Offices within the civil services have not operated efficiently on Thursday 27thAugust, 2015. Visitors of many government offices could not get their needs addressed by the suppose staff of those institutions due to absenteeism of many staff. The absence by majority of staff as our informant indicated, was due to a directive these institutions received ordering them to mobilize their staff and facilitate their travel to Kanilai with the purpose of helping in the farming activities currently taking place in vast farmlands of President Yahya Jammeh in Kanilai and surrounding villages.
The directive as gathered came after the country’s autocratic ruler Yaya Jammeh made an open ‘request for help’ from Gambians in his farming activities. Over the years, Yaya Jammeh and his group of sycophants made Gambians believe that providing free services on his farmlands, many of which he grabbed from people, is a matter of duty as proceeds are given back to Gambians. The reality however, is that Jammeh uses money from the sales of his farm harvest to finance some of his endless and lavish parties and donation to foreign artists amongst other non-important self-satisfying things.
Our analysis indicated that the closure of almost all government offices on Thursday and asking functionaries to travel to Kanilai to help Yaya Jammeh is another clear indication of enslavement of Gambians by dictator Yaya Jammeh and a proof that he prioritizes his personal interest over that of the nation.
The farming activities will be followed with what dictator Jammeh calls a ‘celebration of an FAO Award’ on reducing malnutrition. The festivity which starts today, Friday evening and expected to run through the weekend is said to include cooking competition, wrestling, musical and cultural performances.
“The organization of another weekend of merrymaking by Gambia’s ruler in the midst of economic downturn that The Gambia is currently undergoing shows the immaturity in him”. Said a source. It has been gathered that apart from the millions of dalasis Jammeh will spend in Kanilai over the weekend, the Banjul and Kanifing Municipalities have also dipped into their already empty accounts to hire vehicles to ferry people to Kanilai and shop for their feeding for the entire weekend.
