Functioning democracies have strong legislatures, independent judiciaries and executive branches that work in a structured arrangement to serve as a check on one another enabling the citizens to foster and enjoy a free society. Consequently ideas flourish , consensus are often reached and every citizen is afforded a fair shake at opportunity. This , list members is the foundation to peace and prosperity.

Contrast these tenets to what we have in Gambia whose president calls himself an elected democrat when all available evidence points to a man who rigged, tortured and murdered his way to an office he could never earn in a ligitimate way.It is one thing to conceed government to an incompetent person who wins fair and square in an openly contested election but quite another to have a tyrant essentially herding a largely vulnerable people to the abyss. Does anyone seriously believe