THE
OCTOBER VICTORY
                                               AND THE
GNA.


I have been too busy lately. But I'll be back soon to
continue my coup series in The Gambia. My writing this
week is to make few comments on the current political
situation in the country and to continue advising the
Gambian soldiers to be mindful of their role in the
forthcoming elections.
However before all that let the losers know that we
just wouldn't quit the crusade to destroy Yaya and his
dogs. To think that my resent silence was as a result
of any hopelessness in the struggle is just wishful
thinking. While I was silent anyway, I was on the
other hand louder and more active working in, what we
used to call in the army, behind the enemy lines. Our
work there is more destructive to the Yaya regime than
what is offered in cyberspace. As a result I am now
more confident than ever that Yaya's reign of terror
over the peace-loving people of the Gambia is over.
Come October, the final chapter of this evil
government would be closed forever.
I can give you a summarized version of exactly how the
changes are going to take place. Just before and
during election day, knowing that they would lose, the
APRC would try every desperate means to frighten the
population into thinking that Yaya has the military
backing to do anything to stay in power. But as things
are today, what the APRC fools are too dumb to
understand is that over the past seven past years, the
Gambian people have so much woken up to reality that
any attempt to frighten them by Yaya these days merely
adds more fuel to their determination to confront him
without fear. So by the time Yaya takes his last
desparate stand on the 19th of October, he would have
angered so many Gambians, civilians and soldiers
alike, that he would be very lucky if he, in one
piece, got away from his self-created crisis. He is
not the kind of person who would know that choosing
the peaceful course to exit the political scene would
be his best bet. After exhausting the usefulness of
idiots like Joseph Joof, the suicidal Justice Minister
whose miserable end would be worst than that of
Cheyassin Secka, Yaya would try to wage his last
battle from Kaninlai because he would eventually
realize that the good majority of the soldiers
especially the rank and files would not risk any thing
to keep him in power. The soldiers are already in
their rebellious state to go with the opposition on
that mass-demonstration day. Certainly it is going to
take a mass demonstration to oust the tyrant from his
political seat. Like all tyrants peaceful means could
never bring them to their senses. It's only through
revolution by the civilian masses, the radical
soldiers or both that bring tyrants down to their
knees. If Hitler was not fought by the entire world,
the terrorist would have known no limit to how long he
would continue to impose his terror on humankind. Yaya
is no different. Nothing but some kind of force would
get the murderer out of office. And that is going to
happen in October.
Having said that, I would like to pause and
congratulate Mr. Ousainou Darbo and his coalition
forces for the tremendous achievement they realized
lately. My assessment of the situation, drew me the
conclusion that all the ingredients necessary to boot
out Yaya out of his stolen power have now been put in
place. Nothing can rescue the devils with all the
bluff and threat-their last useless weapons-they often
throw around with mad desperation.
And I also, I wish to congratulate Darbo for the
leadership role he was entrusted with, and also assure
him that I am already planning the draft
congratulation message I would send him in October
when the Gambian people finally rid themselves of the
child murderer who is still being paraded by shameless
sycophants as a good leader.  Yes come October Yaya
and his gang of criminals will be thrown away to hell
where they belong for murdering too many Gambian
people, especially children. Nothing in the history of
this evil government's deeds should be considered more
serious. To tell us that Yaya built this, erected
that, paid people's fare to Mecca or Rome, gave
charity to the schools or the orphanages are all
nonsense compared to murdering armless school
children. I still do not know how people can be so
disgusting as to cancel death for Dalasis.  But I am
glad that the real god-fearing Gambians still
remember. I was there with Darbo in heart and spirit
at the Brikama rally when he called upon the people to
observe that moment of silence in memory of that
regrettable evil day. I urge him to please continue
observing the special moment of silence in every rally
or mass meeting as a way of reminding the country the
most evil day ever known in Gambian history. As I
said, it is more important than any crime Yaya has
committed in the country.  Come October, after the
vampires are gone, the case will be investigated in
detail and all culprits brought to justice. Their fat
foreign bank accounts will be seized for the
compensation of the victim's families including those
soldiers' families whose bodies are still abandoned at
Yundum Barrack's toilets. It would be a day when
Gambians will witness with satisfaction the most
interesting legal bust of political criminals.
