Building The New Gambia
By Madi Jorbarteh
First of all we have to thank God the Almighty that all schemes being employed by Yaya Jammeh and his self-appointed slaves to burn down their own motherland always falls flat on their faces. When he rejected the election on December 9, Yaya Jammeh thought he could do so because the Gambians he knew will allow him. He failed to realize that there is a new fearless and free Gambian who will not tolerate him anymore. Since then he has faced such resistance and determination from ordinary Gambians that he has never seen before. Then he thought he will play smart by exploiting the right to petition, but God reminded him that in fact there are no judges for the Supreme Court. Then he thought that through his mercenary Emmanuel Fagbele, he could appoint judges through the back door. But the justice loving Nigerians wrote back to say they were sorry but no judges are coming until May.
When all else failed for him, we now have two self-appointed slaves, Edu Gomez and Seedy Njie, without fear or shame decided to go to the Supreme Court to ask the highest court of the land to stop the inauguration of President-elect Adama Barrow. Since it is an interlocutory matter, only one judge is enough to hear the case. But God being so good to Gambia made it such that the injunction Edu is seeking and supported by Seedy Njie, is actually asking that one available judge to restrain himself from doing what is legal and constitutional. Natural justice requires that one cannot decide a matter in which one is the subject of that matter. Hence Mercenary Fagbele cannot therefore decide this application because the request is directed at himself, to swear-in or not to swear-in. This is what is called legal absurdity.
This absurdity became even more absurd when the application went further to ask Outgoing Pres. Yaya Jammeh and all his government agencies to refrain from taking part in anyway to inaugurate Incoming Pres. Adama Barrow. But then the application is coming from the APRC itself, which has lost the election. Thus to now have that same APRC apply to the court demanding that the elected leader be stopped from being sworn-in is indeed an extremely laughable absurdity!
The third absurdity of this illegal, unpatriotic and dishonest application is when it went further still to ask the National Assembly not to entertain or take part or allow the inauguration of Adama Barrow. How can Edu Gomez and Seedy Njie in their right minds even conceive of such criminality when they knew that we had a legal and legitimate election according to the laws of the Gambia, yet they set themselves on the dangerous path of stopping the actualization of the verdict of the people? The National Assembly has no powers to stop the inauguration. Instead they have an obligation to make sure that there is an inauguration. How therefore can Edu Gomez and the APRC, which forms the majority of the parliament, make an application asking their majority-dominated parliament to stop the inauguration? What an Absurdity!
The mother of all absurdities came in paragraphs 4 and 5 of their application when they had the audacity to even ask the entire Gambian population, the international community as well as Mr. Adama Barrow himself not to inaugurate the President-Elect. Honestly, one needs to review the academic qualifications of Edu Gomez to ascertain if indeed he went to law school? If yes, then we need to subject him to psychiatric test to determine if indeed he is okay in the brain. This is because his application has beaten the world record of the most absurd legal applications.
But let us understand in detail what is actually the meaning of this application if it had gone through. Let us imagine Mercenary Fagbele did go ahead to hear this application and grant it as requested as per Section 125(1), which gives power for a single judge to hear an interlocutory matter. That would mean therefore that Yaya Jammeh should continue to be president until at least May 2017 when the other judges would arrive.
Hence when this illegal injunction is upheld, it means anyone who defies it and goes ahead to inaugurate Adama Barrow, then such a person is violating a court order. But of course Gambians and the international will not sit by to watch a bunch of criminals hijack the verdict of the people. It is clear that the Coalition and Gambians swill definitely go ahead to inaugurate Adama Barrow on January 19. Thus when they do that, in the eyes of Yaya Jammeh that would constitute a violation of a court order. What he will therefore do is to deploy soldiers to clampdown on citizens and based on the ensuing protests, he would therefore declare a state of emergency under Section 34 of our constitution. If he does that, there is no doubt that his self-imposed slaves in the National Assembly led by Abdoulie Bojang and Fabakary Tombong Jatta would invoke Section 99, Sub-section 2 which states that in times of war or emergency National Assembly can extend its life and consequently the term of the president, in view of Section 63 Sub-section 6. Hence Yaya Jammeh thought that in this way he would be able to prevent the inauguration, hopefully arrest Adama Barrow and Coalition leaders to lock them up in Mile 2 for treason, kill many more Gambians and then continue to oppress the rest of the Gambia as usual. But God is not sleeping Yaya Jammeh.
