Explicit is the helplessness of these Gambian youths as is the hostility, oppression, and saucy tyranny of the armored Senegalese forces invading Gambian space once more in the above photo. We did warn you, didn’t we?

But why such venom against innocent Gambians if “Gambia ak Senegal Nyo Bokk Bena Ndey Ak Bai (Senegal and Gambia share the same mother and father), the blood-sucking leitmotif often laced in the Senegalese foreign policy rhetoric is a whit close to truth?

Since 2017, while most Gambians were eating “Benechin” and efficaciously numbed by cheap propaganda, we warned them about the sale of our nation and national interest a la carte to special interest groups both in the Macky Sall circle as well as peripheries integral to its extension to the Gambian shores.

 We witnessed painful apathy from our Gambian brethren, then. And we incurred venomous hostility from some of our Senegalese “Brothers”—our cardinal crime being exposing surreptitious maneuvers or informing unsuspecting Gambians! We excuse and salute those among our Senegalese folk who remain true to brotherhood.

I will not hold a catapult to my own brother in the slightest respect of the word, unless if I call him thus, only to exploit his fish resources, timber, electricity, consumer goods, or larger: defang him of his decades-long defense arsenal by smuggling them to Dakar.

No, I won’t also outsource jobs available to him through NAWEC by gifting them to myself and later charge him D25 million monthly! Nor would I gift even cars from his ex-president to the Kallilu Waggehs!