Yaya Jammeh’s regime for twenty-two years, refused to set the table for situations of caring and placing the mechanisms of trust that galvanizes Gambia to prosper and its citizens to thrive. Instead, the regime continues to put up a model of combativeness, isolation and promotes distrust among Gambians — so that we do not move beyond the depression of dictatorship. Dictatorship in Gambia continues to be a disastrous toxic flash flood that— sweeps away the all our opportunities, widens our worries, cracks all the pillars of our nationhood, reveals all the nations incomprehensible weakness and separated us from the rest of the world. Our Nation have been marginalized. Our people feel commonly invisible among other things because— the regime decided to endeavor into adventures that largely abandons the ordinary Gambian. It’s quite an issue that— now our communities are laced with enormous problems which reduced us to begin our prayers with complains, instead of thankfulness. In a strange surprise that the regime brought along a host of consequences including — embarrassing Scandals filled to the brim, bloated policies that tears our fabrics of societies and growing a laundry list of humiliations that continues to fall on us like dominoes stacked together.

To this day, Gambians cannot find a passion because we have a leader who is always actively looking for an isolation exit on anything that unites us. Our codes of etiquette, our shared morals among ourselves are replaced by penchant for cruelty— and a kind of selfishness that encourages preying on the weak. More than anything, they have successfully inculcated a culture of partisanship above our virtues— that made us once an exceptional nation in the past. Yaya Jammeh continues to twist the minds of Gambians— for him to continue to serve the bad system that is— destructive to our values of neighborliness, tolerance, care for each other and sweep along truncated watered down versions. The elation that so many Gambians hope for in a leader — even showing basic values that he cared for all Gambians, is missing in his personality. The regime’s use of power to settle political scores is now obviously not to the taste of many Gambians but— that is what pleases Yaya Jammeh. He makes sure he dresses in different layers of clothes, drive the widest hummer truck in the country and enjoy the best dishes of healthy food. Yet, he ensures political detainees in mile-2 are deprived of sleep in squalid cells, denied clean clothes and given barely edible food.

Meanwhile, we aren’t allowed to be openhearted and open-minded because dictatorship see us as objects to be used, but not as unique citizens. Our feelings are all self-enclosed because everywhere you turn — there is an NIA or a soldier with a gun listening to our conversations. We have to constantly nurture our hopes, swallow our pains and must guard-down our posture because we always have to overcome moments of betrayal. Today, Gambians have seen fresh hand, how the APRC regime reacts to political stampede by its leader resorting to extremely radical statements— promoting disunity and his utter contempt for disregard of Gambian lives. Our country is certainly awash in distrust with stories of betrayal and broken promises. Ironically, they only use compassionate words when they have to deliver bad news— to buffet all the trends that will lead to Gambians turn our backs on them. The sad thing is— some Gambians seem to have settled into comfortable denial about these painful reminders, despite all evidence and caution notwithstanding.

Gambians cannot reconnect with the living center of the national story nor the struggles of our founders because dictatorship erases our memory with fear and shredded all the standards of intellectual virtue and replaced it with incompetent. The Regime have long thrived on devaluing their contributions to our nation, menacingly transformed our neighborhoods by —renaming our streets among themselves and delegitimized our concerns by— refusing to look down on their noses to see our problems. Yahya Jammeh made it clear that— he is determine to erased our dignity such a way that we question the basic decency of others. The story of one Mr. Marong —whom was arrested during the April 16 th demonstrations, lost his eye sight because he is constantly kept in dark cell and denied proper medical operations —by armed guards working under the directives of the regime. As Gambians, we can’t even imagine that —minds within our midst could conceive such barbarism towards our fellow citizens.

The concern most Gambian have about this regime is — it has not only hoard everything that belongs to the nation away from us, nor willing to lightening up on their destructive policies, but they always want to convinced a whole swath of the country that they are morally superior. The need for a course correction remains to be seen with this regime after 22 years in power. Gambia is thanklessly seeking for a change. Yaya Jammeh’s unfinished wishes or his goals aren’t exactly worth us lapsing back into dictatorship into 2017 upcoming year. Gambia have been chocking with pain of dictatorship and it time to cough it all up December 1st inside the polling station. Let’s all encourage our families to vote for the coalition candidate— Adama Barrow.

