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The Gambia's ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh plundered the state coffers in his final weeks in power, stealing millions of dollars and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane, according to an aide to new president Adama Barrow.
Jammeh, who ruled the small West African country for 22 years, flew into exile late on Saturday [Jan 21] to Equatorial Guinea.
He had refused to concede defeat in a December 1 election but eventually relinquished power after a delegation of West African leaders convinced him to step down, even as troops from neighbouring countries entered The Gambia.
[...] But amid growing controversy over the assurances offered to Jammeh to guarantee his departure, Barrow adviser Mai Fatty said the new administration had discovered that millions of dollars had recently been stolen.
[...] "Over two weeks, over 500m dalasi ($11 million) were withdrawn" by Jammeh, he said. "As we take over, the government of The Gambia is in financial distress."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 27 2017, @03:49AM
I quote, "Alright, so maybe the US isn't the best example in all cases, but this one time, we have things pretty close to right."
Derp-a-derp! I ask again, WTF do people allow former "leaders" to rape them of all their wealth as they are leaving office? I'm reminded of Imelda Marcos and her riches. FFS, why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_Marcos [wikipedia.org]
"As a result, she has been called a kleptocrat by her critics who accuse her of plunder.[3]"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @03:55AM
I quote, "Alright, so maybe the US isn't the best example in all cases, but this one time, we have things pretty close to right."
AKA, "Hey look, in this field of donkeys, there's a high horse I can get on!" :D
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @04:07AM
Runaway must have had a bad day. His posts this evening are even more self-aggrandizing than usual.
Did he get arrested for beating his wife?
Or maybe he had to stand behind a girl in a hijab at the supermarket checkout line.
At least his need for validation isn't as bad as Trump's. That's a plus, I guess.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 27 2017, @02:44PM
I was arrested, for kicking you in the nuts for beating on some woman in a hijab, you self righteous prick. How are the 'nads?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @04:20PM
Ah, the braggadocio of the thin-skinned internet tough guy.
Empty threats leveled at some anonymous tormentor who sees deeper into your soul than you can.
Your narcissism makes you literally the easiest trolled turd on this site. cue
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @04:18AM
They say, you know, that you can actually determine the size of someone's hands on the internet just from the patterns of typing and the typos they make. What I have seen so far, thanks to a wearisomely large sample size, it that Runaway1956 must be in the Trump range for small-handedness. From this we might infer that his inauguration crowd size is equally, um, deficient.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @04:17AM
"Alright, so maybe the US isn't the best example in all cases, but this one time, we have things pretty close to right."
Particularly, in the case of holding itself to the same principle you hold others to. What you are doing is analogous to criticizing a fat guy for not being thin like you, when you yourself are addicted to nicotine and alcohol. You may not be fat, but by criticizing their poor impulse control when you have repeatedly failed to exercise impulse control, you are being a massive hypocrite.
Anyway, the point is not to point out the hypocrisy, but to illustrate that despite having readily available examples, a country's unique circumstances might preclude making the "obvious" reforms as easily as the armchair political philosopher might think they could be.