Having said that I also want to take a moment to
commend and congratulate all the new opposition forces
that have rallied behind Darbo for the October polls.
UDP alone would have done it, so adding the PPP and
the GDP effectively gave more force to the combatants,
making it ever more easy to chase the monsters away.
As for the come back bid by Sir Dawda, there have been
a lot of arguments on its merits or demerits; however,
as far as I am concerned I think Sir Dawda's move is
positive for the opposition forces and of course for
his political legacy.
For the opposition forces, the PPP come back has added
invaluable force to their ranks, despite its request
to have Sir Dawda back as their party leader and his
acceptance of the offer. For a while, Jawara's come
back bid was misinterpreted as if the former president
was on a program to have his former seat back, nothing
more or less.
I had personally perceived the situation differently.
Looking at things generally from the moment Yaya was
forced to nullify Decree 89, thanks to the pressure
from the international community and certainly to O.J
with his likes, to the resurrection of the PPP and
other old parties, I saw a total different picture
from Sir Dawda being merely power hungry. After
battling it with blood and flesh to the final victory,
O.J. as we all witnessed maintained his frontline
position and decided to pledge his loyalty to his
former party PPP, something I could not blame him for
at all. After all while O.J was fighting the decree,
with some of us thinking that he was on a futile
course, especially after his court case was treated by
evasive Gambian magistrates, the Serekunda Political
heavyweight had always spoken as a PPP force. And I am
sure he would have continued fighting like that
through the election period if Yaya was not counseled
by his wiser advisers to give it up.
However, O.J.'s master plan had been a secret kept out
of the public's knowledge. As for me in particular I
did not for once think that he was going to work on
getting the PPP back together, offering Sir Dawda his
usual leadership role of the party and then allying
with the UDP with sincere backing for Darbo to lead
them. Anyway I am glad that things happened the way
they did with miraculous smoothness. I commend the PPP
for their selfless gesture.
On Sir Dawda in particular, I think it was the party
that unanimously re-selected him as their party leader
still. Now let's look at the hypothetical flip side
here. Let's say the party met and said that Sir Dawda
was no longer wanted as their party leader but instead
chose somebody else. What a victory that would have
been to Yaya's political campaign. It would be like
saying that even the PPP rejected their former leader
because of his poor leadership. Or let's say Sir Dawda
instead rejected the offer on the basis of whatever,
but mainly to give up politics, as many people want
him to do now, fancy how the enemies, the APRC
precisely, would attempt to use that to their
advantage. It would be very easy for them to run
around lying to the Gambians that Sir Dawda even
rejected his own party. That would have crippled all
the efforts of the party to make the dynamic come back
they did at home. I would think that Darbo would have
even hesitated to accept their support. So you see
both the party and Sir Dawda played their role in the
most logical manner dictated by the circumstances. It
was an evolutionary process that I think took a
natural and positive course. And it will continue to
do so to the end where they would all celebrate the
destruction of the Killer-government era.
On a wider spectrum, I think Sir Dawda should be given
a break now to work on his own political blueprint.
When he was overthrown in 1994 in which he left the
country without resistance, a gesture that saved the
nation from possible blood bath, many critics
condemned him for not staying and fighting to the end.
They think he should not have left with the American
vessel regardless of any senseless consequence.
