It has increasingly been clear that the looming danger in Gambia presently has the propensity of igniting political violence.
The incumbent government led by his Excellency Yahya Jammeh, the man who has been a president in Gambia for 22 years has refused to hand over power to Adama Barrow, the president elect who should have been sworn in by now.
Adama Barrow was declared winner in the December 1 elections in Gambia. He is to take over the mantle from Yahya Jammeh to champion the bandwagon of development in the country.
Yahya Jammeh, the incumbent who lost power to Adama earlier on conceded defeat in the just ended elections. when he called Liberia president Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Shelif, he made a “U” turn to challenge the election results in the Supreme court. He alleges that there were some irregularities in the December 1 elections and that has informed his sudden change of mind to challenge the election results in court.
Information gathered is that all frantic efforts made by the African Unions to cajole Yahya Jammeh, to step down has proved futile and went ahead to declare a state of emergency for 90 days.
Meanwhile, ECOWAS, AU among other unions have decided to help Adama Barrow, the president elect to swear in on 19th January, 2017 with heavy security present. This is enough evidence that Yahya Jammeh has an implicit evil intention of planking the country into civil war, a canker which African countries are not oblivious of.
There is no denying the fact that countries such as Nigeria among others that have their citizens residing in Gambia are making vigorous efforts to have their people evacuated from Gambia.
However, this is different in Ghana. His Excellency Nana Addo, the president of Ghana, has remained silent regarding to the evacuation of his citizens from Gambia, a country which current state is volatile.
I am dumbfounded and disappointed in president Nana Addo, the man who has been in politics for long and is not naive about the debilitating effect, that await his citizens residing in Gambia. President Nana Addo who was an Attorney General should have known better when things of this sort are happening. Or is it that Nana Addo doesn’t know that there are citizens of Ghana living in Gambia? I don’t want to say that he is being indifferent about his people in that country because during the 2016 campaign, he had people who campaigned and voted for him in that country.
Of course I am not advocating for war in Gambia and I will forever remain a peace loving person. But it interests me to find out whether president Nana Addo wants our people to be killed before he begins to make arrangements for the evacuation of their corpses. The signs have conspicuously been manifested yet nothing has been said by president Nana regarding to arrangements being put in place to evacuate our brothers and sisters to safe their lives.
Is this a sign of incapable or indifferent government? Information has made it clear to us that Yahya Jammeh has the support of majority of the security personnel and that alone speaks a lot to even a fool. Yahya Jammeh’s decision to remain unrepentant and unrelenting to handing over power is sufficient enough to draw president Nana Addo’s attention that the man is brooding something evil against his opponent. This attitude of Jammeh has the propensity of destabilizing the country.
In conclusion, it is a clarion call on president Nana Addo to act swiftly to safe Ghanaians who are based in Gambia, from any possible danger.
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