Dependable sources disclosed that, Office of The President has set up another national organizing committee comprising government institutions and parastatals tasked with planning the Dictator’s 50th birthday party slated to coincide with Africa Day on May 25. The latest committee to organize yet another waste of taxpayer monies, came as no surprise to many who are abreast with President Jammeh’s obsession with attention, acceptance and greatness.
Members of the committee consist of GRA, Civil Aviation, GAMTEL and GAMCEL. Many including some close-relatives of Jammeh strongly believed that Dictator Jammeh carefully crafted and invented his birthday date to coincide with Africa day, in a calculated effort to project himself as a Pan-Africanist by both birth and deed. His purported birthday and month being May 25th which Is Africa Day and his birth year being 1965, which is Gambia’s independent year. “Yahya Jammeh had neither a birth certificate nor antinatal records at birth, most of his provincial generation had no birth record. How did President Jammeh know that he was born on May 25th 1965?” Queried one of the sources. Many Gambians not only question President Jammeh’s date of birth but also his place of birth as his callousness and lack compassion is very much un-Gambian.
Jammeh’s birthday anniversary comes four days after his return from his planned countrywide tour expected to commence on May 4th 2015, with many believing that the planned lavish party to celebrate his birthday is another ploy to downplay the Gambia’s frightening economic crisis. Recently the Dalasi slumped to D80.5 against the British pound and similarly against other major world currencies spelling difficult living conditions for most Gambians with reported depleted foreign currency reserves further amplifying the country’s economic woes as specified in a government report to IMF.
Gambians would have expected a responsible and good leader to have preoccupied himself with revamping the decaying economy but President Jammeh loves throwing big personal parties at the expense of Gambian tax-payers. GAMTEL/GAMCEL have always been footing the bill for his lavish birthday parties which are held annually at Coco Ocean Spa and Resort. The guest list for Jammeh’s birthday parties are always so-called celebrities including artist, musicians etc from around the world who help the Dictator to loot the Gambia of it’s meager resources because he is known worldwide for presenting his guest with large amounts of cash in dollars as gifts.
A week after receiving $10.8million from the IMF as an emergency loan in April, Jammeh showered a senegalese wrestling champion Eumeu Sene with an undisclosed amount of cash in dollars and two vehicles which was shown on National TV. Many observers believe that the gifts were inappropriate and unjustified, considering that the gift could have been utilized more appropriately in Gambia to buy medication for the hospitals or the money donated to the Ministry of youths and sports to ease the burden of youth unemployment and maybe prevent them from risking their young lives using the bikeway to Europe with many dying in the high seas.
To add insult to injury, many government Institutions, parastatals and the Gambian populace use the little they have to buy and shower gifts on the President during his birthdays with independent GSM Companies also joining in the lavish gift race by buying and giving the tyrant the latest phones and laptops as birthday presents, while many are struggling to pay salaries at month end. “Gambians need to realise the fact that Yaya Jammeh is only interested in his own personal wellbeing and not that of Gambians, he can give so called celebrities thousands of dollars in cash as gifts, yet expect poor Gambians to bankrupt themselves giving him their much needed cash and personal belongings”, said another source, “As a result, we must do what is best for the Gambia and change the status quo. The time for change is now” he concluded.
This latest committee tasked with organising another wasteful birthday party for dictator Jammeh taking into consideration the current difficulties in Gambia affecting every sector, just highlights once again Jammeh’s insensitivity and lack of empathy for the suffering masses in Gambia. Many have thus called on their relatives and friends in Gambia to boycott these foolish celebrations to send a clear message to the dictator that enough is enough and after 20yrs its time to go, especially as it was Jammeh who promised in 1994 to rule for not more than 10years and promised to never introduce a dictatorship in Gambia. The reality that he delivered is far from his promises with his regime now notorious for rights abuses and lack of respect for Human Rights, earning him the title of “King of impunity” and the country labelled the “North Korea of Africa”.
