I must confess, I was going to ignore Mr. Tombong Saidy's report that he is
no longer DG of GRTS but will remain a Pro-Jammeh and Pro-APRC. My reason is
that summary dismissal of apparently "loyal" civil servants without reasons
is nothing new in the Gambia to be surprised about. Also it nothing new that
the morning after, we read reports that the dismissed officer who, days
before could be linched by a mob for his/her obnoxious display of  loyalty
and blind support for Jammeh would be discredited by the media to be
corrupt, disloyal, power hungry and even treacherous. And that often, this
seemly able civil servant who gets the boot would come out saying "I was
fired but I remain a loyal servant to the all-powerful Jammeh".
Whatever makes seemly educated and well-to-do adults live this kind of life
is my concern. I think there is more to it than the eye can see. If we are
to believe what we hear, something is seriously wrong here. I do not know
how someone who has gone through the struggle of school, college and life in
general could after being fired and accuse of felony can come back say "I
still support my boss". For logic has it that until the brain is wrongly
wired, if it looks like pain, acts like pain, you don't have to go through
it to know that it is pain. But then sufferers of  "Battered Woman Syndrom"
often claim that their spouses are the most caring and loving ever! The
tragedy is that some people would have to be "battered to death" to accept
that their relationship is not all-loving and all-caring.

I suggest we wish  Mr Saidy and all those Gambians in the civil service
caught up in this all the best and pray that they find an easy way out of
it.

Malanding

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