In remembrance of Gambia’s fallen men. Listen to What happened


By Bamba Mass UK (A Brother to the martyrs!)

In Uniform LATE Lt. BASIRU BARROW AND CO and Civilians Ousman Koro

Ceesay, Uncle Dayda Hydara etc. who were true brave sons of our Land. These

dynamic men were defenselessly executed by brutal savages, Sana Sabally and

co and Musa Jammeh, Tumbul Tamba and co. as they tried to save us all from

the yokes of forced labour and constant fears!



These are some chilling true accounts of the 11th November 1994 alleged coup

in the tiny State of the Gambia and Its aftermath that led to the death of 11

students, a former finance minister, great true journalist and many more. All died

because they love their country Gambia ! May their souls rest in peace Amen!

Compiled with some observations!







The military junta now turned civilians led by former Chairman now Sheikh professor/Doctor Yahya Jammeh have

indeed a case to answer to how these men died because revelations have surfaced that revealed” gruesome crimes

against Humanity that can never be swept under the carpet. If those criminals who have committed these crimes can

still walk our streets as if they have slaughtered a mere cattle for Tobaski, then they must have a strong backing

otherwise they would have been brought before a court of law by now.



To begin with, as were commemorate the unfaithful killings of our brothers in uniform doubts and uncertainty had

gripped the nation and bereaved families regarding what actually happened on the November 11 alleged coup and all

subsequent alleged coups where Men in Uniform were summarily executed. The government of Yahya Jammeh has

always been trying to bury the killings of those dedicated brave and gallant officers, whose only aim was to save us all

from their comrades’ betrayals of the reason they all united in overthrowing the Jawara regime. They had all agreed

to overthrow Jawara and lead the nation into a transition for two years and organise elections with no man

in uniform participating and handing to a civilian government just like Amadou T. Touray had done in the

Republic of Mali .



But the moment their trusted chosen leaders tested power, they started to divide and rule thus creating chaos within

the Army. Jammeh’s administration could have been champions in the world but greed and hunger for power had led

them to destroy themselves for ever. Thus when they butchered their fellow comrades with savage brutality,

the military turned civilian regime added insult to injury by trying to bury those gruesome and barbaric

killings under the carpet, giving little or no vital information provided to the bereaved families and the

Gambian public at large.


These are what we gathered on what happened that led to the 11th November alleged coup and all other subsequent

alledged coups since AFPRC came to power on July 22nd 1994.

On that faithful Friday morning, Satanic blood thirsty minded men led by Sana Biro Sabally, Edward Singhateh,

Sadibu Hydara Yankuba Touray Lamin Kaba Badjo and others while Baboucarr Jatta Looks on , they started

shedding Gambian Blood and as if that was not enough, started burying some alive and others in an old pit latrine at

various locations ranging from Yundum Barracks to Nyambai Forest. Sana Sabally was on air bragging himself as a

hero that saved the Nation as if he was already the Head of State openly lying to the Nation that there was an alledged

coup and three of the coupist had died in a shootout while they resisted arrest as they battled with loyal soldiers. Little

did we know he had his filthy hands soiled with defenceless Gambian blood, the worst crime against Humanity. It was

the same sentiment later shared by his boss then self promoted Captain Yahya Jammeh in that same evening though

he was not present at the execution grounds. He said they regretted their deaths but I wondered if so, then why he had

not investigated what really happened.



16 years today Gambians and other truth finders have been asking questions from eye witnesses and others who were

once or are still close to the corridors of power in an effort to compile evidence as to the real truth that led those

alleged arrests and summary executions in our dear Smiling Coast. “A Coast that smiles no more”. We have gathered

that the alleged coupist were arrested even before staging a coup and summarily executed in cold blood. Those most

feared to have been any threat to the junta were being arranged for execution the next day. Now the same Sana who

Jammeh accused of the same crime had him tried and sentenced accordingly. I learnt he is now calling for reconciliation

without putting the records straight so that families of the diceased would know what happened to their fathers,

husbands , uncles ,brothers, sons nephews.



Eye witnesses to the killings gave their accounts on what happened on that day.



According to some eye witnesses, almost all the council members with the exception of President Yahya Jammeh

witnessed the killings of Abdoulie Dot Faal, Basiru Barrow, LT.Saye, Lt. Buba Jammeh and others. Among the AFPRC

Council Members in attendance at the mass execution ground includes Sana B Sabally, former Vice Chairman, Edward

Singhatey, Former Defense Minister, Sadibou Hydara, former Interior Minister, Yankuba Touray, former Tourism

Minister and Lamin Kaba Badjo former Local Government Minister. At the time of the coup in 1994, Lamin Kaba Badjo

was a captain commanding the Presidential Guards of ex-President Jawara under former Major Turo Jawneh. It was

alledged that when Kaba Badjo heard about the advancing soldiers coming to overthrow the government, he

abandoned the unit and ran away to Dakar Senegal with President Jawara's family. He returned a week later to be

given a high position when he was not even part of the coup.



I would for now spare President Jammeh any blame for 11th November as he was at the time contemplating on what

step to take after the brutal murders!



But please read on!



These are times when hatred started building up that led to the massacre of men in uniform.



Sergeant major Alhagie Cham Joof told his side of the story as thus: After the coup according to Joof, he was promoted

by Vice Chairman Captain Sana Sabally to a Lieutenant , what they call in the army as field promotion. He said after

when Yahya Jammeh saw him at state House he told other members that he did not want to see him there. It was

agreed that Yankuba Touray who was sir Jackal’s batch mate in the army to talk to him for him Sir Jackal to be allowed

to move to Yundum Barracks to become Lt. Barrow’s adjunctant. But the move did not satisfy Head of State Jammeh. It

was alledged in Sir Jackal’s testimony that Chairman Jammeh afterwards rung Lt. Barrow ordering Barrow to strip Sir

Jackal and send him to mile 2 to join Samsudeen Sarr and Mamat Cham. It was said that Late Lt. Basiru Barrow refused

to do that as Sir Jackal had committed no crimes to be send to mile 2.



Little did Barrow know that action of his would one day cost him his dear life? But according to Sir Jackal , Barrow did

obeyed Yahya Jammeh’s second order that was to demote Sir Jackal to Sergeant. But Barrow only removed Sir Jackal

as Sergeant major and put him as acting Sergeant major under late Lt. Gibriel Saye .That was not what Jammeh

wanted. He wanted Alhagie Cham Joof (alias Sir Jackal) to be demoted to sergeant so that he Cham Joof can return to

his company thus reaping him off any powers capable of posing any threat to him Jammeh as alledged by Joof.



Maybe that move kept Basiru for a while at the army. According to Sir Jackal both civilians and soldiers alike felt

betrayed by the new regime with their constant arrests of innocent people with tortures and disappearances and

according to him, as patriotic soldiers they felt obliged to rescue what little democratic tradition Gambia knew pre-July

1994. He said that led to the 11th November 1994 and July 1995 counter coup plans. He went on to say both

Lieutenants Barrow Faal and Saye amongst others felt the need to act to end the terror. So they decided to openly

discuss the situations and state their grievances openly.



The military’s first step to strengthen their grip on to power was to stage a strategy by betraying each other. Most of the

soldiers who took part in the coup were said to have felt being treated as mere tools after the coup was successful.

Many became angry which led to disagreements between them and the High Command council members. There was

hatred created by the junta’s favouritisms of close friends and relatives. For Example Yahya Jammeh had Susan Wafa

Ogu selected as minister while Fatoumata Tambajang who was said to be an aunt to then vice chairman Sana B.

Sabally was too selected as a minister. And most of what the soldiers agreed when they decided to take over from

Jawara forcefully was to act just like the Malian military by running the country through a transition and then hand over

to civilian government after an election.



But after few weeks, that mood changed within the military hierarchy as they tested leadership “Mansaya” “Burr” or

“Lamuu”. Things went heated and a lot of arguments took place within the senior ranking officers with Battalion

Commanders and their assistances refusing to accept what their own chosen colleagues choose to do. On the 10th of

November, the Military High Command headed by Captain sabally went to the Yundum Barracks and commenced a

meeting with those who voiced their total opposition for the army to stay in power indefinitely.



There at the Yundum Barracks Lt. Barrow and co were warned not to disobey orders and Edward Singhateh even was

said to fire a pistol threatening to kill anyone who dared challenge them. The meeting did not go well and fearing that

the angry camp commanders and other senior officers were still not satisfied with the outcome of the meeting. Many of

senior officers were determined that Lt. Basiru Barrow should lead them at 2:00 am 11th November to flush Jammeh out

of State House. But some other Soldiers sneaked to inform members of the council for their own selfish ends so that

when those their colleagues get arrested and sent to mile two they the loyal ones would be replaced with promotions. At

11:30 Sana Sabally and Co. came back to the Yundum Barracks and started arresting soldiers.



The AFPRC Government on those early hours of Friday morning rounded up many of those framed and accused of

staging a putsch against the fourteen weeks old AFPRC government of Lt. Yahya Jammeh. Cpl. Fafa Nyang was the

first arrested but escaped that first arrest with Sir Jackal while the Junta was busy rounding up others. Joof , Kairaba

Camara and Nyang later returned to the Barracks. Cpl Lamin Bojang disappeared, Nyang and Camara were arrested

but Cham Joof escaped a second time. Prior to the murdering of these coup suspects, they were briefly detained at the

Mile Two Central prisons, where they were exposed to severely tortured by their captives. Both Dot Faal and Basiru

Barrow sustained serious degrees of injuries at that material time. The report went on to state house that Sana Sabally

who was wild and dangerous resorted to slapping one prison warden SGT.Manneh who was frightened because of what

he saw. It was said the poor prison Warden could do nothing but just accept his fate.



Sana Sabally tired of torturing the captured men, ordered for them to be escorted to Fajara Barracks for

execution that early morning.But one Gambian army officer named to have been present at the execution ground,

Colonel Lawrence Jarra, could not stand it any longer. He called his boss Baboucarr Jatta, the former army

commander. Jarra informed Jatta about moves taken by Sabally and co to execute the soldiers. Jatta’s reaction was

kind of a shock and disbelief. He was opposed to extra-judicial killings. It was said Baboucarr Jatta immediately arrived

at the scene of the execution grounds and warned Sana Sabally and co not to go ahead with the planned execution,

while citing the inhumane nature of such a move. Jatta wants the accused lives be preserved since according to the

report they were yet to be convicted by a competent court of law. As usual, sabally known to be aggressive and

arrogant insisted to go ahead with the planned execution. He went on telling Jatta that the coupist even named him

Jatta on their lists of those to be killed if they had succeeded. Eye witnesses said Sana even produced a list and

showed to Baboucarr Jatta said to be the list drafted by the alledge coupist. But Jatta’s name was said to have been

written with a pencil while the rest were in ink and he Jatta’s name was on top.



