Gambia-lers, Sometime ago I wrote about Jammeh's Departure, and in that piece, I lamented on the unpleasant options of how Jammeh must depart if a free and fair election process could not remove him. And I am positively certain that a free and fair election will never be a solution to Jammeh's departure. I said this for the simple reason that the only way to have a free and fair election to remove Jammeh from office is to invite Independent International Observers to come and monitor the elections so that people could exercise their Universal Adult Suffrage in the an atmosphere of peace and tranquility without harassment and intimidation. And to invite these International Independent Observers, Jammeh must give his blessing. And knowing that after numerous mis-steps, killings, mismanagement, corruptions, harassments, intimidation, fear, insults and total collapse of moral etiquettes and human decency, Jammeh obviously knows that if a free and fair elections are encouraged his days will be over in months to come. Therefore, he will never invite Independent Observers to come and monitor our elections. Even our so-called traditionalists who always believe that it is God who makes a leader whom we all must follow till God ends his term, are awakened and enlightened and even frightened that our beautiful country could be on brink of Civil War like Sierra Leone. In addition, after seeing Senegalese voted out their president through a free and fair elections, our traditionalists have now also come to terms with the situation they have at home. Having said all that, since Jammeh will be reluctant to encourage a free and fair elections at home, he has no other choice but to clinch on to power at all cost. And he is doing this to divide us as a nation on tribal lines. His strategy is to support and encourage tribal divisions so that if it comes to crunches, he could fuel a similar situation in the country like what is currently happening in Sierra Leone: The FODAY SANKOH scenario; and this is what could happen if Jammeh knows that his days are numbered. Could we afford to have another FODAY SANKOH in our subregion? Certainly not. But now what is the best option to oust Jammeh? Should we still follow the TRADITIONALIST SCHOOL OF THOUGHT? Well, if there is not other decent option, then we may have to do that. MAY GOD BLESS OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------