YAYA MUST
RESIGN (PART-TWO)
The news that Yaya went to the hospital to see the
children he had ordered for their killing but were
fortunate to be saved by god was the climax of his
mockery to the bereaved families and the entire
Gambian people. Don’t be surprised therefore if by
next week he goes on the air with recommendations to
have the families compensated financially by
government for the death of the children. The Kaninlai
butcher is now on his usual appeasing strategy. After
killing so many Gambians and then successfully
wriggling out of them in the past, he now believes he
has perfected that demonic talent to the point where
he could get away with the worst kind scenario.
Killing the school children would be something he
would celebrate in his private moments and might
perhaps boast happily about sending the kids six-foot
deep. He must resign for this crime.
There are certain things that I am sure he would now
be working on to survive his crime in the eyes of the
general public. He would start distancing himself from
Isatou Njie Saidy and her team that tried desperately
to defend the shooting. It is even possible that he
may fire some of them if the public pressure is
sustained in the face of his slick efforts. There is
no doubt in my mind also that he would be banking
heavily on his newly appointed minister of justice Mr.
Pap Choi Yassin Secka to cover up for him where every
thing should fail. So Mr. Secka must brace up for the
two critical options on his drawing board. If he does
not make things good for Yaya and clears his name
altogether, he should be prepared to get the sack very
soon like all his predecessors suffered. For example,
if Mr. Secka for a moment tries to confirm the
undeniable fact that there were no rubber-bullet guns
used but AK47’s with live rounds in the operation, he
would be seen as deviating from the expectations of
Yaya and would no doubt lose his new job. Certainly,
the establishment of that truth should be the opening
passage to almost all the facts, because those who
lied about that would be forced to confess. And their
confession would clearly hang Yaya by the balls. But
on a more limited perception, Mr. Secka may choose to
join the bandwagon of the intellectual prostitutes for
the purpose of keeping his job and not considering the
permanent destruction of his historical image. The
usual argument that the veteran lawyer is well
cultured and schooled and would not therefore
compromise his integrity shall never sway me,
especially after experiencing Fafa Mbye’s era. Too
many outstanding intellectuals have gone down in
history with monsters like Adolf Hitler, a reality
that still puzzles the minds of analytical historians.
Samuel Doe went down with a lot of them as well, not
forgetting Bokassa and Musa Trawalleh the child
killers. So Yaya the latest child killer would
certainly sink with some of them as well.
Apart from depending on his new Minister of Justice to
help him out, Yaya would also retreat to his oracles
(jalangs), at kaninlai. He would therefore sacrifice a
lot of cattle and other animals for charity,
distributing thousands of cola-nuts to praying grounds
and soaking himself in nasty liquid charms “saafara”,
with the strong conviction that it would work for him
to escape his criminal actions.
But I want to remind him how those foolish things
don’t work for him most of the time. After the
Farafenni attack for example on the 8th of November
1996, he instructed his former guard commander
Lieutenant Landing Sanneh to carry out one of the most
primitive rituals in the barracks. State guard
personnel were sent to bury several bags of ordinary
salt everywhere in the camp. This could be confirmed
with those soldiers serving at 2Infantry Battalion,
Farafenni barracks. When we asked Yaya why, he said he
was advised by his juju-man to do so which would be
the final guarantee that no army camp would ever be
attacked by surprise again. Eight months after, on the
21st of July 1997, Kartong was attacked in the most
surprising manner ever imagined. When we met him
after, the idiot had totally forgotten about the
previous year’s rituals and had to tell us that he had
dreamt about the Kartong attack weeks ago but that he
had performed stronger rituals that made it a failure.
In that same year in 1997, he almost died from another
ritual he was trying to perform with wild bees at
Kaninlai village. Captain L. T. Tamba was there and
was a live witness to that embarrassing incident. Yaya
trying to mystify himself before us told everybody
including his guards not to follow him under one big
tree where he said he was going to discuss certain
things with his ancestral bees. He even warned us that
if we followed him under the tree, the bees could
sting us and that would mean death to any one stung.
So we stayed away from a reasonable distance watching.
However, shortly after he stated acting as if he was
talking to the bees buzzing around their hives on the
branches, the insects suddenly attacked and almost
killed him while he ran all over the dusty bushes. If
it had not been for the guards, his ancestral bees
would have probably sting him to death. Yet the moron
had to later send an old haggard-looking woman from
the village to tell us that the bees attacked Yaya
because they were upset with him for not greeting them
when he first arrived in the village that morning.
This is not a joke Gambians; this is the real
mentality of the president leading our country. If he
should therefore dream that killing school children
was the right thing to do as may be prescribed by his
“jalangs” he would do it and later retreat to them to
save his neck.
Turning to the soldiers now, it is important for you
to know how badly Yaya has destroyed your image all
over the world for the very crimes he has been
committing particularly in this last one. After using
you in this unforgivable crime, he is now pretending
not to be part of what happened on April 10. So all of
you have a great responsibility to worry about. You
must clear this negative image by doing what you are
suppose to do for the Gambian people. If Yaya would
not resign, you must remove him out of power and call
for the civilians to organize elections within three
months and give them the political power that belongs
to them. That would be the only way you can restore
your credibility once more. Yaya being around you will
destroy all the prestige and honor you used to enjoy
as professional soldiers. YAYA MUST RESIGN! YAYA MUST
RESIGN!
Ebou Colly
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