How power corrupts President Yaya Jammeh: - The rise from a ragamuffin soldier to a millionaire head of State. 
   
  It was in the early morning of 22nd July when our people wake up to do their daily chores, that announcement came over the Radio Gambia of take over of Government by rank and file members of Gambian Armed Force.  The unrealistic dream of many Gambians was that this was the day for their redemption but in the hearts and mines of the criminals in uniform, this was the day they won a jackpot over our nation’s coffers. The man know to be leading the event was a poor lieutenant called Yaya Jammeh who have now change his name, spelling into Arabism fashion as’ Yahya Jammeh’. Yaya Jammeh with both animist past and Christian upbringing is today a self confessed Islamic fundamentalist swearing with Holy Quran in all his political meetings. Many, who know the social history and background of our president, then spoke about a life of destitution and loneliness which he has gone through. Thanks to the Roman Catholic Missionaries he got a western education. He was help to enrolled
 into the security force even with his quarter baked education due to good connection and good nature of the former regime beyond ethnic, religious or tribal background or affiliation.
   
  It is a fact that a soldier without political education is virtually a criminal. The Gambian people are now aware that the famous slogan of the regime in early morning of 22nd July 1994 such as transparency, accountability and probity has vanished into Gambian clouds and does not mean nothing order than fallacy. A poor soldier who was having less than two thousand dalasi in his account before taking power in 1994 is today richer than the state he is ruling. Yaya Jammeh has looted our national coffers and is still poaching our institutions to enrich himself.  To test Yaya Jammeh by his words, if he really means to eradicate corruption in that tiny country, why then is12 year’s today the recent report of transparency International catalogue the Gambia as one of the most corrupt countries in the world?
   
  There was no justification for the take-over of July 1994. It was motivated by greediness, hate, anger, jealous, egoism and systematic selfishness which are a continuum to destroy the fabric of our society. The political instability in our continent is cause by factors such as bad governance, corruption and tribalism It only a lunatic like Yaya Jammeh drunken with power and also cannot check his remark blindly accused western powers for our continent’s predicaments. It is the greediness, corruption and tribalism that he is peddling which causing the break down of nation states in our continent. Mr President we all know that you are not born with a silver spoon in your mouth. All the wealth you have accumulated is looted from our nation’s coffers. You hail from a family background like me, seeing our parents struggling to meet the daily challenges of life. How do you accumulate such a wealth within a shorter period? Do you forget about the days when your mother used to
 struggle in Bakau market selling dry fish and locust beans to make ends meet?  Mr President in one of your arrogant remarks you stated that even your grand children will not be poor. How did you get that money? There is one common mandinka saying that is a poor person who forecast to be rich when he is rich, he end up been rude and arrogant and that is what you are in the Gambia today.
   
  Yaya Jammeh have been involved in the criminalisation of our state using national institutions to foster his criminality among which are Department of Agriculture, Gambia Telecommunication Company, Central Bank, External Affairs etc. Gambians can recall the relationship between Yaya Jammeh and so-called Malian millionaire Babading Futaka Sussoho. In the early days of the coup, the alliance with the Malian millionaire was exposed when a container of drugs heading for Gambia was impounded in the Coast of Mauritania. The consignment was nothing order than drugs and the shipping details was that it belongs to Gambian Ministry of Agriculture. The same Babading Futaka Sussoho was given Gambian diplomatic passport. Yaya Jammeh ditched him when he was wanted in United Arab Emirates for economic crimes. To date the regime in Mauritania has yet to shed light on that, hence Jammeh’s olive branch while offering sanctuary to the latter in the Gambia. Thus a marriage of convenience!
   
  Apart from the drug trade, the regime was involved in economic regimes such as money laundering using the officials of the Central Bank of The Gambia. He was making illusion and fantasy about Allah’s World Bank but senior officials in the Central Bank will one day give evidence about the false dollars currency which were siphoned into Gambian dalasis. Later the Central Bank of the Gambia takes the responsibility to burn such false currency after the converting the amount into Gambian money for Yaya Jammeh. 
   
