Colleagues

We have just heard Mr Jobe's comments on November 11,
With these revelations, Is he going to continue
supporting APRC?

Shedding tears do not help, for as we all know it
could be crocodile tears.

Lets therefore await Kebba Jobe's response on this
issue.

Have a wonderful day

Sanusi
--- Kebba Jobe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ebou
Colly, your account of the November 11 coupe
> makes very sorry reading.
> While I was busy debating Hamjatta, I failed to read
> your part 3 earlier on.
> While reading it I could not help crying. That we
> have Gambians in our midst
> capable of such heinous deeds is beyond me. For the
> past day and a half, I
> could not believe what I read. I printed parts 1-3
> and when my wife read it
> she could could stop crying.
>
> It may surprise many that very few people know about
> what you've narated. I
> was introduced to the late Lt. Basirou Barrow a few
> weeks before he was
> implicated in the Nov. 11 coupe attemt. The moment I
> spoke to him he struck
> me as some one very smart. From that day, he never
> called me by my name. He
> always called me kotto. It is very very hard to
> believe that former comrades
> in arms, buddies who drink attaya together, can
> perpetrate such horrendous
> acts, is really unbelievable. But again, I shouldn't
> be that surprised
> 'cause you yourself said this in part 2 of your
> current narative:
>
> "They (good Officers) are generally well cultured,
> Properly educated and
> tested to meet the set standards; they have
> self-esteem and definitely
> understand that the country equally belong to them
> in the very way it
> belongs to any president. None of these virtues
> prevailed in the Field Force
> where the service men were literally social outcasts
> in terms of origin,
> education, social status, family background and
> self-esteem.. So instead of
> having fine warriors prepared to lay their lives for
> the defense of their
> nation, we ended up grooming angry jealous armed men
> full of hate and
> destructive tendencies ready to follow any deviant
> or criminal into a path
> of national destruction". It is very sad but I don't
> think the situation is
> any different today.
>
> Believe you me, not even some members of the
> families of those killed during
> the November 11 incident know anything about what
> you've just narated.
>
> May God, the almighty, have mercy on their souls.
>
> Bye 4Now, KB Jobe.
>
> >----Original Message Follows----
> >From: ebou colly <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> > ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: COUP IN GAMBIA THREE
> >Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:05:33 -0700
> >
> >                                          COUP IN
> >GAMBIA THREE
> >KB Dampha, I am pleased but equally saddened that
> you
> >asked about Gibril Saye or Lieutenant Saye. Pleased
> in
> >the sense that his case needs to be told which I
> shall
> >attempt to do the way I understand it. But am also
> >quite sad to remember every thing about this fine
> >soldier who was too good to die the way he did.
> >Everything you mentioned about this soldier,
> >especially his devotion and love to promote sports
> in
> >the GNA-had a keen hand in football, basketball,
> >volleyball and everything-made him more so a victim
> to
> >be mourned and wept for until that day when his
> body
> >is exhumed from that toilet pit and given a decent
> >burial. We can classify Saye as the real soldier
> with
> >difference. He was nice, respectable and highly
> >competent. But above everything, the young man was
> >soft hearted, couldn't hurt a fly when it comes to
> >killer instincts that we saw among the ranks of the
> >army since 1994. The guy had conscience and would
> >rather die than see the truth twisted and remain
> >indifferent to it like so many APRC lackeys we see
> >today. One of the reasons I later learnt for the
> >AFPRC's decision to eliminate him was among other
> >things his constant challenge to all of them over
> our
> >detention at the central prisons without any
> credible
> >reason or explanation for it. I understand he had
> >openly and constantly protested to the council
> members
> >to try us if they had anything against us or set us
> >free. But death row at Mile Two prisons was not, as
> >far as he was concerned, a place for good officers
> >like us. He had even gone against all odds one day
> by
> >coming to the prisons to see us with encouraging
> words
> >to the effect that they were working hard for our
> >freedom. He had brought us provisions and toilet
> >articles as well. It was shocking to learn few days
> >later that Saye was dead.
>
>
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