Mr Camara,
As a rule, we do not jubilate when any person whosoever, falls from grace to
grass. However, it is our business to congratulate whoever is pulling the
strings to put to justice any of the agents of barbarity, brutality, and
criminality in the Gambia. It is indeed heartening for me and my colleagues
who were in the national student leadership by April 10th/11th 2000, to
realise that some of the key architects of the gruesome acts of brutality we
were subjected to during those fateful days, are seemingly being brought to
book. We have no doubt that the long hands of justice shall reach out for
all of them. It is a shame that in our beloved country we still have presons
with bloody hands, playing prominent leadership roles.
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
Omar Joof.


>From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: FWD:Baba Jobe Runs Out of Luck
>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:31:15 -0500
>
>Baba Jobe Runs Out of Luck
>
>The Independent (Banjul)
>NEWS
>November 17, 2003
>Posted to the web November 17, 2003
>Banjul
>
>Behind-the-scene-efforts by a luckless group of ruling party members of the
>National Assembly to intercede with the government for clemency on behalf
>of disgraced Majority leader Baba Jobe has failed, The Independent can
>reveal.
>
>A day after Honourable Baba Jobe was called in for questioning by the Fraud
>Squad and subsequently charged for fraud over a "dishonoured" cheque he
>reportedly issued to the Gambia Ports Authority, APRC members of the
>National Assembly led by Churchill Baldeh and including Foday Lang Sarr,
>Duta Kamaso, Ramzia Diab, Nyimasata Sanneh-Bojang and Fabakary Tombong
>Jatta met vice president Isatou Njie-Saidy on Friday in a bid to influence
>the fate of the majority leader, whose diplomatic immunity sources
>suggested has been lifted.
>
>Baba Jobe appeared at the High Court Friday afternoon along with Baba
>Kanteh a confederate identified as an employee of the Youth Development
>Enterprise. The YDE had itself been the bane of contention between
>Honourable Jobe and President Jammeh who had reportedly demanded that it
>should be scrapped for unspecified reasons, although sources attribute the
>president's lack of accommodation for the business outfit to unorthodox
>business practices ranging from tax evasion, money laundering and other
>unscrupulous dealings.
>
>According to unimpeachable sources, the vice president had reportedly told
>the delegation bent on rescuing him from his troubles that it was out of
>her powers to influence the decision regarding his fate and was therefore
>the wrong person to meet on this occasion. Reports also suggest that the
>new Inspector General of Police Landing (13) Badjie also allegedly turned
>down a request by the same MPs to visit with him over the possibility of
>Honourable Jobe's release after he spent Thursday night dejected in a
>police bench at police headquarters in Banjul. Having failed to seek
>audience with the police boss, the APRC delegation also visited the offices
>of the Secretary of State for the Interior and Religious Affairs Sulayman
>Masanneh Ceesay. According to sources at the department, those Honourable
>Jobe leads in the National Assembly wanted him (SOS Ceesay) to lend weight
>to their plea for their man but were reportedly disappointed by the new
>minister's response.
>
>As at press time Saturday, reports were starting to filter through to The
>Independent, suggesting that the APRC delegation were seeking audience with
>President Jammeh whom earlier unconfirmed reports alleged gave the orders
>for Honourable Jobe's questioning by the Fraud Squad.
>
>Honourable Jobe was paraded before a judge of the High Court in Banjul,
>after a team of lawyers acting on his behalf, tried albeit abortively to
>secure his bail on Thursday. He was bailed a day later. Witnesses also
>claimed that Honourable Jobe's relatives and friends had spent Thursday
>night sprawled on the floor of the police room where he was detained
>overnight.
>
>Meanwhile a group of Jarrankas (from his birth region of Jarra) and APRC
>party sympathisers converged at a compound in Tallinding to recite the holy
>Quran in a bid to summon God's mercy on the disgraced majority leader who
>earlier in the day appeared totally subdued in the High Court as his case
>was heard and witnessed by hundreds of people, some relatives, some
>sympathisers and others just curious onlookers.
>
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