Upon Jatta’s enquires as to why Lt. Basiru Barrow and co wanted to kill him and others? Late Lt. Basiru Barrow tried to

explain to Baboucarr Jatta that they never staged any coup and in fact they only expressed their grievances and were

still not satisfied but before they acted they were all arrested and accused of staging a coup. Barrow went on explaining

to Baboucarr Jatta that there was no planned killing of anybody. Sana thereupon began shouting and went on the

rampage with madness hitting Basiru Barrow with the head of an AK 47 riffle on his mouth throwing all his teeth out of

his mouth flying. He was then so severely tortured that he was better dead than alive. As if that was not enough and

with blood every where, Edward Singhatey took Sadibu’s gun and shot Lt. Basiru three times. Lieutenant

Buba Jammeh was said to have even bravely handed his watch to one of the soldiers to give to his wife when he

realised the inevitable that the butchers would definitely kill them. Late LT.Jammeh wife is the sister of Alagi

Martin, “alias Lagos ” one of Yahya Jammeh’s favorite hit men today. Lt. Abdoulie Faal (DOT) had his back

bone broken by bending him backwards until the bone snap at his waist before he was shot and killed with

a 9mm pistol.



It was only after the blood thirsty men were tired due to flow of too much blood; they announced that the rest could run

while they are being shot at. If any one escaped, then that one is lucky. That announcement led many to run for their

lives by taking their chances which saved many to be alive today. Some ran away to Casamance region while others

fled to the other side of Senegal . That was how the likes of Lt. Alieu Bah, Lt. Lamin Jarju, Lt. Lf Jammeh, and

others escaped to Casamance only to meet former sergeant Alhagie Cham Joof (Sir Jackal). Others the

likes of Lt. Bineh Minteh and others, escaped to the other side of Senegal .



Lt Gibril Saye and others were brutally assassinated another day after Basiru and co’s brutal six feet deep sentences.

Some of the soldiers who could not die from their gun shot wounds. But instead of taking them to hospital, no they were

all dumped into a mass grave and buried alive with other dead bodies at Yundum Barracks near the present sentry

post with an army flag on top of their grave. That evening cries could be heard at the Barrack from soldiers who

witness those gruesome acts by men who just few months ago pre-July 22nd, were so friendly and jovial

human beings.



Power had blinded the Junta and they believed they can get away always with anything. But as they succeeded in

people accepting their version at the time for peace to prevail, they failed to remember nothing can be hidden for ever

as it was later proven that Fafa Nyang who together with Dot Faal were both natives of Ballanghar village two hundred

kilometres from Banjul and Lieutenant Buba Jammeh were also killed on the same day not the only three they

announced over Radio Gambia.



There were different execution grounds, namely Nymbai Forest , Yundum and Fajara Barracks, Sana

Sabally was said to have been in constant touch with President Jammeh during that entire episode.



I then ask my self why didn’t Chairman and Head of State Jammeh never stopped the senseless killings of

fellow compatriots who all contributed helping him to come to power?



One eye witness, a certain Captain Marong was at the killing field and he was amongst those pleading for the lives of

those allege coupist to be spared. He was said to have told Sabally and co to allow the rule of law to take its cause

rather killing those enemy combatants. But he did not know those he was dealing with for his opposition to the killing of

these officers never went down well with Sana Sabally and other Council Members, who resorted to terminate his

service a month later and jailed without any charges proffered against him. His only crime was speaking out against the

planned killings of Barrow, Faal and others little did he knew that Sabally who completely turned mad viewed any

opposition to his views then to be against God as he was god he thought. There was no evidence to link him with the

coupists, but the state was figuring out ways and means to eliminating all opposition so as to silence those they don’t

trust within the army. His arrest and subsequent detention was triggered by Sabally and co. Jammeh swiftly acted when

told by Sabally about Marong’s call to spare the lives of these soldiers by framing Marong and incacerating him at mile

2.



Sabally and his boys tortures never stopped. They continued their torture and harassment of Gambian soldiers and

civilians alike. Even former state ministers under the first republic including politician Omar Amadou Jallow, Yaya

Ceesay ect were never spared by the brute Sana .



The Butcher Sadibu Hydara’s message to the media and Gambians:



When people started talking in whispers (radio Kan kang) that the soldiers were actually killing more captured soldiers

and as Speculations and rumours were rife the then Minister of the interior; Lt. Sadibou Hydara was dispatched quickly

to strongly deny any summary executions of opponents of AFPRC having taken place following the quelling of the

November 11 attempted coup. He went on to say that he could not, for some reason, at this stage be precise on how

many people are dead as a result of the event, contrary to what his Bosses said just few days ago. Lt. Hydara had an

exclusive interview with the Point after the alledge coup, when as he said he was throwing some light on the genesis of

the abortive coup and all that followed. He said that Lt. Abdoulie Dot Faal, was killed in the Fajara shoot-out, was one of

the architects of the attempted coup. He accused the late Lt of malicious propaganda against the AFPRC. The

propaganda which, he said spread false stories that the presidential guard at State House earned D10, 000 monthly.

He said these rumours did so much disenchantment among the troops at Yundum barracks to the extent that a putsch

was plotted which led to the allege coup.



The coup plan had leaked, according to Hydara, and "We were alert and ready for them. One of the plotters, Lt. Saye,

was killed on the spot at Yundum where the fight was brief", he said. Things soon moved to Fajara where the coup

drama itself was played out inside the Fajara Barracks when Lt. Basiru and his men attacked around 3am Friday

morning and went on till 6.30am. Infact Sadibu is Gambia ’s greatest liar ever in recorded memory.



Even if that was so, who did Barrow and his men wounded or even killed between three and a half hours of fighting?

Even if they were mere rebels from Kukoi’s NRC of 1981 most of whom were mere taxi drivers, at least they would have

either wounded or killed one of those alleged mysterious loyal soldiers to the government. Much more knowing the fact

that most of those alleged killed coupist were commissioned trained soldiers some even graduating from sanhurst in

England. None one was reported to have been even scratched by the alledge coupist even to this day.



My private investigations led me to the fact that these men were captured and butchered in cold blood. When Lt Basiru

was coming to the military Barracks, most of his colleagues were captured and tied like fire wood and Basiru received a

call from a close friend within the Jammeh inner circles then (Name withheld) who called Lt Barrow and asked him to flee

the country and never come to the camp as most of the soldiers who attended meetings with the junta were being

rounded up. Barrow was said to have said to those he was with (names withheld) that he Barrow would never run that

he would go and free or die with them because a leader does not desert his group. This was how Barrow came to

the camp and then Sana was waiting for him with armed men.



AFPRC lying machine however admitted that a number of soldiers had been wounded, but ran away instead of going

for hospital treatment. "A number of these eventually died, and I have heard of corpses being picked up in places; but I

cannot tell you how many."



What a fallacy compared to what he said earlier?



Lt. Hydara said the AFPRC was still trying to find out how many soldiers were involved in the coup attempt, He said two

officers known to him have escaped or still at large were; Lt.B. Minteh and Lt. LT.Jammeh.



Hydara told the Point that it was a mistake they had made in promoting so many young officers so soon after the

military takeover. Seeing that as having contributed to the problem in the army, he said he was confident of the senior

officers being solidly behind the AFPRC.



But I kept wondering which of the soldiers did the AFPRC Junta promoted apart from themselves? All those they said

were killed were Lieutenants before the coup and so died Lieutenants. So who did they promote? Some so called

loyalists who went on to inform them of the planned coup? Or was he referring to then Acting Sergeant Major Alhagie

Cham Joof (Alias Sir Jackal) who they asked to be demoted?



Also the coup plotters, according to late Hydara, had intended, if they succeeded, to slaughter all members of the

AFPRC, cabinet ministers and some top government officials. He said the authorities got this information from certain

loyalists who had deserted the ranks of the plotters.



The AFPRC spokesman gave the dead coupist names as Lt. Basiru Barrow, commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion in

Bakau, Lt. Saye and Lt. Fall. He revealed that those rebels captured would soon be charged and brought before court.



What a lie . Bakau was never the 1st infantry Battalion Camp. I am no soldier but am sure soldiers would correct me if I

am wrong much Late Lt. Basiru Barrow was not at the time of the alleged coup commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion.

He was moved to the Army Head Quarters. I met him there.



Though some Gambians today doubted Former Lt. Bineh S. Minteh who said that he vehemently denied claims by the

Military Junta that November 11th was an attempted coup. He said that there is no truth in the claims of the Military

junta that it was an attempted coup. As far as he Minteh was concerned there actions only stemmed from paranoia, and

efforts in consolidating their positions. He clarified however that there was discontentment and dissatisfactions within

the ranks of the army, that may have poised the Junta to act inhumanely and took innocent lives. He went on to say that

his barracks was attacked shortly before 2.30am whilst they were on their normal standby routine after the Junta had

carried out massive arrests, torture and some executions. He alledged that Lt Abdoulie Dot Faal was arrested whilst on

a patrol duty to Yundum Barracks and Lieutenant Gibril Saye was arrested whilst off duty at his residence which was of

cause substantiated by other eye witnesses to be true. The rest of the officers were arrested whilst returning to

Yundum Barracks for their normal standby duties.



Now even if his statements were exaggerated, much of it turns out to be true. Maybe he did not know everything that

had happened just like the rest of us.



But the fact is regardless of Former Lt. Minteh’s statements, we Gambians should remember that prior to Sadibu’s

statements the exact words of his Bosses, Yahya Jammeh and Sana B Sabally were thus “Chairman of the AFPRC and

Head of State Lt. Yahya Jammeh in a statement over Radio Gambia disclosed that the failed coup led by Lt. Basiru

Barrow who was among the three known to have perished in the early morning exchange of gun-fire with the forces

loyal to his government clearly stated only three soldiers died in the shoot out.” He Chairman Jammeh went on to state

that they the council regret their deaths and urged the general public that the situation had returned to normal.



Sadibu went on to tell Gambians that the plotters had planned to takeover the Fajara Military Barracks in Bakau and

the State House in Banjul and install an all military government”



This sounds to be to be a lie because the Junta them selves are another military government hell bent on killing to

retain power for good.



Cont…….. . They appealed for calm and reassured the public of the AFPRC government’s commitment to offer security

guarantee to life and property.



But today what are we witnessing? Have the slain soldiers and eye witnesses not been proven right?



Has the Junta turned civilian government not catapulted itself to lucking up anyone in an open state prison with anyone

who dares speak your mind to face electric cables under their pants in a form of brutal torture!



Also Bakary Dabo, the Minister of Finance in the both the PPP government and the AFPRC was framed in the alledge

coup and said to have fled the country on Sunday 13 November at 18.30 on board his personal car with members of

his family. He was said to have been lodged at Hobe Hotel in Kolda.



But all the same, we have not forgotten when in 1994 the military junta barely two weeks after taken power from

democratically regime of Sir Dawda Jawara, proposed a four year time table to return the nation to civilian rule. A

programme that sent a chill through most Gambians as four years was too long to be under a military government as

we in the Gambia took stock from other African countries where military coups have taken place. Later it became clear

that was just a pretext to buy time and see ways to strengthen their grip on power even if that means shedding as many

blood as possible thus putting us all to more years of misery and bondage.



