With only three months to go before the presidential
elections,the NIA is engaged in a campaign or terror
against the UDP.The recent revelation made by a strong
party supporter Dudu Kassa Jatta of Bakau is really
disturbing.This time round, the UDP party would not
tolerate any thuggery neither from the NIA nor from
the Lybian trained 22th July movement headed by the UN
travel banned-Baba Jobe.Unlike what happened during
the 1996/97 presidential and National Assembly
campaigns respectively in which the following accured.
ARBITRARY ARREST/ TORTURE OF UDP OFFICIALS AND
SUPPORTERS
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[a]Through out the campaign ,UDP supporters were
picked up by the NIA/police and detained for weeks
without any charge.
[b]September 16th,1996
Siaka Sonko and Seni sabally were arrested and
detained at farafeni police station and later
tranferred to the maximum security prison in
Janjanbureh where they stayed for the rest of the
elections campaign.
[c]September 10th,1996
Kemeseng Jammeh who is now a member of the National
Assembly and manority leader in the Assembly was
arrested in Soma,LRD and later transfered to the
maximum security prison in Janjabureh.
[d]September 22nd,1996
As the secretary general and party leader was
returning from a country wide tour his convoy was
stoped at Denton Bridge and people were made to decent
from their vehicles.Members of the presidential guards
using rifle butts,batons and other weapons attacked
and beat the innocent UDP supporters.The late Sedia
Sagnia ,the then senior Administrative of the party,
sustained fractures and had to be hospitalised for
days.
[e]January 2nd,1997
On the very day of the National assembly
elections,party constituency chairmen and supporters
were arrested aroud the country and detained at
verious police stations to named few:Buyageh Sedibeh &
others of Gambisara Village,URD and Galleh Ceesay &
others of Garawol Village,URD.
[f]June 8th 1997
UDP branch in Brikama where members of the branch were
meeting,armed police with A.K47 marched in to their
meeting hall and arrested eight of them and detained
them at the NIA cells in Banjul where they under went
severe tortured by the presidential guards and the
NIA.
These detainees were:
[1]Mr.Momodou Single Nyassi
[2]Mr.Wassa Janneh
[3]Mr.Yusupha Cham
[4]Mr.Bolong Sanneh
[5]Mr.Dembo Ara Sanneh
[6]Mr.Dodou Sanyang
[7]Mr.Ansumana Bojang
[8]Mrs Sarjo Kunjang Sanneh
UDP would begin to remind the international community
and draw their attention to the thugs' activities of
these regime toward the party at the time of campaign
for elections.
Saihou
--- Dodoo Wade <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kassa Says The NIA Tortured Him
>
> Two months after his arrest and detention for ten
> days at the NIA
> headquarters in Banjul for allegedly writing a story
> in the Independent of
> Monday 23rd May criticising President Yaya Jammeh
> and his government, Dudu
> Kassa Jatta youth leader and assistant campaign
> manager in Bakau has finally
> let the mouse out of the bag. In an exclusive
> interview when he visited this
> office yesterday morning Kassa alleged that his
> arrest was engineered by one
> Sukuta Jammeh together with Muhammed Hydara and
> Salimina Drammeh, all agents
> of the NIA so as to silence him. According to Kassa,
> it was Sukuta who came
> to his house on Tuesday the 24th May.
>
> A driver said to be his friend from Basse wanted to
> see him but his mother
> told him that he was out. "On my return at 5.00pm,
> my mother informed me
> about it but I told her that there was no one asking
> for me, but they were
> only planning to arrest me, on political grounds"
> Kasa said. At about 9.00pm
> while at home, Sukuta again came asking for me and
> my mother told him that I
> was around and few moments later, a white Nissan
> Patrol stopped at the gate
> of our compound and they told me that they needed
> him at the NIA for some
> questioning. In reply, I told them that I should
> inform my mother and the
> family about it. After informing my mother, I
> attempted to inform my step
> father too but Hydara pulled my trousers saying I
> should not waist their
> time and that I should go with them" Kassa added.
>
> On arrival at the NIA headquarters, Kassa said, he
> was asked to pull
> everything that was on him, except his nickers at
> the security post and he
> was taken to one of the cell called "Bambadika"
> where he spent the night.
> Around 8.30-9.00am the following morning, after
> washing his face, his
> trousers were brought back to him so that he could
> go to interrogation room.
> He said he met of NIA officers telling him that it
> was time for breakfast on
> him. Hydara and Drammeh, Kassa said, also told their
> colleagues that he
> Kassa said he does not fear any NIA, which he said,
> he admitted. However,
> after talking to each other for a while, he was
> taken to the office of Mr.
> Foday Barry director of internal security where he
> met another group of
> senior officers.
>
> He said Barry then asked him whether he knows him
> and he replied that he did
> not know him. At his point, he added, one Tijan O.C
> of the investigating
> team told him that " my brother you are playing with
> his country," "but I
> insisted that I am only saying the fact". When they
> took him to the room,
> Kassa said, his trousers and his nickers were all
> removed and he remained
> naked. "My hand and legs were tied. Electric wires
> were connected to my ears
> and my pennis and they started electrifying him.
> They started at 9.00am and
> it ended at 5.00pm with only little interval to
> allow me to rest. Infact,
> while they were doing this a lady was sitting down
> and they were all
> laughing at me while I was crying because of the
> pain.
>
> I could not eat, my intestines were rolling inside
> me all due to the pain.
> They further told him that they could either kill me
> or throw him into the
> sea and neither lawyer Darboe nor anybody could do
> anything about it. Before
> my release on bail, they warned me to remain silent
> but for me this is a
> matter of life and death nobody will keep me quiet".
> He revealed that he
> visited three doctors and was waiting for his body
> to get better. For Kassa,
> gone are those days when security forces can
> intimidate the Gambian people.
> He further pointed out "If this was their intention,
> then I am telling them
> that they have failed. I am not threatened and this
> will even strengthen my
> fight for social justice and democracy in the
> Gambia". On a final note Kassa
> said he loves peace and hates anybody who creates
> trouble.
>
>
> Copied from The Point
>
>
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>
> These idiots at NIA will have to pay for all the
> crimes they have committed
> against humanity. For your information all your
> crimes are being recorded
> and do not be suprise when you are arrested outside
> the Gambia. This goes
> for former and present NIA Officers/agents.
>
> Dodoo
>
>
>
>
>
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