You were so close to influencing in your favour the narrative on your reign, but let the megalomania in you shape your exit and what will for many become the abiding memory. All the noise about serving the Gambian people will not disguise the fact that you sought to reject their collective wish. In the process, you created tensions between them and put them through anxiety, fear, and anguish. All because you had seemingly concluded that only you have the right to rule Gambia.

You held the Koran as you carried on with your inability to exercise the humility advocated in its chapters. Somehow, like many before you as well as some of these times, ego, badness and a total disregard of God’s other children was placed behind a pretence of a love and respect for God.

It is a fact, sometimes a sad one actually, that we normally judge people by their last actions rather than on the totality of their performances. You Yahya Jammeh have as a last act to be remembered by a staggering contempt for your people. If you had managed to fool people that your actions over 22 years were about Gambia and Gambians, you left with your compatriots knowing it has always been about you.

© Othame