Bamba Lye, You've honed on to the gist of our dilemma here. You know this Yaya Jammeh reminds me of that Abdallah Bakharam? guy who was elected president of Equador a few years ago. On the day he was elected, he went playing football with some boys. People thought he was just being down to earth. But when he was inaugurated president, the demon in him came out. He started saying really outrageous things, not to talk about his behavior. So, before he could do much damage to Equador, the parliament acted, and immediately removed him from the presidency! This was just two/three years ago. And Equador is similar to the Gambia in many ways: high illiteracy, low human PPI, etc. But the major difference is that in Equador, they do have HONORABLE members of parliament who put aside their personal and party interests to work for the nation's interests. Unfortunately in our case, we have the Tamsir Jallows, and Tombong Jattas whose only interest is to wake up every day, jump in some expensive car paid for by the Gambian public, and go chase after little girls all over Banjul and Serrekunda. They don't give a damn if Yaya Jammeh tramples upon dead Gambians daily. If this isn't an outrage, I don't know what is. As counter-intuitive as it may sound, I sometimes have this weird notion that Yaya is as much a hostage of these people, as Gambians are of Yaya. Why? Because Yaya's mental faculties are -to be quite blunt, somewhere between that of an eight and a twelve year old. (If you doubt this, you should find and watch the video where he's telling some Senegalese reporter what he likes to do to a big sheep at 2am in the morning. You'll never be more ashamed to be Gambian. Talk about a national humiliation!) So, some of the people around him who are a lot smarter than him, are using him to get what they want. As long as he lets them do what they want as MPs (I'm talking about extra-legislative activities,) then they'll keep egging him on. I literally hated the PPP regime for what they were doing to our country, but I didn't bargain for anything like Yaya. This guy makes the PPP look like some princes in shining armor. Even if we kick this person out, we'll remain the laughing stock of all sane countries for a long time to come - thanks to him, and those propping him up. Trying to reason with him is like salmon hitting its head against a dam. Only we are the salmon here... Saul. >Mr. Sallah, > >Please allow me to quote you: > >"The only legitimate way of being entrusted with power is to receive the >mandate of an enlightened and free people. The only legitimate way of ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------