Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Gambian- Senegal Crisis Part II-Town Crier

In Part I, I have highlighted how Jilanka Jammeh and his parrot-mouthed Daily Observer paper are blowing a lie out of proportion and making Gambians believe that Senegal is about to overtake Gambia in collaboration with Gambian dissidents. Yahya Jammeh must stop playing with fire. It is an open secret that he has been the one supporting the separatists in the Southern part of Senegal since hijacking power in The Gambia. He is the one who has started the fight. If Senegal has not been handling the issue maturely enough, we would have been at war by now. Gambians should remember that it is under this Jammeh kid that Gambia and Senegal fans clashed in a football match for the first time in our history. You can push a man as far as the wall and then he will have no other alternative but to push back. Yahya has roughly been pushing Gambians around since 1994 and we have reached the wall. It's time to push back. He must realise that if Senegal is provoked to the extreme, it is us here in The Gambia that will suffer more. Why? The fight will be fought in Gambian soil. It is Senegal that will pursue the Jammeh backed rebels into Gambian territory and so the war is going to be fought in Gambian soil. There will be more Gambian loss of life and property. Our geographical situation is such that there is hardly anywhere one can run except by sea to Carpe Verde, Mauritania or Bissau.

I have worked with most of the ex-military men Yahya believes are collaborating with the Senegalese government to destabilize Gambia. We have been lied to that an advance party was sent in to survey some key installations. These ex-military men have been soldiers far long enough to know in the ins and outs of all the major barracks the number of which I will not want to disclose here as this may be a security breach. They do not need anyone to conduct a surveillance of anywhere or anything. Like I said before, Yahya believes in killing his enemies. He hates to see them alive and moving around. He does not feel safe with these gallant ex-combattants patrolling freely in the streets of Senegal. He wants to snuff the air out of their lungs like he did to many like them.

NIA Reports

What kind of report does one expect to get from his espionage machineray (NIA) sent to Dakar? Of course they will tell Oga what he wants to hear and not what is really prevailing on the ground. Jammeh doesn't seem to think cohensively. He does it the opposite way and we thank Almighty Allah that there is a man in the Senegalese Presidential Palace in contrast to the man-boy we have here. Dictators are never told the truth. They are told what they want to hear, whether true or false. In a dictatorship, everyone says things to please the dictator and keep their jobs since they have families to feed. If you don't tell dictators what they want to hear, they will term you an enemy trying to undermine them. Any human being who hates positive criticism from which they are suppose to learn lives a confused life as with time they cannot descern good from bad. To them both will become synonymous as is with Jammeh. He hardly knows what is true and what is not.

I have long been in and out of Senegal and know more than Observer editors. The Jakai were not created by Wade but instead it was President Abdou Joof who in search of a solution to the Casamance crisis thought it might be a good idea to create a counter rebel force which will take on the then MFDC. So he pitched brother against brother. Most of the people who joined the first Jakai group thought that it was a more genuine group than the MFDC. And the promise then was to assimilate them into the army once their mission was accomplished. Little did Casamance know that Joof was pitching brother against brother. The sooner they discovered this; most of the youths left the bush and came home to their families. There are no Jakais now in the Abene region as claimed by the Daily Observer. We all live here and know people in Senegal who can confirm to us as to the presence of any Jakai rebels in the Abene area. As far as I know, it used to be since the time of Joof that these were near that area and we have had reports of the destruction they caused in those areas. What also do you expect Wade to do if Jammeh is supporting one group. He has every right to resuscitate the old Jakai to deal with Jammeh's rebels. If you thro' grenades at me, what do you expect from me? A hand shake and a smile? Of course not!!! Oga, I will take you down with an RPG and if that does not do it, I will use a ballistic missile. Remember the old saying "as you make your bed, so shall you lie on it." The bad seeds that Jammeh has grown have germinated and he should face the music alone rather than drag all of us into it. Let me also give Oga a fact in case he does not know: our army is not only made of your sympathizers. You have hurt some of us and have hurt our families as well. It is not also made of only Gambians but different nationalities including people from Bissau, Senegal and Guinea Conakry. So don't think that all are loyal to you. Certainly not!!

After giving a little hint in part I there are measures being already in place to track Town Crier down. I am aware and am also taking all the necessary precautions. No more hints again. Peace to all peace loving Gambians. Wasalam.


TOWN CRIER

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