Following an appeal from Lt. Sana Sabally for public understanding, life returned to normal with people going about

their normal business as if sons of the soil were not brutally executed in cold blood when they could have been taken to

court and tried. Some greedy civilian public wanting to have their share of the national cake (as we see some commonly

call corruption in most African countries) with the military regime even blaming the dead soldiers as to why they wanted

to remove Jammeh’s regime? But that action of brothers and sisters thus gave the military High Command more

licensed to kill and lie about it as they know they would be believed anytime.

On midday, apart from the spate of rumours, speculation and apprehension of a public desirous of living in peace,

there was nothing to show that the attempted coup had taken place and so it had become a thing of the past.



Something typical of Gambians with loads of people spreading their own radio kang kangs.



Some even alleged that Basiru disappeared and fled to Casamance with a red pajero putting his family and

loved ones with glimmers of hope to find him alive. Some family members kept travelling to and from

Casamance to no avail with little knowledge that mad Sana had cowardly sent a man who loves his country

so dearly, a man whose heart is made of gold, a man full of peace, love, care with jokes and smiles to his

unexpected early grave.



I grew up under Basiru in the same compound and have known him so much that I still believe he would have died ten

times to save his beloved Country as I knew how he loved the Gambia and never believes in tribalism. He calls himself a

Fula. A tribe he truly is though he speaks little or no Fula but married a Fula lady.



We shall read below how Saye and others met their fate as narrated by another eye witness.



Also another former military police Lieutenant Kejaw Touray was one of the officers in attendance at the execution

sites. Kejaw was indeed a living witness to the incident, which shocked some GNA officers. He now resides in the UK



These were the words of former Lt. Kejaw Touray and as I quoted an online narration of his side of the story, some

words I omitted.



THE GNA SOLDIERS NOT THE POWER BASE FOR YAYA JAMMEH



………….”I would first like to extend my sincere appreciation to all those wonderful comments sent by

various…………………….. Your encouraging words were certainly morale boosters and have reinforced my

determination and spirit to be more sharing with a candid approach. I cannot however ignore the few questions

forwarded doubting the credibility of my information, because I sincerely believe that every sceptic deserve a

satisfactory explanation of everything said about the Jammeh regime. Saying that I was a true serving member of the

Gambia National Army (GNA) from its early inception in 1985 to its most recent past may not be sufficient consolidate

the credibility I hope to project. If I also stopped at merely explaining my broad knowledge of military operations-orders

ranging from the section, platoon, company or even battalion battle drills the highest operational capability of the

present GNA my points may still not sink in well into the minds of those without proper military education.



However before elaborating on some more tangible lines, I would like to

inform everybody that I am a well-trained infantry soldier with advanced skills of a combatant in field craft, the special

ability of a sharp shooter but above all the discipline of a true soldier. A true soldier precisely means a good

fighter for the right course without being unnecessarily bloodthirsty. It also

means being professional and having less or nothing to do with politics.

Soldiers with political aspirations are nothing but rebels or bandits in uniform.



However let me now give a broader or additional proof of my assertion that

Jammeh's government always comes up with false coup plots merely to eliminate innocent Gambians. Take the case of

Captain Yankuba Dramme the current Commanding Officer (CO) of the largest fighting battalion in the GNA, 1 Infantry

battalion. His office and cellular phone numbers are 4722121 and 990178 respectively. He is now said to have been

sent abroad as a diplomat



And if he is honest with you, he should be able to tell you the harrowing experience he suffered at Mile Two Central

prisons accused by Jammeh of a dubious coup plot against his government. Or you try Captain Cherno Jallow the

present CO of the second largest battalion on his office number-497100-and he could also tell you the terrible days he

was incarcerated at death row by Yaya for planning a coup he could not justify. Captain Alpha Kinteh at the Army

Headquarters Banjul on 225772or225771 also suffered in the hands of Yaya on a coup conspiracy charge no one

could enlighten for him. I could go on and on, but that would simply tie me down on this subject that I think I have now

been adequately treated, at least for this forum. So I will move to my next subject deserving equal importance.



“As a former member of the GNA I am now trying to find the right voice to speak for mainly those honest and good

soldiers of the GNA who had nothing to do with Yaya's coup and am ashamed of being associated with him or his

government. Nevertheless the general civilian public often categorize all the soldiers in uniform as other Yaya

Jammehs, Edward Singhatehs, Lamin Kaba Bajos, Yankuba Tourays or the few stupid ones blindly following

them…………



…………….Take for instance the so-called counter coup of 11th November 1994 when Yaya Jammeh falsely accused

some GNA officers and other ranks and then summarily executed them in the most gruesome manner. The majority

were executed on the 13th of November, two days after the AFPRC government stated that all of them were killed in a

shoot out on the 11th of November. The entire Gambian public was aware of the lies of the government in that serious

crime. But how did they react to that unlawful butchery of those innocent Gambian soldiers?



They simply gossiped their regret over the terrible act without a single voice of protest raised or any form of pressure

exerted on Jammeh and his killers to satisfy their doubts. The soldiers at Yundum Barracks that evening wept like

children as their colleagues were driven away in a Land Rover pick-up vehicle to the out skirts of Nyambai Forest where

they were cowardly killed one after another. The bulk of the soldiers stood by numb in their legs with fear and shock

when the dead limp bodies were later brought back and handed over to the moronic Chief-Of-Staff Baboucarr Jatta

who supervised the final terrible act of burying the men naked behind the toilets. The last shots that killed Sergeants E.

M.Ceesay and Basiru Camara were ordered by Edward Singhateh around 6.00p.m. His former driver Batch Jallow used

a Chinese-made A.K 47, folding butt, to shoot and killed the two Sergeants at point range…………... Anyhow the

Gambian public seemed to care less about that crime.



At least the Gambian public could have asked for the bodies with proper post-mortem performed on everyone and of

course have they handed over to their families for proper burial. There was no war or social disturbance in the nation at

that moment to necessitate those killings and hasty terrible burial. The only reason they were to hide the evidence of

what they did. Up to this present time no one shows a glimmer of interest in that case. It is not proper for those soldiers

to remain there forever as if they do not deserve to be buried in any cemeteries in the country. Why should Yaya

Jammeh condition the minds of all the Gambians into remaining this silent about something that he has no iota of justice

or human decency? Why? Why? Why? These men had wives and children who still don't know where their fathers have

disappeared to since that day they left for work in 1994. By comparison however, the public sympathy and out cry made

when a civilian died was though welcomed but the same should have been for other innocent Gambian soldiers lying at

Yundum. ….



Did we know that Lt.Gibril Saye was arrested while on an off duty nursing his new baby at his home and

brutally tortured with a bayonet all over his body including pulling both his eyes out before he was finally

shot by Staff Sergeant Kanyi? It was alleged he was even cut to pieces in order for him to fit into the land

rover after he was killed by Monster Alagi Kanyi from Jarra Sankuya commonly known as “Killer” a name he

was said to later brag about.



I personally knew Gibriel Saye to be a very tall smiling gentle man called in the Army as the right Marker!



What about Bakary Manneh “Nyancho” and Lt. Momodou Lamin Darboe? Darboe was said to have been posted at

Basse where he was summoned to the Army Head quarter and arrested and tortured before being killed.



All the above mentioned names, I knew personally. Dot Fall, B. Manneh “Nyancho” and M L. Darboe “Susso” are my

former school mates at Armitage. M.L. Darboe and I were childhood friends.



“All these stories were more or less known to the Gambian public, but because they were soldiers, the crimes were

perfectly normal. When Jammeh hits a civilian regardless of how friendly or close that person was to the tyrant, the

action is condemned with the whole GNA sometimes blamed for it. Yet when a soldier attempts to even question the

legitimacy of the regime and as a result when he is maimed or killed the public says little or nothing about it.”



Jammeh's government since the coup in 1994, it has always been the civilians who supplied him with the

right administrative ingredients that has sustained his government for so long. The soldiers could not and

in reality would not if they could. Apparently even the most educated and best trained soldiers of the GNA

had no clue of how to run a government much more Yaya one of the most under-educated and less-trained

in the army.



With his grade 11 high school education, He was not even a member of the GNA. He was gendarmerie

personnel with then worst record of professional or academic attainment. If the civilians worshipping him

were aware of how mentally backward he was, and they decide to stop helping him and within few hours

his government would collapse altogether. But perhaps the civilians very well know the low mental level of

the fool and enjoy exploiting it for their selfish interests."



I must add of cause that Jammeh had proven Kejaw wrong as he turned out to be even smarter than those very so

called intellectuals who he used and dumped at will to this day.



But all the same Kejaw was right; we civilians are still to blame because greed, greed, and greed or is it maybe I serve

Jammeh and when I get fired, have a good CV? But hey wait a minute, what can some do? Families need to survive

and if they don’t work they might starve. That is my opinion though I am sure I shall never serve under any dictator

unless if he/she changes not only Jammeh even if my party leaders wins today and changes, I shall turn against him

tomorrow! That is my philosophy period!



Kejaw continued……………..What is only sad about it is the continuous denunciation of the ordinary common

soldiers for keeping the regime in power.” Remember Fafa Mbye who selfishly armed the Jammeh regime at the

beginning with all those decrees and legal arsenals used to destroy several selected Gambian families? Can you also

remember those so-called great civilian intellectuals of the Jawara era who have totally shifted their loyalty

to Jammeh with fanatical zeal? On the active front, there were Bolong Sonko, Blaise Jagne, Omar Njie,

Famara Jatta, Isatou Njie Saidy, Balla Jahumpa, Mustapha Marong, Ann Teresse Ndong, Susan Wafa Ogu,

and the most prominent being Momodou Lamin Sidat Jobe ect ect.



Now would we blame Jammeh and the military alone and allow his contemporaries within the civilian field blameless for

their role in helping build the concrete stone foundation that now made it possible for the whole Gambia being held

hostage.



It is true that, an ordinary civil disobedience establishment would have been the easiest way to expel of the Jammeh

government from power. But has Kejaw forgotten the type of Gambian we live in? No body wants to die and anyone

killed in any Civil disobedience would be blamed much more we cannot be compared to any neighbouring Nation. The

truth is we are all scared and I personally think the very soldiers who put us in this mess in the first place should have

corrected it. But now every thing changed Jammeh is now a civilian president mandated by the Gambian people and

has every right to rule but it should be under the banner of our constitution and not with dictatorship.



Kejaw said “real soldiers would prefer it that way. A genuine mass movement would attract a lot of soldiers to move

along with it rather than against.” He went on to suggest that “instead even the career politicians remain silent in their

houses or offices.” He asked for the where about of the Sheriff Dibbas, Andrew Camaras, Gibou Jagnes etc. etc.?



He went on to say that: “it hurts all serving soldiers dearly to associate Yaya Jammeh with true military characters or

values since the man he said is nothing but a pathological liar, a "corrupt maniac" and a mass murderer

under the guise of the noble army uniform. He lies about every thing under the sun, he even decorated him self

with the ECOMOG medal and would often lie shamelessly about the peacekeeping role he played in Liberia when he

had never step his foot there. He lies about how Sana Sabally and the late Sadibou Haidara aimed their weapons at

him on the 27th of January 1995 and attempted to shoot him without success because his "jujus" caused the guns to

malfunction. The soldiers who apprehended Sana and Sadibou would tell you how Yaya out of fear……. hiding away

from the actual encounter” Kejaw claimed.



