Date:       Sat, 22 Apr 2000

From:       ebou colly <[log in to unmask] 
Subject:   YAYA MUST RESIGN PART ONE
    

YAYA MUST RESIGN (PART-ONE) 

The news that Yaya went to the hospital to see the children he had ordered 
for their killing but were fortunate to be saved by god was the climax of his 
mockery to the bereaved families and the entire Gambian people. Don’t be 
surprised therefore if by next week he goes on the air with recommendations to have 
the families compensated financially by government for the death of the 
children. The Kaninlai butcher is now on his usual appeasing strategy. After killing 
so many Gambians and then successfully wriggling out of them in the past, he 
now believes he has perfected that demonic talent to the point where he could 
get away with the worst kind scenario. Killing the school children would be 
something he would celebrate in his private moments and might perhaps boast 
happily about sending the kids six-foot deep. He must resign for this crime. 

There are certain things that I am sure he would now be working on to survive 
his crime in the eyes of the general public. He would start distancing 
himself from Isatou Njie Saidy and her team that tried desperately to defend the 
shooting. It is even possible that he may fire some of them if the public 
pressure is sustained in the face of his slick efforts. There is no doubt in my mind 
also that he would be banking heavily on his newly appointed minister of 
justice Mr. Pap Choi Yassin Secka to cover up for him where every thing should 
fail. So Mr. Secka must brace up for the two critical options on his drawing 
board. If he does not make things good for Yaya and clears his name altogether, he 
should be prepared to get the sack very soon like all his predecessors 
suffered. For example, if Mr. Secka for a moment tries to confirm the undeniable fact 
that there were no rubber-bullet guns used but AK47’s with live rounds in the 
operation, he would be seen as deviating from the expectations of Yaya and 
would no doubt lose his new job. Certainly, the establishment of that truth 
should be the opening passage to almost all the facts, because those who lied 
about that would be forced to confess. And their confession would clearly hang 
Yaya by the balls. But on a more limited perception, Mr. Secka may choose to join 
the bandwagon of the intellectual prostitutes for the purpose of keeping his 
job and not considering the permanent destruction of his historical image. The 
usual argument that the veteran lawyer is well cultured and schooled and 
would not therefore compromise his integrity shall never sway me, especially after 
experiencing Fafa Mbye’s era. Too many outstanding intellectuals have gone 
down in history with monsters like Adolf Hitler, a reality that still puzzles 
the minds of analytical historians. Samuel Doe went down with a lot of them as 
well, not forgetting Bokassa and Musa Trawalleh the child killers. 

So Yaya the latest child killer would certainly sink with some of them as 
well. Apart from depending on his new Minister of Justice to help him out, Yaya 
would also retreat to his oracles (jalangs), at kaninlai. He would therefore 
sacrifice a lot of cattle and other animals for charity, distributing thousands 
of cola-nuts to praying grounds and soaking himself in nasty liquid charms “
saafara”, with the strong conviction that it would work for him to escape his 
criminal actions. But I want to remind him how those foolish things don’t work 
for him most of the time. After the Farafenni attack for example on the 8th of 
November 1996, he instructed his former guard commander Lieutenant Landing 
Sanneh to carry out one of the most primitive rituals in the barracks. State 
guard personnel were sent to bury several bags of ordinary salt everywhere in the 
camp. This could be confirmed with those soldiers serving at 2Infantry 
Battalion, Farafenni barracks. When we asked Yaya why, he said he was advised by his 
juju-man to do so which would be the final guarantee that no army camp would 
ever be attacked by surprise again. Eight months after, on the 21st of July 
1997, Kartong was attacked in the most surprising manner ever imagined. When we 
met him after, the idiot had totally forgotten about the previous year’s 
rituals and had to tell us that he had dreamt about the Kartong attack weeks ago but 
that he had performed stronger rituals that made it a failure. 

In that same year in 1997, he almost died from another ritual he was trying 
to perform with wild bees at Kaninlai village. Captain L. T. Tamba was there 
and was a live witness to that embarrassing incident. Yaya trying to mystify 
himself before us told everybody including his guards not to follow him under one 
big tree where he said he was going to discuss certain things with his 
ancestral bees. He even warned us that if we followed him under the tree, the bees 
could sting us and that would mean death to any one stung. So we stayed away 
from a reasonable distance watching. However, shortly after he stated acting as 
if he was talking to the bees buzzing around their hives on the branches, the 
insects suddenly attacked and almost killed him while he ran all over the 
dusty bushes. If it had not been for the guards, his ancestral bees would have 
probably sting him to death. Yet the moron had to later send an old 
haggard-looking woman from the village to tell us that the bees attacked Yaya because they 
were upset with him for not greeting them when he first arrived in the village 
that morning. 
This is not a joke Gambians; this is the real mentality of the president 
leading our country. If he should therefore dream that killing school children was 
the right thing to do as may be prescribed by his “jalangs” he would do it 
and later retreat to them to save his neck. 

Turning to the soldiers now, it is important for you to know how badly Yaya 
has destroyed your image all over the world for the very crimes he has been 
committing particularly in this last one. After using you in this unforgivable 
crime, he is now pretending not to be part of what happened on April 10. So all 
of you have a great responsibility to worry about. You must clear this 
negative image by doing what you are suppose to do for the Gambian people. If Yaya 
would not resign, you must remove him out of power and call for the civilians to 
organize elections within three months and give them the political power that 
belongs to them. That would be the only way you can restore your credibility 
once more. Yaya being around you will destroy all the prestige and honor you 
used to enjoy as professional soldiers. 

YAYA MUST RESIGN! YAYA MUST RESIGN! 

Ebou Colly 

    

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