When Yaya gave those diabolical orders, he forfeited his right to live in,
let alone lead Gambia. This man was prepared to order the massacre of
innocent and defenseless children partaking in a PEACEFUL demonstration just
to perpetuate himself in power. And all this hunger for power is nothing but
a hunger for corruption. The man is NOT yearning to lead Gambians because he
is the smartest Gambian that can get things done in the country and move our
country forward. The only reason this man wants to stay in power is for him
to be able to lead a flamboyant lifestyle. He knows that he does NOT have
the wherewithal to maintain the lifestyle of his dreams if he does not steal
from poor Gambians. How can he steal from poor Gambians if he is a lowly
lieutenant in the army? The man and his cohorts need power (guns and terror)
in order to commit ROBBERY against Gambians.
The lives of innocent children is a hefty price to pay in order to have
these callous people leading us. Even if they were the best Gambians for the
job, NOT a single Gambian should be killed in order to maintain a
Dictatorship. But the Dictatorship did not stop at killing our children.
They went further and denied the victims and their families the JUSTICE they
deserved. Next week it would be TWO SINCE OUR CHILDREN WERE SLAUGHTERED in
broad daylight by Yaya’s security forces acting on Yaya’s orders. To this
day, not a single person has been punished for that most heinous crime to
have visited our peaceful country. Instead, the Dictatorship is mocking the
people.
Bogus and toothless commissions of inquiries were set up. For the diabolical
role he played in that bogus inquiry, Joseph Joof was rewarded to become our
Attorney General; the man that is supposed to protect the legal rights of
ordinary citizens. Here is a man who climbed the greasy pole to the top APRC
legal position by stepping on the corpses of our children. Together with the
former Chief Justice, they entertained APRC murderers before their
commission, telling LIES upon lies about the fateful events of April 10 and
11, 2000. To this day no one on that commission can tell you who actually
shot our children and on whose orders they were acting. Joseph Joof used
this very commission to ambush Pap Cheyassin Secka and become the Attorney
General. Well, one day, he too will be claimed by our children whom he
denied justice.
But the Dictatorship did not stop there. The same Joseph Joof engineered an
Indemnity Decree for the Dictatorship in an attempt to insulate the
murderers of our children. The Dictatorship shamelessly went to parliament
to RATIFY the murderous actions of Yaya’s security forces on April 10 and
11, 2000. See why I said that these people are mocking us? It is now in our
law books that it is OK to massacre innocent and defenseless children. It is
OK to butcher children as young as three. It is OK to beat up people and
shoot people and inflict devastating wounds on people and NOT compensate
them for their injuries so long as Yaya orders the action and it is
implemented by his sick security forces.
I see we now have a new Chief Justice. I hope he realizes that these are the
sorts of sick and repugnant laws that he has been brought in to oversee. He
is now the Chief Justice in a country where the government is the chief
law-breaker. He is in a country where if the Dictatorship does not like the
law, it gets an inept Attorney General and a rubber-stamp parliament to
change the law. In short, the new Chief Justice is entering a lawless
jungle. As we speak/write innocent citizens are languishing in jail because
the Dictatorship CANNOT tolerate dissent.
I hereby serve notice to the Dictatorship that we will NEVER forget the
massacre of our children. April 10 and 11, 2000 and how its aftermath is
handled by Gambians, says a lot about the kind of people we are. Are we a
people that would devalue the lives of children simply because the
Dictatorship is holding us hostage? Would we dishonor the memory of our
children by dining with the Devil that killed our children? We should always
remember that those children were fighting to make Gambia a better place for
all of us. Those children NEVER got up to go and topple any government and
threaten the flamboyant lifestyles of the APRC Dictatorship. Those children
got up because they saw LAWLESSNESS in the country and they wanted the
authorities to realize that the children would NOT be silent when their
colleagues were being raped and murdered without redress from the courts.
The children got up because one of their own (Ebrima Barry) was murdered and
then denied justice. At the end of the day, the children have been
vindicated. Joseph Joof’s inept prosecutors NEVER convicted the murderers of
Ebrima Barry. But when the Dictatorship finally denied Ebrima Barry’s family
the justice they deserved, not a single protest was heard. Why? Because the
Gambians are held hostage by the Dictatorship. More than a dozen innocent
lives were lost when all the children were doing was demonstrating against
the feet-dragging in the Ebrima Barry case. Now, imagine how many will be
lost if children came out to demonstrate against the blatant denial of
justice meted on the families of all the children involved in this saga.
Should Gambians we reduced to this? Should we tolerate a Dictatorship that
slaughters our children and then deny us justice? Should we tolerate a
Dictatorship that incarcerates and slaughters innocent Gambians in order to
perpetuate itself in power; continue to steal from us and render our people
destitute?
KB
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