Sedat Jobe's socalled announcement of withdrawal from their purported
mediating role in the Cassamance is nothing but a stark manifestation of a
disgraced leadership forced to end a dangerous con game masquerading as a
legitimate effort at peacemaking.The entire orchestration involving summoning
diplomats and reporters was solely meant to spin an issue that was settled
month's ago. Afterall President Wade in his first weeks in office flew in to
the airport at Yundum and according to a Reuters dispatch told Yahya he was
assuming control of the Cassamance negotiations from then on. He  delivered
his edict at the airport and would not even venture into town much less break
bread with Yahya Jammeh. The symbolism and the manner in which Yahya's role
was terminated was calculated to send a message of strong disapproval. Did
Yahya and his team bury their heads in shame and accept their exclusion from
the process? Nope. Instead they continued to try to whittle whatever goodwill
they can from the outside world by pretending to be working tirelessly for
peace in the Cassamance. Infact they have tried to use their purported role
in regional peacemaking as a way to deflect outrage on their tarnished
streak of human rights abuses.The President once wondered aloud how he could
be accused of murdering his own people when he is working so hard to avoid
strife and conflict in the neighborhood.
       The gov't of Senegal has a serious national security concern over what
is happening in the Cassamance. They know better than investing valuable
diplomatic capital on a regime that has neither the inclination nor the
ability to even ameliorate much less resolve the conflict. Infact they have
ample reason to believe Yahya Jammeh fits the mold of a catalyst to the
conflict and hence at the bare minimum must be far removed from all efforts
towards a solution. As an added bonus the Jammeh gov't would be denied their
undeserved self anointed position of peacemaker. Killers and other evil
leaders are distinctly in a league of their own and must not be allowed to
get out of their box through false pretenses. I say good riddance to Yahya
and Sedat . You would have to try to dabble into other sinister aspects that
has come to characterize you regime. You may want to spend your time and the
very meager resources of our country to cavort with your fellow dictators and
tyrants who like you have their nations everyday life drenched in the blood
of their conscientious citizens. You do not belong on an honest peacemaking
table. You may also continue to delude yourself with the designs and thinking
of recalcitrant trouble makers like Cassamance rebel spokesman Alex Zendra
Gibba who told the BBC programe 'network Africa' this weekend that"Gambia,
Cassamance and Guinea Bissau are one country' . The good news is that this
Gibba fellow shares such a ridiculous premise with only you and Sedat  in
thinking that redrawing maps is contemplatable.Gambians will shortly be lead
by legitimate people who they select of their own volition. Our brothers in
Senegal and the subregion would recognise their integrity and forthright
devotion  to peace and respect for the rule of law and human life. That would
then give them moral standing to conduct effective diplomacy that would be
devoid of the shameless posturing the Jammeh gov't have honed into an
artform.Until then the gov't and good people of Senegal are right to isolate
the Gambia with it's current leadership.
Karamba

Karamba

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