YAHYA JAMMEH'S WORDS IN FARAFENI AND OTHER PLACES,BANJUL-DAKAR COLD WAR PLUS. During one of Jammeh's trips around The Gambia(a country that he calls his own farm),the man went irate again and succeeded in sending insults to Dakar through his transparent "gaarouwaleh". The Gambian so-called president,was making comparisons between The Gambia and some neighbouring countries saying that the hospitals he built are treating patients from other countries who visit them on horse and donkey carts.Well can people from Bissau come to The Gambia on horse or donkey carts? Any patient who attempts doing so has two hurdles to cross and they are;the distance and then the red zone controlled by armed bandits within the forest.These are bandits that Yahya himslef arms. During that meeting Yahya went irate and then isulted the western countries so much so that some members of his entourage rushed to clean the taped versions from the GRTS journalists.The GRTS journalists know how many times these people retireve such cassettes from them.The most difficult job on earth is whne someone is trying to cover a mad man with nice words! We all know the story about the insane in our society. Once upon a time,the relatives of an insane guy wanted to bluff those who were carricaturing him.So one evening after hearing him! the mad man show the crecent moon! They hurriedly brought him in the open and then said the following:"All those who were lying saying that our brother is insane will be ashamed today because an insane person cannot show people the crecent moon! so listen to him" They turned towards the insane brother and then said as follows:"Biram please take your family out of this shame and stigma,we know you can do it! so go ahead..." Biram all of a sudden said:"Yes ofcourse there is the crecent moon and people can start eating and drinking tomorrow because Ramadan has ended..." Biram's family was so happy and then they started insulting those who called him a lunatic before.That was a mistake they did!!! Well to their surprise before people dispersed Biram said as follows:" Listen to me here ok?!!! The! re is another moon! and another one! and another one!" He started counting moons and moons and moons! One of Biram's relatives then said:"this man has not disgraced you at all! you disgraced yourselves...insane people should not be sent to a crowd to represent a family and I told you this before we came here!" This is exactly what Yahya did at Farafeni.When he started saying those things against Senegal some of our narrow-minded nationalists were giggling and they smiled.They liked what Yahya was saying, they wanted him to continue! That was mistake they also did!!! Unfortunately for them Yahya went ahead but this time he came on Gambians(his opponents or imaginary coupists!).Yahya refered to the Kerewan bridge as an example! Here is what Yahya said:"When I wanted to contruct the bridge at Kerewan,some people said that a "rabb" (or monster) was there and it was going to stop me! I Yahya Jammeh called the attention of the "rabb" and then warned it that I was going to construct the bridge.The "rabb" ofcourse understood that I was not joking so it decided to come and answer to my call in Kanilai.We discussed and then agreed.It avoided confronting me!.Today we have a bridge at Kerewan! So if "rabbs" avoid confronting me I do not care about human beings.Anyone who tries me will be buri! ed!" The cassettes are with people in Farafeni and every where,one of them is a welder and still has his workshop there.Let the NIA not arrest all welders in Farafeni please!! The owner of the workshop is not there at the moment! Yahya speaks and then forgets that people from all parts of the world gather these very speeches and use that against him! That is why some seasoned civil servants always warn that he should be reading or at least rehearsing his major points with some analysts before going out.No for Yahya speeches are like when an artist goes on a live show.Even pop stars do not repeat what they say on live shows when marketing the actual CDS or cassettes to their audience! These cassettes are dubbed to suit the audience or consumers.How about speeches that affect the economics,diplomacy,politics,culture and other aspects of the people including the pop stars themselves?!!! Being a president does not mean presiding over every little word and action around one's presidency.This is why OPTV calls this sad soul A SO-CALLED PRESIDENT! Now when someone calls Yahya a "rabb" or SIMBA he gets angry.How can one diferentiate the two after listening to his speech where he shamelessly talked about the Kerewan brigde. The next thing is for Gambians to analysethe project itself.Who sponsored it? How long can it stay? What is the tonnage(weight) it is capable of handling(lorries,trailers and other cargo) crossing from one end to the other? Likewise how much was written on paper and what was presented to the sponsors.Then finally we want to know if Yahya invited the Taiwanese and the Kuawaitis to hear him discuss with the "rabb"? We want to avoid what happened before.He said that he receives his money from Allah's bank and then the IMF came out in the open to show us that he was not that clean to get it from Allah directly.Instead he was asked to go through Tripoli,Washington DC,Kuwait City,Riyadh and then Taipei. This man is really not well. So Yahya has been demoted! From someone who withdraws directly directly from a hidden bank account in the spiritual world to a witch craft(student) who speaks to "rabbs" at Kerewan's miniyang bolong?!!!!!! Gambia!!! Cry Blood!!! We do not want the bridge to collapse all of a sudden and then Yahya will turn around telling us that the blow from his "rabb" missed his bees in Kanilai and then hit the bridge! No we do nOt want our poor farmers to be victims of a fight that will certainly start between Yahya and his "rabb" at Kerewan please! Yahya please save our people from your supernatural gladiator fights with the spirits you alone see! Before we passed the BFT(Body Fitness Test) in 1985 as new intakes in the army or then gendarmerie) the doctor who did the medical exams said that if one is constantly dreaming of big snakes and monstrous images may indicate some mental problem.I know that someone was about to be dropped for that but will not say who because I do want to be accused of being full of hate or a tribalist! God knows I know Yahya's sad side more than Zeinab. I wish Gambian could introduce open debates between other opposition members and the incumbent ruler(in our case I would say the incumbent butcher)? Gambians would have detected Yahya's craziness live on TV.From 1994 to date Yahya has never been seen being confronted on any public and open debate so who can convince some people to see the deeper part of this man's sickly tirades apart from his own soul live and direct on a debate?! It is only insane souls who force anger where it does not belong and then laugh when people should be angry.Watch Yahya very closely and think about the latter?! Yahya's anti Senegalese feelings are so blatant that I do ask myself why?!!! After all even not for national issues,it is Yahya's own personal interest to leave some space for the future.What about when OPTV reaches and he is running away? Has Yahya forgotten that the Gambia is surrounded by Senegal by land,sea(almost) and air?!!! Hey Yahya Jammeh!!! Binneh S Minteh New York University. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~