Still on Yahya Jammeh

Thus it came to pass that in the tiny West African Nation of Gambia, the people deathly tired of President   Yahya   Jammeh   marched together in lockstep to the ballot box on the 1st  day of December 2016, to shove the red card in the face of one of Africa`s long-standing rulers and […]

Thus it came to pass that in the tiny West African Nation of Gambia, the people deathly tired of President   Yahya   Jammeh   marched together in lockstep to the ballot box on the 1st  day of December 2016, to shove the red card in the face of one of Africa`s long-standing rulers and choose  his main challenger,  Adama   Barrow as the one sufficiently trusted to hold in his untried and untested hands the very destiny of the Gambian nation. Jammeh`s defeat was a potent blow, well-timed and well-delivered to begin the disgraceful denouement of a 22-year-old asphyxiating stranglehold on the soul of a people that have sparingly known democratic governance since independence in 1965.

Political players  like Jammeh must go and spare the corridors of power their desecration, for it looks like their most pernicious effect yet is the mental, educational and   psychological impoverishment and stultification  of young people who should one day succeed them, but might just find themselves ill-equipped to handle the mantle of power.

While Jammeh justifies his jamboree and some sympathetic  African despots making up his skulk of power-drunk jackals   rally round their own with glee and  solidarity, the tiny streets of Gambia must not be flooded with the blood of a people who on the 1st of December,2016 univocally gave their voice to the one who they beleive could speak to them and  for them in Gambia and on the world stage.

 Kenechukwu  Obiezu wrote from Abuja, and can be reached at: [email protected]