JAMMEH WARNS ARMY OFFICERS!!!

By Musa Jobe and MB Ceesay, Banjul

The President of The Gambia has issued a strongly-worded statement that he would not allow bullies in the security services to hector junior officers under the veneer of seniority.
Mr. Jammeh has also stressed that as officers, service-people should always have it at the back of their minds that they owe allegiance and loyalty to the government and the people of The Gambia whose lives and properties they swore to protect and safeguard.
Jammeh made these remarks on the national television on Saturday.
According to the Gambian President, if senior officers want to be respected by the junior officers, they should then work towards it.
" If you want to be respected, you should show it in your persona. You cannot force junior officers to respect you whilst you don't respect yourself," said Jammeh.
It is not clear as to which senior officer or group of officers Jammeh was addressing in his statement. What though is clear is that the President has expressed his professed zero-tolerance to bullying in the security services and has always been gonging the members of the armed forces to be loyal to the establishment and the people of The Gambia.
" In the army, there is nothing like neutrality. You are either loyal or disloyal. There is no democracy in the army and if anybody of you come to  the army just to be used by others, you are then in a wrong place," President Jammeh told contingents of soldiers that have just concluded their military training.
Turning to the many arrests and detentions, seen by many as arbitrary, President Jammeh explained that any senior government official arrested is usually suspected of committing something.
" I arrest you if you are seen suspicious. After the investigation, I release you when you are not found to have committed any offence."
Be as it may, the bastardized, poverty-stricken Gambians are silently complaining about the spate of arbitrary arrests and detentions without due process of law. Many Gambians at home are wondering as to whether they are living in a village with a 'Big Village Chief'. People are concerned about the detentions of their loved ones beyond 72 hours without being charged or released as enshrined in the Constitution of The Gambia. Gambians would like Jammeh to respect the constitution to enable them live in enlarged freedom, dignity, peace and security.