Alimameh Gibba, your recent attempts to cloak yourself as an advocate of rights and freedom are not only hypocritical but also insulting to the memory of countless Gambians—particularly from your own constituency—who suffered and died under Yahya Jammeh’s brutal rule while you sat comfortably in Parliament, silent and complicit.
You now speak of “silencing opposition” and “the voice of the masses,” but where was your voice when Yahya Jammeh’s regime turned Foni Kansala into a killing field and a burial ground for his Junglers? Did you speak for the late Chief Momodou Lamin Nyass, Bubai Sanyang, Ndongo Boob, Macie Jammeh, Jasija Kujabi, Dawda Nyassi, and many other sons of Foni who were arrested, disappeared, or executed in cold blood? Not once did you stand in Parliament to condemn those atrocities. Not once did you demand answers for the families whose loved ones vanished into Jammeh’s torture chambers.
You were not only silent—you were an enabler. As a National Assembly Member under Jammeh, you voted to grant him unconstitutional powers that entrenched his dictatorship. When the Gambian people courageously voted Jammeh out in 2016, you were among those who disgracefully endorsed his declaration of a state of emergency—a desperate, illegal attempt to overturn the sovereign will of the Gambian people. You wanted Jammeh to cling to power even after the ballot had rejected him. That is not the behavior of a defender of rights and democracy; it is the record of a loyal bootlicker of tyranny.
Today you cry foul about “foreign military presence” and “unresolved killings,” but during Jammeh’s reign, when Senegalese, Bissau-Guinean, and other mercenaries were used by Jammeh himself to terrorize Gambians, you saw no problem. You never raised your voice when Jammeh’s hit squads—the Junglers—operated with impunity, executing Gambians and foreigners alike and burying them in Foni’s forests. If those forests could speak, they would indict you and your colleagues for your silence.
You talk of accountability, but you sat in a Parliament that rubber-stamped Jammeh’s looting of state resources, his abuse of public lands, and his illegal expropriation of Gambian citizens’ properties. You did not object when Jammeh and his cronies siphoned millions through shady deals and bogus grants. Instead, you cheered him on.
Your sudden concern for “freedom of debate” in the National Assembly is nothing but opportunism. Rights and freedom are not garments you wear when convenient and discard when your master demands loyalty. They are principles—principles you betrayed at every turn when Gambians needed leaders to stand against dictatorship.
You say you cannot be silenced. But in truth, you silenced yourself for over two decades when your people bled the most. That silence was not the silence of courage, but of cowardice and complicity.
So spare Gambians your crocodile tears about democracy and accountability. You forfeited the moral right to speak about human rights the day you chose to protect Jammeh’s tyranny over the lives of your own constituents. You remain, to this day, a shameless relic of that dark chapter—a man who stood on the side of oppression when the Gambian people cried for justice.
The people of Foni Kansala, and The Gambia at large, deserve better than your hypocrisy.
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