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President Yahya Jammeh’s PR blunders
Saturday, 18 September 2010 22:47
By Yusupha Cham
President Yahya Jammeh’s recent utterances against the West goes to confirm that even after sixteen years of brushing sides with world leaders and listening to his peers’ speeches in the media or at meetings, he has still not learned anything in diplomacy. This lack of basic diplomatic language has made him unfit to speak on behalf of the Gambia at the
highest level. Gambians have no quarrels with the West. He is the one who had been brewing infantile and petty quarrels with the West in an attempt to fool people about the contempt the world has for his misbehavior.Arguments such as the West exploited Gambia for 400 years cannot be a platform for a modern day politicians with the slightest grasp of international issues and politics. Those arguments are too ancient and are out of place. The Nkurumahs, Toures. Lubumbas, Ketas, and in many respects the United Nations have each done a lot in highlighting those historical mistreatment of the black race.
What is now prudent is for African leaders to adopt those values which bring prosperity, respect, development, dignity and better lives to their people. These are not Western values. They are important to all human beings including Gambians. So what we deserve from Jammeh is not repeating these comments about colonialism but concrete moves to give us freedom, liberty, and responsibility in our own affairs. This is what the British gave us at Independence and this is what you seized from us on July 22, 1994.
Unless you restore these values to our people you cannot be better than the British. In fact the British are more compassionate and obviously more tolerant than you, otherwise your comments are enough to cut off the aid they are giving to our people. As indicated in a recent report carried on this forum, The British have not shut off ties with us completely despite your terrible comments, but there cannot be a head way in the Gambia - British relations unless you reform your baseless remarks and embrace democracy.
If you are wiser, you have by now polished your crude method of communication by employing professional speech writers and media personnel with good knowledge of international politics. But instead you surrounded yourself with empty heads no better than yourself in international matters, hence your regular bout of scandalous pronouncement with international implications that only brings shame and embarrassment to you and our nation in general. Just a deep breath, (to quote your own instructions to your Aid patients), and consider how your Aids cure announcement has ridiculed you around the World. Anywhere a Gambian goes, people would tell you, ‘Eh how is your Presidents’ Aid Cure project going on?’’
How you and your advisers could have missed the buffoonery image this pronouncement would make out of you, is beyond understanding.
I hope you have taken lessons from this Aids debacle because it is going to stay with you forever. If you think that you can scare people by mystifying yourself with all sorts of knowledge in all things, you are fooling yourself. You will only succeed in making yourself and international fool.
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Comments
Every time the increasingly ridiculous and hilarious Jammeh opens his idiot mouth, he puts his big, dictators foot in it.
The world laughs at Jammeh, and as long as you have him, you will lose tourist numbers, international trade, good will and a good standing on the world stage.
What Jammeh deserves is not freedom of speach, he deserves your anger, your pity, and finally he needs booting out of office and out of The Gambia.
As long as he remains in office, I and many thousands of foreigners will never return.
Peace.....
Gary S
You say:- "So what we deserve is not comments about colonialism but concrete moves to give us (Africans) freedom, liberty, and responsibilty. Unless you restore these values to our people you cannot be better than the British".
Absolutely. I have campaigned against RACISM in UK since 1977 (documented in UK newspapers) and my greatest pain is not the killing of blacks by white racists. It is the killing of blacks by blacks. Our leaders MUST value the liberty and life of FELLOW AFRICANS - otherwise it is useless talking about how awful the West are. By the way, I would say the same to Arab leaders.
How long are we going to keep singing the same song while we oppress our own people, loot the treasury and insist on ruling without term limits. I think the underlying lesson from this editorial is this argument that the editor made “What is now prudent is for African leaders to adopt those values which bring prosperity, respect, development, dignity and better lives to their people. These are not Western values. They are important to all human beings including Gambians”
But you must allow The President Freedom of Speach. I agree that the now is what is important and tomorrow.
"The past is a foreign field...
we did things differently then"
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