The morphology of missed opportunity.


These are extraordinary times. They come but rarely in theannals of human history.


In Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, we witnessed how ordinarycitizens, sometimes one, driven to the ultimate sacrifice of risking theirlives and property, subdued institutionalized criminality in their nations, tousher in a new dawn of civilized coexistence and considered peace. These eventsbegan as peaceful demonstrations by unarmed civilians simply because whatstructure of opposition political party engagement there was, if any, wasrendered either obsolete or moribund by design. Opposition party officials andmere supporters have been systematically picked off, abducted, kidnapped,assassinated or exiled. Hope of peaceful change was gradually decimated.Ordinary citizens suffered in burdensome silence, trepidation, and vortex’sanneal. All the while in palpable fear of intractable massacre. And suchopportunity for gracious rehabilitation is foreign to the institutionalizedcriminal’s considerations. The perfect sobriety that is the bane of his arsenalfor protection against the impending prosecution.


We have been informed that our honorable opposition partyleaders have expressed discomfort at initiating peaceful demonstrations tochallenge these and those extremes of Yahya for fear of intractable massacre.Yet others lament and even sufide in the conjurer’s chagrin to yield a moreperfect replacement of the institutionalized criminal. Such fatal indecision athigh noon is the perfect recipe for both intractable massacre and a musicalchairs for odious criminals. Both cautions to yield the very conditions theypurport to prevent, buying the institutionalized criminal more latitude andtime to entrench.


In Gambia, we are afforded the unique opportunity of witnessand and projection. We have at the most five opposition political parties –UDP, NRP, PDOIS, PPP, and GMC. Gambia is comprised of close to 10 tribes, 20unique communities, and up to a million individual interests. Under ordinarycircumstances where the five opposition political parties vie independently togovern every five years, the successful party must govern the uniquenesses ofour tribes, communities, and interests. It should leave nothing to theimagination to assert that the successful party will be called upon to harnessgreater faculty in order to successfully govern a million disparate intereststhan to hold 5 disparate parties in transient communion. Verily, if you cannot,with purposeful expedition, form a united front of 5 opposition politicalparties against one institutionalized criminal, how do you propose to govern fora million disparate citizens? Will you be up to that task, with your enormoussobriety and saintly caution?


For those who express fear of WHO will replace Yahya afterridding yourselves of your executioner, I share this consideration with you; Thework to identify the replacement for Yahya, is the work of all of us whoencourage you to unite behind any one of you. It is not the work of any one onecitizen, opposition party leader, or opposition party. We are not tasking youwith that burdensome discernment. We have declared that any one of you will besufficiently ideal considering the avowed criminal that you replace. And shouldany of you who has the privileged honor to govern for us turn out to be equalto or worse than Yahya, we the citizens will replace you yet again, withanother of our number. Surely, you must be confident in our ability to replaceany of your good number after we replace an unrepentant criminal. Besides, thediscernment of our governor is not the purview of any single individual,opposition party leader, or opposition party. That is why we will organize ourelections and vote. Indeed you are vying for our votes to so proceed.


The APRC serves only as cover for theintituionalized criminal. In effect, the APRC is part of the criminal’s arsenalto inoculate himself against the inevitable and impending prosecution that hegleans on the walls. There exists among your APRC coleagues, as it were in thefortified Fatah councils, conscientious persons and fellow citizens, who aretrapped in vortex’s anneal, yearning for relief and freedom. You must allowyourselves to shine in the glory of yielding such relief for them, the promiseof exalting expedition. The Tripoli and Benghaazi brigades undertook thedangerous journey to free Tripoli, risking there may never have been adisenchanted corps of Tripolides, who had been waiting for just such anexpedition in considered faith. Luckily, such a cauldron of suffering waswaiting with baded breath, for this vote of confidence from the brigades. InGambia, there is presently no need for displacement or commuting of despair. Itis ever-present, everywhere.


We do not pretend to instruct you on the manner ofmanagement of your political parties, nor do we desire to browbeat you intocommunion you do not wish. We merely encourage you to do the people’s will andcome together. We encourage you to hearken to the call of your partisansvariously. If you ignore your own partisans, you may be participating insealing your own fates and that of your coleagues in your parties.


Haruna Darbo
The Global Democracy Project.


 




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