The Gambia as a country has change completely since the days of innocent political banter. The junta headed by Yahya Jammeh cornered Gambian citizens into a condition of political muteness. The creation of the NIA has made all discussions about the APRC and its party Leader AJJ very intelligent agent involved.
The Gambia's agents aren't just limited to the back streets of the Gambia they are also online, in the cyber space. The mind game. Decent and intelligent Gambians interested in engaging in online debates are targeted by this unscrupulous agents. Each debater is targeted and the game is to identify who the individual person is. The next step is to use commentaries that will anger the debater writing about the APRC and Yahya to explain who he is. from there on, the online agents will try to divert attention from important discussions to trivial personal attacks. This is all part of the game.
When issues are made personalise, rational discussions lost it grounds. And the online cyber agent is achieving one part of his role that is divert attention, the second step is to push the debater to say who is.
As the intelligent agents will tell you, " each target is hated". To neutralise a target, that is the online writer critical of Yahya's government, his where about and identity becomes key. If the writer loose his guards and expose himself, then the online agent achieve his goal, that is a scoop.
He will then mail the details to his office and that innocent soul is now on the entry/exit Gambia watch.
This mind game has kill the much coveted Gambian democracy. The many online writers are aware of the this inherent dangers. Each writer would rather use ghost names and not be known than use their real identity and be found out. What is the reason for tracing Gambians identity online?
There are many. The few apparent ones are: to disable all potential critics and thus limit the damage to Yahya's coveted image.
To create a climate of fear and control. The old method of creating lots of cowards is powerful. Many dictator resort to that techniques. In many parts of Africa and Middle East this method is highly in use. An afraid individual is less threatening. Gambians unfortunately have join this club.
Another reason is to continue mystifying the power of the country's leader. The intelligent agents make the leader invincible. That invincibility provide an air of authority and thus leading to mythism.He assume higher powers. On seeing the leader, the fear factor cripes into our sub-conscious mind.
This stops leading journalist, activist, opposition members and the rest of the country writing and talking about the leaders mismanagement and incompetence. Silence becomes the only best solution to avoid being humiliated and disgraced or even being killed.
The mind game. Is yahya's agents wining the battle? No, not very much. Many brave Gambians have seen the trick and they have refused to be silenced. Silence mean complacency. It mean inability and cowardliness. And even prophets of God use to pray against cowardliness. It makes people useless and lazy.
A band of mixture of young and veteran writers from the Gambian community rose up the challenge pose by the tyrant yahya and his evil agents. The phenomum of the Gambia online news paper was born. The many brave editors and commentator took the touch and they are leading the way. Gambians have regain their voice from shores afar. Notable papers are the Gambia echo, Thegambianjournal, the allgambian,the senegambianews,gainako, the freedomnewspaper etc. This folks have sacrifice their time,energy and income to show the agents of yahya that NO ONE CAN STOP THE ONLINE NEWS FLOW.
Day in day out, good article emanate from the likes for Mathew Jallow and other brilliant writers reminding Gambians about the immense issues at stake. This give us a warm feeling and hope.
The people are the winner of the online mind game. Let the agents join us and bring down yahya's tyranny. The Gambia even if we are poor, but at least we can have our peace of mind. that is a God gift no one should take away from us.
suntou@btinternet.com
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