Take for instance the insult to all military ethics by Jammeh giving the official residence of the CO at Fajara

Barracks to his mother. The house was once occupied by Major Ebrima Chongan and should have now

been occupied by the current Commander…………. But believe in me, looking at the danger Yaya has

entangled himself with as the pitiful President of The Gambia condemned on a clear path of ultimate doom,

few or no soldiers would even contemplate eliminating him for fear of being stock with the possibility of

becoming another suicidal leader.



Just like other former rulers who ruled brutally and perished in a pathetic way. The likes of Former great Mabutu of

Zaire(DRC), Samuel Doe of Liberia, Nino Vierra of Guinea Bissau who once got the message and chance to leave the

political scene when they could but played the fool until they were captured and butchered.

But I would still insist that the civilians and not the soldiers for once should take the bull by the horns and organise civil

disobediences. Or would they continue to find their personal opportunities of big positions in the

government while still blaming the soldiers for keeping Jammeh in power? Was it not a shocking shame

that Abdoulie Sallah after retiring with absolute disgrace as ambassador has accepted another ministerial

position from Yaya? Kejaw asked.



The soldiers should continue to pray hoping that time would show the clear truth. But I am still looking

forward to that special day when the remains of our colleagues are removed from the back of the toilets of

Yundum and paraded with honour before given the peaceful burial they honestly deserve” Kejaw went on.



“The Gambian constitution will be rectified to cover all of the soldiers dead or alive and will ensure that such things

would never be entertained in our midst again. If soldiers are killed again under any circumstances, our families must

get the bodies and we would lay our lives to stop any man trying to bury us behind toilets of our own barracks. Sorry to

say, but for the moment any of you out there could end up in those shallow graves at Yundum Barracks. “ he

concluded!



To sum it up, in a show of force and tyranny, Sana . Sabally and accomplices carried out the extrajudicial

execution of Lieutenant Basiru Barrow, Lieutenant Abdoulie Faal (Dot), Lieutenant Gibril Saye, Lieutenant

Buba Jammeh, Lieutenant Momodou Lamin Darboe, Second Lieutenant Bakary Manneh (Nyancho), Officer-

Cadet Sillah, Warrant Officer Fafa Nyang, Kairaba Camara and Sergeants E.M.Ceesay in cold blood while

they went telling the Nation that only three soldiers died in a shoot out with loyal forces.



Fellow Gambians, as we take stock of what happened, let us reflect on the fact that after the November incident, more

citizens both soldiers and civilians perished under bullets and Barton by our own brothers in Uniform who told us they

are soldiers with a difference.



Next issue, we shall come up with what happened that led to tragic killing of our dear talented Brother Late Ousman

Koro Ceesay six months later. He was mercilessly butchered for only accepting to serve his Country under the Junta

and other events leading to the death of the10 innocent students, deaths of Almamo Manneh and Sergeant Dumbuya

and the case of Daba Marenah and co leading to the death sentence on former Army chief of staff Lt. Col. Lang

Tombong Tamba and co.



Stay tuned!



With God’s guidance and will, I shall be back soon with more startling revelations!



God bless the Gambia !



By Brother Bamba Mass

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WHY GAMBIANS SHOULD PUT ALL THEIR DIFFERENCES ASIDE AND VOTE YAHYA JAMMEH OUT OF OFFICE NOW

By Bamba Mass Human Rights Activist (UK)
It is common knowledge that President Yahya Jammeh and his administration have no respect for our constitution neither do they consider it the supreme law of our sovereign nation. Since using force to ascend the high office of head of state, president Jammeh had been taking all Gambians for fools only he is the patriotic son of our motherland.

The reason why Gambians should show him and his administration the exit door are many but just to remind my fellow citizens few of them are:

Since Lieutenant Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh and his military collaborators toppled the Jawara administration on July 22, 1994 and after suspending the 1970 republican constitution and all political activities banned and the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) brought in the notorious decree 89.A Degree that banned many politicians of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), headed by the ousted ex-president, Sir Dawda Jawara, as well as the opposition parties, the National Convention Party (NCP) and Gambia People’s Party (GPP). Although the decree was later repealed, which many welcomed but the initial euphoria quickly died down as it became clear that other constitutional clauses would continue to restrict opposition activities. Former members of Sir Dawda’s government are still banned from standing for public office if they have been judged guilty of misconduct, negligence or corruption by commissions of enquiry.

All that was designed so that our young men could buy time getting ready while they use the electric broom against any big political opponent in case they forced to hold elections. Yet openly they were pretending to Gambians that they are soldiers with a difference, that they are not power hungry, that they have come to safe us all. Waau!

Because the country under Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara had been one of the most stable and democratic in the sub-region, the coup was unpopular internationally but locally inside the Gambia, many people welcomed the coup and were willing to give the young soldiers a chance to bring back sanity into Gambian politic. Even when economic aid was suspended which led to severe hardships across the entire country, people still braced the hardship hoping for a better future promised by our young men in uniform. Aid suspension greatly influenced the subsequent foreign policy of the regime established by the coup leaders, the traditional EU and USA friendships were kept cold for some time, with the regime often branding them as imperialists, while they courted and made friendships with rouge regimes such as that of Muamar Qadafi of Libya, Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Chavez of Venezuela, Charles Tailor of Liberia, Late Mobutu of DRC, Late Sani Abacha of Nigeria Ben Ali of Tunisia, Mubarak of Egypt and Ahmadinejad of Iran.

The revolution (as it was called)—saw what some supporters and those disaffected with the Jawara administration called what the country had been waiting for. Soon after the coup, the Arm Forces provisional ruling council (that is the name they called themselves).Said they would only guide power back to civilians after a two year transition program.

Other citizens and even the West never trusted these men thus the West’s suspension of Aid leading to economic hardship with prices of basic commodities skyrocketed. The once-popular coup started becoming unpopular when arbitrary arrests, press censorship, seizure of private properties without requisite court orders, and so-called commissions of enquiry to investigate former administration officials fuelled people’s anger against the military dictatorship.



Because they so intend to fool Gambians into believing they have come to safe us rather than enriching themselves(those at the top) while their colleagues stayed neglected, This betrayal led to division in the army. Senior members at the top wanted to stay put, while other branch battalion heads want to stick to the time table of transition and hand over to a civilian government then return to barracks. These differences led in November 1994 to an abortive coup in which 14 soldiers were summarily executed including the coup leader late Lieutenant Basiru Barrow then head of 1st Infantry Battalion and the following: Lieut. Abdoulie Dot Faal, Lieut. Bakary Manneh, Lieut. Buba Jammeh, Lieut. Momodou Lamin Darboe, Cadet Officer Sillah

Lieut. Jawara, and Staff sergeant Basiru Camara, with Corpl. Mendy, as well as Lieut. Gibril Saye, and others.

Gambians must remember Yahya Jammeh and his then deputy Captain Sana Sabally told Gambians on national media that ONLY THREE SOLDIERS DIED. Later turned out that was THE JANFA OF THE CENTURY OF FELLOW COMRADES!

Some of these fellow citizens and brothers were buried in old pit latrines while others were buried while they speak alive.

Don’t we have consciences? Gambians seem to forget so easily I belief. These men tried to save us all so that we could be masters of our own destinies. But yet we tend to completely forget them while we move on as some call it.



We must remember that they were the first victims of the fight for freedom as more heads were to roll: Please read on!

Sana Sabally himself and another junta member late Sadibu Hydara on a Friday 27th January 1995, were also arrested and accused of trying to overthrow the government they created. They were captured and goaled in MILE 2 where Sadibu was said to have died as a result of torture which the administration denied saying he died of high blood pressure. We now belief he too had become a victim. Had my former friend and class mate Sana Listen to the cries of those dying colleagues of his in uniform when he had the power to spare their lives by taking them to court marshal. But he like many later on was blinded by new found power which he thought he had forgetting that POWER was God’s only and humans are only tested with atoms of it.

On 23 of June 1995, on top of fears and rumours of kidnapping during the period, Ousman Koro Ceesay, a civilian minister of finance in the AFPRC Military cabinet, was allegedly murdered. His death was treated with mixed information with radio kankang spreading all sorts of lies across. Some saying Jawara was preparing to attack the Gambia for a comeback. Fear gripped many but thanks to Foroyaa news paper, a lot came to light. Minister Ceesay’s vehicle and his charred body were found at a culvert between Jambur and Jambanjelly in the Kombo South District. Still no one has been charged with that young promising man’s death. Though it was alleged that Edward Singhateh former vice chairman and Minister together with Yankuba Touray another member of the Junta and former minister and staff Sergeant Alagie Kanyi known as simply the killer by his fellow soldiers were responsible for Koro’s death, they were never questioned at all and to this day, no one has ever been brought to pay for that crime.

Transition period!

A National Consultative Committee constituted of the military council recommended that power be handed over to a democratically elected government in two years.

In 1996 saw the drafting of a proposed constitution and referendum in August which includes amongst others the MUCH PUBLIC ANTICIPATED PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMIT. Which many felt would put a cap on corrupt governments knowing fully well they can’t serve beyond 10 years which larked in the first republic. (Two five year term)

That clause was removed by the power hungry wolves in sheep clothing with their legal collaborators who then were blinded by their hate of the previous regime, forgetting what they were subjecting us all into. We can now forgive them but they must correct that by voting against what they created at the ballot box which is secret.

2. Also removed from the drafted constitution was another important tool that empowered Gambians in the previous Jawara administration:

THE ELECTION OF DISTRICT CHIEFS AND VILLAGE HEADS (also known as Alkalolus) BY DIRECT SUFFRAGE (sections 58-59) HAS BEEN REPLACED BY DIRECT NOMINATION of chiefs and Alkalolus (village heads) BY THE PRESIDENT.

Ask your selves these questions why would the Junta remove those important clauses from the draft constitution without consulting the people? The answer is simple: The chiefs and Alkalolus(village Heads), play one of the most crucial roles in the country’s administration. They deal directly with the people and if they can be selected by one person rather than the people, their loyalty will Of cause lie with who selected them, they will serve only the interest of the one who put them there nothing more nothing less.

Human rights clauses (sections 19-24) have been amended. Two clauses, sections 19 and 24, have been cancelled. Section 19 required that detainees were brought before a court within 72 hours of imprisonment. Now anyone can be arrested and kept in custody for an unlimited period without even being charged, let alone tried. Section 24 deals with the right to trial by jury which, according to the government, is slow, expensive and subject to outside pressure.

No fellow Gambians it is a lie they knew what they were doing and leaving those legislations would also empowers Gambians who can take the Government to court when ever their human rights are violated.

Then all was set in motion and Yahya Jammeh and co had the strong footing, they came out with an announcement that the nation’s so called elders came to State House asking coup leader Yahya Jammeh to take off the military uniform and stand for election.

Even if that was true, have we forgotten Yahya himself said politics is dirty that he would not engage in politics? How comes then selected elders come and every district was represented? That too shows their strategy was to stay put either wisely or by force if necessary.

Hasty elections were held with intimidations and torturing Gambian oppositions. Yahya Jammeh was pronounced winner by a so called independent election commission whose chairman was his own chosen confidant.

