(“YEEN  NA NGEMBA SEN MBORR”) 
YOU CREATED YOUR MONSTER! 
By OUSAINOU MBENGA 
What happen when you create a  monster you can't control? That monster can go 
on a rampage and destroy  everything in its path including the people who 
created it. There is a common  saying in Jamaica that goes thus: “sorry for  
magga dog, magga dog turn around and bite you”. We did warn you about these “tin  
soldiers”, that they are trained to become potential monsters against African 
 people. Everything we said about the AFPRC-APRC is coming to  past. 
The recent spate of arrests,  dismissals and re-deployment of his “
sympathetic sycophants” befits the  monster-like behavior of Jammeh, a creation of the 
most unreliable sector of  Gambian society. Jammeh’s recent victims like his 
past victims sang his praises  of a job well done for the country and that we “
his critics” just don’t  understand the man; we should give him a chance. We 
wonder what is going on in  their minds now that the terror has smacked them in 
the face and they know how  it feels to be in prison.   
What is shameful about all these  arrested “civil servants”, army officers 
and hired gangsters, is that all of  them will claim to be innocent of the 
crimes Jammeh charges, but none of them  will dare ask for evidence or challenge 
the charges. It is also true that most  of these sycophants are equally as 
guilty and greedy as their accuser,  Jammeh. 
As revolutionaries and freedom  fighters, we ordinarily would have come to 
the defense of the arrested  “citizens” as we did with Dumo Sarho, Waa Juwara, 
the victims of the April 10  and 11, Koro ceesay, Ousman Sillah and most 
recent, Deyda Hydara. But these days  we have become highly selective in choosing 
the people we defend against the  APRC. In the past ten years, some Gambians 
have become overly shameless to the  point of being deaf, dumb and blind to the 
destructive behavior of the  AFPRC-APRC as long as they share the crumbs 
dished out by Jammeh. To put it in  blunt terms, these sharers of Jammeh’s crumbs 
deserve every treatment from the  monster they created. How else can such 
malicious behavior be accepted? For ten  long years, none of these sycophants have 
the moral strength to dissociate  themselves from APRC’s deeply resentful 
indignation for Gambians, until they  fall out of favor with Jammeh. This position 
we have taken against Jammeh and  his sycophants is firmly grounded in ten 
years of concrete evidence, not on  spite or a lust for personal attacks. 
We have paid close attention to  all the charlatans and sycophants of the 
AFPRC-APRC; name us one among them who  was ever critical of the regime’s crimes 
against the Gambian people while  serving Jammeh and even worst after their 
being unceremoniously  dismissed. 
Following the coup in 1994, there  was a massive rush by herds of hyenas, lam
e-lions and toothless bull dogs  seeking positions in the AFPRC. This was the 
beginning of what we called  “sucking up to Yaya”. Many of these “positions 
seekers” were fundamentally  motivated by the scores they wanted to settle with 
the Jawara regime as oppose  to contributing to genuine national development. 
Yet others were solely  motivated by a combination of greed and the lust for “
power”, the majority of  whom constitute the AFPRC-APRC to this day. 
Unbeknown to these “position  seekers”, they were in for a rude awakening. They 
quickly found out that these  “tin soldiers” were in this only to feather their 
own nests and whosoever blocks  their access to loot the meager resources of the 
country will end up like Koro  Ceesay.  
The most disappointing of these  “positions seekers” were the so called “
MOJA militants” who were under the  illusions that just because they had contact 
with Jammeh during the heydays of  the movement, they can impress upon the 
AFPRC-APRC to adopt their “revolutionary  theories”, and thereby impact changes 
from within. Jammeh and the other soldiers  reacted in their usual reactionary 
trademark, detention, murder and  intimidation. They were determined not to 
allow anyone to spoil their chances to “chop and quench”. These illusions were 
as a consequence of the movement’s  “political blind spot” which obscured 
the true character of these “tin soldiers”  they were vying to associate with. 
In rivalry to these “MOJA militants” were the  fragmented intellectual 
technocrats who practically designed the apparatus that  carried out the functions 
of the “failed state” of the  APRC. 
Indeed, change does come from  within but what these “comrades” failed to 
realize was that when a system has  rotted, no amount of good will effort can 
change it from within; it must be  replaced. When greed and lust for reactionary 
power becomes the driving force of  any “government”, change can never come 
from within. It never did, never will.  In fact, all the “good intention” 
supporters of the regimes such as the  AFPRC-APRC quickly discover that these 
regimes will not hesitate to chew you up  and spit your bones out. 
There were rare individuals who  saw the inherent weaknesses and lack of 
direction of these “soldiers with a  difference” and genuinely wanted to give the 
country direction but made the  fatal error of depending on a bunch of 
unreliable pseudo-intellectuals who  became Jammeh’s prominent “ass kissers”. The 
entire terrain was infested with  predators willing to sell their souls for a 
position. Following the coup, a  treacherous competition to be a trustworthy 
supporter of AFPRC-APRC ensued among  Gambians. 
Finally, I was pleased to read  that my sister, Saptieu Jobe was able to 
muster enough courage and bravery to  dissociate herself from the tyranny of the 
AFPRC-APRC by making a public apology  and asked for forgiveness. This is a 
step in the right direction but the sister  must understand that an apology alone 
is not satisfactory; it is only a part of  the process to redeem oneself. You 
must become part of the solution to end the  nightmare of the Jammeh regime 
that afflicts our beloved country. You have  opened your clinched fist so that 
other Gambians can consider shaking your hand,  don’t stop here; step forward. 
 
To the rest of you “kiss ups” and  sycophants, this is the end of the line; 
the next stop is over the cliff. The  choice is yours, redeem yourselves or 
get eaten by the monster you created. Take  heed, APRC will melt in 2006! 
DARE TO INVENT THE FUTURE! ‘TIL  VICTORY ALWAYS!

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