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According to Jammeh, anywhere you should
stand as an African all what the West think of is that you are either HIV
positive, a drug dealer or a dictator.
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“I am not against anybody but injustice
is unacceptable. You (the West) are ungrateful to us, and calling us all sorts
of names is unacceptable,” President Jammeh told State TV upon return from
Addis Ababa following the close of the AU’s 21st General Assembly.
According to Jammeh, anywhere you should
stand as an African all what the West think of is that you are either HIV
positive, a drug dealer or a dictator.
However, dictator does not mean
anything to Jammeh. “A dictator is better than a vampire. Yes, I am a dictator,
yes, but what I have done in eighteen years in this country the British could
not do it in a million years,” he admitted. “So who is a dictator?"
Better governor
On May 28, Jammeh argued: "These
are the sorts of things they, the West, use to divide Africans and create
conflicts. Oh! Your neighbour is a dictator - there is bad governance - he is a
violator of human rights.”
“But that is not true. Now, what is
good governance for? Is to engender economic prosperity and the prosperity of
the people and high living standards. If you build one High School and two
hospitals in four hundred years, how many High Schools did I build in eighteen
years?” he asked.
Also, Jammeh argued that if good
governance is anything to go by, then he is a better Governor than the British
who ruled The Gambia.
Jammeh, who seized power in July 1994,
is often accused by western governments and human rights groups, of alleged
human rights violations committed in the tiny West African nation.
This post first appeared HERE, see original.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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