By Habib ( A Concerned Gambian)

Yaya Jammeh’s knows very well his 2016’s abridged catalog of high moral crimes against every category of Gambian —is more than enough to earn him the biggest loser in the upcoming elections, but he wants to seduced the unwary public with excessive fear as usual. More telling, that’s why he speaks with such boorishness, xenophobic outbursts, and mincing his words with abhorrent statements of 6 feet deep. Indeed, either way, the sharp increase in the events of terror on our children in recent days, pulling of welcome mats of the ICC- ties this past few weeks and women tortured in past months— have made 2016 remain a profoundly consequential year of terror for Gambia’s calendar in history. His policies are clearly attuned to following his idological shrines astrological signs, inexorably pursuing evil barbaric ideology above the country’s peace and equally administering any utterances of his “Jallang” idol whispers as death sentence for any Gambian.

Besides fending off his perceived rivals with never-ending taint of intentional fabrications, he is well known to use evil spiritual means to ruinously dominated Gambia politics using fear for 22 years. Even still, much like the frustration and division he has caused to the country, he is determined to destroy Gambia back to the stone ages. These trends of events in 2016 along, may well be his self-inflected fatal flaw that will end his presidency this December. Simultaneously, he has illustrated a track record for making horrendous crimes against every category of the human being: Burying infants alive, feeding remains of Gambian’s with crocodiles, his convoys killings spree and sacrificing virgins. He foresaw with remarkable clarity back in 1989/1990, Gambians succumb to his scaremongering tactics — when he lifted a bag full of amulets “Jujus”, claiming anyone who dears to speaks out during a line up identification parade about their crime — will meet his death. That was the very engines he used as his ambitions ladder to lift himself to unjust dominions of power. How else to explain this?

And it’s no wonder: He has conned his unprincipled men to become potent engines terror and petty thieves grown fat— just to enabled him to usurp the reins of government and subvert the power of the people to himself alone. Every campaign against him by the brave Gambians citizens in the past comes to a merciful end because —he surprisingly uses those very idolistic engines of fear —to buy the loyally of certain service men and suppressed voices in certain institutions. A police officer once told a friend— Yaya Jammeh organized a shrine loyal pledge factions, using hired marabouts from other countries to effectively override any grievance people had about him— using deceptive tactic to make officers fearful of him embarrassing them. One police officer now exiled, refused to participate by protesting — it was indifferent to his faith, and to the end, he was branded as an enemy and has a personal story to tell.

He will also hire every marabout in the country for reasons best known to him— to help him stay in power and use barbaric rituals to make sure our citizens blood pressure are never at rest — whenever his name is mentioned. This is the reason why he can pretty much in the past, ride out the waves of a plethora of scandals; lashes out at nations elders and illustrates a disdain for the Gambians; his burrowing owl bankrupt our nations foreign; he consistently engages in derogatory language about Gambians diasporians and name-calling; he engages in childish feuds with those below him; and he has an overall temperament and demeanor that are unbecoming of any serious head of state. Gambians are aware — that he is ready to use the state’s power to exact revenge on his perceive enemies at the expense of the country. Yet, at the same time, these trends of devil worshiping will pose a difficult to separate them as policies of his regime, but not necessarily insurmountable, challenge— if we are ready to massively vote him out.

The presidency according to him — is something he put his life on the line to achieved.

Therefore — he will use his position to sell favors, influence and even the nation’s resources in a brazen pay-to-play scheme to enrich the Jammeh family. The coalition has already Cemented most of these worries —Gambians have about the regime. By working tirelessly to make sure we deliver votes to the coalition, Gambia can have returned to its glory days of the smiling coast. The current ongoing crimes and the backlog of crimes in the hearts of people, has certainly highlighted the country’s need to move on from Yaya Jammeh. Hence, there are many words that can be used to accurately describe Gambians 2016 presidential election but the word “unprecedented” certainly comes to mind. This is why he has deployed another rebellious contingent of terror against our children— ready to commit even worst crimes. This team of coalition leaders, represent hope and peace for Gambia.

It is the civic duty of every Gambian to play one part or another to ensure this regime is history, whether — is oversaturation of information about his crimes since 1994, enlightening our families about the coalition or providing resources where needed. Yaya Jammeh has the state coffers to illegally use at his disposal and he has enjoyed support from the rich, powerful and well-connected because of —intermediation and use of scare tactics on their businesses. Yaya and Zainab Jammeh conned many people to access towering cash and kind from their recent business panhandling event, for the supposed children they are kidnapping today. How did they fooled the affluent Gambians who gave $10,000 for children causes and now they are going on— a wave of kidnapping spree on same children for barbaric rituals? This tendency toward atrocities directed at citizens will never stop, unless we vote him out peacefully this December 1st.Vote No to despotism ever again and Yes to hope!

By Habib ( A Concerned Gambian)