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Gambia’s Grim Statistics
Sunday, 26 December 2010 23:25
Compiled by Mathew K JallowEverything in The Gambia has gone south since Yahya Jammeh’s brutal regime came to power. After 1994, thousands of Gambians fled their motherland to escape the murderous regime of Yahya Jammeh. And many other things have changed dramatically too due to the gross human rights
violations underYahya Jammeh. Moreover, scores of Gambians in the Diaspora and potential foreign investors are afraid of starting businesses in The Gambia due to fears that Yahya Jammeh would one day turn on them and seize their businesses as he has done to my friend Banta Kaira and many others before him. Below is the proof.1. Between five to ten thousand Gambians have escaped into exile to Europe, the U.S and Senegal, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria, driven from their homeland by Yahya Jammeh’s human rights abuse.
2. Nearly 16 Gambian journalists have also fled into exile to neighboring Senegal, Europe and the U.S
3. More than 30 former senior military officers found refuge in our sister Republic Senegal and to Europe and the U.S
4. Since 1994, between five hundred to one thousand Gambians; ranging from former civil servants, politicians, military and security personnel, journalists and civilian citizens have been detained or are imprisoned as political prisoners in The Gambia’s notorious prison system.
5. The World Bank study found that 63% of Gambia’s university graduates live and work outside The Gambia, the worst record for any country in the world except Cape Verde Islands.
6. Unlike two decades ago, 75% of prostitutes in The Gambia are actually Gambian girls who are forced into prostitution to help feed their families.
7. Tourism has declined by 30% since 1994 sending hundreds of tourist employees out of employment and tourism related businesses out of business.
8. Nearly half the population now live on one 1/5 of the land comprising St. Mary’s Island and the three Kombo Districts stretching from Gunjur to Banjul; roughly a 30 sq. mile area.
9. Agricultural production has declined nearly 60% from the record harvests registered in the early 1990s and earlier years prior to the 1994 military coup.
10. Yahya Jammeh’s Kanilai Enterprises Ltd. has monopoly of public transportation, the butchery and meat supply industry to local markets and hotel industry, supply of bread, sales of rice which usually comes as a gift from friendly donor countries, sale of sand for the building construction industry, and directly controls all the revenue generating government agencies; Ports Authority, Gamtel and Gamcel, Livestock Marketing, and the biggest prize of all, The Central Bank of The Gambia.
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Or better still go and complain to the Observer that people are sick and tired of their daily obsession of seeking out anyone who would congratulate or felicitate that fool in the State House! I guess when they run out people they will start using the rats to felicitate Jammeh!! See what response (if any) you will get.
“a classic application of the Nazi “Big Lie” technique (“tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”),
We levy heavy taxes on our citizens back home but the president's family can fly off to the USA to freely spend that money..... Get your heads together Gambians in USA and let us close US air space to this bandit dictator!!
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