Politics in the Gambia is getting dirtier and dirtier. In the country, we have seen compromised intimate nude images circulating on social media. A politician and presidential contender, Dr. Lamin Bojang of Gambia Action Party, just got his intimate images compromised video clip released just days after appearing in a social media national debate of select presidential aspirants interest in the presidency. 

The move to dilute Dr. Lamin Bojang’s popularity, who has recently boldly come out to attack President Barrow’s bad governance, the impact of the photos remains unknown.

I belong to the expanded school of thought propagated by John Stuart Mill and H.L.A Hart that society has no business to discuss and regulating private conduct. 

The advent of Facebook, the Facebook messenger, and the overused WhatsApp also brought with it another breed of humans and indeed another vice. The sharing of intimate nudes videos. Teenagers do it. 60-year-old parents do it, and government ministers name them, and journalists and politicians do it.

Real people seek privacy, remove clothes, take photos of the desired areas, and send them to another human being. To achieve some ends. 

In social media, you will encounter the pretty of the prettiest. Why should Dr. Lamin Bojang’s leader of the Gambia Action Party love situation be a topic that preoccupies the mind? 

I correctly understand the sensibilities involved, but can’t we leave his private and intimate life out of our political and kitchen table discussions? 

Thus, in 2017 when multi-millionaire Rwandan beauty and women rights activist Diane Shima Rwigara launched her presidential campaign, the first serious challenge to Paul Kagame, she forgot she had nudes, some too explicit to share with humanity. 

Two days later, the world is being treated to her entire womanhood, her inner sanctum. President Paul Kagame was milking it to the fullest. A promising presidency collapses before our very eyes.

The move to dilute Dr. Lamin Bojang’s popularity, who has recently boldly come out to attack President Barrow’s bad governance, the impact of the photos remains unknown.

By Alagi Yorro Jallow