After the 1996 election, it did not take long for the former junta leaders to start reneging on their promise to stamp out corruption, nepotism and the flamboyant lifestyles of public servants at the expense of ordinary people.

Fleets of fancy cars and extravagant lifestyles became the order of the administration. Due mainly to high citizen illiteracy, political ignorance many Gambians have been cheated by Yahya Jammeh and his administration. The state coffers have been emptied by looters who parade before us as civil servants.

Many analysts and observers and even members of Yahya’s own inner circle, cannot deny the fact that the Jammeh administration is more corrupt and inept than the Jawara regime they toppled. The once-popular government has turned against its own people they portray to have come to defend.

THESE ARE SOLDIERS WITH A DIFFERENCE INDEED!

No wonder vast majority of citizens living in a state of fear. Arbitrary arrests, press censorship, seizure of private properties without requisite court orders, harassment of former public servants and ordinary citizens have increased since the transition from military rule. Police and military brutality was widely reported and soon NGOs, private legal practitioners, journalists and some students began to form all manners of organizations devoted to promoting democracy.

In April 2000, a peaceful student demonstration of the Gambia Students Unions (GAMSU) and the National Union of Gambian Students (NUGS) led a demonstrated on April 10, 2000 to protest the alleged beating to death of Ebrima Barry at the hand of fire service officers in Brikama, Western Region, whose teacher had told the fire service officers to intervene in disciplining him. Ebrima was reportedly beaten, tortured and later died. Apart from the outrageousness of the fact that fire service officers were asked to discipline a student, the government failed to properly investigate the matter. The GAMSU student leadership made demands to see the autopsy report (which was widely believed to be a cover up) which stated that Ebrima died of natural causes. A spontaneous student protest ensued at the Gambia College, where a Gambia Students’ Union (GAMSU) sub-union existed.

While that was being discussed, a thirteen-year old school girl was allegedly raped by a uniformed paramilitary (intervention police) officer at the Independence Stadium, where an annual inter-schools sports competition was taking place. A doctor’s examination confirmed the girl was raped and again, GAMSU pressed for answers. After a long delay to bring the paramilitary officers who were on duty at the stadium for the victim to identify her assailant, GAMSU requested a police permit to hold a peaceful public protest. This request was denied.

BUT AS IT IS THE SLOGAN OF THE MILITARY LEADERS THAT “POWER BELONG TO THE PEOPLE”,

The Students realizing it was their constitutional right to protest called its members to peacefully march toward the capital city of Banjul to demand answers from the military junta. They were viciously crushed by a mixture of police and military officers who had orders according to some quarters to kill the bastards. Sixteen people died, including a Red Cross volunteer/radio journalist and a three-year old child (who was killed by what was reported to be a stray bullet). Fourteen students in total were killed and several others were injured or severely maimed by Yahya Jammeh’s military and police forces. GAMSU, which at the time had branches all over the country, did not back down. Upon viewing the violent response of government to the protest of their colleagues in the city, students in the country’s only rural high schools in several other towns in the rural area of the country, launched their own protests on April 11; and like their colleagues, they were violently quashed and several hundreds of students were detained country wide with four deaths in Brikamaba schools alone.

The dead were later confirmed as the following:Reginald Carroll, Karamo Barrow, Lamin A. Bojang, Ousman Sabally, Sainey Nyabally, Ousman Sembene, Bakary Njie, Claesco Pierra, Momodou Lamin Njie, Ebrima Barry, Wuyea Foday Mansareh, Bamba Jobarteh, Momodou Lamin Chune, Burama Badgie, Abdoulie Sanyang together with red cross volunteer, Omar Barrow.

Gambians must remember that prior to the activities leading to the student massacre of 2000; GAMSU had stood for justice for students and society since its founding in 1967. In general, most student protests in The Gambia had been issue-focused on rising prices of basic commodities, teacher retrenchments, and political rights, but were never a broad based political challenger. In fact GAMSU`s biggest ever protest held, was in 1977 by Gambia College students, but there were no reported killings by the Jawara administration. Though, student leaders were expelled from school and many could not find employment with the government. Yahya Jammeh himself had joined student campaigns many times in the past while he was a student.

The GAMSU protests of April 10-11, 2000 took a different dark chapter in the history and legacy of Yahya Jammeh’s reign. After being violently crushed in the streets, GAMSU continued to fight by taking its case to the courts to secure the release of its arbitrarily detained members and to further secure an injunction from the High Court against further government harassment. Government of Yahya Jammeh retaliated by splitting GAMSU up. They created National Patriotic Students UNION (NPSU) who challenged and almost destroyed GAMSU with government help.

GAMSU had the backing and support from private lawyers and human rights groups, which also marked a high point in the partnership amongst GAMSU, private lawyers and human rights activists in The Gambia. Concerned citizens and professionals came together to put up a legal defense team for the students and soon these defense lawyers and their colleagues in the human rights activist groups, such as Amnesty International-Gambia, formed a group called the Coalition of Human Rights Defenders.

Although some members of this group are now in voluntary exile, especially after one of its leaders was shot and nearly killed in front of his house, members of this group continues to be active defenders of human right in their individual profession.

The political struggle has also now taken an international dimension with several important activists living in exile in Europe, neighbouring Senegal and the USA. Due to heightened fear and intimidation, the regime’s opponents have often resorted to seeking international condemnation of the regime. Citizens have largely been cowed and it seems only a few believe that they could eventually remove Mr Jammeh from office democratically.

Gambians should ask themselves these questions when going to vote: The below named people that died either while in detentions or mysterious disappearances,

How are their families cooping? What of if one or two were from my own family? What of if I was one of those, how my family would cope at my death or torture?

Politicians arrested and detained unlawfully (though most are now free) but many have been tortured:

Hon. Alhagie Ousainou Darboe, opposition Leader UDP, Hon. Halifa Sallah opposition Leader PDOIS, Hon. Omar Amadou Jallow PPP, Lamin Waa Juwara former Opposition leader, Hon Demba Dem: ex-MP of the ruling APRC, Momodou Demba Politician, Momat Cham: former minister, Hon. Momodou Cadi Cham former minister in the first republic, Maimuna Jobarteh opposition Politician, Cherno Ndure Jarju Politician, Lamin Jarsey Politician, ,Hon. Duta Kamaso: ex-MP of the ruling APRC, Hon. Abdoulie Kanaji Jawla MP, APRC,, Kanyiba Kanyi unicef staff and opposition Politician (now feared dead), Hon. Omar Baru Camara, ex MP of the ruling APRC, Nato Keita, opposition Politician, Kebba Yorro Manneh opposition Politician, Ousman Rambo Jatta: Councilor of UDP, Janko Singhateh opposition Politician, Azziz Tamba: Politician, Lamin Ceesay Politician, Ramzia Diab former nominated MP, of the ruling APRC, Jerreh Fatty UDP opposition Politician. Gambian civilian citizens detained and Released or still in Jail unlawfully 1994-2009

Awa Darboe Cham: wife of alleged coup leader Ndure Cham, Haruna Jammeh a Jola Villager, Kebbaringo Jammeh Councilor, Marcel Jammeh a Jola Villager who challenge Yahya Jammeh, Amie Jarju. Villager who challenges Yahya Jammeh, Ousman Sey Marabout, and Tamba Fofana Head Master accused of being an opposition sympathizer. Pa Njie Guirigara: General Manager, VM, Lamin R. Darboe: Politician, Bamba Mass Human Right Activist/ opposition politician, Lamin Saiba Darboe, Raif Diab Businessman, Ebou Waggeh, Omar Faal Marabout, Those Dead as a result of alleged torture

Kebutay Jafuneh, UDP, Seedy Jawneh UDP, Seedia Sanyang UDP, Omar Njie UDP militant killed at Talinding by security forces during election campaign in 2001

Students detained and tortured,

Alhagie Nyabally: ex-President, Gambia Student Union, Alassan Nyassi, Balla Nyassi, Mustapha Lowe College student, Fatou Senghore,

Military/ Security men or retired service men arrested and tortured:Captain Bunja Darboe, Captain Wassa Camara, Captain Yahya Darboe, 2nd Lt Alieu Ceesay, Sergeant Buba Mendy, Captain Pierre Mendy, Commander MB Sarr Gambia National Army, Lt M. Savage: Gambia National Army, 2nd Lt Pharing Sanyang: Gambia National Army, Private Ebrima Sonko Lance Corporal Babou Janha army officer, Private Alagie Nying of the Gambia National Army, Lamin Sanneh former Permanent Secretary, Sergeant Abdoulie Sanyang, Tamsir Jassey: ex-Deputy Inspector General Police, Director of Immigration, Lamin Gassama: Security Manager, Banjul International Airport, Ebrima Camara: ex-police officer, Superintendent Abdoulie Colley: ex-police officer, Retired Colonel Abdoulie Conteh: former KMC Mayor, Staff Sergeant Manlafi Corr,

Arrested members of the notorious NIA

Abdoulie Kujabi: ex-Director General, Foday Barry: ex-NIA; director of Intelligence, Baba Saho: ex-NIA director, External Security, Musa Dibba: ex-NIA Director of Finance, Kemo Balajo: ex-National Intelligence Agency, Jasaji Kujabi, Nourou Secka ex-NIA operative, Bamba Manneh: ex-NIA operative, Alieu Singhateh: ex-NIA operative.

Members of the Independent Electoral Commission IEC arrested

Ndondi S.Z. Njie former Chairman of IEC, Sulayman Sait Mboob: ex-Minister, IEC Commissioner, Ebrima Sanneh ex-IEC officer, Momodou Jaw ex-IEC officer, Baba Drammeh: ex-Independent Electoral, Commission (IEC) officer.

My friends how can Yahya Jammeh arrest even members of the IEC? Then where do we expect the rest to act freely when their colleagues can get picked up and no one would dare raise even an eye brow. There can never be a free and fair election but Gambians would all know if we collectively want to vote Yahya Jammeh out when we are cheated.

