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Editorial: Aweful performance by Gambia’s law makers!
Thursday, 03 February 2011 22:58
JollofNews - Just when you think you have a reason to praise our National Assembly members for holding on to their grounds,
as we saw them rightly did recently with the case of the embattled Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC), they come up with even more bizarre conduct that only strengthen the ever existent doubts about their relevance and authenticity.The Daily Observer today, February 3rd, published a letter supposedly addressed to President Yahya Jammeh, in which the National Assembly Speaker, “on behalf of both sides of parliament”, apologised for their handling of the GNOC crisis.
The fact that President Jammeh literally owns the governing APRC party is undisputable, and hardly anyone would want to waste time thinking about that, since evidently there is nothing one can do about it in today’s Gambia. However, for God’s sake, the National Assembly is not an extension of the APRC party; therefore our representatives do not owe it to Jammeh to account to him for their actions, especially in a matter that is based on an honest decision as that. Or did they truly act out of procedure?
And also, there is hardly any doubt that Yahya Jammeh doesn’t care about what Gambians feel about his feeling of omnipotence, but this letter confirms a reproachable meddlesome attitude of his in the operation of the legislature.
"We sincerely regret that our cause of action and the way and manner we handled the GNOC/National Assembly Select Committee on Youth and Sports Report, IS A CAUSE OF CONCERN AND REGRET TO YOUR EXCELLENCY,” the letter reads.
First of all, what exactly is it that Jammeh wasn't happy about? What is it about the handling of the matter that warrants regrets… is it the verdict rendered or just the act of summoning the disrespectful Youth and Sports Minister and his group of hooligans (that is exactly what they are given their bullying attitude directed at the Assembly members) who clearly challenged an authority they were supposed to have treated with utmost respect?
Or maybe Beatrice Allen was right that her prosecution was politically motivated?
Apparently, the clearly gullible members of the National Assembly Select Committee weren’t smart enough to see the Lang Tombong Tamba link to all this matter.
When Yahya Jammeh falls out with anyone, no one else should deal with them.
Beatrice Allen is being portrayed as the enemy of Jammeh for daring to give money to the former CDS, even though the issue in question took place when Tamba was the best CDS appointed by Yahya Jammeh.
How else would you explain the attitude of the people who challenged the National Assembly Select Committee decision on the GNOC crisis?
Gambia is supposed to be a democracy, but in light of the fact that the legislature, one of three principal arm of the government, functions at the behest of one man who thinks he has birthright to rule the country, it is now official that we are in nothing dissimilar to a dictatorship.
How else would you explain a situation where every conduct of our legislators must meet the expectation of the president as an individual? This also goes to confirm the shameful level of low self-esteem in our ‘honorable’ National Assembly members.
It is not clear yet though if the few non-APRC members in the Assembly are part of this latest show of low self worth, but it is important that they make their position clear on it.
The only person that needed to give anyone any form of apology is the Minister of Youth and Sports. And the only people who should be subjected to investigation are the corrupted bunch of people who have been linked to mismanagement at the GNOC, who are now prosecuting the innocent, with the help of people who knows how to exploit Yahya Jammeh’s politicking.
But shouldn’t Jammeh realize by now that his position as president is well established, which means these unnecessary publicity he gets with such ludicrous bunch of felicitations and apologies never bring him any support; they only galvanize the strongly held perception over his authoritarian inclinations.
Photo: Daily Observer
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Have you not being to your KING KONG Jammeh's
What about Gambia? By the way, when are you going to kill and torture opponents in 2011 elections as you said? They are recruiting thugs like you in Cairo too if income is tight from KING KONG JAMMEH. you welcome:lol:
"I bet that there was a similar idiot like you called MUBARAK 4 LIFE"
History is just repeating itself and jammeh will face the same fate as Mobutu,
Doe, Hitler, Amin, Pharoa and all arogant
and power-hungry killers.Their supporters who are blind to truth will share their doom in this world and the hereafter.
Your comment is that of a lunatic and i don´t know if you are a real Gambian.
Watch as good as u can,Allah is also watching.
I bet that there was a similar idiot like you called MUBARAK 4 LIFE but if you underestimate the WILL of a determined people, you will live to regret it. Mubarak's thugs had it going for them for 30 years, but now the whole world is witnessing their retreat like dogs with their tails between their legs.
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