Our deportees, our deportees. I cannot stand this crying anymore.
Dr. Ebrima N. Badjie, Ph.D. h.c.
Commercial Pilot, Human Rights Activist, Youth Organisation President in the Gambia
People who know me know that I have been fighting for our brothers in Europe for years, when others were not even thinking about helping them (especially those others who act like war heroes nowadays). I was the one who visited our boys in the camps and tried to help them with whatever needs they had. I sold my WHOLE COMPANY just to support our poor backway boys in Europe. I spent days on the highways of Europe to help and support them. For what? In the end, most of them started smoking drugs or drinking alcohol. Not all, but MOST. They did not obey the orders from their governments and started hiding around. It was shameful for me.
As I mentioned, not everyone of our brothers is like that, but most. Because I know some who are hard-working and really deserve a chance in Europe. They also help their families at home and with that they also support the growth of our glorious nation. That’s cool. Too bad that this is just a few in number. When I ran into an emergency situation after years of helping and fighting and was forced to go into EXILE to the Gambia, no one helped me. A few, and those for me are the real heroes, did it and supported me to get back on my feet again. Did I ever complain? NO!
Nowadays, I see our “NEW WAR HEROES” posting about their efforts against deportations. Every day they post their endless letters and cry about something that is UNAVOIDABLE! Let’s put together the facts that I have been telling my people for years:
Europe (as much as I hate that word) is under NO circumstances obliged to keep Gambians. Europe is not because WE HAVE NO WAR in the Gambia. So they still call themselves refugees. Refugees from what? A coconut that might fall on their head? NOPE! Before, there was a reason to give asylum and that reason was the “brutal” regime of Jammeh. Well, I accept that fact. BUT JAMMEH IS GONE LONG AND FOREVER. So what is the reason now? Well, it’s clear that our people nowadays are refugees from an economic situation. Our people here are facing those problems every day and live with them. So why should our backway boys have any more rights than our people here in the country? It makes no sense for me. Europe can do whatever the Europeans want. The greediness that some of our brothers have is endless and that is what made my mind change nowadays. I clearly want to say I am against deportations. In my opinion, everyone deserves a chance, but those drug boys and alcoholics (we don’t even need them in the Gambia by the way) don’t deserve any mercy. I gave all I had in my life for our people, but now I am reaching a turning point and that’s just because I can’t stand this crying anymore.
Go and work in your country. I have been doing it for 2 years now. Come here and build up our nation like the Europeans did it after the second world war. Of course it will be hard and it will take years. But if everyone is running away and if we waste our time writing endless letters to German politicians (totally forgetting about Italian politicians because well we don’t speak Italian?!?!?), it makes no sense!
Our country has other problems to solve than deportations that are internationally LEGAL.
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DID ANYONE FORCE THOSE BULLSHIT BOYS to go to Europe or Libya??? NO!!! It was all their own will.
I will always be ready to help and advise people who are afraid of being deported. I will always provide support for them here in the Gambia. But I will not continue my mission as an activist for something so stupid like dictating Europe what they have to do. No, I am sorry. I have been doing it for years now just to see how our own people treat each other and just to see that when I was in need only 10 people immediately helped me even though they also had nothing. Those by the way became German citizens now :) haha well you see. But whatever. The world does not work like this.
To make it clear: deportations are BAD, but they are unavoidable. So let’s accept it and move on.
There is a LEGAL way to migrate to Europe or any country someone wants to migrate to. The way is: Going to the embassy of the country and applying for a work and residence permit in that country. If you are approved (and there are a lot of countries that still need workers), you can live legally and freely in those countries and you don’t need a dangerous backway. You can take a nice plane to go there and have everything nice and smooth. It’s how our fathers and grandfathers came to Europe. None of them took a backway.
So I am very disappointed in all this and I can only close with the following: I wish all of our brothers in Europe all the best from the bottom of my heart. I will continue supporting people if anyone has a question. But I will also now start changing my life to a point where I was years ago. Whoever wants to follow me on that way is welcome to join. But I am not a social center anymore, neither an activist for something that makes no sense anymore.