Civil Servants arrested detained since 1994 some tortured

Late Sheriff Mustapha Dibba: ex-Assembly Speaker, Dr. Badara Loum ex-Permanent Secretary, Tijan Bahoum: Power Supply Director NAWEC, Baboucarr Jobarteh ex-Protocol Officer, Alieu Jobe ex-Accountant General, Abdou Jobe: Managing Director, NAWEC, Adama Deen: former Managing Director Gambia Ports Authority, Karamo Jaiteh former Managing Director, Gambia Roads Authority, Lamin Bojang: Medical Research Council, Suruwa Jaiteh former Permanent Secretary Omar Ndow former Managing Director of Gamtel/Gamcel, Sarane Hydara: ex-Senior Civil Servant, Lamin Keita: ex-Senior Civil Servant, Ebou Secka: ex-Senior Civil Servant, Momodou Senghore ex-Senior Civil Servant Kebba Faye: ex-Senior Servant, Ansumana Fadera ex-Senior Civil Servant,

Journalists’ arrested, tortured while some on Exile in Senegal, Europe and the US:

Madi Ceesay: President, Gambia Press Union, Lamin Cham: ex-Daily Observer, BBC correspondent Lamin Cham Chief Ebrima B. Manneh journalist, Daily Observer newspaper (now feared dead), Fatou Jaw Manneh democratic Activist and US based journalist, Modou Sonko: journalist, Daily Observer newspaper, Juldeh Sowe journalist, The Independent newspaper, Malick Mboob: ex-Daily Observer, RV, Issac Success journalist, Daily Express newspaper, Musa Sheriff journalist, Gambia News & Report magazine, Amie Sillah: journalist, women activist, Sam Obi: Daily Express, RFI correspondent, Musa Saidykhan former Editor-In-Chief, The Independent newspaper, Bertrand Sambou, Dodou Sanneh former journalist, GRTS, October 2005: Abdoulie Sey, March 2006, Madi Ceesay, Pa Ousman Darboe, Alieu Badara Sowe, Musa Saidykhan, Sulayman Makalo, Omar Bah, Alhagie Mbye, Ebrima Sillah, Augustus Mendy, Bankole Thompson, Papa Colley, Sulayman Darboe, Fatou Jaw Manneh, Pa Omar Jatta, Momodou Thomas, Ansumana Badgie, Pa Samba Jaw, Sarjo Bayang, Pa Nderry Mbai, Cherno Baba Jallow, Seedy Ceesay, Ebrima Ceesay, Baba Galleh Jallow, Ebrima G. Sankareh, Yankuba Jambang, Musa Saidykhan, Yusupha Cham, Kemo Cham, Baboucarr Sankanu, Mathew K. Jallow and a host of others whose names are not here. Like Lamin Fatty and others.Military and Security mysterious Deaths.

Captain Tumbul Tamba, Captain Musa Jammeh, Colonel Vincent Jatta.

My God! Are these people worthless? Of cause not they were loved ones who were victims used and dumped six feet. Some of these loved ones were misused to a point Gambians feared them more than God as they used their positions to inject fear into people. But now that they are gone must we not forget and forgive these men?

While the likes of Lt. Solomon Jammeh, Pa M. Jallow, Manlafi Sanyang, Boye Bah, Momodou Bah, Illo Jallow ECT were not dangerous but agents of the “Oga” and victims like all of us

Let us concentrate on their master Yahya Jammeh who would continue if allowed by us to replace them with other lethal men to do worse than the likes of “maliamungu”.



Security men and civilians once working for Yahya Jammeh who have now fled the country:

Col. Ndure Cham (GAF), Abdoulie Kujabi (NIA), Kemo Balajo, Alieu Singhateh, Foday Barry, Musa, Tapha Njie, Bakary B. Darboe, Abdou Sarah Janha, Saikou Sabally, Alagie M., Demba Dem, Foday Makalo, Famandu Sanyang, Malang Saho, Foday Makalo, Buba Baldeh, Samba Sabally,



Haruna Jammeh a Jola Villager, Kebbaringo Jammeh Councilor, Marcel Jammeh a Jola Villager who challenge Yahya Jammeh, Amie Jarju. Villager who challenges Yahya Jammeh, Ousman Sey Marabout, and Tamba Fofana Head Master accused of being an opposition sympathizer. Pa Njie Guirigara: General Manager, VM



Citizen FM was closed down unlawfully by Yahya Jammeh’s administration because Gambians enjoyed listening to wollof and Mandinka programs aired on that radio. The station was very popular with Gambians and its closure shows the regime wanted to put a cap on freedom of speech.



August 8th. 2001, Radio Station 1 FM, was set ablaze around by un identified assailants in the morning, after proprietor George Christensen and his watchman were doused with hazardous chemicals in the hope of incinerating them. The two victims survived the ordeal. They too lost everything for freedom

August 10th. 2001, Alieu Bah, Radio I FM journalist, whose moderated debates and discussions was enjoyed by you Gambian citizens as it was very educative, in trying to silence Mr. Bah, his home was set ablaze around in the night while he, his wife and children were asleep. The family narrowly escaped death they too lost everything for freedom.

October 17th. 2003, The Independent Newspaper premises were set on fire around in the morning when unidentified masked men stormed the building, assaulted the night watchman and then sprayed him with fire hazard chemical in the hope he would burn to death. But he luckily survived the assault. The premise was totally destroyed beyond recognition.

September 19th. 2003, around 6 p.m. Abdoulie Sey, Editor-in-Chief, of the Independent Newspaper was arrested from his office by intelligence agents and held incommunicado. He was released four days later.

The Independent News Paper after their machines have been destroyed, they do their printing at Kanifing. Enemies of freedom would never let them educate Gambians for on April 13th. 2004, the Kanifing printing machines of the Independent Newspaper was set on fire in the early hours of the morning by individuals dressed in military uniform. All printing machinery and other hardware equipment were completely destroyed. Proprietors of that News Paper too lost everything for our freedom.

August 15th. 2004, the home of B.B.C reporter, Ebrima Sillah was set on fire as he slept. He narrowly escaped death but lost everything for freedom

Look Yahya Jammeh and his men enjoy intimidating Gambians! Read on please!

September 2005, Musa Saidykhan, Editor-in-Chief, The Independent Newspaper, was detained for interrogation for a brief period of time shortly after returning from a South African journalist conference.

.December 16th. 2005, police ruffed Ratatouille Charreh up after the participants in a conference she attended, attempted to visit the spot where journalist Deyda Hydara was gunned down.

March 27th. 2006, Musa Said khan, Editor-in-Chief, The Independent Newspaper, was arrested by security agents a few days after publishing an article critical of Yahya Jammeh’s reactions in the wake of an alleged coup attempt. He was released after three weeks in detention.

March 2006, Madi Ceesay, of the Independent was, arrested by the regime’s agents, was released after three weeks of detention.

April 10th. 2006, Independent reporter, Lamin Fatty was arrested from his home by NIA agents and released after two months in detention and charged with false publication.

April 25th. 2006, Independent receptionist, Juldeh Sowe, was arrested and released after several hours.

In mid 2006, Njaimeh Bah, a Point Newspaper reporter, was attacked by unidentified bandits believed to be members of the notorious Green Boys and, was severely beaten.

May 24th. 2006, following the hacking of the online, Freedom Newspaper, five Gambian journalists whose names appeared on the paper’s readers list were arrested and detained for different lengths of time. After several months they were released. They are:

Musa Sheriff, Pa Modou Faal, Lamin Cham, Sam Obi, Malick Mboob ect.

In 2006, alleged attempted coup, Daba Marena former NIA director, who at the time of the alleged attempted coup was with president Jammeh while on a state visit to Mauritania was arrested and he disappeared together with, Staff Sergeant Manlafi Corr, Sergeant Major Alpha Bah and Lt. Ebou Lowe. Government claimed they escaped while being taken from Mile 2 to Janjanbury prison in the rural Gambia. They are yet to surface anywhere on this planet earth.

Military and Security men thought to have been executed in 2006



Daba Marenah, Alieu Ceesay, Alpha Bah, Manlafi Corr, and Ebou Lowe

July 7th. 2006, Daily Observer journalist, Ebrima Chief Manneh, was arrested by NIA officials from the Observer premises, was seen in public once after two years detention, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, sick and emaciated. Six U.S Senators; Edward Kennedy, Richard (Dick) Durbin, Russell (Russ) Feingold and Joe Lieberman among others wrote to Yahya Jammeh asking him to release Journalist Manneh after being held for nearly three years. Manneh is believed to have been murdered by Jammeh’s agents. Again Yahya Jammeh turned a deaf ear to request even from you citizens who love chief Manneh regardless of your love for Yahya Jammeh.

September 2006, a Gambia Radio and Television Services reporter, Dodou Sanneh, was arrested, detained, and later fired, from his job only to be rehired. He committed no crime only that he believed in freedom of speech which never existed.

December 2006, Abdougafar Olademinji and Baron Eloagou , both Nigerian citizens working in the Gambia as reporters for the Daily Express, were attacked by unknown assailants and beaten severely thus sustaining serious injuries. The police never arrest any one up till now.

March 28th. 2007, Democracy Activist, Fatou Jaw Manneh, a U.S. based Gambian journalist, was arrested at the airport, her traveling documents seized and charged with sedition. Her Kangaroo trial lasted more than a year. Her heavy fine of 250,000 dalasi ($9,260) was paid with donations from family and friends from all around the world to gain her freedom. She left the country she love and returned to the US

In February 2009, Pap Saine, Managing Director, of The Point Newspaper was arrested and subsequently charged with publishing false information. He reported the transfer of diplomat Lamin Sabi Sanyang who was arrested by NIA was transferred to MILE 2 central prisons. Also former minister Neneh Macdouall-Gaye was appointed ambassador. Mr Saine only became a free man when the high court withdrew the charges in July.

In March on the 5th 2009, retired Major Antouman Saho, former minister for fisheries was arrested and incarnated at the notorious Mile 2 prisons. He was said to have been pardoned by “Oga” as Yahya Jammeh became commonly know in July without a charge.



2009, Abdulhamid Adiamoh, of Today Newspaper, was arrested for false publication and detained at NIA headquarters. The criminals gave him an option to either plead guilty or face deportation back to Nigeria. We all know Africa and hopelessness. He chose to plead guilty but the bandits never honour their promise. He was heavily reprimanded.

June 14th. 2009, seven journalists who are members of the Gambia Press Union (GPU), were rounded up from various locations by heavily armed paramilitary agents and detained at NIA headquarters before being transferred to the notorious Mile 2 prison outside Banjul. The group listed below, were granted bail and charged with publishing seditious material .Despite protests of regional and international organizations such as Media Foundation for West Africa, Amnesty International, Community to Protect Journalists, the government of Yahya Jammeh who in 1994 promised you Gambians he would treat you all fairly but again he failed to failed to listen to your cry for mercy. Only one out of the seven was acquitted for lark of evidence while all the other six on August 5th were convicted of all six counts and sentenced to two years imprisonment with a fine of 1 million dalasis ($35,714). Failure to pay the fine would result in additional two years

Emil Touray, Secretary General Gambia Press Union, Sarata Jabbi Dibba, Vice President, Gambia Press Union, Sam Sarr, Managing Editor, The Foroyaa Newspaper, Ebou Sawaneh, Editor, The Point Newspaper, Abu-Bakr Saidy-Khan, journalist, Foroyaa newspaper, Pa Modou Faal, Treasurer, Gambia Press Union

The above respected Gambian journalist, your own sons/daughters ect were arrested and subjected to all sorts of inhuman degrading treatments and fined heavily just to scare them into silence.

Yahya Jammeh on the 3rd of September had all the six journalists released saying it was a good will gesture in honour of the holy month of Ramadan just to fool vast majority of the population who are Muslims into thinking that the man indeed respect the Islamic faith.

Oh my God for gesture of what? Gambians Gambians Gambians watch out.!

June 22nd. 2009, Augustine kanjia, a reporter for The Point Newspaper, was arrested and detained by security agents. He was released June 25th, 2009

On August 9, Point news deputy editor in chief Aba Gibba and a reporter Sainey Marenah were summoned by Justice Emmanuel Amadi, a thief hired by Yahya Jammeh from Nigeria as a high Court Judge. Mr Amadi demanded to know the source of those two journalists’ report that former inspector General of Police Ensa Badgie aka Jesus was tortured as claimed by his Lawyer Bory s Touray. The Judge was either deaf or just doing his master’s bidding for Lawyer Touray an intelligent Lawyer did made the said statement in court and he came to the journalists’ defence immediately without a penny. They were released without delay.

