OPINION Letter to the Editors By Demba Baldeh
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December 11, 2005
Dear Editors,
Please allow me space in your widely read and respected newspaper to convey this message to the distinguish Gambian Civil Servants, Politicians, Judges, and dedicated service men and women. It is extremely disturbing to the Gambian people and the international community to see how our current regime treats our civil servants, military, police and other educated elites who serve under this regime. Several respected civil servants, educated elites and senior military and police officers have been appointed and dismissed with disgrace and treated inhumanely by this present regime. Some have been falsely detained; insulted, humiliated in front of their families and friends for something they have not done or are not responsible of. Some have disappeared for several months, others detained, jailed and fined for alleged corruption.
Others have lost personal property and sense of control of their lives. Families have been separated, disintegrated and lost everything they have planned for the future. How many of you have been arbitrarily sacked in one position for no reason and offered to return to the same position or take up another position under this regime? Do you realize how almost every civil servant is being recycled from one department to the other day in and day out since 1994 under the Jammeh regime? Do you ever stop to ask yourselves how much respect you deserve for serving your country? How much humiliation and embracement can you take as a human being? These questions ladies and gentle men, lead me to wonder where your faith lies. This makes me wonder what in the world would make you sacrifice so much of your dignity, and service not to the nation, but to a President whose agenda is to hang on to power whatever it takes. This makes me wonder how much hatred this President is creating among our peace
loving citizens by hiring and firing people only to replace them by their immediate subordinates. This makes me wonder how long we are going to fight each other before we realize the enemy among us is not your next door neighbor, but the President who have no sense of respect for your services. This further raise the question, why would anyone accept a position knowing fully well that you will be the next victim?
Under economic circumstances one could argue that one needs a job to sustain a family. However, how long can you sustain your family before the President's axe falls on your shoulders again costing you not only economic incentives but also social and moral incentives? Do you all realize that your faith does not have to lie in the hands of this President? When shall every dignified Gambian regardless of your position stand up and demand respect and moral treatment by Yahya Jammeh and his regime?
Fellow citizens, Gambia belong to all of us and every individual citizen has the moral obligation to obey the law regardless of your position of power. What we have seen in the Gambia since July 1994 is a President who says one thing and does another. A President who is threatened by the freedom and liberty of the Gambian people and who cannot withstand scrutiny in this modern era. A President who is willing to sacrifice and crush any one who questions his leadership and command. A President who says to his citizens "do as I say and not as I do" This is evident by the president setting up commissions of inquiry for citizens to face that he would never face himself, by the president spending massive amounts of money from government coffers and do whatever he wants. This is also clearly manifested by the president's requirement for every civil servant to declare their assets with the exception of himself. He has rose from a poor middle military officer who could not even afford to own
a home to a multi million dollar president with two airplanes and state of the earth farm in his own mini kingdom in his home village.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time to stop this monstrous leadership and demand our individual liberties and freedom. It is time for every citizen who is appointed and dismissed by this government to refuse to take up any position whatsoever under this regime. It is time for people like Yankuba Touray and Fatoumatta Jahumpa ceesay to realize that they were victims and continue to be victims of this brutal regime. That they are being used by Yahya Jammeh whenever he needs them. People who were convicted of theft should never have the moral audacity to stand in front of people and hale the very person who accused them of lying and stealing. It is time to restore sanity among our civil service, our military and police. It is time to distinguish between serving the president and the nation. Tell the President enough is enough, and the citizens of this country have the power in their hands. Power belongs to the people and only the people can take away that power and declare the President
powerless by disassociating with him. History will be the judge and it's a matter of time before the same people serving the President become victims again.
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