Burama, the Inconsistent Attention Seeker
In an article in which he allege that the former president of the republic of The Gambia, Sir Dawda Jawara, was a dictator during his reign as the head of state, Burama came up with his so-called reasons for calling Jawara a dictator. I will point out the inconsistencies of this guy, Burama Jammeh who desperately wants be heard and seen.
Burama alleged that Sir Dawda, like Jammeh had also fired judges during his time. Even though he had said judges, meaning more than ONE, but when I asked him to name just one such judge, he blocked me from his list of friends on Facebook.
Burama also alleged that Sir Dawda made it so easy for people from other parties to cross-carpet to his ruling PPP, thereby leading a defector one-party government. But in the same article, Burama Jammeh also stated that the stringent cross-carpeting rules of the PPP made it difficult for Lamin Waa Juwara and others to cross carpet to the PPP. The inconsistency here being that first he alleged that Jawara encouraged cross carpeting, then he contradicted himself by saying that cross-carpeting was made difficult for the people in opposition.
Burama also allege that he knew of classmates who were groomed to contest as MP in their respective constituencies. What Burama fails to tell his readers is that, why would the PPP go about grooming people to contest on its ticket when as he had alleged earlier, there is large pool of opposition candidates waiting to join at any time. Now, let’s assume for a minute that it is true that the PPP had been going around grooming people to contest on its ticket. If so, my question to Burama is: since when did it become illegal for political parties to groom people they perceive as sellable candidates? Could it be that Burama is just jealous that his classmates were groomed to contest on a PPP ticket and he was never groomed? Could that be the source of his resentment against the PPP? I call it his resentment against the PPP because I don’t remember a single article which Burama has authored in which he did not say something negative about Jawara, a man who has been out of power for almost twenty years now.
In the same article, he allege that Sherriff Dibba was isolated, but in his interview with Sam Phatey, he said that Dibba and Jawara were like brothers, that even Dibba’s daughter used to spend her vacations with Jawara. The inconsistency here being that first, Burama said that Dibba was isolated and then, the same Burama said that Jawara and Dibba were like brothers.
Finally, in his interview with Sam Phatey, when asked whether he belongs to any diaspora organization, Burama after a long pause said “NO”. Didn’t Burama Jammeh form his own organization called the “The People’s Movement for Democratic Gambia”? Is that not a diaspora organization? To say that he does not belong to any diaspora group is true only if Burama meant to say that one-man organization, like his PMDG, which was founded and headed by him and has no other members, do not count as diaspora organizations.
Sainey Sisay