In June 2009 report surfaced of lengthy incommunicado detention of four of your fellow citizens .They were Kemo Conteh, army staff sergeant Sam Kambai, NIA officer Kebba Seckan and Samsudeen Jammeh who were brought before a magistrate in Brikama with Senegalese nationals from the Cassamance region. The four Gambians were held for three years incommunicado on terrorism charges in unknown location

In November 2009 same brothers who aided Yahya Jammeh with all these atrocities against you Gambians who are of cause our own brothers and sisters blinded by greed and short foresight, were as well betrayed by Oga.

Eight men of the Gambia Arm Forces GAF: Chief of Defense Staff Lt. General Lang Tombong Tamba (CDS) who was accused of foiling the 2006 alleged coup of Colonel Cham and Brigadier General Omar Bun Mbye head of operations and Training GAF, Lt Colonel Kawsu Camara aka Bombardier head of presidential guards at Kanilai, Major Momodou Lamin Bo Badgie head of Military intelligence GAF, Momodou Gaye deputy Inspector General of Police, Diplomat Ngor Secka, real estate dealer Abdoulie Joof and businessman Yusuf Ezziden aka “Rambo”. They were held until March 2010 far beyond the 72 hours limit to bring suspects to trial. Also Rear Admiral Sarjo Fofana head of Navy was brought to court accused with CDS Tamba for the concealment of treason in relation foiled coup in 2006. Also arrested earlier before the above were, Omar Faal, Landing Sanneh (GAF), Captain Bunja Darboe (GAF), Capt Yahya Darboe (GAF), Capt. Wassa Camara (GAF), Lt Pharing Sanyang (GAF), and Tamsir Jasseh, Demba Njie (GAF), Lamin Fatty (GAF), Yankuba Drammeh (GAF), Ensa Badgie (Gambia Police), Bun Sanneh (NDEA) and others.

In December 2009 NIA director Ousman Sowe was unceremoniously dismissed and arrested. Held by state incommunicado for several days without access to family or legal representative.

May 13th Bakary Gassama former financial director of the notorious NIA was released after spending more than a year in detention on charges of abuse of office and reappointed financial director of National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA)

Ministers who aided Yahya Jammeh Fired on either incompetence or forceful retirement:

Mass Axi Gai, Angela Colley, Kanja Sanneh, Neneh Macdoual-Gaye Therese Ndong-Jatta (resigned), Maba Jobe (hired & fired before taking office)

Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe (resigned), Joseph Henry Joof (resigned), Satang Jow (retired), Yankuba Kassama, Margaret Keita, Ousman Badgie, Samba Bah, Musa Bittaye, Amie Bensouda, Mustapha Marong, Fatou Bom Bensouda, John P. Bojang, Momodou Bojang, Nyimasata Sanneh Bojang, Mamat Cham, Ebrima Ceesay, Momodou Ngai Ceesay ,Ousman Koro Ceesay (murdered), Sulayman Massaneh Ceesay, Bakary Bunja Dabo, Pap cheyasin Secka, Fafa Edrisa Mbye, Fasainey Dumbuya, Samba Faal, Omar Faye, Sadibou Haidara (murdered), Sheikh Tijan Hydara, Baboucar Blaise Jagne Balla Garba Jahumpa, Momodou Sarjo Jallow, Dr Amadou Scattered Janneh, Manlafi Jarju, Dr.Tamsir Mbowe, Dominic Mendy, Alieu Ngum, Bakary Njie, Omar Njie, Susan Waffa-Ogoo, Hawa Sisay Sabally, Sana B. Sabally, Famara Jatta, Kumba Ceesay-Marenah, Abdoulie Sallah, Hassan Sallah, Musa Sillah, Dr. Sedat Jobe, Momodou Sallah, Sidy Morro Sanneh, Kebba Sanyang, Samsudeen Sarr, , Edward Singhatey, Raymond Sock, Amina Faal Sonko, Baboucarr Jatta, Mustapha Marong, Musa Mbenga, Sulayman Mboob, Bolong Sonko, Bai Mass Taal, Fatoumatta Tambajang, Bemba Tambedou, Yankuba Touray, Crispin Grey Johnson, Antouman Saho, Lamin Bojang, Marie Saine Firdaus.

Lawyers and judges dismissed or arrested since 1994.

Several Judges were dismissed in 2008 without any due process of law. Chief Justice Abdou Karim Savage dismissed in June. Also In 2009 June Justice, Haddy Roche regarded as an independent thinker in legal circles was dismissed without explanations. Antouman Gaye Lawyer, Mariam Denton: Human Rights Lawyer, Bory. S. Touray, Moses Richards,

Some of your fellow citizens had to flee the country when they escaped death

Ousman Sillah: Attorney/Lawyer who was shot three times in 2004 when he tried to defend embattled majority leader of the ruling APRC’s Baba K. Jobe

Mai Fatty: Attorney (Attorney/Lawyer his car was overran by a truck while he was on his way home from work.

In 2009/2010 so called chiefs were given vehicles going round the country advocating for Yahya Jammeh to BECOME KING. Am I dreaming? Hail His Royal Highness KING YAHYA?

A man who 14/16 years ago was accusing Jawara of staying too long in power thus encouraging rampant corruptions and mismanagement of public funds. Now they chiefs who are selected by Yahya Jammeh and not representatives or elected by us Gambians want Yahya to become KING? Who send them and who do they represent? Now fellow Gambians can you still argue that all these men and women of our dear motherland were wrong and only Yahya Jammeh ALONE has the country’s development at heart? One must think hard especially those in their positions today. Would your names be on the above list when Gambians returned Yahya Jammeh to power in November? Definitely some of you cabinet minister would be maybe even before November.

No suspects no arrests. Chei Gambia Oh Gambia! What have they turned YOU into?

Gambians most reflect and vote Yahya Jammeh out come November even if we have a tree as a candidate!

LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC LONG LIVE GAMBIAN PEOPLE WHO YEARN FOR FREEDOM!

Bamba Mass (UK)



Comments (55)

boycott elections says:

May 23, 2011 at 6:11 pm

@black image if you think development is a bigger airport you are wrong why have a bigger airport and less flights. if no planes are landing there how will we pay for upkeep. if you build a bigger school with no techers or books what use is it. jawara era was bad jammeh era is worse. our country is moving in the wrong direction.



Boyboy says:

May 23, 2011 at 9:02 pm

THEY ARE INFORMERS BOYS:



UDP says:

May 23, 2011 at 9:16 pm

Yahya Jammeh,s administration is

leading us to vision 2020. We’re half way

there, just be patient nine more years,

we will retired to young Gambians, not to those

recycle dont knew how



sam says:

May 23, 2011 at 9:35 pm

That is a good idea UDP



boycott elections says:

May 23, 2011 at 10:15 pm

join him where he pu many many many people. no 2020

Bamba Mass Lambasts Ebou Jallow: Calls him Thief with Questionable Character

Published 09/29/2010 - 6:49 a.m. GMT Rate This Article:

 Capt. Ebou Jallow, ex-junta Spokesman recently named two former government ministers in finance minister ousman Koro Ceesay's murder. Opposition leader Ousainou Darboe doubts Jallow's credibility. Ebou Jallow, not only Darboe, but no sensible Gambians should ever take you seriously!

By Bamba Mass (UDP Militant, UK)

Editor,

Please allow me some space to react to my brother in-law; Captain Ebou Jallow who many still believe is an alleged thief. He was the junta's spokesman - a man of questionable character, with little or no credibility in his resent reaction on The Gambia Echo online newspaper in which he accused Ousainou Darboe of having written a memo to Jammeh offering his service in case of a caretaker Government in 1994.

I am happy to have read your 28th September [letter] on The Gambia Echo, reacting to Ousainou’s claims that you had been hobnobbing with Jammeh, and that you cannot be taken seriously.

Ebou, you keep contradicting yourself… and it’s not only Ousainou who doubts your credibility, but all serious Gambians should never take you seriously. Sometimes when I read certain things either about you or from you, including your latest reaction to Ousainou’s claims, I would ask myself: is this man still laughing at Gambians? Or what is he this time talking about?

Can you help yourself again and read your own statement about Ousainou Darboe offering his ‘service in case of a caretaker Government’ after the coup.

Are you for once serious that you expect Darboe or even serious Gambians to believe your stories even if they were true?

Ebou, the truth is, you are not real when you allegedly sent Darboe copies of your so called documents concerning you and your former boss, Jammeh, allegedly emptying our coffers that led to you two falling out, and later fought it out amongst yourselves in a Swiss court. Or did I hear it right? Maybe America, but no I belief it was a Swiss court. You should have come clean to all Gambians not only Darboe because it is alleged you have stolen from an entire nation and not one man.

Oh was it that then you believed he was the only credible Gambian at home to have trusted in sending your documents?

Captain Ebou Jallow, you are Gambia’s real “Samba Toxel”, or how should I call you “a member of Ali Baba and associated thieves?”

You so called Captain. In autumn of October 23 1995 money meant for the Gambian people, part of a $35 million Taiwan loan suddenly went missing. You were accused of having diverted such a huge state money into your own account when you were allegedly directed by your boss to transfer the money from our Central Bank to his (Jammeh’s) personal secret Swiss bank account, to which both you and president Jammeh had access to. You thief was taken to court and in January 1998 and a Swiss court ordered the return of US $3m that you, Jallow, had transferred from the Central Bank of The Gambia to a personal bank account in Geneva. Until now you have never personally apologized to the Gambian people for any wrong doing.

You were alleged to have duped Gambians by clandestinely siphoning state funds amounting to millions of dollars. You accused Ousainou of wanting to work for any future caretaker Government but not the military. How about you? Oh are you different from Darboe, where Darboe being human should have never contemplated serving his country under any caretaker government because YOU guys had toppled a democratically elected Government as you put it? If so, then you at least, have given Darboe credit. You Ebou of all people cannot still shut up for once.

After your alleged stealing from Gambians, maybe you were then thinking you have had your share in the scramble for the state money, Gambians heard the breaking news over Radio Gambia some years ago, announcing that the spokesman of military regime Captain Ebou Jallow absconded with an estimated 3 million dollars. Until today, neither You Ebou Jallow nor the money in question has ever been made available to Gambians. What did you want Darboe to do when you sent him those documents, to defend you?

God forbid!

Having served Jammeh’s terror both as council member and even at one time its mouth piece, you gave the man all licences to do what he pleases. How can you now instead of asking our forgiveness you now counter pointing fingers?

Where was Jallow when those murders happened? He said he was in Libya where he was informed by Col. Kaddafi about Koro Ceesay’s death. Ebou, may I ask you why did you decide to come back home and continue to serve the AFPRC many months after? Was it that you were looking for ways to grab your share in the scramble for our state money!

