Having carefully read Mr. Amadou Alpha Lowe's reaction to Lamarana's postings on the Freedom Newspaper; I am compel to react. Evidently, Mr. Lowe is an admirer of B.B. Dabo, and he has gone to great lengths to defend him. That is admirable. Personally, I have nothing against Mr. Dabo, and in fact I like him too to the extent that after the coup in 1994, I wrote a piece in The Daily Observer urging the new military junta to make efforts to bring
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Mr. Dado back to help run the government. I still do not know whether it was a mere co-incidence or whether they took my advice, but within a couple of weeks, Mr. Dabo was back in The Gambia. Despite the colossal failure of the Jawara government, I like many other Gambians, hold Mr. Dabo to a level of admiration different from the Dr. Saho's, Saikou Sabally's and the rest of the gang of kleptomaniacs in their regime. Of course, I would like to think that my newspaper story recounting how Mr. B.B. Dabo was different from the rest, inspired the junta to recall him back.
I needed to put the Mr. Dabo issue in context before I made my point. And my point is that in his rather vitriolic castigation of Mr. Nderry, over Mr. Dabo, Mr. Lowe committed a cardinal error which can only be interpreted as hypocrisy. Since the premise of his whole article is to protect the intergrity of Mr. Dabo, I was surprised that he would stoop so low as to call Cpt. Sana B. Sabally names, probably without much knowledge about the man. If Mr. Lowe is inspired to protect someone from unfounded attacks, doesn't he owe the same level of concern to anyone else who comes under unnecessary attacks, or does he negate the virtuousness that underpins his strong reaction to Nderry. Secondly, I feel Mr. Lowe still has a lot of detective work to do to identify Mr. Lamarana, because to think that Lama is Pa Nderry, he must be way off the mark. The insinuation that Pa Nderry as Lamarana is trying to defend Sana B. Sabally is preposterous. Defending Sana B. Sabally is not in Pa's genes, that much I know. Finally, many people feel the same way about Captain Sana B. Sabally as Mr. Lowe feels about Mr. Dabo, and I am one of those until someone can prove me otherwise. Do I have to resort to writing long condescending sermons to Mr. Lowe in my efforts to try to protect Cpt. Sabally? I don't know, but I do not think so. But on second thought, maybe I should.