Personally, I am not arguing that all is right at Bayo's end.
What I do think though people need to take it easy with him.
For example, Uncle Kali in his case did something similar two years ago when he formed another GPU when there was a GPU already in place. I know you followed this because you participated in helping people be on the same page then....and help if my memories are not right. When that happened, I didn't see anyone condemn Mathew to hell.
I am of the view that Bayo need our support in getting him on board. I hope he [Bayo] will apologize to those he wronged by putting their names without their consent. As I am trying to have a dialogue with him, that is one of things I will raise with him, inshallahu.
Anyway, Kali knows better to direct his aggression to Jammeh. Bayo is clearly not the enermy.
On a note, what is take on doing a little fund-raising for Ceesay and Saidy-khan?
Best,
Yero
There is no god but Allah (SWT) and Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger. Fear and Worship only Allah alone!
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:11:50 -0400
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Yero,
I think you're being too hard on Uncle Mathew. He does have some legitimate gripes if not concerns about Sidya's ill-advised if esoteric act. The whole pannafore leaves much to be desired. A modicum of due-diligence and sobriety would have carried Sidya a long way. Unaided.
Haruna.
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Uncle Mathew (Kali) needs some cool-aid to cool it off a little.
Wasn't Kali the same one that wanted to form a political party just couple of years ago? Equally, he listed names of jounalists that he claimed were exiles without a clue of what he was writing. When that happened, I didn't see people insult Kali like he is portraying this poor lad.
While I think Mr. Bayo's listing of names without their consent was not ok and I share their frustration, and Mathew's picturing of the young lad is equally empty. Mr. Bayo is a Gambian by all indications and I bet to disagree with the old guards like Kali trying to bore us with mere hate rhetorics against his person. Apparently, his response to Saul Saidy-Khan below didn't get it resolved. Mathew's take would have been to gather more details before coming out with this kind of empty rhetorics. An elder ought to know better. You tried it with Halifa here and Modou Nyang put a stop to you. Now, here again you are preying on this young man, Bayo.
I have news for Kali. You have all this time to kick Jammeh's butt and go do that and spare this little baby alone.
Kali: Tell us what you know about Bayo...I am waiting.
http://kibaaro.com/?p=3520
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Wasn't Kali the same one that wanted to form a political party just couple of years ago? Equally, he listed names of jounalists that he claimed were exiles without a clue of what he was writing. When that happened, I didn't see people insult Kali like he is portraying this poor lad.
While I think Mr. Bayo's listing of names without their consent was not ok and I share their frustration, and Mathew's picturing of the young lad is equally empty. Mr. Bayo is a Gambian by all indications and I bet to disagree with the old guards like Kali trying to bore us with mere hate rhetorics against his person. Apparently, his response to Saul Saidy-Khan below didn't get it resolved. Mathew's take would have been to gather more details before coming out with this kind of empty rhetorics. An elder ought to know better. You tried it with Halifa here and Modou Nyang put a stop to you. Now, here again you are preying on this young man, Bayo.
I have news for Kali. You have all this time to kick Jammeh's butt and go do that and spare this little baby alone.
Kali: Tell us what you know about Bayo...I am waiting.
http://kibaaro.com/?p=3520
Best,
There is no god but Allah (SWT) and Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger. Fear and Worship only Allah alone!
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:56:20 +0100
he Gambia: Sidia Bayo says Bon Jour, Gambia says allez au
diable
By Mathew K Jallow
To say that it was an ostentatious display of puerile naivety would be an
understatement. It was truly remarkable. It was surreal. And I am being gracious. The
city of Dakar had never seen anything like it. The center of attraction was a frail looking
French-born of Gambian parentage, Sidia Bayo. Out of the shadows of despair a
phoenix had risen. Or so it seemed. And what Sidia Bayo did next with the local and
international media in attendance was out of this world, and strikes me as almost
comical, if it were not such a serious life and death issue for The Gambia and the
embattled Gambian people.
The media conference, in which he incoherently laid out his murky, if not vacuous plans of replacing Yahya Jammeh,
was truly stupefying and breathtaking. The conference was clearly a cavalier display of naked over-simplification of the
Gambia’s nearly two decades old political nightmare. It was a remarkably nauseating detachment from the reality of the
Gambian experience over the past decade and half.
The arrogant arbitrariness, with which Sidia Bayo announced the formation of his Gambia National Transitional Council
to replace Yahya Jammeh’s miserable dictatorship, sent the potent Gambian online media and blogosphere into a
hysterical overdrive. It flared up the “silly season” of political small-mindedness after a long lull from the rugged terrain
of Gambian tribal politics. As usual, it was characterized by divisiveness and counterproductive innuendos and
sickening name-calling, which in the process reinforced the intolerant narrative and raised the misguided political
intemperance to a whole new level of cruel absurdity. When the esoteric Sidia Bayo, who it now appears, no one knows
anything about, positioned himself as Gambia’s next president, he invited every Gambian into his narrow political space.
For many, Sidia Bayo’s Transitional Council is a reflection of how lowly he thinks of Gambia and Gambians, but for
others, it was a patently an ignorance driven mortifying miscalculation of the depth of our political sophistication and
grasp of the matters and issues of our country.
