Our home: Free-For-All House

The house was build to serve the people. To welcome everybody with both ears. To unearth the mess that is tyranny. Free-for-all house, welcome visitors indiscriminately. It want to be the home of truth, fair play and justice for all. The urge is to allow all sides to enter the house and have a decent conversation.       

 But as it happens, free-for-all house owner got drunk with attention and the eagerness to hear himself. Instead of following the motto it was built for, it became a home of  vengeance and retribution for no just cause. The house owner became Mr One Big ear. He twirl and abuse people without verification. He insults at the top of his voice using mega phones and a cyber voice.
In fact, the owner keep falling out with people. Yet ironically. he is terrified of allowing decent people a voice! He thunders, "I will not allow   X Y and Z on my set. No one will seek fame on my mega phone." Aah he became the self- consuming little tyrant. This is my home,  Audacity.

The audacious owner, close and former associates fears has turn the house into a Free-dump-House. He now routinely take sides, disbarred certain people, scream at some and make the House inhabitable to others. Some even claim he doesn't listen to advise, because He believes, his privilege position in hearing secret conversations puts him an advantage position to finish anybody who fall on his wrong side. No friendship is permanent to him, no one is beyond his attacks. So the house stands, and we wait. Will it change cause and hear everyone before taking sides, will he restrain himself and allow cutesy and fairness to lead the way? Time will tell.

Healing The Hearts Of Gambian Opposition

The few steps taken to heal the hearts and aspiration of the opposition is in gear. Let us supporters don't try to make the issue at hand a point scoring or a saint crowning. Over the weekend, whilst an array of Gambians came together for over five hours in a marathon conference call, seeking to find a pathway in helping the boycott get a meaning and yield tangible result. Some people want to hang a badge of honour for their efforts.
As the dictator is sitting pretty, he is still there doing his thing. No single Gambian today alive can take credit for anything or be crown for anything. Let us stop trying to divide the camps.

There is hardly any body amongst us who can be deceive with cheap propaganda. The opposition's hearts need healing just like we online. If we fail to see that, then we will be missing something serious. When Hamat pipped the Leadership in the last elections, some thought, that will change him to be serious, but it never did. The remaining opposition parties going ahead with the boycott should the election not be postponed deserve our commendations. Yes, there will be missed-parliamentary salaries for some, but that is the prize. And we outside should understand the prize others are paying with their comfort.
I called on UDP supporters, PDOIS supporters, GMC supporters, Henry Gomez supporters to lay off tit-for tat criticism and focus on bridging the gaps. We should be bold enough to understand that, a divided society is a difficult terrain to operate in. Unless the rule of law rule supreme, no one is safe, no one is beyond the long arms of the lawless gangsters.
We the partisans should let the leaders work hand in hand to find a common ground. This is not easy, but we can play our part. Our elders have spend a good part of their lives finding solutions against the organised system of Jammeh who is helped by our graduate brothers. So let us not underestimate Jammeh or his clownish comport.
Let us recognise that, the activist community is very small. Any organisation wishing to be an umbrella outfit must contact all the activist by private email or their organisation email, and we talk as Gambians.
A Gambian with a broad shoulder and a big head cannot be ignored and then you expect to have your way on him. It will not happen. We have one man organisation been taken seriously than several member groups. Let us open our minds, hearts and give each the respect deserve.

The solution is easy. UDP, GMC, PDOIS, and others should have regular meetings now, work a plan of action, meet the opposition supporters, tell them to stay home, or do as the joint parties advise and then a continuous action plan be in motion. No one single opposition figure can take credit for anything, because Gambians are sick and tired of glory seeking whilst the battle is raging. We have seen and read big pronouncements, agendas and way ahead coming to nothing but division and further causing polemicist posturing. Let be serious and tackle the menacing despot.

The Idle Mind Who Wants Attention From Gambians

When a self-glory seeking individual want attention so badly and he can't get it because people understand him as a pompous empty barrel. He ventures into writing stuffs only an idle mind conceives. Whilst there will always be a perversion in the hearts of certain minority in any community, to associate bisexuality as an issue to the Gambia is not provocation Sankanu, it is plain lies and stupidity.
You can provoke a debate with something tangible, credible, evident. And with the right attitude and intellectual acumen, you may just about trigger a sensible debate. But since you lack all of that, no Gambian takes you seriously and if you think by writing idiotic stuff it will generate a debate, you are wrong.
The average Gambian who reads is far more aware than you are. They are may be self-centered, but unaware is out of the question. If you want to be taken seriously, write seriously, or else, keep singing back to yourself, because you offend nobody. Even if you say, you slept with your sister, it will be mere comedy bro. No Mullah cares about your quest for outrage. The more you write, the more you unveil for what you are. Keep writing.

