There was a great deal of media coverage last week of the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, and his claim that he can cure HIV and Aids.

Apparently he has invented a sort of herbal remedy, which when mixed with his mystical powers, will cure people within days.

Fortunately for us though, he has not let this power go to his head. In fact he is behaving much like any health professional you could visit in the UK, in that if you try and make an appointment you are told he only does Aids on Mondays and Thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays are reserved for curing Asthma. The rest of the week he focuses on running the country. I do not know if he has a day off.

I am however, appalled. The selfish fucker has completely ignored Man-flu. As someone who has recently suffered, I feel it is more than deserving of a cure from such a gifted individual. I personally would have paid over a tenner for a cure. He could make a fortune!

Unfortunately, I have my suspicions on whether he actually can cure Aids, or not. Which is is a shame, if you happen to have it and live in Gambia. When watching him on TV it is like looking at a child who has been caught in a lie. I would imagine his claims were not meant to leave the Gambia, and were mainly to solidify his position of popularity, but now the world has found out, and we want to know more.

There was a brief interview on Sky the other day where his paraphrased response to the the demand for evidence from around the world was, “I don’t need to provide evidence, you can see people cured all around you, you just need to believe it.”

That is like saying, “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction that could be launched at us within 30 minutes, we know they are there, you just need to believe us”.

No-one would fall for that, surely?

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