Yus,
    You have virtually said all that I wished to say on this though the
picture is not as clear enough to make the appropriate analysis. That there
is some wide 'democratic space" in the Gambia now must be the butt of jokes
when every idiot thinks fit to assemble a few AK47's to stage a coup d'etat
just because someone cleverly and illegally implanted himself in the
executive parading as some "new democrat." The vicious cycle continues and it
is the poor, wretched, underprivileged who at the end of the day bear the
brunt of all this nonsense. As you intimated, so long as Jammeh is in there,
this so well aggrandised "democratic space" would remain an empty rhetorical
imperative. The way forward could only be for Jammeh to resign and a national
conference be convened in which all the stakeholders of Gambian society
convene to set the agenda for genuine transition to multiparty liberal
democracy. Any other alternative would be phoney, bogus and just gesture
politics that will merely lead to the past yet again. This is why Dr. Saine's
letter is imperative more than ever to be heeded and acted upon. The long and
short of it is that Jammeh has failed. Honour and humility dictates that he
give to the Gambian People what belongs to them, namely power that was
conferred on him when he swore to work for them.
Good Day.
Hamjatta Kanteh

hkanteh

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