However by contrast, in 1981 when Kukoi wanted to
change the Gambia into a Marxist State overnight and
Sir Dawda sought military assistance from Senegal that
foiled the coup many Gambians, as I remembered,
condemned Sir Dawda for being too power hungry. They
felt he should have simply given up like P.S. Njie,
J.C. Faye and his forebears did. For those of us who
would not easily forget, Senegal's military
intervention in 1981 was the best thing to happen
after a taste of Kukoi's government of rampage and
banditry. It was unfortunate that there were innocent
victims of the incident; nevertheless, it was Kukoi's
crazy bid to seize power that somehow brought us that
whole nightmare. I even lost a neighbor whose body was
never recovered after someone saw him shot in a
looting struggle.
But still on Sir Dawda, for the past seven years,
critics have been grilling him of running away from
the country when he was needed most. Now that he has
offered to return home to join the struggle to get rid
of the monstrous government, critics are back again
saying that he should not. The guy is after all a
Gambian who would prefer to spend the rest of his life
at a safe home in the Gambia but cannot do so while
Yaya is still there. So if for nothing he has the
right like any of us to search for a solution the home
problem affecting all of us.
 On a more extended thought, if Sir Dawda should wait
until after October to return when Yaya is gone for
good, chances are different critics would emerge with
charges that he waited until the struggle was over
before he got the courage to come back home. That's
how confusing things are when the Jawara issue is
objectively analyzed. But my sincere belief is that
Sir Dawda is no longer interested in claiming back
what used to be, but is genuinely out to help, like
every good Gambian is doing, to clean the country of
the devilish government of Yaya. He is million times
better than Yaya, and should be given a chance to join
the struggle as a PPP leader or private person. His
appearance in the country at this critical time would
help tremendously in harmonizing more Gambians for the
final blow in October. Yaya would not be crazy to harm
Sir Dawda. That I know about.
As for the Gambian soldiers, it is of great importance
for them to understand the good things that await them
in a post-APRC government. The fact that Yaya's evil
government has stigmatized their reputation and
isolate them as a potentially useful international
force in an era when armies are insulated for
peacekeeping and peace enforcement should make them
firmly committed to the change in October. A UDP
government will bring back the vital training packages
as that one recently organized by the Americans in
Senegal where professional armies in the sub-region
were thoroughly schooled and equipped for modern
peacekeeping. While the chosen armies were noticed for
their professionalism and outstanding ethical
standards, because of Yaya and the bad name he gave
you as child killers the GNA was left out as taboos of
the sub-region. The unfortunate event of April 10 and
11 last year in which Yaya ordered the butchering of
innocent Gambian children with the Police Intervention
Unit firing most of the deadly shots is now a crime
viewed by the world as being committed by the GNA
troops. Whether the soldiers know it or not Yaya still
gives the world the impression that he was away in
Cuba when his Gambia Army on some strange orders not
known to him shot and killed the kids. Did he not
promise the world that he was going to investigate and
punish those responsible. All right, the investigation
was carried out but why were those found responsible
not punished. Because Yaya fully well know that
punishing them will bring in the open those criminals
behind the crime who are not the ordinary GNA soldiers
but Baboucarr Jatta and the Police.
Anyway the principal criminal was Yaya, the very devil
who gave the orders and came back home pretending not
to know how it happened. After the October elections
the truth will be brought out clearly for the whole
world to see that it was not the GNA soldiers but Yaya
himself.
Other than the fact that he would pay for his crimes
seriously, the GNA's good name would be salvaged to
allow the troops to be part of the modern forces
acclaimed for their meritorious roles in the
international community. The GNA soldiers will be like
those troops in Ghana, Senegal and other African
armies respectably flying the flags of their nations
all over the world for peace and security and not
sitting at Yundum, Fajara or Farafenni waiting for a
moron like Yaya to stain their names with more of his
satanic atrocities.
Let October be the end of this foolish leader leading
you into the path to hell.
Know that a Darbo government will bring you far
greater things than this useless government has
brought you, if there was anything good he had ever
brought you.
I will keep on advising you on how to stand your
ground with honor and pride through this election
period until that day in October when there will no
longer be Yaya Jammeh and his criminal followers.

Ebou Colly


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