LJD,
The truth will eventually prevail. When we refused to accept Mathew
Jallow's and some of the other pretenders rubbish about some former
'enablers' of Jammeh being our saviours and what have you, we were called
intolerant and trying to elbow people out of the opposition ranks. As i
said before that is lie, none of us has the intend, power or capacity to
stop anyone from joining Jammeh but what i will not keep mute about is the
lie that these people know something we don't know about Jammeh or that
they were on some subversive mission or something to undermine Jammeh from
within. The strange thing is that all these 'born-again' saviours are
actually Jammeh rejects who most probably if they hadn't been thrown out
they will be still with the CHILD MURDERER moonlighting as President of the
Gambia.
I am ignoring the rubbish reasons some of the apologists of these people
keep casting around especially the nonsensical comparison someone brought
about OMAR IBN HATAB the companion of our Prophet. We know Halifa Omar IBN
Hatab was never a snitch neither an enabler. He initially refused to join
ISLAM based on a principled conviction of what was obtained in Arabia when
the new religion of Islam began spreading. When he was convinced of the
message brought by the Prophet of Islam he became one of the fierciest
defenders of it and never betrayed the trust of anyone. Comparing him and
his ways with the Jammeh's former enablers is to me blasphemous.
Best regards,
Mboge
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Yes Mboge, I too thought about Mathew K's motivation, but whatever the
> driver behind his conversion, I'm pleased he appreciates the contradiction
> in going after the Professor, and his current enablers, and turning a blind
> eye to the moral infringements of those who sat and dined at that merciless
> table less than ten years ago. As they say, better late than never.
>
> Just teasing Mathew about apologizing, as I am aware he wont. and there is
> really no reason to anyway. I'm celebrating nevertheless, and like the sea
> of its foreign content, time will lay bare Mathew's inspiration for
> embracing the truth.
>
>
> LJDarbo
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 1:42
> *Subject:* Re: [G_L] BRILLIANT COMMENTARY FROM MATHEW K JALLOW
>
> LJD,
>
> I chuckled when i read Mathew's piece on Maafanta earlier. I thought this
> is good but why the omission of his friends. Anyway, no need to apologise
> to me. Just wondering what caused this latest epiphany .
>
> Best,
> Mboge
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> All
>
> I'm not in the habit of forwarding material by Mathew K Jallow, but I
> proudly make an exception on this occasion. Even with his stark omissions,
> this is a brilliant piece, and please feel free to insert the names that
> are shouting for inclusion in this Professor Jammeh luminaries list
> including "... Sarjo Jallow, Nene Macdolle, Fatoumata Tambajang, Nana
> Grey-Johnson, Bala Garba-Jahumpa and Mbemba Tambedou ..."
>
> Will our good brother now do the honorable thing and apologize to M O
> Mboge, Joe Sambou, and myself for saying the very same thing only months
> ago, and in the process needlessly incurring his substantial wrath. Mathew
> has come of age, and I am now willing to consider him for President of the
> Third Republic.
