Mr. Small,

Thanks for the honest inquiry.  However, I believe that I also need
to deconstruct the gist of your questions in order to establish a
level playing field.  Your "principle of public accountability" is
essentially a political process, and that means the fundamental
issues of judicial objectivity and impartiality are subordinate to
passioned interests and strategem.  The teleological agenda of such a
practice is not justice but political control through opprobrium.
Politics cannot generate neither the truth nor justice, it helps only
in establishing the preference of one discourse over another i.e.
everything in politics is essentially relative, their is no objective
standard of justice or truth.  Now if the Gambian people had the same
concerns that you apparently have, then they should have voted
President Jammeh out of office in the last elections.  After all, it
was former President Jawara who use to say that "Vox Populi, Vox
Dei".  Now the people have spoken and entrusted the state in
President Jammeh's hands.  He is the sole authority to speak on
behalf of the Gambians, and not me or the Gambia-L.  I am not a
public servant but a private individual like you living humbly
overseas.

Finally, I want to ask you Mr. Small who shall write the "history"-
is it you, me or G-L?  History, at least as the accretion of
evolutionary facts, is the synthesis of our individual narratives and
and the collective discourse as a people.  The last time I check
lately, history has been so far on President Jammeh's side.  We can
either choose to collaborate and ignore our differences for the sake
of the Gambia, or tear each other apart like little children
wrestling for toys. The choice is ours to make and write that
history.

Thank you Sir.

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Ebou Jallow
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

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