Auntie Jaboh
This is an excellent piece.
I hope Ebou Thief Jallow READS, DIGESTS AND THEN SHUT
UP! The poor guy is not credible on Gambian politics.
My sincere regards
Sanusi
--- Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ebou Jallow.
>
> I agree that the quest for power for the sake of
> power by African
> politicians is and continues to be our doom, and
> indeed where the nation and people have
> needed the politicians to set aside their petty egos
> to save the day, these
> egos and quests for power by any means has always
> gotten in the way, prooving
> the acccusation true every time. Instead, save for a
> very few, the annals of
> African politics are unfortunately not the place
> where men and women of honour
> resign from political positions as a gesture of good
> faith when the occasion
> calls for it. Moral convictions and the willingness
> to make sacrifices to
> protect them cannot be worn on and off like
> jewelry only when it suits one. The
> people notice although our politicians assume that
> ignorance is the order of
> the day and their best asset.
>
> However, where in your mind does Yaya Jammeh fit
> into this picture of power
> hungry African politicians who will do anything to
> get and stay in power? He
> certainly does not rank among honourable men because
> honourable men do not make
> brutality and repression their tools for success in
> their quests.
>
> Here is a man who seized power claiming he was out
> to eliminate corruption
> and would relinquish it to a civilian government
> after a specified period of
> time, and that he would not leave the army for
> politics.
>
> Here is a man who then reneged on this promise and
> has since ran for office
> twice and "won", and is set out on a course to
> remain president for as long as
> he can,and is ready to do whatever it takes to od
> that, and the evidence of
> this is there for all to see.
> He has set an agenda of violence, murder and mayhem
> upon his countrymen and
> put fear in the hearts of Gambians all for the sake
> of assuring that he remains
> in power, and there seems to be an array of Gamboans
> willing to participate
> in this ugly quest for temporary personal gain even
> at teh expense of
> tarnishing their images forever.
>
> He thinks he is a king when Gambians have not
> elected him king, and he finds
> all kinds of excuses to throw bogus charges at his
> opponents so he can
> incarcerate them, kill them, or do whatever is
> necessary to buy himself time and get
> them out of the picture.
>
> Yaya Jammeh claims that Gambians in the Diaspora are
> responsible for Gambia's
> woes because our outdry and accusations against his
> regime are the reasons
> why investors and donors stay out of Gambia.
> This is another ample evidence that he and his
> government have absolutely no
> understanding of World politics and economics and
> what criteria governments,
> donor agencies and the investors who are the
> citizens of these countries base
> their decisions to work with any government upon.
> The APRC regime has a simplistic view of the World,
> and it bespeaks of their
> utter lack of competence to lead our country, and
> yet, they will never have
> the courage and honour to admit this and step down
> it seems.
> They are hardly the stuff that courageous and
> honourable men and women are
> made of.
> In a democracy, those who understand the process do
> not try to eliminate
> their opponents by attempting to get rid if them
> with all sorts of excuses.
>
> Therefore, Yaya Jammeh and the APRC regime do not
> understand the Democratic
> process, and among African leaders who seek and
> attempt to maintain Power by
> any means necessary, they rank number one for us
> Gambians and they are also
> contributing to achieving that on the international
> scene. They are the ones
> responsible for the economic doom that has visited
> our country, but they will never
> admit it. They will continue to find excuses to lay
> the blame elsewhere when
> they are the ones whose actions spell their eventual
> doom.The World is not
> interested in dealing with or supporting repression
> and it is bad for business as
> well as for the reputations of those who support
> repressive regimes.
> Please do have the courage to label all culprits if
> you are going to label
> anyone.
>
> I have a theory about this senseless quest for power
> by our politicians so
> that it becomes more inportant than taking care of
> the people's business and
> interests which should be the main reason for being
> a politician, and relegates
> the purpose for becoming a politician in the first
> place to the back bench.
>
> I think it is povety, deprivation and the lack of
> opportunity that is
> prevalent in Africa, and which in turn is a result
> of the corruption of politics, so
> it is a vicious circle.
> Politics has become the avenue to "get rich quick"
> because we see politicians
> become wealthy overnight with their pockets stuffed
> full of the people's
> money which they are entrusted with, so that this
> evil has actually been accepted
> as nomal.
>
> Our youth have no opportunities, no jobs, no chance
> for higher education
> unless they struggel to get it themselves which most
> of the time involves all
> sorts of personal struggles and untold suffering.
> There are no opportunities for enterpreneurs to get
> teh funds they need to
> start businesses and no assistance of any sort to
> ensure their success.
>
> There is much hopelessness and dejection and so
> people are not shocked by
> corruption in politics anymore and infact, there is
> instead a scramble to join
> the game to "get your share". And yet, we expect
> our rights and interests to be
> protected when we are the enablers of those who
> subjugate us.
>
> The corrupt array of governments we have all over
> the continent have no
> interest and no plans to uplift the people
> economically or otherwise because it
> is easier to exploit people when they are poor and
> ignorant of their
> rights.Poor people are too busy trying to get the
> next meal and put a roof over the
> heads of their children, and survive deseases in an
> enviroment of limited or no
> access to even average medical care.
> They are vulnerable and afraid, and it the perfect
> targets.
>
> Instead, these dispicable, currupt leaders blame the
> people for their
> failures like Yaya Jammeh does.
> They hire and fire people at random because they are
> ignorant enough to think
> that there must be some expertise that these
> political stooge appointments
> they make every so many months have that will
> repair the looted economy
> overnight. It is scary to think that there is not
> even the level of intelligence to
> understand the simple theory of cause and effect.
> Namley that if you steal, mis-manage and neglect the
> economy and the
> implementation of the tools for improving the
> economic and social conditions of the
> people, and instead focus on the crime against the
> people of utilizing the
> state's funds to build wealth for yourself and your
> partners in crime, and to
> implement all sorts of devious tactics to stay in
> power, this will eventually
> manifest itself, and no amount of quick fixes,
> blames, brutality and
> grandstanding will work.
>
> For the average African political power then becomes
> a means of achieving
> wealth even though that wealth is not yours. Case in
> point, Yaya Jammeh who in
> his speech accuses Gambians he appoints to office as
> only seeking wealth when he
> has stood before the same Gambians and declared that
> he
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