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Mr Babucarr Tambedou, Why Should I As a Victim Continue To Suffer Indefinitely While the Criminals Go Free?

Aug8

A screenshot of Omar Jallow a Jungler at Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, © QTV

The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) was set up by an act of parliament to look into the extra judiciary killings, tortures and disappearances of Gambians and the likes during the 22 years of Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship. Most importantly, to help establish the truth, heal the wounds and bring to justice the perpetrators of those heinous crimes and closure for the victims and their families.

However, the Justice Minister of the Gambia, Mr Babucarr Tambedou’s announcement that some of the fearsome former hit-men of Yahya Jammeh known as the Junglers who testified before the TRRC are to be released imminently, would only intensify the division, pain and injustice Jammeh had inflicted on us during his misrule. It took me three days to come to terms with the reprehensible plan that these people are to release. Continue reading →

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Let’s Focus The New Year on Correcting The Wrongs of Yesterday for a Better Tomorrow, Mr President

Jan7
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Mr Adama Barrow- President of The Republic of The Gambia

Dear Mr President Adama Barrow,

I wish you and your family a blissful New Year and also wish you in advance a successful hosting of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit slated to for November 2019. This summit is a fantastic opportunity for the country in terms of infrastructures, tourism and exposure the country will get before, during and after the summit. For the sake of the country, we must all work together to make this a successful summit. Mr President you should do well to avoid it been politicised like that of the AU summit the country hosted in 2006. It’s an international event which we should host with great grandeur to the benefits of the entire nation.

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The Tolerant Gambia that some People Doubts its Tolerance

Jul18
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King Fahad Mosque in Banjul

Since the end of 22 years of dictatorship in the Gambia in December 2016, so many political and social issues which were tabooed then had now been widely debated both on and offline, in and outside the Gambia. Although some of the debates are conducted in a very civilised manner some not so civilised. This includes the recent Land dispute between the people specifically the Manjago community of Taneneh village, Kombo South, and a businessman Mr Seedy Barrow. The dispute stemmed from a plot of land which both parties claimed ownership. This is not the first time for a land dispute to occur between people and or communities in the Gambia. However, what made this one a unique case is mainly two factors, one of which is because it involved a minority tribe called Manjagoes who are mainly Christians secondly the Manjagoes claimed to have been using the disputed land as a cemetery for years and on the other hand, Seedy is claiming to be the rightful owner with right documentation to prove his claim. Continue reading →

Mr President: Is it Business as Usual or Business not unusual?

Jan30

 

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Gambia’s President Adama Barrow and his predecessor Dictator Yahya Jammeh

Dear Mr President Adama Barrow,

Congratulations on your one year as the 3rd president of the Republic of the Gambia. It was hard and confrontational, however, with a will, determination and togetherness we were able to defeat one of the cruelest regimes Africa ever had. Mr President, just as you highlighted in your recent interviews with the various media and press houses in the country, it will require a great deal of patience, dedication and hard work for the country to emerge from the 22 years of dictatorship and one-man rule. However, I think in order for us to emerge as the world’s envy and move forward as a country, we ought to look back and ask ourselves serious questions. Among those questions are why and how do we end up being ruled by one person for 22 years? And in the answers, you will find that Jammeh had his and the country’s priorities misplaced. Continue reading →