By Kebba AF Touray
Mr. Pa Bojang, an erstwhile Managing Director of KGI, has said that our progress as a group cannot be in isolation to the Gambia and the other groups in it.
He also noted equity in humanity, thus describing mankind as a creation and that the support of another person outside the citizenry does not make the populace less honorable, as it’s a mere manifestation of valor and true measure of the citizen’s worth.
Mr. Bojang implored on his fellow countrymen and women to see the country’s development and progress as their supreme priority.
He quoted Athens statesman Pericles to have said that, “in the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries, is superior to the report of her”; it is extraneous whether or not the statement was to magnify Athens or her dead soldiers. What remained factual is that both the living and the dead subjects of Athens lived or nobly died for their city and their empire.
Dwelling on the greatness of the Gambia, Mr. Bojang said that the Gambia is blessed with great soldiers who lived and died for the country, whilst its academicians have planted eternal wisdom in the hearts and minds of the people whose poetry is so pleasing beyond the melodies of the great ‘Homer’.
He maintained that all the above are necessary but not sufficient to make The Gambia the wonder of this and the succeeding ages, as people whose common trait is their nationality and unique sense of belonging.
Bojang opined that “what we need beyond soldiers and panegyrist is the valor to muster what God the almighty has destined for us. What we need beyond the mere utterance of the lines of “strive and work and pray” is the act of it, so that “all may live in unity, freedom and peace each day” ‘.
But he believes this will be the realities of the Gambia only if the citizenry ceased to live in the past and contend for higher price as one people, and not as tribes, regions, or religions of the Gambia. He remarked that “the Gambia is my mother land and I shall obey and follow any person who magnifies and makes her glorious, and in this, the current government has not fallen short of”.
The former KGI official pointed out that the affairs of the Gambia have been fared by people to whom the citizens owe gratitude for the good things they have done, and strive to grant them forgiveness for the injuries caused to The Gambia.
He advised Gambians, “Whilst we do this, let us not be swayed by the contentions of our ethnic difference that have been exploited by unscrupulous people to earn themselves cheap popularity and unsolicited fame”. He urged the citizens to replicate to the current regime the view of direction of the previous regimes and its national development blueprint, while challenging the masses to criticize, in order to make the government more responsible. He however, urged citizenry to deviate from mere sabotage and dishonor of the struggles of the current administration.
“Let us not dismay those people who have paid the loftiest price of freedom and furtherance of the Gambia. On this note, I implore my tribesmen to be aware of those individuals whose only desire is to blot out the good with the evil and have not benefitted us nothing but only brought us pain, suffering and dishonor”.
