Frederick Douglass once said, “Those who profess to favour freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it […]
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Must The Coalition Contest The National Assembly Election As “The Coalition”
By Emmanuel Daniel Joof (Paps) Must the Coalition Contest the National Assembly Election as “The Coalition” or Should They Contest as Individual Parties? Why Are Gambians Emotional on This Issue? The Coalition government lead by President Adama Barrow is an amalgam of 6 different political parties (UDP, PPP, NCP, PDOIS, […]
Political Allies Make Their Case
The three major political parties that agreed on forging a Tactical Alliance in the forthcoming national assembly elections have made their case. The parties – United Democratic Party, National Reconciliation Party and Gambia Moral Party – reiterated that “as founding members of the Coalition 2016 which removed Yahya Jammeh from […]
Halake’s London Letter: Fatty/Tambedou RIGHT On Age Amendment Bill!
This is the Case for the Prosecution presented by Halifa Sallah in FOROYAA and Lamin J Darbo in KAIRONEWS:- “The only available mechanism to amend the Constitution lies in the procedure delineated at Section 226, which states, at 226(1):- “subject to the provisions of this section, an Act of the […]
Veteran Journalist Vies For Serekunda West
An outstanding jornalist has been selected as the candidate of an alliance involving the United Democratic Party, National Reconciliation Party and Gambia Moral Party. Madi Ceesay won the nomination in “a democratic and transparent process” conducted by the UDP Serekunda West constituency selection committee on Sunday March 5th. The proprietor […]
Coalition Election Saga: Who Says What And Why
The ongoing debate and discussion in relation to the approach of the coalition to the incoming parliament is skewed towards depicting the coalition as a single entity with uniform intention of contesting the elections separately. Thus, many holes are left unfilled in the debate as many legitimate questions are not […]
Aja Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang’s Hurdle Remains: section 62(1)(b) of the Constitution Not Amended
In his seminal memoir, The Point of Departure, Robin Cook, one of New Labour’s leading luminaries, provided a compelling rendition of conscientious conduct in the public life of a public officer. Then Leader of the House of Commons (the Commons), and having been previously removed as Foreign Secretary over policy […]
Who Wants Gambia Ungovernable?
There are still some Gambians who have got an axe to grind with the Coalition government to a point of vowing to make the Gambia ungovernable. The questions that we ask are whether these people wine and dine with Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship surrogates or they are sheep in wolf’s clothing. […]
Why Gambia Must Fight Corruption
A British High Commissioner caused a storm in Kenya during Daniel arap Moi’s Dictatorship by saying that “The Kenyan Elite is so corrupt that they eat until they vomit on their Gucci shoes” – or something similar. Some 20 years later, Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission is trying to “life-style audit officials […]
Prematurely Break The Coalition At Your Own Peril!!!
If the news or I hope it is mere rumor circulating is true, then we are about to fall off the cliff. It is being reported that the Coalition has been unable to agree on a unified strategy to contest the upcoming parliamentary elections as some member parties prefer to […]
Lies Told About Gambia’s Mandela
Supporters of the United Democratic Party (UDP) have huge task at hand. We must not allow others to paint us black. There is misinformation making the rounds that Ousainou Darboe is the stumbling bloc to forming a coalition in the forthcoming parliamentary election. We must stand our ground and let […]
Gambians Don’t Fall In Love, They Jump In love
By Suntou Touray As politics is a matter of fluid changes and difference of opinion. Some segments of Gambians get entangled with situations that requure dynamic observations and situation analysis. Since we jump in love, it becomes difficult to decipher the different kinds of situations. So is the hotly apportions of blame […]