This is the game plan of Yaya Jammeh. And this is why we have to also understand the context in which Yaya Jammeh delivered his January 10 statement when he talked about a so-called illegal Mediator-General and forgiveness and amnesty. His expectation was to get this application pass through and based on the chaotic events that will follow, he would now use his newly founded slave Pa Musa Jallow to do the set-settal after his atrocities through a bogus forgiveness and amnesty program.
This is why I have also been crying all along that we must not entertain the idea of a petition. This is because Yaya Jammeh has noticed that given the way and manner Gambians, as well as the international community are determined, the only way he can escape is through a judicial process. But that judicial process has always been flawed as the Gambia Bar Association has taught us since they issued their statement in condemnation of the treasonable action of Yaya Jammeh on December 9.
Thus when we get to this stage when God has flouted all the schemes of Yaya Jammeh in his face, it is indeed disgracefully pathetic that we could have two Gambian sons, Edu Gomez and a little uneducated brat like Seedy Njie come around with the intention to burn down their own motherland for the interest of one criminal. I have already talked about Seedy Njie that he is a very annoying little victim who was whisked off from school, as a child and thrust onto the national stage when he has no maturity to understand his bearings. I will not speak any further on that.
But let me speak about Edu Gomez. It is indeed with deep sadness and pain to have a senior Gambian citizen like Edu Gomez, without regard to is own legacy and in disregard of his duty to God and Country to support a project intended to destroy his society. It is sad that Edu Gomez would consider only worldly gains and be prepared to sell his soul to a dictator that has inflicted untold misery on his people for 22 years. We cannot even excuse or understand Mercenary Emmanuel Fagbele as a non-Gambian for supporting this regime. But to imagine that a well-educated adult Gambian like Edu Gomez would conceive and prepare and submit this application and seek all efforts to kill the voice of the people is utterly beyond imagination. How can Edu Gomez ignore the Gambia Bar Association in their demand for the resignation of Mercenary Emmanuel Fagbele as Chief Justice, yet he goes ahead to associate with that man for the purpose of destroying his own country? Which Bible does Edu Gomez believe? Which Lord does Edu Gomez worship? Which family does Edu Gomez come from that he would blatantly ignore the good teachings of the Holy Bible and the Pure Word of Jesus Christ and ignore the good values of his family and culture to make himself a tool for the destruction of his own society? Edu Gomez, how could you?
After all these failed attempts, what we must learn as Gambians is that Yaya Jammeh is not relenting but is seeking every opportunity to subvert our will. He is seeking to control the narrative so as to calm us down as he pursues the judicial channel knowing that this is where he can save himself.
Therefore I demand that the Coalition and all Gambians to continue to take urgent, direct and strong steps to prevent Yaya Jammeh from changing the narrative and turning the tide in his favour, illegally. We must not allow Yaya Jammeh to dishonestly and unconstitutionally reject the verdict of the people yet come around through the back door to manipulate our constitution and courts to justify his illegal rejection and annulment of the vote. Gambians have decided and we must not allow Yaya Jammeh to kill that decision in front of our own eyes by toying with our intelligence and laws. That would be a national tragedy of unimaginable proportions.
Shame on Edu Gomez. Shame on Seedy Njie. Shame on Pa Musa Jallow. Shame on APRC National Assembly Members. Shame on Isatou Njie Saidy and the Cabinet. Traitors Par Excellence!
#GambiaHasDecided.
1 Comment
Well written piece, Jammeh and his cohort can never succeed because unlike them, the rest of the Gambians that they are dealing with have brains. This is why they keep making stupid miscalculations as evident in Edu Gomez’s idiotic injunction application. His biggest mistakes in that injunction are naming the Chief Justice and Barrow. As you have pointed in your article the Chief Justice cannot sit on a case where he is a respondent. However being Jammeh supporter the CJ might have turned a blind eye to that fact but Barrow’s legal representative will never let such an anomaly slide by. It only shows how desperate Jammeh is, that he has resort to taking an injunction against himself and almost the entire nation. It’s hard to understand how Edu Gomez can take an injunction against Barrow when Barrow was not named in their original petition. Just shows how stupid he is. My guess is that he and Seedy Njie has made stupid promises to Jammeh that is now consuming them both. However all their plans will fail and come the 19th January Jammeh will be a rebel if he did not cede power. He will get what he deserve, imprisonment or death.