“I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know:” Mark Anthony

Yahya Jammeh’s disdain for democratic laws isn’t a debate anymore. Even the ones he put in the books. That question had been settled long since anyone cared to remember. What else would anyone expect? He came to power through unlawful means. And either by the reflex of instinct or paranoia of insecurity he has employed those same means to consolidate his throne. The open secret is that he has made no secret time and again about his unlawful schemes to cling to it.

In his contemporary Analysis of The Military as a Distinct Ethnic or Quasi –Ethnic Identity in Developing Countries, Daniel Zirker and Constantine P. Danapoulos argued that the military has over the years become a source of divisions and instability within the developing world as it seeks to protect the privileged position of a particular group or groups to the disadvantage of others. By recognizing and understanding the dynamics of military involvement in the politics of West Africa alone, not to mention Latin America, one could satisfactorily conclude that the sub-regions violent political instability in the last decade was largely a result of military involvement in to the political affairs of the nation.

In his contemporary Analysis of The Military as a Distinct Ethnic or Quasi –Ethnic Identity in Developing Countries, Daniel Zirker and Constantine P. Danapoulos argued that the military has over the years become a source of divisions and instability within the developing world as it seeks to protect the privileged position of a particular group or groups to the disadvantage of others. By recognizing and understanding the dynamics of military involvement in the politics of West Africa alone, not to mention Latin America, one could satisfactorily conclude that the sub-regions violent political instability in the last decade was largely a result of military involvement in to the political affairs of the nation.

Re: A Coalition for 2006

As 2005 dawns, the urgency of the electoral project to remove The Gambia's tyrannical man of letters, Dr Alhaji Yahya A J J Jammeh and his brutal APRC dictatorship from power cannot be overemphasised.
Chosen, or de facto, you are the acknowledged leaders of your parties. You are the principals to the ongoing negotiations on the potential coalition to fight the crucial 2006 presidential election. You are the undisputed custodians of a nation's hopes.

By Omar Jallow NC 

As I do every morning, before I go to work, I log into my computer and browse all the online papers, but still could not see something that really makes me think that there will come a day when we as Gambians will criticize each other constructively, but rather all I see is personal attacks from the so called editors in chief using the same old language of this person cannot even write a complete sentence or some using profanity against the people they disagrees with.

Courtesy of BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8273086.stm

Welcome to The Gambia, the land of "His Excellency President Professor Alhaji Dr AJJ Jammeh", a sign at airport tells visitors to the West African nation.

It is a country where the ubiquitous display of a photograph of one man relegates the North Korean leader to the backburner.

 
Sam Sarr our big so-called Colonel has finally called it quit according to his own statement. I think he has made the best option of his existence due to that fact failing to do so will only land him in more hot waters and in mere disgrace.

 
Our national coffer is in tatters, our security bleak than ever before, our health services deteriorated, our education falling behind and our social cohesion rapidly declining. I am too scared now. Therefore I can’t keep quiet any longer. I once told my colleague at the Central Bank that one day Gambians will cry as longer as Jammeh remains in power. He is a very greedy leader as the British national living in Gambia once said and I think it was wrong for the NIA to arrest this brave man for speaking the truth.

Mathew K. Jallow

By Mathew K Jallow

He has a hospital named after his father Sulayman Junkung Jammeh in Bwiam, a police station named after his mother, Asombi Bojang in Kalagi, a health center named after his wife Zenib Jammeh in Koina, a skills center named after his son Mohamed, somewhere in the Greater Banjul area, and a whole country named after himself.