>
>
> LJDarbo
>
>
> *
> *
> *
> *
> *
> *
> *The Gambia: The new mind of a people and the color of betrayal*****
> * *
> *By Mathew K Jallow*****
> ** **
> To digress from the nastiness of politics for a moment, this focus,
> instead, on human nature in Gambia, is a fundamental component of the
> changes in our cultural landscape. This plunge into the complexity of human
> nature attempts to contextualize the enormous lapses in judgment to which
> many Gambians have become willing victims. And, this is not in reference to
> theoretical psychology, but on the facts of our lives that respond to our
> moral groundings. It is our lived experience, groomed by society’s norms,
> and distinguish our capacity to rationalize from the other forces in
> nature; animals. At one critical level, our countrymen and womens’ fickle
> minds lend themselves to fall into the dreadful entrapment of the promises
> of power and prestige, but perhaps the most significant motivating factor
> is the power of economics; the bottom-line. In short, it is purely an issue
> of self-preservation dictated by a need for political power and economic
> self-protection, and over the past eighteen years, it has devalued our
> concepts of society, but even more importantly, our perception of our
> fellow countrymen and women is hopelessly entangled between the clearly
> opposing contradictions of moral obligation and our Darwinian primordial
> instincts for survival. The most recent intense public castigation campaign
> and moral marginalization of Nana Grey-Johnson, typify the stark division
> among Gambians; a division explainable primarily by simple environmental
> factors. I was tongue-tied, of course, during Nana’s ordeal, not because of
> an innate desire to protect a friend, but rather because of the awareness
> of how economic conditions at home provide a powerful force for
> malleability and utter indifference to moral rationality.****
> ** **
> Clearly, Nana Grey-Johnson deserved the loud criticisms too, for failing
> the moral test, but, with that story now behind us, Nana Grey is not
> unmindful that he is wedged between the dangerous company of Imperial King,
> Yahya Jammeh and the unforgiving indignation of the vocal Gambian minority.
> Today, Gambia is in the grip of an intellectual degradation unlike anything
> Africa has experienced since the seventies, and the customariness with
> which many Gambians have fallen victims to Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh’s
> power and the lure of political status is an object of ongoing debate among
> Gambians. The long list of Gambians deserving case studies to provide
> empirical evidence in understanding the cruelty of Gambian politics under
> Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh, include, but is not limited only to; Sarjo
> Jallow, Nene Macdolle, Fatoumata Tambajang, Nana Grey-Johnson, Bala
> Garba-Jahumpa and Mbemba Tambedou, all relatives and close friends, among
> the other eighty cabinet appointments under Yahya Jammeh. But, this failure
> of moral obligation to Gambians has a religious dimension, further
> complicating the enormous challenges of moral uprightness. The fact that so
> many Gambians choose to disregard the failure of leadership under Imperial
> King, Yahya Jammeh, is itself stunning, but that so many of them can endure
> the indignities of arrests, tortures and recycleing back into the system,
> is mind-blowing and absurd. But, what obsesses the Gambian mind most is the
> calculations of accepting temporary appointment in any position under Yahya
> Jammeh even while Gambians continue to be murdered, to disappear and to be
> reduced in their aspirations and limited in their freedoms.****
> ** **
> Intellectual uprightness dictates the assumption of moral superiority in
> our patriotic obligations to our fellow citizens, but the utter failure to
> live up to that ideal, will compel my friend Nana Grey-Johnson and all the
> others to endure the cloud of bitterness and indignant distaste likely to
> hang over their heads in the coming years. That said, the complete collapse
> of the moral moorings of fellow citizens back home; from the senior cabinet
> positions, to civil servants and to other levels of society, more than
> being tantalizing, is slowly reconfiguring the psyche of our people and
> changing the values inherited for our noble past. And for now, Gambians
> still disappear; the murders still escalate; prison once an anathema, is
> now almost a rite of passage; executions still concealed by the darkness of
> night, and the terror of a people speaks loudly in its silent eloquence.
> Still, Gambians, from cabinet appointees to senior civil servants and
> political activists, remain unbothered by the tremendous criminality of the
> regime, but most specifically, of Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh. The
> unflattering nature of the regime typify a loss of credibility that borders
> on illegitimacy and the reduction of an entire society into a permanent
> underclass signals the saturation our endurance and the inevitable need for
> political change. But, whether Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh will move out by
> his own freewill or by the devastating force of cold lead through his
> brain, is another matter altogether. The suffering people of the Gambia
> have time on their side. For, even the longest nightmare has its day of
> freedom, and the Gambia is no different. As it is, the new Gambian mindset
> lacks the basic tenets of morality, and Nana Grey-Johnson, like other who
> serve Yahya Jammeh, speaks to that moral deficit and that color of betrayal.
> ****
> ** **
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