Last month, we got a very important call from a source telling us that the desperate Gambian president, Adama Barrow has been trying to get Foni and Jolas rally behind him with 2021 presidential election just at the corner.

The source told us, “Very soon you’ll see him (Barrow) appoint Jolas back to prominent positions in a desperate bid to secure Foni.” Our response to the source was, “If we publish this story, then Barrow will do a u-turn since forGambia has published it.”

And those persons, who perhaps need jobs may think it was forGambia that denied them a coveted interest. We politely told the source to allow us time to sit on the story and publish it once Barrow really appoints one of the targets.

One of the official policies of this desperate government is to appoint special intelligence teams to monitor and troll forGambia news & Radio since its inception. But perhaps its dumbest policy action has been cancelling anything we publish about its moves.

But Barrow has killed Jolas, removed them from key positions, seized their property and land, shot their van drivers (in a shoot-to-kill spree since Haruna Jatta), arrested almost whole villages (in Kanfenda, including old men, old women, mothers with suckling babies, etc.)

In fact, Senegalese forces are still occupying Foni as we type these! For what? Because Yahya Jammeh is a Jola and Macky Sall hates anything that resembles Yahya Jammeh. And Barrow isn’t really Gambia’s policy maker—the biggest looter of Senegalese money (Frank Timis deal) Macky Sall is!

This is why an old man’s cow was seized by the occupying Senegalese forces in Foni. The old man went looking for it, only to see it being slaughtered by the vicious Senegalese soldiers occupying Foni. When the old man asked questions, he was arrested by the soldiers and asked to dance while witnessing his toil being butchered in broad day light!

The old man’s gait changed terribly and could hardly walk back home after the “monkey-dance.” This is why a Foni van driver was intimidated at a Senegalese check point in Foni only to be shot at by the vicious soldiers—vicious on what grounds? On grounds that Yaya Jammeh is Jola and Macky Sall hates Jammeh.

This is why Haruna Jatta was shot in cold blood by the same Senegalese forces occupying Foni to date. No investigation has been mounted since then. As we type these, the vicious Senegalese checkpoint around Bwiam is still causing accident upon accident where Gambians continue to lose property and business.

This is why the same vicious Senegalese soldiers chased a Foni man in his own village in to the bush, all the way to a police station! And what was the man’s crime? He simply answered a phone call from his ex-wife who asked him to see her since they still have children between them.

When the man arrived, a Senegalese soldier thought he was as chicken-hearted as Adama Barrow and started throwing punches at him which the man blocked. A reinforcement from the Senegalese camp was sent to arrest this innocent Foni man who had to flee.

When he escaped, again, the vicious Senegalese soldiers broke into his house, ninja-stormed the building and broke the door. Gambians, I ask you: Is this what will bring peace and love between the two countries? Is this how a foreign peace-keeping force behaves?

Do you think this conflict and animosity against a people started by “vicious” Senegalese forces and their client king Adama Barrow will end in two weeks? You think Gambians and Foninkas will throw flowers at Macky Sall and Adama Barrow’s feet with all these happening?

Well, may I remind you that Senegal couldn’t solve its own Cassamance conflict that has been on for over 40 years now. You think that same Senegal will solve Gambia’s conflict—especially a Gambian conflict they have been brewing for years in order to snatch our space?

So, Bakary Badjie, go ahead and enjoy your fifteen minutes! That will not appease Foni—a people still being persecuted for no legitimate reason. I’ve written this German philosopher’s words before and I’ll write it again, that—

“First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”—Martin Niemöller