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Editorial: Edu Gomez only restated an existing policy
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 13:17
JollofNews - Those who in anyway got surprised by the threatening pronouncement by Gambian’s ‘Justice’ Minister
Edward Gomze either chose to remain in denial of the situation up to this point, or simply have never given a damn about happenings in that dungeon of a country.The fact is that Edu Gomez hasn’t done anything new; all he did was reiterate an extant policy of the Gambian government under Yahya Jammeh, which simply goes - ‘support the regime or go to hell’. If anything, this also serves as a reminder to those who tend to buy into the deceitful gestures of Yahya and his cronies.
Edu Gomze’s predecessor, Marie Saine Firdaaus, shamelessly told the world that Gambian journalists attack their government because they want asylum, disregarding the fact that countless journalists have been subjected to torture, others chased out, while one remains disappeared for God knows how long, not to mention the cowardly murder of two other journalists by this same thuggish regime of theirs.
If some of us Gambians failed to see our government in a restrained light, it is because there is hardly anything genuine about it. For example, Edu Gomez’s failure to come to terms with reality tells a lot about his state of mind - that he is far less than sincere with himself. As the 13th person to hold the position he currently occupies, in just over 16 years, which means in an average of every one year there is a new appointee, he should know better than making such preposterous statements.
Edu Gomez’s unwarranted attack on Britain, a country he owes mostly (for his education) for his present contribution to an independent Gambia, also points to a brazenly ungrateful side of his.
Moreover, if there are any “evil” people in today’s Gambian society certainly that list is incomplete without the name of the Minister of Justice of Gambia, who presides over one of the most ludicrous judicial systems in the whole world; who have become brashly immune to the obvious inner guilt tormenting his sullied conscience; who says one thing today and act contrary the next day; who denies what is plainly visible to everyone in the whole world…
How else would you explain the attitude of a government that considers its citizens with divergent views as “enemies of progress”?
What the proponents of this disparaging strategy failed to realize, however, is that oppression has limitations… present happenings around the region and beyond should serve as solid reminder to this.
If Gambians in Gambia are not talking, it’s obviously because they are forbidden to do so - our ‘Justice’ minister’s present statement being fresh evidence to this. But what the minister failed to realize is that that rogue ‘kingdom’ cannot be extended beyond the borders of what we know as Gambia. If we can’t be allowed to talk in Gambia, then we must be allowed to do so outside.
No amount of rhetoric can alter the minds of Gambians about this regime, run by a repressively intolerant, cowardly bunch of zealots who can’t stand criticism.
It is only cowards who dread being criticized.
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Comments
Where will you be then? Eating bush meat
Wake from this slumber wipe the tears from our eyes
Yes from this nightmare I must now wake,!
Good people sick and tired of being pushed around,
Tell me when you think we'll just stand up?
Say enough is enough is enough, enough, I'm saying
I can just imagine Edu Gomez coming home from work and his teenage son asking him to explain who CHIEF MANNEH is and was it true that he was made to disappear by the government.
Believe me guys, families that are working for this monster regime are feeling the pressure from abroad and at home, thus we seem them lashing out in desperation The race is for those who can endure. Can this bungling regime endure much longer? I don't think so!
Let's go on and see who will prevail.
This is what is scaring the living daylights out of the govt of Yaya Jammeh! Now all their dirty little secrets are not only being seen in black and white print but internet radio threatens to undo what the draconian anti media legislation has done to press freedom in Gambia.
Sorry guys, if you had nothing to hide why all the fear and threats?
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