POLITICAL CRAZZYNESS

  President Yahya . Jammeh of the Small West African State of The Gambia, has thrown a 'bombshell': he removes The Gambia form the Commonwealth. Jammeh, a low level junior soldier, came to power in 1994 in a military coup by overthrowing the former well respected President Dauda Jawara. Many felt at the time that this was a 'falamakata' ( copy cat) coup following the military coup in Sierra Leone in 1992 by the Strasser/Maada Bio/ SAJ Musa coup. The question now- is this a wise move  by The Gambia and its people? View the short News night clip of 3rd October 2013 on Jammeh's antics   CLICK HEAR WATCH THIS  BBC NEWSNIGHT VIDEO   PRESIDENT MUGABE TOOK ZIMBABWE OUT OF THE COMMONWEALTH A FEW YEARS AGO. WAS HE JUSTIFIED IN THE LIGHT OF THE PING-PONG ANTICS WITH THE WEST?  

"KILL OR FUR WHO JOMP E DAE'' There is no room for reckless journalism in SALONE:       OBEY THE LAW or GO TO JAIL   Read the very words of President Earnest Bai Koroma “If you go out there and enquire from the journalists, they’ll tell you that the freedom they are now enjoying has never been enjoyed by them over the years. Go out there and ask for my track record and my track record will tell you what this government stands for in terms of freedom of the press, in terms of even freedom to our political opponents. What is enjoyed now has never been enjoyed before. We are not saying that it’s a free country for journalists, we have the laws, and whatever are the laws we have to comply with them until the laws are changed. We’ll continue to give freedom to the journalists but we’ll also want to urge them to work within the framework of the existing laws.”      In the early days of the APC, when people like Hon Eustace Ki...