By Abdoukarim Sanneh, London, UK

In recent years to through careful and diligent studies, many independent Non government organisations such as Global Witness use indicators to determinate failed states. It is cry tally clear that Gambia is a looming failed state. There are all indicators from social, economic and political from warning to alert, such as widespread corruption and criminality, economic decline, corruption, judicial ineffectiveness etc. We are not at war but our leader is at war with citizens. To be realistic, most of the recent research documented by reputable institution in recent past are studies are searing or account graphic account of unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, squalor, hunger, human rights abuses, corruption, and growing unemployment under Yahya Jammeh and his APRC Government, all of which is written with unblinking honest, fury and great humanity.  Gambians are living on the edge confronted with all types of development crisis and
political repression. The development problems confronting our country range from
food poverty, income poverty, illiteracy poverty, poor health and sanitation, lack
of safe drinking water, environment degradation, unemployment, human right
violations and lack of democracy, population growth etc. For 15 years our people
have been living under unimaginable terror under a drug addicted leader so paranoid
and can licence elements of his security forces to commit all crimes with impunity.
The problem in our country is so serious, with hypocritical Muslim imams, always
appearing on the limelight, parasitically using the name of Islam to justify
unending in dehumanisation for their own selfish end.
The folding political realities in the Gambia are almost similar to descriptive
account of George Orwell’s road to Wigan Piers. The Gambian society is towards
sloppiness and all the indications are decadency, redundancy and appalling
conditions of dehumanisation inflicted our people by the criminal regime. Every
sector of Gambian life is further deteriorating. From the economy, infrastructure,
health, education, environment etc. With stagnation of salaries, effective and
efficient public service becomes a thing of the past, while corruption and bribery
syndrome becomes a hierarchy in the officialdom.
　
The 1994 take over of Government is a cataclysmic shock for everyone who was aware
of the 30 year of rule of law and democracy that was nurtured. With 15 years of
political deficiency and social degeneration, every Gambian should nourish the fact
that the regime back home is too dangerous to be left to containment and our
mandated policy should be regime change through the ballot box. The year 2011 is the
last chance to our divided opposition to put their house in order to liberation our
country from the yoke of 15 years Yaya Jammeh’s dehumanisation will be welcomed with
rose petals.
　
Failure to effect change can lead to more fragility, which can have both a serious
social, political and economic impact on our nation and the people. Failed states
are a magnet for political turmoil especially if there is a deep rooted antagonism
within the people through backward tribal message and lack of community cohesion,
division of security forces due to lack of equal opportunity and the fragile
geopolitical environment of the region. The recent conflict in Cassamance was very
close to home and nobody can rule it out, has it can be just like a wild fire
spreading into the Gambia. The conflict in Cassamance have a serious impact on the
geo-political realities of our sub-region and at the moment the hard-line rebel
faction which is not prepared for ceasefire is now concentrated along the porous
border between Gambia and the region. The MFDC rebels have officially use our
country has a rear base, collaborating with the criminal regime of Yahya
Jammeh and his tribal agenda in fostering all types of tyranny and crimes against
humanity on peaceful and hardworking people of that region.
There is no fix solution to development but the despotic regime in power, failed to
realise that any development for Gambia should be base on the solution of democracy
as a formula to the conditionality increasing scare foreign or international aid at
the present age of global economic recession With drastic economic decline and
massive brain drain of qualified professionals caused by 15 years misrule under
Yahya Jammeh and his APRC Government every sector of required to halt, hopelessness
and despair is even reducing life expectancy.
Productive and effective public service is a determinant to measure the progress of
a nation. Gambia under Yaya Jammeh’s APRC regime, productive work ethics in the
civil service is been sacrificed for sycophancy, tribal alliance and showing loyalty
to securing your skins from been safe from the wig of the Enterprise Tsar of Fired.
In today’s Gambian for fear of loosening your job, the marabou culture and juju
mentality becomes embedded in the cranium from the president down to the lowest
civil servant. President Yahya Jammeh always manifests this cult following mentality
as all his appears and dresses are covered with jujus and always boost about his
spiritual powers.
Yahya Jammeh’s mental sickness is crystals clear but it seems to me that uncultured
and dishonest Dr Mbowe is adding fuel to the fire of his Enterprise Tsar of Fired
and both should be a mental home for urgently care. He was shamefully promoting
Kanillai medicine which was later followed by wicked craft crusade that shame every
Gambia in the world. It first started in his native Foni when mysterious Juju man
was to villages to fight so-called witchcrafts. Matters when so extreme went all
over the country innocent people are forcefully drunken with Kanialli medicine,
women been rape for been witch. The matters become an issue and focus of
international attention when Amnesty International UK exposed the continual
humiliation and dehumanisation of innocent poverty people. These are all the
indications of the traits of psychological sickness ,mentally retard and paranoid
cocaine addicted paranoid dictator- President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia.