Good Morning Mr. President
          and Esteemed readers!
   
        With Lamin Jatta
     
       Your excellency, I have the singular pleasure and extraordinary honor to launch this maiden edition of Good Morning Mr President on ALLGAMBIAN.NET. This column is  specially dedicated to an extraordinary mentor,  teacher and a freedom  fighter, Mr. Deyda Hydara. One of the outrageous theories put up by the so called "Confidential Report" prepared by the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, unwittingly suggested that  his  death could be linked to Mr.Hydara's achormanship of the column, Good Morning Mr  President,Where he attacked the person of the president and a bunch of other craps.
   
  Your excellency, we are privy to information that your  government has , ordered for the immediate termination of Good Morning  Mr. President column on the pages of Point News Paper. This morning, we are going  to complement the initiative of  our sister on line paper, The  Gambian Journal, to be  coming up with a weekly edition on Monday mornings  to serve as a befitting substitute for that of the column on Point News  Paper which is conspicuously absent in it pages. I hope you will enjoy  reading this column every Monday morning.
   
        I intend to contribute my little way to keep the great legend's  thriving memory and belief for freedom and democracy alive and bouncing  it up to the door steps of his ruthless murderers. This, I believe will not only taut his killers, Mr President, but will prove to them and all  Gambians that no body can kill freedom of a great people like Gambians.  
   
    Your excellency, The cliché that our contemporary world is a global village cannot elude  
  the great people of the Gambia. That is to say the entire world,  and the Middle East in particular, are embracing democratic principles.  Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, among a host of other countries are  enjoying the ideals of democracy and ensuring that the freedom of their people is guaranteed. We Gambians  will not be cowered into accepting  a few power intoxicated and dishonest elites condemn us back to the  quagmire of  the pre-civilized era of our nation's history as a mean to  meet their selfish ends.
   
   Been a great son of Africa, coupled with his unflinching patriotism, Mr.  Hydara as it appeared, has willingly paid the ultimate price and stood firmly on his beliefs until he breathe his last  breath. Mr President, of course, this great man is this morning, laying in his peaceful grave , thanks to your government's failure or refusal to arrest the systematic and deliberate atrocities targeting the independent media in the form of arson attacks by the Green Boys that is sending a reign of terror hovering above innocent journalist and climaxed in the gruesome murder of a great man.. 
   
  Your excellency, your failure to provide security and protection to independent journalists in the backdrop of your frequent use of diatribes on the public media that put the lives of Gambian journalists in danger, criminally is a dereliction of responsibility that Gambians bestowed on you and a breach of oath to protect the citizens without ill will or affection. This morning, your excellency, Mr. Hydara is looking at us with total amazement at the extent to which we Nodomie Adama allowed our sinful worldly penchant for power, injustice and falsehood compromise our very conscience that distinguished us from beasts.
   
  Your excellency, frankly, the comportment of your government in the wake of the assassination of Mr. Hydara is a frantic confluence of cover ups, defamation of the blameless character of Mr. Hydara, lies and the involuntary expression of guilt. The world is flinching at the conspiratorial role play by  the NIA, Police, State control media, Executive, Parliament and even the Judiciary among other state apparatus in the events leading to and after the assassination of  Mr Hydara. Your Excellency, in a  all true democracy, all these state apparatus are supposed to serve as checks and balances on one another as opposed to working  in cohort to abuse the rights and freedom of their own people. 
   
  The marriage of all these state functionaries was what kept  Deyda  hollering at you until certain blood thirsty gun men decided that he should be shut up. Mr. Hydadra was assassinated with  the sole purpose of keeping him quiet for good as he refused to be threatened into a state of silence. It is reported that even when Mr Hydara would not keep quiet from his grave at the rampant injustices of your government, it took a presidential degree to shut the Good Morning Mr President column with the ultimatum that if the Point News paper continue to stubbornly relay the voice of Mr Hydara from the grave, it will be made to follow its founding father's foot parts.
   
   
  Your excellency, it is in view of your government's excesses especially in the case of Mr Hydara that I and other  numerous students who past through his soft and able hands that sparks fire in the fight for the truth, freedom, transparency and  accountability, will accept his torch  and sword for these principles with the greatest humility, challenge  and Honor. Mr President, I have always have the suspicion that the killers of Mr Hydara strategically targeted him to decapitate the independent press in our country. I hope that this will prove on no uncertain term that no  living power can kill the voice of the voiceless which is obviously the voice of Allah subhana wa tallah .
   
   Mr President, another theory for the reason of the assassination of Mr. Hydara is that the assassins thought by so doing they will annihilate the critical Point News Paper as well. But alas! they have failed woefully,  Mr. President, Today, my heart is full of joy , as I crave on your indulgence to deliver this important news to our  martyr, Mr. Hydara in his grave: Hi Mr. Hydara, the new year has dawn an unprecedented blossom  of your dream and beliefs. It is with  profound gratification and fulfilment that only matched the sadness, sorrow and anger that struck us  when your were brutally ripped from us by terror, that I  informed you that the Point News Paper did not in fact die a  natural dead as the enemies of freedom and progress had planned. The hatred of  terror only serve as a motivation and challenge for our resolve to  maintain the fight for the nobles principles you were killed for with  great enthusiasms and vigor. Not only do we have a daily Point News  Paper now, we
 also have two Good Morning Mr. Presidents on hand to, ( insallah) monitor  the President and where possible commend the president or blow the  whistle if the ball falls from his clumsy hands. As you rest in your grave, I will make this  commitment this morning, that we will move the darkness of the night and the  seemingly  indifferent of the APRC government to  bring to justice your murderers, who are cowardly hiding their grotesque act behind the wall of refusal of this government to launch a serious  investigation in this matter.
   
    Mr. President, last night I have a dream in my sleep. The great Martin Luther King appeared on my dream  which coincidentally falls in his birthday, January 15Th.  I have the honor  to
  share the dream with you this morning: In the dream I saw a  Gambia where people were living in a very democratic government that to  me is a far cry from what you preside over today. In that dream, the  Gambia was a developed and progressive country were journalists were allow  to do their job of informing the people without hitches or hindrance  from the government. In that dream, the opposition had access to the  public media and are allow to challenge the government on issues that hinges on national interest, a government where
  the Parliament checks on executive power, the judiciary checks on the Parliament, and of course the citizen were free to express themselves on how they are governed  without fear of persecution. Justice finally was done for not only Deyda Hydara, but Ousman Koro Ceesay, all the young victims of the April 10 and 11 students massacre, the death bodies found at Brufut, and of course Lawyer Ousman Sillah.  Have a Good day Mr. President.





		
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