By Da One
Seeking power just for its sake, entitlement to positions of financial and material privileges, dominating spaces of political discourse with hate speech and toxic rhetoric etc., have become the only expertise our cruel and self-serving politicians are good at.
Social media has become a tool to launch vicious attacks on political opponents and perceived foes. All the while important discussions that should be taking place on the decayed health sector, the stagnant agricultural sector, the brainwashing education system, a near none-existent fishing industry, the century long unemployment epidemic, the confusion with various theologies and dogmas, a sport sector that never took off the ground, the massive environmental degradation, the invincible generational gap, dying cultures and traditions, I could go on and on.
Our leaders, we either elect or select, are busy stuffing their bank accounts with our monies. And they want to stay in power till death comes. Okay, if their thieving habits would have been accompanied by tangible achievements that positively impact the lives of the citizenry, that would at least lessen the effects of their evil doings.
Gambia is far older than the Apple company. Just through its peripheral businesses Apple accrue more revenue year in year out than The Gambia could manage in a decade. The president was beating his chest for securing a billion euros in credit to taunt his opponents. This makes us the laughing stock of the world. Only a failed state would be proud of sacrificing the future generation on the altar for a few shiny roads that run through villages that have no inkling of what that piece of tar will cost them.
The Gambia Nation Project (GNP) has to start afresh. It’s a failed project for fifty-four years and counting. How can a forty-three year old company be more viable than a whole continent that is grinding towards the seventy-year mark since allegedly becoming independent? May be, you dear reader have an answer to this question. For me, it beats my imagination to even try to fathom the sheer illogicality. Remember, the Apple Company was brought into being by a college dropout who at one time was a psychedelic drug addict.
Think about it my fellow country men and women. Please, ponder on it just for a moment.