Writing is my first love and for some reason I am experiencing a writers drought as I compose this dispatch. I persistently dip my plume into the ink well but it refuses to scribble my thoughts and amplify them into active words that give life to my creativity.
A third republic ushered in a foreign country with Gambians both home and abroad worried about what's going to happen. This was indeed a somber feeling for our collective pain and suffering. I persistently and perfusely have flashbacks of innocent lives taken, countless people wiped off from the face of the earth.
Peace and development is in our hands
I am grateful to God that I lived to witness the dawn of a new day and I eagerly waiting for justice and redress. May God bless the diverse peoples of the Gambia as we painstakingly maneuver a scanty course filled with manmade obstacles induced by a vicious despot and his henchmen. The road to certainty and uncertainty is before each Gambian. If all Gambians, civilian and disciplined force or military, agree to the peaceful route of transferring power, no one who is opposed to this could impose one’s will on the rest.
The peace and development of the country is in our hands. The Gambian people have no other homeland except the Gambia. We need to build a Gambia that is fit for all of us to live in; A Gambia that we will be proud to bequeath to our children and our children’s children is what we are challenged to commence building on 19th January 2017.
We should all owe allegiance to our motherland and be ever true to it.
Don't know from left to right
Many of us lost our lives and that of my mom, dad, friends, uncles and many other relation try to get freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of rights to live and let others live for who they are and what they believe to be.
I am a lesbian activist who is currently living in Denmark and I don't think of going back to my home country despite the New Democratic ruling party which everyone is celebrating. The so-called tradition who see people like us as nobody in society, and consider to be stoned to death, so our only hope is to rely on government and their new rule of laws they will pass on despite the hate in our society.
At this moment the country is at its pointing time where you don't know from left to right. Gambia will always be Gambia to me. As long as they forgot to give equals rights to we the LGBT people in Gambia. When president Jammeh took over office he made lots of promise and the people of Gambia believe in him, and yet we continue to believe him for 22 years! What has he done at the end? By taking innocent lives for no reason.
Gambians that I know and is close to are frustrated with the current situation and are afraid that with the way the country is going anyone can disappear any day without trace. The government arrests people for things as simple as saying “this country is not easy” which is a violation of freedom of expression. Journalists, professors, students, police, farmers, every sector of Gambian society is painfully getting its share of the brutal president’s cake. The worst of all is the president’s lack of respect for human rights and rule of law.
Jammeh has maimed, looted and raped
The foundation of mediation is anchored on mutual trust and respect. The Butcher of Kanilai is not and will never be a trusted partner in mediation. He lacks the human decency to respect adversaries as equals. Therefore it is an exercise in futility to keep on giving credence to his desire to settle amicably.
This deal Jammeh got is not a good example. He took the peace and stability of the country as ransom for his own freedom. I am still trying to understand the peace and stability we bargained for….what if Jammeh goes back re-group and attempt a coup in the coming future? How are we assured the permanent safety of our country by leaving a tyrant free???? Is the freedom tentative or permanent??? Don't forget Conde didn't negotiate for Gambian freedom he came to support his friend Jammeh. They are all bandits…. How can you trust such diplomacy?
Jammeh has to come and face justice for he has maimed, looted and raped Gambia and Gambians. This maggot has no consideration for Gambians. Otherwise he would not have been exploiting the meagre resources of the poor people of the Gambia. When hospitality fails, only brutality prevails and the only language a heifer like Despot Jammeh understand is his adopted language of brutality.
Genny Ibriheem er et pseudonym for en herboende aktivist i den gambiske opposition mod Yahya Jammeh. Hendes rigtige identitet er redaktionen bekendt.