In America, Germany, Britain etc, sexual perversion is practice amongst the minority of people, this is why, the majority of societies find it hard to make it acceptable as normal life style. If consenting adults want to practice some kind perversion, ie away from the normal relationship, it is up to them. The Gambia like other nations don’t have an issue with sexuality.
There will always be those who will take exemption to the norm, to what your Mother and Father understands as the way human being should cohabit. However, this is not enlightenment; it is someone who has a perversion to the rule.
Where two grown up men feel they rather want to sleep with each other, so long as they don’t practice their desires in public, many human being will leave them to it. But where you want to make people accept that, such a behavior is normal and right, there you are wrong. This doesn’t mean people are unenlightened, it means they just don’t accept that particular life style.
As for religious people who adhere to their teachings and scriptures and belief that, same sex relationship is evil, such is their belief. Does it mean not accepting a certain concept, culture one suddenly becomes barbaric? If so, then we are all one way or the other backward.

Those who don't know anything about religion misunderstood it for standing on the way of enlightenment. However, the concept of learning, creativity and deeper thinking was introduce by religious people. The idea of University, learning circle which is the bypoduct of enlightenment and human consciousness came out the works of religious people across the spectrum. From the Sufi gatherings among the muslims, to the circles of the different kalifs, to the scholastics in the western nations.
It was the Monks (scholarstics) who gave us a university. Modern enlightenment borrowed its core ideas from this institutions. Yet, a perverted misunderstanding of human condition by certain individuals whose thinking capacity are at best inept and vain try to lecture us on what is enlightenment? Great.

Dr Scattared Janneh conviction case link

http://www.judiciary.gov.gm/images/Judgement/hon_justiceNkea/judgment%20the%20state%20vs%20dr%20amadou%20scattred%20janneh%20and%20ors.pdf

The Big Question: What Next After the Disappointing Presidential Election

My response to brother Joe Sambou who asked, 'why am I saying something on the debacle at Foroyaa, instead of the past Presidential elections.' Below is my response to him. The fact is, I have had many say on the stolen elections, I went out on a demonstration in London, wrote an article on it and still working in private consultation to device ways we can put an end to the tyranny.

The Presidential election is gone, never to come back for another five years. What is Suntou and Joe going to do about that? In my part I had my say on it in many other platforms, may be Joe missed out on them, because I did not say much about it here.In the case at hand, this is nothing about Halifa, Sam or Foroyaa, it is about the employees. And they too has rights like others we always wrote about.I am sure, you will not say, I have been unwilling to stake my opinion in the affairs of the Gambia. In as much has we may disagree on the ways to tackle our problems, Suntou has never been silent or inactive. If any, the few of us who stake our opinions here might have been too active.
The Presidential election did not effect the desired outcome and that's not a surprise, considering the fact that, the troops where disunited because of obvious reasons. And untangling those reasons will therefore take much more than discussions here. We have had many discussions on how to change direction for the future and in difficult struggles that is what matters. There are certain things that only those who see the change in a particular way will consult and discuss. This is what we are doing. Suntou and others you had in mind with your comments have done a lot, just like you and we will continue to do much more.

We in the UDP Diaspora had several inter-continental meetings and our final statements or take on issues have been long dispatched to those on the ground. Yes, some may want us speaking out important issues here (Gambia L), but that is the very wrong way to do any systematic political dialogue. We are still consulting and discussing.
The political activist on the ground made their position clear and they are sticking to that. Which is, they will not accept the election result, because of the fraud and many other reasons. And we backed that. What is clear is that, UDP activist in Diaspora overwhelmingly backed a strong reaction to the result and many in the Gambia also do, up to tomorrow. What is relevant now is the decision of many elders whose evaluation is crucial. And we accept their evaluations on the main, whilst many other avenues are been considered.

A singular political party action can still unrattle the cages of the tyrant, it may be at the cost of the lose of some lives, and that is a fundamental deciding factor.What everybody in Diaspora in all opposition camps will love to see, is an uncompromising street protest until the dictator falls, and believe it or not, the opposition leaders will love to be able to see such an eventuality.

The question is, how far will people be willing to join such a cause? How daring will the opposition leaders be in doing something out of character? Will new opposition leaders leave the perturbing moral question of 'what if many innocent people die, how will I answer to God for that'? Since the old guards have all done their best, will we young guns take the fight to the dictator or will we also be miles away with our tangible opinions?
So Joe, we are not quiet neither avoiding discussing anything, but we are formulating just like our dictator is, it will be foolish is to let him in on our strategies, because this platform here is a Bantaba, an open arena. In good time, we will find a way ahead, after all, this is our Baby we are talking about, Our Gambia. May God bless it. Thank you Suntou

Tribute To the Jailed Dr Janneh and co today

Tribute to Dr Janneh and co. Lalo Keba Drammeh. Allah Laake (it is the doing of God) "Whatever God intends, no man can change that. We cannot predict tomorrow. There is nothing in this live but to be patient. This is so sad. Haven't you seen that, this live is between ease and hardship. Be mindful of enemies, among friends, neigbours, companions and colleagues. Human beings live between living and dying".Lalo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0B-WeDkkDY

A Lesson From Desmond Tutu

A lesson from Desmon Tutu: "Anyone who claim to be neutral in the midst of oppression is helping the oppressor". To juxtapose that statement in our case, anyone docile or silent in our oppressive environment may actually be helping the oppressor. Professor Idriss also made similar remarks, he said, committed Muslims must fight/ or stop oppression until it is no more. The failure to do so makes the pains of the oppressed a collective sin.