Tombong,
The time you spent going to the airport to welcome yaya jammeh could have been better spent reading to your child. It is the same kakatar tendency that you are talking about.
TOMBONG SAIDY <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I have always wanted to write my opinion on this matter but never had the time but with the current debate or exchange between Essa Sey and Abdoulie Njie, I am inspired to contribute my thoughts.
Abdoulie Njie has raised an important issue and that is what he calls “the KAKATAR Nature of Our People”. This is a serious phenomenon and it is undermining the very fabric of our society. It is very important to be consistent, however this does not mean that one cannot change after being more informed on a certain issue or matter. For instance, I am a very strong support of Yahya Jammeh and I supported him from day one, when nothing was nothing, when most believed that the coup will not succeed. I continue to support him even after he fired me as the Director General of GRTS. I support him because I still believe he is best thing that happens to The Gambia, that he has the interest of the country at heart and he is dedicated and determined to develop The Gambia.
But the KAKATAR syndrome is showing its ugly face everyday. I don’t know how many of you have been following the Honourable Phoday Lang Sarr issue regarding him trying to disassociate himself from Honourable Baba Jobe. These are the types of people who are setting this country back. A KAKATARR tendency makes the individual very dishonest and self-serving. These types of people when they happen to be close to the leadership, they always give bad advices, implicate innocent people, undermine authorities of other just to hide their KAKATARR tendencies.
I had the opportunity to watch the videotape of the first public meeting of the AFPRC at the then McCarthy Square (now July 22nd Square) and I just could not believe my eyes. Here we are with President Jawara gone and in less than two weeks, you see some of his staunch supporters embracing and praising Chairman Jammeh and the AFPRC Council. How can you be with Jawara for 30 years and just abandon him like that. The same phenomenon is being exhibited every day. I can understand that one can change political or even religious conviction as he or she feels, but it has to be done based on PRINCIPLE. Dr. Sedad Jobe resigned as Secretary of State for Foreign Afffairs based on principle and I respect him for that. If one feels that he or she do not believe in Jammeh’s programme, why not just resign.
The KAKATAR tendency is unfortunately a Gambian problem. When one looks at the political history of this country, particularly the history of political parties, we have seen people abandoning P. S Njie in the sixties and seventies to join Jawara, we have seen people joining Jammeh from the Jawara camp, we have seen people abandoning Jammeh to the Anti-Jammeh camp etc. But the amazing thing is those affected ( those with the KAKATAR tendency) would look at you straight in the eye as if nothing is wrong. Something is wrong here.
This KAKATARR tendency is the main reason why we have sycophants, who would accept any thing from the leadership as long as they are not directly affect. This KAKATAR syndrome is part of the problem President Jammeh is currently facing. We have many people surrounding him who are not dedicated to anything but themselves and their pockets. Whatever advice they give, is in most cases self-serving.
On the Gambia-L, we have different groupings, we have the Pro Jammeh, Anti Jammeh, those who are indifference, those who claim to be neutral (don’t ask me how come one is neutral when it comes to Jammeh), we have observers etc. What I cannot stand is the constant vacillations from one camp to the other. If I am not wrong, I am one of the few veterans of the Gambia –L who have been around since 1995. I have seen a lot over the years and it is disheartening.
This KAKATARR tendency is manifested in other manners too. I have seen several case of these so-called Anti Jammeh, who would write regularly criticising the President and the APRC in the Gambia-L, but when you talk to them in private, especially when they are in The Gambia visiting, they are completely different and it makes me wonder which camp do these people really belong. We have similar elements within the Pro-Jammeh camp too. The KAKATAR tendency, allows the individual to blend in with any camp at any time without his or her conscience bordering him or her.
The KAKATARR tendency is one phenomenon we have to fight together as Gambians and it does not matter which camp we belong to. Lets say the truth there and then no matter where you are.
PEACE
Tombong Saidy
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