Wallace: I stay at home and look after the children valif jelly The statement from President Yahya Jammeh’s regime says that “Gambia will never be a member of any neo-colonial institution and will never be a party to any institution that represents an extension of colonialism”. But Mr Jammeh was happy to be a member of the Commonwealth for the first 19 years of his rule, before discovering its supposedly “neo-colonial” purpose. The truth may be that he is increasingly anti-Western and leaving the Commonwealth is the next obvious step along this path.