But adamant Adama is busy wasting the country’s little resources on touring the impoverished nation to further strengthen his corrupt grip-hold on power thanks to a divided, uncharismatic opposition front.

The indignation is almost tonic-clonic as we put this story together. Our sources sermon, “Barrow and his government should be honest to us and tell us the truth. Nawec is broke and there’s scarcity of foreign currency especially the Dollar to trade for heavy duty fuel.”

The machines and generators at Nawec are dead. “To be honest we’re just managing here. But all this noise of electrifying the country is absolutely nonsense and propaganda.” An insider remonstrated.

Department insiders also stated that most of their procurements nowadays are purchased from either Senegal or other African countries. “Most of the equipment are not good products and usually don’t last long,” they stated.

Gambians complained bitterly to Nawec and the government for not remedying the situation. “Everything is totally collapsing in this country. All our vibrant sectors are dying slowly under Barrow’s watch. I’m angry and I keep fanning our three-month old baby all night,” a Lamin resident in the West Coast voiced out.

The corrupt Gambian president is politicking in the URR with provocative waste of government resources. His energy secretary Nani Juwara is currently in Turkey, attending a business forum which will bring nothing meaningful to poor tax-payers.

From Editor: Great nations never become great by electing low-IQ, greedy, devil worshippers to high office. Africa used to have great leaders like Mansa Musa, Sundiata Keita, Shaka Zulu, etc.

In fact, Mansa Musa’s empire ruled all of what is seen as Tanji, Brikama, Lamin, Serrekunda, Basse and Banjul where we decry perennial power cuts.

But Africa had great leaders during Mansa Musa’s time. There was less than 150 years between Mansa Musa and Richard The Lion-Hearted of England. We used to donate foreigners.

Europe was poor then. It sent explorers to spy on other people’s wealth—from Christopher Columbus to Alviso Cadamosto who sailed to what you see today as Tanji, Gunjur, and Sanyang.

In 1324, Mansa Musa inadvertently advertised Gambia and Africa’s wealth to the rest of the world on his pilgrimage to Makkah. He loaded donkeys, camels, and horses with bullions of gold on this journey.

This only encouraged Europeans and Arabs to covet our wealth. Ibn Battuta and other Arab writers visited Mali empire which, again Gambia was part of.

His writings inspired others such as Ibn Khaldun and other Europeans like British Mungo Park whose monument is still in Karantaba, The Gambia. In his book “Up from Slavery,” Booker T. Washington described how Kunta Kinteh fiercely and single-handedly fought his captors.

The most popular slave in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade happened to be the same Kunta Kinteh, from Gambia. In 2007, an American with a Jewish girlfriend in the state of Missouri asked me the meaning of a word he never knew was Mandinka.

He said he heard the word from the movie roots with Kunta Kinteh. He was excited and happy when I explained its meaning despite the funny pronunciation both by him and the actors.

We came from wealthy warriors and noble philosophers. Today, we can’t afford a Nawec generator or Barra ferry thanks to evil, corrupt devil worshippers calling themselves president. 

And this land of Mansa Musa, Sundiata Keita, Sanjally Bojang, Omar Bun Jeng will continue to suffer if the best among us don’t see the need to come together to elect honest, best deserving leaders!

“We extract you and your family from extreme poverty; you drag us, our mothers, sisters, children, and children’s children into it for generations to come.” forGambia News