By Reuben Abati I have very vivid memories of my last visit to The Gambia. This was in 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan paid a two-day visit to the country. In the course of that visit, President Jonathan commissioned the new Chancery of the Nigerian Embassy in Banjul, and also […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
‘Rewrite Jammeh’s Ugly Histories’
The Gambia’s new President, His Excellency Adama Barrow congratulation, I hope you will quietly settle down to govern your people fast. The leaders of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) and the whole world have done their own part, you have no excuse whatsoever to lack behind. The […]
Jammeh’s Loot Will Be Returned
Former President Yahya Jammeh held the Gambia and West Africa hostage until the final minutes of his departure on the 21st of January 2017. Then Jammeh blackmailed the West African leaders to carry away some of his LOOT. As stated by Mai Fatty on Dr. Touray’s Facebook page, President Barrow […]
Caution For President Barrow
Caution Mr President! Please do not say any more on this [former President Yahya Jammeh dried state coffers] or any other matters until you get into office and can verify every information for yourself. We must remember that the current “government” or its remnants, is the construct of Yaya Jammeh […]
Yahya Jammeh Dries Gambia’s Coffers
Shortly before leaving for exile in Equatorial Guinea, the Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh ran the country’s coffers dry. He withdrew D500 million dalasi from the Central Bank. It is not known how much is left in the national coffers. “According to information we received, there is no money in […]
No Blanket Amnesty For Exiled Jammeh
Thank you Mr Mai Fatty for this very important clarification. It will be blanket amnesty and defeat for democracy, constitutionalism and rule of law if exiled Yahya Jammeh has been offered a sweetheart deal. I nearly have heart attack when I read that draft. Yahya Jammeh must not, under any […]
From Exile With Love
By Baba Galleh Jallow As I watched Yahya Jammeh get off of Gambian soil and step into the plane that carried him into exile, I felt heaviness in my chest and tears pouring uncontrollably down my face. No, they were not tears of joy at the fact that the tyrant […]
The Downfall of Jammeh: Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish!
By Ebou Gaye It goes without saying that many people have breathed a sigh of relief and rejoiced over Jammeh’s fall from grace to grass. This is not because people hate him as a person, but because they hate his bad manners as a brutal, blood-thirsty dictator. It is a […]
THERE WAS NO DEAL ON JAMMEXIT
There was NO DEAL signed. What is being circulated was a DRAFT jointly prepared by Guinea Conakry and Mauritania. President Barrow received the said draft this afternoon and he rejected it outright. Both the President of the ECOWAS Commission Marcel Desouza and the Envoy of Qatar visited today for consultations […]
Jammeh Leaves Gambia For Guinea
The plane carrying the Gambia’s defeated President Yahya Jammeh’s has just left the country for Guinea. The outgoing President’s departure superceded his decision to declare what would be his last public announcement on national television, agreeing to relinguish power. Yahya Jammeh lost December 1st presidential election, conceded defeated and congratulated […]
Sam Sarr’s Fart Becomes A Crap! Extraordinary
The day that Gambians and Friends of The Gambia sigh in relief because the evil Monster Yahya Jammeh is to depart The Gambia (thus saving the country from the scourge of a war that had started two days earlier when Ecowas forces entered The Gambia to forcefully remove Jammeh), Mad […]
President Barrow’s First Task
The First Task for the ‘Barrow Government’ – Release Political Prisoners My Suggestion We are looking forward to our brothers and sisters being released from illegal and unconstitutional and arbitrary arrest and detention without trial. Currently there are a number of our sons and daughters languishing in state orchestrated detention […]