*PRIME TIME WITH AJJ* Some day in New Gambia at the GRTS studios… Dibba: HE Alhaji Dr. MMB AJJ Jumbay, I want to thank you for joining us today. Few years ago you sat with me and ranted about your past struggles with "jamba" or "taye", women and the white foam on the sides of your mouth (ratatoye). But this week you did something even more courageous. You stood right up before thousands of Gambians and you openly confessed that you're "a gifted spiritual murderer." AJJ: Well, Dibba, thank you. That was easy for me to say because, you know, for a Kambilai Dirimo who has taken so many lives, it's so easy to fess up to something like that. Dibba: AJJ, after you said that, I got the whole transcript of your speech about the AIDS cure, and I stayed up two nights straight, honest-to-God. I could not sleep people! I was like, reading, and reading and reading. I couldn't put it down believe me. I was just feeling for you, having to fess up to getting rid of your closest comrades in the coup; killed some, drove some away, I mean what a guy! AJJ: Well, you know that speech, it was full of complete spiritual powers revealed to me in my dreams. It was time for the mandate; I am over forty years old you know, heehaw… Dibba: And you bloated so convincingly, so confidently about facing up to your "enemies" in the west. There was a hidden message about redemption, I mean coming of age, isn't there? You do not care about western medicine and what they say about you in the west? That really rang a bell with all your fools like those at the Daily Observer. They were jumping all over the place…that prolific butcher doctor…what is his name? AJJ: I appreciate that Dibba. You know, let me tell you something. Fighting evil spirits, it's hard work. I, um … my kujang kujangs, um … Dibba: AJJ, here's tissue paper; go ahead, cry if you want to. You know only real men are so emotional. I'm not ashamed to tell you that when I watched your speech, I cried too…but then I ended up laughing the whole night. AJJ: I really appreciate that, Dibba. Dibba: But AJJ, I have to be straight with you now. I … I have to say it is difficult for me to talk to you because I also feel really scared that your strong spirits will kill me. AJJ: Dibba, No, no, no, don't you worry. I can tell even before I left my house. When I set eyes on you Dibba, I know what you think. You see, there are three days in the world: yesterday, today and the day before… I own tomorrow so that does not count. You see, my friend, they say I sacrifice human beings to stay alive but hey, they don't know the sacrifice I made for this country. Only if they know what the Jalangba tell me to do and I refused. I said no! Dibba: AJJ, why did you have to lie? AJJ: About what? Let me tell you something Dibba. Gambians should be happy to have a president like me. I am a true Pan-African; I am a man of action so what I say does not matter. You know I have to give speeches, press conference – only once. I have to say something…whatever comes to my mind or my dreams. You see, people should look at my actions not what I say. You know, sometimes I joke here and there to make people laugh. I learnt that in the army. You make people laugh and keep their hopes high so they like you. Dibba: I feel that you conned us. You embarrassed me. You embarrassed this country. AJJ: I'm … I'm a special person. I am the only president whose name is in the Holy Quran don't forget that. I am AJJ Ibn Kambilai! Dibba: How much of what you say is fabricated? AJJ: Not that much. I mean, all the minerals and the oil are real. AIDS cure, uh, sick people … Asthma, high blood pressure, infertility…. That attempted coup was real…. And the dollar coming down to four Dalasis. They were in my dreams. Dibba: OK, I want to move on to the Carnegie story, because that part of your story is so compelling, in terms of your struggle to test what they were mining in Sanyang with these bis-a-body compulsions you have sometimes. Then you get to how you're catching all these western exploiters economic saboteurs, you know. But that's a lie too, isn't it? AJJ: Dibba, I … I … had a hunch. I mean a compulsion took over me and I just had to say something.…. I had scientific evidence that supported what I was thinking…. Well, I mean, my scientists said they doubted Carnegie and I could kick them out that, um, that there was a chance that we can be a super-power. Dibba: AJJ, when will you come clean about Koro Ceesay? AJJ: Well, there too I've talked to — well, it's, like, a secret, and it's … since that time I've struggled with the idea of coming clean but you know…. Dibba: No, the lie of it. It's not an idea, AJJ. That's a lie. AJJ: [muffled sobbing] Dibba: Do you now wish you had not done what you did, AJJ, something to warn the Gambian people that your presidency has pretty much been a thousand pretty lies, not to mention a few really big boogers? AJJ: (sobbing) Dibba, you … you're right. I'm sorry. I've … I've lied to the people of Gambia so many times. But I can't, I don't want to bury my head any more! Dibba: It's not too late. I believe the truth can set your soul free. AJJ: Dibba, uh, obviously, this hasn't been a great few years for me or, I guess, uh, for those guys over there in, uh, Mile 2. I mean, I feel like I came to talk to you and finally I have been honest with you. I have, you know, essentially admitted to … to lying, big time…Bilaye Bilalye Talaye. Dibba: (To the studio audience) And so we move ahead — optimistic about our country, dedicated to its future and believing in the changes to come. May God bless The Gambia…..thank you! 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