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Editorial: Can Gambian women stand up to the challenge?
Tuesday, 02 November 2010 13:50
Politics, they say, is all about helping politicians to help themselves. This adage can’t
be truer anywhere than in Gambia.Not to sound outright apathetic to some progress, to the credit of patriotic but largely unaccredited Gambians in both the first and second
republics, individual politicians put together have by and large benefitted far greater than the nation. This explains the huge gap between the rich and the poor; and by every indication this trend is bound to continue as the ordinary Gambian unwittingly descends in to slavery, as it were.We might be tempted, understandably, to raise eye brows at the usage of the word slavery, but while there are ample indications of this in Gambia, the intended purpose here is to draw attention to the most horrendous phenomenon of it - mental slavery.
Gambians seem to have resigned to what they consider as their fate. As a result, the leadership appears to have succeeded in imposing an image of Grand Master rather than the servant it is meant to be.
We have seen people at the brink of annihilation pledging total submission to the very same system that perpetuated their ordeals; family members of victims of the excesses of rogue elements of the system openly submit to the very same system that is behind the tribulations of their loved ones.
Shamefully, the government, rather than coiling away from the underlying dangers associated with this situation, interprets it as sign of approval. It just suggests the magnitude of liquidation of our society’s moral fiber. It brings to mind dictatorships that have thrived by the support of terrified citizens, only to collapse when time runs out for the bomb.
Fatou Jaw Manneh’s proposition is the closest we have come across that give a sign of hope. What we need now is action, not just the endless talks we have been familiar with.
It is not as if there is any rule that exclude women from leading revolutions; so it remains a consuming thought why nobody brought up this issue to this level until now. After all, it is no secrete that women do the politics and make the kings.
In introducing her suggestion, Fatou Jaw Manneh couldn’t have chosen any better analogy than the Chilean mine episode; only that the problems Gambians have at hand is arguably of more significant implication. The implications of today’s Gambia will haunt generations of our people – hate, grudge, witch-hunting, drug dealing, corruption and all sorts of ills that pose danger to the fabric of our society.
For sixteen years the men have taken the lead, yet things have only gotten worst. Isn’t it a time to put the women forward and support them? After all that is what Gambia is well known for - surprises.
There is an impressive list of capable, young women who would only need our support to make this change happen. But you the Gambian women need to show your readiness first.
Can you stand up to the challenge?
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this is a very interesting and important publicatiions by jollofnews and if we are comment with maturity and responsibility for the interest of our nation without personal grieve,it will help us to discuss a lot on Gambian women.
If Gambian women were to take the lead, this is their chance to usher in a velvet revolution. I know a brave sister like Fatou Jaw Manneh can serve as the catalyst for such an uprising against this tyrant in Banjul who does not spare our womenfolk in his obsession with power and all it's trappings.
Here come the girls.....
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Never a more befitting reality of Gambia particularly at this material time. Whether the women folk can succeed where our greedier men-folk in the opposition so far failed’s the question? For all the current fake harangue of the current opposition leadership, if only they can agree to temporally put their selfish individualistic aspirations at halt & unify behind a female candidate who will contest & salvage the motherland then purify the current constitution, prepare the stage for a level political field for all aspirants to contest free & fair elections the better.
The biggest blunder that is made collectively by ALL the opposition parties...is:
they all accuse Jammeh and the APRC from dawn to dusk.
Meanwhile...the voter does not capture any decernable difference, removing the APRC..would make to their lives.
Therefore if there is no incentive for the voter, other than to change the government, to plant in their place...just another self interest government.Why change the status quo?
{apathy}
When you sit by appointment with your prospective "Buyer"..it is a cardinal sin to attack their existing supplier.
You must assess their needs, and costs and put forward..a system that improves their needs and reduces their costs.
{Benefits}
Or...offers opportunities to themselves and their families..for improvement.
{Human nature}
Can you show me I am wrong?
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