In characteristic sneering Franco-phone hubris, Sidia Bayo is trying to stealthily prevaricate his way into Gambian
politics. But the creation of a transitional ruling council is only a step in the long, impossible journey to the State House,
a journey fraught with unnerving obstacles; some self-inflicted, others manifestations of divergent primal interests, yet
others still, the bi-products of Gambia’s tortuous political history. Sidia Bayo’s mindless plunge into the realms of
Gambian politics is primarily driven by arrogant courageousness that ostensibly borders on recklessness. The
disorientating comedy of errors that ceremonialzed the Dakar fiasco, apparently did nothing to obviate the reverential
ingurgitation of the Sidia Bayo spectacle. Rather, buoyed by the novelty of possibilities or blinded by speculative
indulgence in fantasy or both, believers of the Sidia Bayo charade doubled down hard on the evangelization of his
message of nothingness, a deliberate challenge to the primordial interests of the Gambia’s growing Diaspora
institutions
But if the extremely asinine provocations of the Sidia Bayo moment in the sun did not raise doubt about the ill-fated
Gambia Transitional National Council, the blogosphere did not seem fazed by the amateurism that permeated every
level of his moribund aspiration. In the online theatre, the often bitter, but always acrimonious Ad Hominem attacks
crystalized the banality and the depths into which protagonists of Sidia Bayo’s Council would sink to defend his
preposterousness. Today, more than a week after the pomp and pageantry of the council unveiling, Sidia Bayo seems
more like the phantom of Guegeway than a future leader. Members of his ruling council, blind-sided by his infantile
embellishment and lack-luster configuration of his governing philosophy, cast doubt over the myopic articulation of his
vision. Moreover, Sidia Bajo appointment of his brother as future vice-president raised doubt about his judgment. Last
week, Sidia Bajo said “good day” to Gambia and this week, Gambia says “go to hell” Sidia Bajo.
.
Coming next week: Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh’s release from the notorious Mile 2 Central Prisons and the
implications for the future of the liberation struggle. The proud men and women of Gambia’s Armed and Security
Forces, stay tuned.
diable
By Mathew K Jallow
To say that it was an ostentatious display of puerile naivety would be an
understatement. It was truly remarkable. It was surreal. And I am being gracious. The
city of Dakar had never seen anything like it. The center of attraction was a frail looking
French-born of Gambian parentage, Sidia Bayo. Out of the shadows of despair a
phoenix had risen. Or so it seemed. And what Sidia Bayo did next with the local and
international media in attendance was out of this world, and strikes me as almost
comical, if it were not such a serious life and death issue for The Gambia and the
embattled Gambian people.
The media conference, in which he incoherently laid out his murky, if not vacuous plans of replacing Yahya Jammeh,
was truly stupefying and breathtaking. The conference was clearly a cavalier display of naked over-simplification of the
Gambia’s nearly two decades old political nightmare. It was a remarkably nauseating detachment from the reality of the
Gambian experience over the past decade and half.
The arrogant arbitrariness, with which Sidia Bayo announced the formation of his Gambia National Transitional Council
to replace Yahya Jammeh’s miserable dictatorship, sent the potent Gambian online media and blogosphere into a
hysterical overdrive. It flared up the “silly season” of political small-mindedness after a long lull from the rugged terrain
of Gambian tribal politics. As usual, it was characterized by divisiveness and counterproductive innuendos and
sickening name-calling, which in the process reinforced the intolerant narrative and raised the misguided political
intemperance to a whole new level of cruel absurdity. When the esoteric Sidia Bayo, who it now appears, no one knows
anything about, positioned himself as Gambia’s next president, he invited every Gambian into his narrow political space.
For many, Sidia Bayo’s Transitional Council is a reflection of how lowly he thinks of Gambia and Gambians, but for
others, it was a patently an ignorance driven mortifying miscalculation of the depth of our political sophistication and
grasp of the matters and issues of our country.
In characteristic sneering Franco-phone hubris, Sidia Bayo is trying to stealthily prevaricate his way into Gambian
politics. But the creation of a transitional ruling council is only a step in the long, impossible journey to the State House,
a journey fraught with unnerving obstacles; some self-inflicted, others manifestations of divergent primal interests, yet
others still, the bi-products of Gambia’s tortuous political history. Sidia Bayo’s mindless plunge into the realms of
Gambian politics is primarily driven by arrogant courageousness that ostensibly borders on recklessness. The
disorientating comedy of errors that ceremonialzed the Dakar fiasco, apparently did nothing to obviate the reverential
ingurgitation of the Sidia Bayo spectacle. Rather, buoyed by the novelty of possibilities or blinded by speculative
indulgence in fantasy or both, believers of the Sidia Bayo charade doubled down hard on the evangelization of his
message of nothingness, a deliberate challenge to the primordial interests of the Gambia’s growing Diaspora
institutions
But if the extremely asinine provocations of the Sidia Bayo moment in the sun did not raise doubt about the ill-fated
Gambia Transitional National Council, the blogosphere did not seem fazed by the amateurism that permeated every
level of his moribund aspiration. In the online theatre, the often bitter, but always acrimonious Ad Hominem attacks
crystalized the banality and the depths into which protagonists of Sidia Bayo’s Council would sink to defend his
preposterousness. Today, more than a week after the pomp and pageantry of the council unveiling, Sidia Bayo seems
more like the phantom of Guegeway than a future leader. Members of his ruling council, blind-sided by his infantile
embellishment and lack-luster configuration of his governing philosophy, cast doubt over the myopic articulation of his
vision. Moreover, Sidia Bajo appointment of his brother as future vice-president raised doubt about his judgment. Last
week, Sidia Bajo said “good day” to Gambia and this week, Gambia says “go to hell” Sidia Bajo.
.
Coming next week: Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh’s release from the notorious Mile 2 Central Prisons and the
implications for the future of the liberation struggle. The proud men and women of Gambia’s Armed and Security
Forces, stay tuned.
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