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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 20 Apr 2011 : 17:41:26
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Dailynews Editorial: Gambian Youths Should Challenge Political Leaders
Monday, April 18, 2011
Youths of The Gambia should take the bull by the horns and start challenging our political leaders – both the alternative parties and the power wielders.
Politicians of the older generation who always challenge and sometimes blame youths for not taking their destiny in their own hands could also be blamed for not being good listeners to the young ones.
This apparent divided opinions should embolden the youths to challenge such politicians both in ideological debates and by active participation in politics.
It is an open secret that successful politicians use young people as their spinal code to stand on their feet.
The ruling APRC party relies on the so-called green youths and other young militants to build their political base.
And the rest of the youth populations seem to be politically pessimistic about the opposition, due to the common notion that they are not the right camp to bring about the desired change of the time.
One can date the struggle for an alliance by the opposition camp to more than a decade from now, but their efforts yield no positive result. All the camps do have a different story to tell about what is keeping them asunder up to now, when the nation is going to the polls in November this year.
The culture of debate and the preparation of the young cadres as the future leaders should be promoted by all political parties.
All political parties should create room for internal party debate on leadership and decisions making.
It is not yet in The Gambian political culture for young people to be critical of their own parties or party leaders in the interest of the nation.
Their leaders always bury some of their internal political problems from the young ones so that they can continue to rally behind them.
The tendency of limitation for youths have affected almost all parties that is why there is no prominent neutral youth group that could influence either the ruling party or the opposition to take a more people-centered direction.
If one makes a sample surveying, many young people attracted by politics are easily carried away by the personal cult, which could lead to hero worshiping.
It is, as well, up to the politicians to choose between working towards building a great nation or concentrate on trying to make themselves great people.
Both the ruling party and opposition have not yet made any remarkable momentum to make The Gambia great and most of them are great people in their own rights, hence the youths of the country should challenge them.
They should be inviting them to debates, symposia, conferences, panel discussions and engage them on issues of governance and internal democracy in their parties. And they should also raise questions on what foundation have they laid, and what way have they charted for the young people who are interested in politics.
The names of the political leaders of the parties are the mantras of their militants which makes it difficult for most of them to accept the political realities.
Gambian youths should challenge politicians of both the ruling and opposition parties for the emergence of new pragmatisms in Gambian politics.
Source: Dailynews
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toubab1020
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Posted - 20 Apr 2011 : 17:58:19
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The youths of the Gambia are under represented in politics,however before they can be taken seriously by those who are at present involved in Gambian politics they (the youths ) should have some lessons in how to enter politics,the last thing that anybody wants is for violence to take place involving youths who wish to take part in politics.
I know NOTHING about politics and have never wanted to get involved in political matters,I do understand that to take part in ANYTHING and be effective you have to know what you are doing and have the skill to do it.
I am unaware of any institution or training establishment who could coach youths to be effective in Gambian politics,until such a facility is available to Gambian youth then they better not enter politics in the Gambia. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Apr 2011 : 20:54:03
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Youth of Gambia suffered the most serious exploitation. When the bandits seized power by coup, they trumpeted everywhere that it was a government of the youth. It is all fake as the greedy ring leader loots the nation and fails to support Gambian youth. More youth have ventured into sea voyage to reach overseas in the time of this regime than it was ever before. Between this regime and Gambian youth is one big scheme of deception. This has been mentioned here over and over but still good to repeat.
An example of youth exploitation is by closing all doors and inducing them to recruit in the army. The Youth Enterprise that Baba Jobe was sent to jail for was meant to serve the youth. It is all false propaganda. |
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