Idi Amin, Abacha, and Mobutu are no more. Gbagbo of Ivory Coast is gone, Ben Ali of Tunisia followed suit, Charles Taylor is in Hague, Mubarak is in a cage, The Qaddafi regime is over, and government of one man,by one man, and for one man,has been buried with him. Something is happening in our world. The way things have been is not the way they are now. Technology is putting power into the hands of the people;internet has given the youths a clear view of the outside world of what their government-- for far too long-- is keeping them from seeing. the people are delivering a powerful rebuke to oppression and tyrannical rule. They are rejecting the propagandists and lies some heads of states who do not desire democracy or sees it as a threat often tells them. The humiliating grip of corruption and tyranny is being pried open. Dictators are on notice; The promise recognized universally that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and in right” , is closer at hand. Around the globe, people are making their voices heard, insisting on their innate dignity and the right to determine their future and destiny without been told what to do. Around the world, citizens are recognizing the period of slavery is over and each and every one of them has a say in the way they should be govern. Democracy demands that citizens cannot be thrown in jail because of what they believe or what political party they support, and that they cannot be arrested and detain for more than 3 days. Democracy depends on the absence of terror and anxiety from the government to its people.It depends on the freedom of citizens to speak their minds and assemble without fear, and on the rule of law and due process that guarantees the rights of all people and these rights are not negotiable. In other words, true democracy--real freedom-- is justice for all. It demands those in power to resist the temptation on cracking-down on dissidents. That no one man will decide the fate of all: that no one man decides who lives and who dies, who leaves and who stays. It requires that government cannot create a gang of villains that snitch on its citizens at dark hours, beat Fathers’ to death, and take mothers away from their children for weeks or months in solitary confinement without due process. For the Gambia our homeland.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:48:15 +0000
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