Mixed Reactions Over Muammar Gaddafi's Death

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Mixed Reactions Over Muammar Gaddafi's Death

Monday, 31 October 2011 17:17

(JollofNews) - Barely more than a week after the death of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, Gambians offer mixed reactions over an issue that seems to be pulling the country apart.
While some have trembling sentiments at the thought of what the former Libyan leader has experienced in the hands of his enemies and are still attached to him, others are with the view that as main sponsor of some rebel groups in sub-region, Gaddafi has just got the fate he deserved. Gaddafis_body

‘’They should not have allowed the West to invade Libya. This is pure neo-colonialism,’’ shouted Musa Bah, an Arabic teacher at Tallinding Upper Basic School, located some 10 km from the capital city Banjul.
The former Libyan government had a cordial relationship with the Gambia and has made huge investments in the Gambian hotel industry, and amusement industries. However, all these assets have been frozen by the government of President Yahya Jammeh who was the first to recognize the Benghazi-based Transitional Council.
Speaking under conditions of anonymity, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad deplored that “hypocrisy has become a fashion among African leaders”.
“Africans will regret bitterly for having betrayed Gaddafi because the new Libya will turn its back on Black Africa," he said.
However, one shopkeeper in Serrekunda, told JollofNews that Gaddafi plunged countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone into chaos.
"It is not a secret anymore that he provided full support to former Liberian leader Charles Taylor. Is Gaddafi's life more important than many thousands of people that have been killed during the war in these two countries?” he asked.
Similar sentiments were echoed by I. Jawara, a housewife who fled to the Gambia from Sierra Leone at the beginning of the civil war.
''My husband was a diamond dealer in Kenema and we have lost everything there because of Gaddafi's madness,” she said.
Written by Abdoulie John