Yesterday, on social media, I saw something that made me chuckle in amazement and disbelief.
Amazement, because I could not rationalize the rank hypocrisy, and disbelief, because someone who did not deserve it, was claiming the moral high ground. I am talking about the 31 National Assembly members who threatened to impeach President Adama Barrow over the firing of nominated member, Ms Kumba Jaiteh.
I do sympathize with Ms Jaitehs predicament, but I cannot stomach the very idea of National Assembly members’ claim to moral and ethical sanctimony.
To begin with, I don’t believe the firing of Ms Jaiteh, even if it’s found to be illegitimate, rises to the level of impeachable felonious crime. But, the most salient issue is; President Adama Barrow may have committed more egregious acts that demand National Assembly scrutiny, but the Assembly just stood and did absolutely nothing, whatsoever.
In fact, in one case, the National Assembly may have been complicit in the commision of bribery by President Barrow. From the source of the 57 vehicles donated to National Assembly members, to the mansion President Barrow built in his home village, Mankamang Kunda, to the $750,000 for First Lady Fatoumata Barrow Foundation, and the very existence of the Barrow Youth Movement as an arm of this government; there are many other more important and potentially corrupt practices the National Assembly could hold President Barrow to account for.
And, for the National Assembly to act as the paragon of justice, after so many past failures, most of them made consciously and deliberately, seems a bit too disingenuous. The fake fury vented by members of the Gambia National Assembly is not convincing. Matter of fact, it’s downright laughable.
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Yesterday, on social media, I saw something that made me chuckle in amazement and disbelief.
Amazement, because I could not rationalize the rank hypocrisy, and disbelief, because someone who did not deserve it, was claiming the moral high ground. I am talking about the 31 National Assembly members who threatened to impeach President Adama Barrow over the firing of nominated member, Ms Kumba Jaiteh.
I do sympathize with Ms Jaitehs predicament, but I cannot stomach the very idea of National Assembly members’ claim to moral and ethical sanctimony.
To begin with, I don’t believe the firing of Ms Jaiteh, even if it’s found to be illegitimate, rises to the level of impeachable felonious crime. But, the most salient issue is; President Adama Barrow may have committed more egregious acts that demand National Assembly scrutiny, but the Assembly just stood and did absolutely nothing, whatsoever.
In fact, in one case, the National Assembly may have been complicit in the commision of bribery by President Barrow. From the source of the 57 vehicles donated to National Assembly members, to the mansion President Barrow built in his home village, Mankamang Kunda, to the $750,000 for First Lady Fatoumata Barrow Foundation, and the very existence of the Barrow Youth Movement as an arm of this government; there are many other more important and potentially corrupt practices the National Assembly could hold President Barrow to account for.
And, for the National Assembly to act as the paragon of justice, after so many past failures, most of them made consciously and deliberately, seems a bit too disingenuous. The fake fury vented by members of the Gambia National Assembly is not convincing. Matter of fact, it’s downright laughable.
Mathew Jallow