture of fear in suffering Gambia. They have left martyrs,
whose voices have been silenced by the powerful yet another crime.
"The evil scourge of terrorism," a plague spread by "depraved opponents of
civilization itself" in "a return to barbarism in the modern age" The Terror
Network became the Bible of President Yaya Jammeh's administration and the
founding document of his discipline of terrorology "act of terrorism" which
means an activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to
human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the Gambia or any
State, (b) "the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain
goals that are political, religious or ideological in nature.
We have to continue to struggle on without compromise.
Revolutionary freedom fighters, human rights activists and journalist's
remarkable work and eloquent words should not only inspire us, but also
impel us to valiantly act to bring these terrors to an end, as we can. Their
testimonies here contain an "urgent popular appeal." It should be answered,
but it must go far enough. Our responsibilities should extend well beyond
the Gambia. The fate of Gambians and many others hinges on our willingness
and ability to recognize and meet them. We should not be an opposition that
has to be reduced to fear mongering and doomsday proselytizing.
My mind is wide open to anybody who will help get the apes off African
people's backs.
We Gambians have successfully domesticated our dogs, but we will never be
able to de-animalize our dogs and remove their natural instinct. We cannot
change a dog into having human characteristics. In whatever conditions a dog
will always remain a dog period.

Koukoie Samba Sanyang

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GOD BLESS THE GAMBIA.
LET US JOIN HANDS AND SUPPORT SHEIKH PROFESSOR DR. ALH YAHYA JAMMEH (NASIRU
DEEN) TO BUILD OUR COUNTRY. *


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