  Yaya Jammeh has used Gambia’s non permanent position in United Nations Security Council to pursue his cheque book diplomacy just to foster his greedy and selfish interest. Among the projects that he embarked on that historical opportunity for our country was establishment of diplomatic relationship with Libya and Taiwan. For those two years, the position of Gambia in the Security Council meeting was the lifting of sanction on Libya and recognition of Taiwan as Independent state. For Taiwan, it lead to the disbursement of Gambia’s missing millions which ended in private bank accounts and also a court case between Yaya Jammeh and fugitive former spokesman Captain Ebou Jallow. Recent lawsuit at the one of the federal court in the United State with his self appointed Public relation firms have revealed a lot about Yaya Jammeh’s undercover operations of Yaya Jammeh have been involved in the criminalisation of our state using national institutions to foster his criminality
 among which are Department of Agriculture, Central Bank, External Affairs etc. Gambians can recall the relationship between Yaya Jammeh and so-called Malian millionaire Babading Futaka Sussoho. In the early days of the coup, the alliance with the Malian millionaire was exposed when a container of drugs heading for Gambia was impounded in the Coast of Mauritania. The consignment was nothing order than drugs and the shipping details was that it belongs to Gambian Ministry of Agriculture. The same Babading Futaka Sussoho was given Gambian diplomatic passport. Yaya Jammeh ditched him when he was wanted in United Arab Emirates for economic crimes. To date the new regime in Mauritania has yet to shed light on that, hence Jammeh’s olive branch while offering sanctuary to the latter in the Gambia. Thus a marriage of convenience!
   
  Apart from the drug trade, the regime was involved in economic regimes such as money laundering using the officials of the Central Bank of The Gambia. He was making illusion and fantasy about Allah’s World Bank but senior officials in the Central Bank will one day give evidence about the false dollars currency which were siphoned into Gambian dalasis. Later the Central Bank of the Gambia takes the responsibility to burn such false currency after the converting the amount into Gambian money for Yaya Jammeh. 
   
  Many Gambian are aware of Yaya Jammeh’s relationship with Charles Taylor and the United Nation’s report on the blood diamond and Gambia’s position to clean Baba Jobe as a party to the crime. Baba Jobe was been used in undercover operations of Yaya Jammeh ranging from blood diamond, money laundering, drug trafficking, millennium airline, arms trade etc and later been sacrificed.
   
   
  Yaya Jammeh’s greediness and corruption have been extended to land grabbing and estate development. The development of Sheraton hotel in Brufut and African Union village is a food for taught for every Gambia following the Taf construction case with sanneh/manneh clan of Brufut and the internet debate about the corporate interest of Yaya Jammeh and his intention of collaborating with Taf Construction robbing the powerless and marginalise people of Brufut from their land, to fostering their business. Yaya Jammeh land grabbing is extended to Siffo in Kombo South district where according to sources annex massive land which can accommodate the settlement of Brikama-ba in Fuladu East.
   
  The first test of Yaya Jammeh’s unrepentant, immature and brutal character was tested on the Daily Observer which is today turned as one of his fortunes. It is the unrepentant, immature and brutal character he manifested on Mr Jobe and Bahoum of Former Gambia Utility Company when he privatising it as a personal property using his Arab Business partner in the name of Global Management Company. Messer Jibe was languishing in detention for day even with the fact that court ordered his release. Our President is into all type of business partnership using all short of middle men as undercover cover. He has shares in Africell a mobile company which tariff fall in conflict with Gamcell-a subsidiary of Gambia Telecommunication Company leading to sacking of both the Director of GAMTEL and GAMCELL. Yaya Jammeh has followed the pattern of Late Mobutu of Zaire like his mentor. He has acquired a series of properties including a plantation estate, properties in Morocco, Private Island
 in the Bintang bolong, businesses such as Kairaba hotel, high class Sindola hotel and game reserve etc. He has all type of animals such as zebras, Tigers, lions and crocodiles etc. With many more, questions remain unanswered for those think 22nd July take over means to redeemer Gambian people I Mr abdoukarim Sanneh think you are the biggest illusionist transparency and accountability which the devil of Kanillai have started will continue in the annex of the history of small nation to be recorded with time, time unlimited. 
   

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