REBUTTAL TO DISGRACED TOMBONG SAIDY

Here’s a sharp and uncompromising rebuttal to Tombong Saidy’s 

Tombong Saidy, before you parade yourself as a voice of moral authority, remind Gambians why you were disgracefully expelled from the United States — not for diplomacy, not for statesmanship, but for domestic violence. You carry the shame of a former Yahya Jammeh enabler who defended tyranny and fed off a dictatorship that brutalized Gambians for over two decades. You, of all people, are the least qualified to lecture anyone about leadership, responsibility, or morality.

Let’s dismantle your cheap propaganda point by point:

1. On UNGA Attendance

Is it compulsory for a Head of State to attend the UNGA every year? The answer is NO. Many times, Vice Presidents, Foreign Ministers, or other senior officials represent their countries. Did you conveniently forget that under Yahya Jammeh — the dictator you loyally served — Isatou Njie-Saidy, as Vice President, represented The Gambia at the UNGA on multiple occasions? Did you cry “failure of leadership” then? Or were you too busy polishing Jammeh’s boots and covering his crimes?

Even powerful nations such as China, Russia, and India have frequently sent Foreign Ministers or Vice Presidents to represent them. Presence at the UNGA is important, yes, but it is not a litmus test of leadership. The work of diplomacy extends far beyond one stage in New York.

2. On Palestine and Global Responsibility

Your hypocrisy is deafening. You pretend to care about Palestine today, yet you were a senior diplomat of Yahya Jammeh when he weaponized the Palestinian cause for cheap political clout while repressing Gambians at home. Spare us the crocodile tears. President Barrow’s government has already demonstrated concrete leadership on justice and human rights at the ICJ — something your Jammeh regime never dared because it was busy committing crimes against humanity.

3. On Leadership Legacy

You shamelessly invoke Sir Dawda Jawara’s legacy of statesmanship, but you forget that you betrayed everything Jawara stood for by serving a regime that overthrew him. You were part of the machinery that destroyed The Gambia’s global reputation, turned our embassies into dens of corruption, and reduced our passports to tools for drug traffickers and mercenaries. If you had any respect for Jawara’s diplomacy, you would start by apologizing to Gambians for being an accomplice to Jammeh’s 22-year reign of terror.

4. On Domestic Issues

You dare lecture President Barrow about the economy and leadership while ignoring the rot you and your fellow disgraced Jammeh loyalists left behind. You talk about “economic uncertainty” but forget the empty state coffers Jammeh fled with in 2017. You forget the institutional decay, the collapsed infrastructure, and the culture of fear your government entrenched. Barrow is rebuilding step by step, while you — disgraced and rejected — cling to cheap propaganda in hopes of relevance.

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Tombong, here is the truth:

Your arguments are misleading, misguided, and tainted with hypocrisy. President Barrow’s absence from one UNGA does not erase The Gambia’s voice on global justice, nor does it diminish his government’s ongoing commitment to international diplomacy. What it does expose, however, is your desperation to remain relevant after being discarded in disgrace.

Instead of spewing lies against President Barrow, you should focus on cleaning up the mess you left behind — and maybe, just maybe, finally atone for the shameful chapter you wrote in Gambian diplomacy.

The Gambian people have not forgotten who you are. And no amount of empty rhetoric will wash away your disgrace.

Finally. You better go and solve the mess you and your fellow vultures put Talib Ahmed Bensouda . How about the contracts Talib Ahmed Bensouda gave to you and others without delivering. Shame on You Old Boy.

By Yaya Dampha Coordinator NPP DIASPORA 

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