This court case reveals something interesting about Yaya Jammeh’s character. He is stranger to most of what would generally be considered the Gambian virtues: humility, mercy, compassion and grace. It is very clear he is interfering with this court case by instructing Nigerian mercenary judges not to allow oral argument before the open court. They keep adjourning this court case to psychologically punish all UDP executives and innocent protesters to break them down, hurt Gambian pockets with constant back and forth to courts, pitch Gambians among each other. He sows bitterness, influences his followers to lose all sense of proportion and teaches them to answer with hate to their innocent brothers, sisters and parents.
Gambians are alien to these rebel virtues. Instead, his actions are marked by a long list of enemies he vows to sack, exile, crush, shred, destroy, jail and bury whomsoever he wants without proper rituals. He constantly manufactures an atmosphere of menace in which there is no room for compassion for his opponents, for anything but disgracing and counterattack of severe punishment. He exploits and exaggerates everything about him in such a hateful combative manner that is destined to further marginalize weak Gambians. This guy was on welfare from day one of his life; from food he eats, school fees, and generous Gambian hospitality. In return, everything he does is such with pagan brutalism, overzealous application of the letter of his draconian law in a way that violates the spirit of fairness and mercy.
According to the point newspaper, Hawa Sisay-Sabally made an application with regards to be given medical care and to also have food from their families which are being denied by prison officials. This instruction is clearly from dictator Jammeh. There is not a hint of compassion, gentleness and mercy. He constantly lays down an atmosphere of apocalyptic fear. This court case is tailored such a way that is guaranteed to bring out fear-driven reactions and this time, he can’t survive this by GOD’s grace. Everything he does is to deny the slightest acknowledgment of our common humanity, take the bully’s maximum relish in his power over the weak and innocent.
Like everyone, I am revolved by Yaya Jammeh treatments of Gambians. It is not on only the horrendous way he does it but – the monstrous way he does things beneath even the minimal standards of modern civilization. The question for Gambians is: How many infants should be fed to crocodile? How many Gambians deserved to be buried without proper janazah? How many of our dead deserved to be given to the jalangs for rituals purposes? Gambians, please put this man out of his misery and give power back to the people.
By Habib
