The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh continues  to receive more felicitations  from Gambians at home and abroad on the  auspicious occasion of the 15th anniversary celebration of the  July 22nd Revolution.

The  latest to arrive at State House came from Moses Benjamin Jallow, the Gambian ambassador to  France; Gibril Joof, the Gambian High Commissioner to  Senegal overseeing Burkina Faso and Mali; Jerreh Bojang, APRC chairperson-Dakar Senegal; Aji Fatou Sallah, APRC National Women Mobiliser; and the Association of the Gambia Undergraduate Students in Malaysia, UPM and UITM.

Below we reproduce the full text of the messages.
On this auspicious occasion of the 15th anniversary of the July 22nd revolution in The Gambia under Your Excellency's wise leadership since day one, I am heartily joined by my able staff in the embassy in Paris, our respective families, the Gambian Honorary consuls / Consul Generals and The Gambian communities in France and the other countries under my jurisdiction, to extend hearty congratulations to Your Excellency, the first family, the APRC party, the government and people of The Gambia.

This 15 anniversary indeed calls for celebrations and thanksgiving to our maker for all His invaluable considerations since the birth of the revolution which has brought enormous progress and development in all sectors under your able leadership. This has been exemplary and worthy of emulation. Now that you have set the pace and charted the way forward for all Gambians to follow, we continue to count on Your Excellency and wish to pledge our full support to you in the realisation of the objectives of the vision 2020 and the Millennium Development Goals and especially your drive towards transforming The Gambia into a silicon valley.

The Gambia under your wise leadership continues to serve as a safe haven/sanctuary to many nationals  from the African continent at large owing to her religions tolerance, peace, political and socio -economic stability.  You have brought a lot of awareness and opportunities to The Gambian people irrespective of colour, sex, tribe or religion and you continue to ensure that all your diplomatic and consular representatives abroad base The Gambia's foreign policy on its national interest.

The Gambia's visibility and participation in international world affairs has been heightened since the last fifteen years vis-a-vis the vigorous enforcement and implication at home of th new socio-economic development priority as elaborated in the vision 2020 amongst others. All these accomplishments are a credit to Your Excellency's wise leadership.

Together with all Gambians, friends of The Gambia and well wishers we pray that Almighty Allah the most magnificent and merciful continues to shower his richest blessing on Your Excellency and the first family and endows you with the strength and wisdom and will lead The Gambia for another fifteen years.

Please accept Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.
Moses Benjamin Jallow, Ambassador

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On the auspicious occasion of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the July 22nd Revolution, I wish to extend, on behalf of the staff of the High Commission and on my own behalf, best wishes and heartfelt congratulations to Your Excellency in the observance of this historic and memorable day.

May the Almighty Allah prolong your leadership, give you good health, long life and wisdom to continue the development projects that you are pursuing and lead the nation for the next decades.
In taking stock of the past events as well as creating hopes for the future, we pray God, the Almighty to continue the benefits of peace and progress in The Gambia.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.
Gibril Joof, High Commissioner

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On behalf of The Gambian Community in Dakar, Senegal and on my own behalf, I am writing to extend congratulations to Your Excellency, the government and the entire people of The Gambia on the historic occasion of the 15th anniversary of the July 22 revolution.

Fifteen years ago since you took over the helm of  affairs of this country, Gambians have witnessed a development unprecedented any where in the region.  As a result Gambians anywhere in the world are very proud of you and are opening their palms and praying to the Almighty Allah to grant you good health and long life so that you can continue to move the country to higher heights.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you and the entire people of The Gambia for the courage and encouragement the Under-17 team received from you which enabled them to come home with the African Cup for the second time.

The Gambian community wishes you many more anniversaries and would like to assure you that although we are physically many kilometres from you but spiritual we are all together as we celebrate this important epoch in the history of The Gambia.
Jerreh Bojang, APRC chairperson-Dakar Senegal

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While wishing you a befitting July 22 anniversary celebration, I take this opportunity to renew our unflinching support, dedication and loyalty to you, your government and the entire APRC party.

Your good care, love to The Gambian people and women in particular have been clearly demonstrated by your untiring efforts to ensure that we are self sufficient in our necessities. For instance, you have put in place structures to empower women, with the provision of free scholarship for the girls' across the country and abroad at your expense.

With regards to agriculture, you have been supporting both male and female farmers who have different initiatives, especially with your back-to-the-land call.  You provided tractors, seeds, fertilizers, animal husbandry, and poultry farming to farmers under various schemes to help boost productivity.  In the area of infrastructural  development, you have built highways and roads and are still ongoing ones.  You have put in place streetlights in the Banjul-Westfield highway and around the Greater Banjul Area. In the area of sports, you have boosted the morals of our dear children by providing adequate finances for them.

Your Excellency, Gambian women will and shall hail you and your excellent governance. The appointment of women into government positions (vice president, speaker of the National Assembly, secretaries of state and senior government officials etc) which has undoubtedly put Gambian women at the intentional limelight and boost their morals is certainly a worthy justification of the love, trust, confident and support that you have accord the female folk of The Gambia.  Gambian women are proud of you.

Long live the President
Long live July 22nd revolution
Long live the government and the Gambian populace
May Allah continue to give you good health, strength and the ability to realised your dreams for our dear motherland and the entire African continent.
Aji Fatou Sallah, APRC National Women mobiliser

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On the occasion of the 15th July 22nd Revolution, we the Association of the Gambia undergraduate students in Malaysia reflect our minds to the deluxe developments that our beloved Gambia is witnessing since the advent of your regime.

Your much treasured dynamic and visionary leadership has set Gambia on a track of unprecedented development and inject a new sense of ownership and love for ones homeland for every genuine Gambian.  Central in your drive, your Excellency, is to develop the vital human capital of The Gambia and equipe  them with the requisite skill and know-how to carry out the broad and dynamic development undertakings of your administration.  

This is surely a vision of the highest order and the result of which cannot be enumerated in ordinary literature. The world has realized your well-reckoned vision and critics are silent with your irrefutable successes.  Since the advent of the July 22nd revolution, The Gambia has seen a drastic augment in the number of schools, quality education, and university for the first time.  Unquestionably this is paying lucrative dividend in the angle that it propels a massive intellectual renaissance and kindles the hope of many that try go give up hope and renew our promise , "for The Gambia our homeland".

The assurance of our unflinching support is always renewed, for as a result of your able and exemplary leadership we are "drinking from the fountain of knowledge" in Malaysia.  This is the same to many other Gambian students who are enjoying from unlimited scholarships to study both home and abroad, a humanitarian gesture that changed people of poor background and less opportuned  to emblem of success and progress.

Once again we want to register our conscientiousness of the favour we are enjoying in the form of the timely tuition, stipend and other maintenance fee for our smooth study in Malaysia. We promise to commensurate the favour with excellent academic and moral credential. To conclude, Your Excellency, we pray to Allah the Almighty, the most merciful, and the most beneficent to abundantly enrich you and the first family with blessings, continuous leadership, and good health so that your ambitions to develop our nation can be actualized in the soonest scope of time.

The assurance of our continuous support and loyalty for your leadership is ever renewed.  We are proud of you! Long live and Happy July 22nd anniversary for all Gambians.
Gambian students of UPM & UITM