Gambians should have known Ebou Jallow by now to even contemplate taking him seriously. And even though you knew Gambians had suffered so much but you still opted to stay with Jammeh; campaigning for his eternal stay in power. Was it not this same man who few years ago was calling for reconciling with Jammeh and Even praised Him on one of his visits to America? Oh is it because your Boss had never granted you amnesty to return home that you have now decided to renew your attacks and pretence for justice in the name of Jammeh’s victims?

Do you think Gambians have forgotten when you were sent on Jammeh’s errands in April 1995, on a high profile visit to Freetown asking Sierra Leone to help send judges to help Jammeh probe the assets of the ousted officials of President Jawara's government, and with the help of those very so called thieves, e.g. Justice Algali whose stolen assets were later burnt down by former rebels of Sierra Leone. The same so called judges have and are still assisting Jammeh incarnating our brothers and sisters seven feet deep every time. Ebou,don’t you have any shame. How can you put right what you helped dismantle? You were one of the architects of the shambles we are all in right now. Let me remind you a bit when you were the Junta Spokesman

In one of your speeches in Gunjur you indicated that “Democracy is like a bottle”; tha it has many forms and that it does not mean that we have to initiate any form of democracy.

In you trying to legitimize Jammeh’s continuous rule, you went on to say that “the Gambia was handed over a constitution which was a by-product of the Jewish… tradition.”

Ebou, you need more brains because constitutions have neither Jewish nor Christian religions. Constitutions, Republics, Bills of Rights they say, came about in defiance of the principles claimed by monarchs to have the divine right to rule which was prevalent during the ages of the absolute monarchy in Europe.

Ebou, I’m sure you have never even heard of the French Revolutionaries after an idea came up with the Declaration of the Rights of Man which overthrew monarchical tradition or the nobility with the proclamation that;

“All men are born free and with equal rights, and must remain free and have equal rights.”


“During the French Revolution, Revolutionary leaders accused the Church of being in complicity with the monarchy. So how can constitutions stem from religion?

Ebou, do you know that the French revolutionaries did abolish many institutions of the Church and declared a separation between church and state?

Do you know what they called Separation of Powers?


Our colonial master, Britain, does not have a written constitution; and in as much as our Constitution, which is written, is derived from the British type of rule, we had no Monarchy. Maybe we may have one now, thanks to YOU and others.

British Constitution borrows a lot from the French political and constitutional tradition to shape the constitutional instruments of its former colonies. Most constitutions are built on the concept that the state is a secular institution which should be separated from the religious concerns and philosophical control of citizens.

Have you not remembered or known about the bills of rights, protection of the freedom of thought, religion, worship and the right to teach, observe or practice one’s religion or belief.

What do you know about the fact that Bills of rights started from the Magna Carta, where most of British constitutional laws stemmed from?

Ousainou is a constitutional expert and knows that most constitutions emerged after vigorous struggles against the oppression of one group of people by another”. Do you also know that Gambians would today need to amend the APRC adopted Constitution whenever Jammeh goes, otherwise his government can never be liable for any crimes committed during their term in office?


For Ousainou Darboe to side with Ebou would tantamount to failing in his responsibilities as a Leader. Gambians know Ousainou is on record to have on numerous occasions called on the Government of Yaya Jammeh to come clean about all the deaths including that of our dear brother Ousman Koro Ceesay. But he is right to say that for one to take any steps against anyone, there has to be tangible proof - not one coming from a criss-cross like you, Ebou Jallow of all people who once called Jammeh “Khutbu Samaan” of Africa

In one of your speeches at Kanilai,

you same Ebou was quoted saying ‘A UZU BULAHI JAWARA’ A UZU BILLAHI PPP’, A UZU BILLAHI Party”, meaning God should save them from Jawara, God should save them from the PPP; God should save them from Party and even went on to say that God should place the AFPRC above party politics because party politics is the handy work of the devil; that there is “hisbullaahi, i.e. the party of God and “hisbusatan, i.e. the party of the devil;that the AFPRC has brought to the Gambia what party politics has failed to bring; that party politics have brought unnecessary conflicts between the same brothers, members of the same family and the community - that is why God has brought the AFPRC to ensure the salvation of the country; that this is why it brought about political freedom; that if the people have waited for God to bring Political freedom, he, Captain Jallow therefore sees no reason why they cannot rely on God to bring economic freedom. You referred to Captain Jammeh as the “KhutbuSamaan” of Africa.

”Khutbu Samaan” means a religious personality who emerges in each generation to save a people.

Again, you same Ebou Jallow was accused by our online Freedom Newspaper of having participated in the hacking of its paper; an incident which led to so many arrests and firings of Gambians at home, while those whose names appeared on the paper’s registered readers fled the country for fear of their lives

The hacker erased all of its content and replaced the welcome page with a message purportedly signed by Mr. Mbai

The message said: "I have decided to stop producing the Freedom Newspaper as I have pledged an allegiance with my brother Ebou Jallow to join the APRC election campaign." A former army captain, Jallow used to be the spokesman of President Yahya Jammeh's military junta, which took power in a July 1994 coup. The APRC is the president's party, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction.

It is confirmed that the person who hacked into the Freedom Newspaper site on the night of 22 May was a British Telecom client using the IP address of an Internet user based in the British city of Southampton.

Gambians should also remember well that a few weeks before Freedom Newspaper was hacked, the paper’s Editor Mbai received a message from the very Ebou Jallow, the former junta spokesman. And it said: "If you think that you can do whatsoever you want whilst away from the Gambia, then you better think twice... because the impending reaction in the Gambia is going to be very nasty. This is a warning from a brother."

Jallow also forwarded to Mbai a message he had received from someone called William Glass Junior who claimed he was capable of hacking Mbai's site and posting a message on it "to destroy his reputation."

You Ebou Jallow still have not replied to the message Reporters without Borders sent him on 26 May.

Are you in fact real?

May I humbly ask you why you have been contacting Darboe in the first place since yourself imposed exile if you never believed he had visionary leadership?

In your reaction to Ousainou, you stated amongst others that… “Visionary leadership is predicated on a leap of faith, rooted in courage and profound commitment to serve and lead………………..”

Ebou, you are very right and that was why Darboe had never even tried to believe your story in the first place. What would have happened if Darboe decided to take you seriously and later you as it has been demonstrated by your very own actions in trying to woo Jammeh by participating in the hacking into Freedom Newspaper that sent so many of your fellow countrymen out of work and in exile? Wouldn’t you have done the same by telling Jammeh you were collaborating with Darboe?

Let me lecture you on what a leader Ousainou Numukunda Darboe is by referring you to various speeches he gave out on rallies and in newspapers articles:

On 14 December 1998 speaking at a rally on Friday, the leader of the main opposition party, UDP, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe said it was unfortunate that the APRC government of President Jammeh could join leaders across the world to celebrate Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Lawyer Darboe said: "this government has violated human rights by humiliating the Gambian citizens since the 1994 military coup that toppled Jawara's government and yet they cowardly join Leaders across the world to commemorate Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Ousainou N.K Darboe UDP opposition Leader in an interview with The Point newspaper on the celebration of July 22nd saying that it should be put into a proper perspective.

Darboe went on………”It was an event that ushered in a military dictatorship, a dictatorship that willed its wishes on the Gambian people for two years. And very reluctantly set off its military attire and put on civilian attire and classified itself as a civilian regime. It has of course not disrobed itself of its military attributes. What used to happen during the transition is what is still on in the country. It is against this background that one has to look at the July 22 celebrations, whether it is worth celebrating.

We have seen few days ago two judges sacked without following constitutional provisions. These are the things that I am saying that the military attributes of the regime are still there. In fact, celebrating July 22 is a demonstration of only its military attributes that they still consider themselves as military, so therefore celebrate a military take-over.

In my view, any government that calls itself a democratically elected government; any government that believes in the rule of law and a government that believes that governments should be changed through the ballot box, has no business in celebrating a military take-over. It is wrong for them to do so and they should stop it.

They are spending enormous resources in celebrating an illegality. People are being kept away from work on 22nd July just to celebrate an illegality. In fact, it is sending wrong signals to anti-democratic elements within the society, who would believe that a take-over of government by unlawful means is a right thing to do. So I do not think it is right for the Jammeh administration, that prides itself in being a democratically elected government, to celebrate an illegality; to celebrate the usurpation of constitutional authority by unlawful means is wrong. “Darboe concluded

Ebou have you forgotten

Lawyer Ousainou Darboe was in 2000 charged together with Baba Dramme, Dodou Kasa Jatta, Madi Ceesay, etc, with murder of one Alieu Njie, an APRC supporter who died in clashes after they had laid ambush for opposition leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and his entourage during election campaign. But Darboe was never like you and I, to have opted out of fear and abandon The Gambia and its people under Jammeh. Instead, he continued to fight for the restoration of democracy and rule of law. But I am sure yours was not abandoning the Gambia and its people, you stole from us and fled, otherwise you would have still been there singing Jammeh praises or even calling for a one party state!

Every Gambian know for a fact that if Darboe was not democratic and a lover of Gambia with visionary leadership, during the 2001 presidential election campaigns when the UDP was coming from its tour of the country, Ebou, I was there and many people would tell you from Serekunda up to Brikama were cars and people on foot chanting Darboe has already won. If Darboe had listened to some people on that convoy, then we would have today been saying a different story altogether. Even Jammeh was scared that Ousainou might march straight to State House and had deployed killer soldiers at the Denton bridge to shoot anyone who tries to cross.

Ebou, this happened while we were on election Campaign where there was no president, remember!

Darboe categorically refused any form of civilian takeover without a free and fair election. Sure of victory he urged all supporters to respect the rule of law as well as show love and respect to our men in uniform -- police and soldiers alike. He displayed his Leadership qualities in such a manner that some men in uniform that came to meet our convoy were crying saying all is over; dictatorship is dead.

But little did we know that that evening Jammeh had this plans. Some diehard APRC militants were on the verge of disrupting anything that would see their prophet down. Fabakary Tombong Jatta called the Army that some UDP militants were harassing him and his family at Talinding Kunjang while Darboe was holding a rally. Soldiers came without warning and started opening fire on innocent civilians, thus killing one Mr. Njie and injuring many. Many Gambians as we all know became fearful and many never even dared going to vote, and the IEC never did anything. They just went ahead and declared Jammeh the winner with a clear margin.

What about a recent article on the Gambia News: Jammeh accuses UK of backing opposition, July 28, 2010? Jammeh was only scared because UDP militants in the UK have been on fire doing all to strengthen the main body back home which led to the Mansakonko Congress and Brikama rally respectively. This has moved the man. That is why he is feeling unease thus accusing the British Government which did not even notice of such comments.

Ebou, I urge you to read that!

Yahya Jammeh fears no one but Ousainou, as he is today the only Gambian who poses a real threat to Jammeh’s leadership apart from the military which is either marginalized or compromised. I would advise you if you are as brave as Darboe, why not go back home and form either your own political party or something. In fact, even if such a case opens in the Gambia, and Yankuba, Peter and Edward are brought before a law court, you Ebou of all people would never go to testify. So how can people know the truth? Or would you do it via a video link from US?

You need to look at yourself properly every time you get up from bed, my dear brother in-law.

“Assalamu alaikum"