Well, cannibals eat their own too and this will not be the first time the
APRC cannibalize on their own. Yet another example why Gambians should get
rid of these beasts.
Chi Jaama
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>Gambia: Hon. Kamaso Feared Dead
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>September 21, 2006
>Posted to the web September 22, 2006
>Banjul
>Sources closed to the NIA (National Intelligence Agency) have revealed to
>the Gambia Journal that the former National Assembly Member for the Wuli
>East
>constituency, Mrs. Duta Kamaso has died in detention. The death, if
>confirmed,
>would be one of the most tragic events in The Gambia's recent political
>history.
>Mrs. Kamaso was picked up in April, earlier this year, while returning
>home
>from Senegal, where she was said to have taken a sick child for treatment.
>Though it was never really explained why, but shortly after her arrest,
>state
>media reported that she had been expelled from the party, thus
>automatically
>losing her seat in the National Assembly. Mrs. Kamaso won the Wuli seat
>running on APRC ticket but soon fell out with some of the local APRC
>dignitaries
>over her fierce independence and acclaimed sense of integrity.
>Some sources close to the APRC party had said that she was detained for
>passing a circular around other APRC National Assembly members asking them
>to
>take up the matter of farmers whose groundnuts had not been paid by
>state-sponsored groundnut buyers. Most of her constituents are farmers and
>depend on
>groundnut farming for cash sustenance. The story had it that though Mrs.
>Kamaso
>did this because she was going to be away from the Assembly's sitting in
>order
>to nurse a sick child, the matter of the petition was reported to the
>President, the ruling party leader, as if Mrs. Kamaso had been engaged in
>an
>attempt to organize a vote of no confidence against the Jammeh regime.
>Hon. Kamaso was arrested shortly after her arrival and before her
>expulsion
>from the party was made public. Since then Mrs. Kamaso had been kept under
>the custody of the NIA in mosquito infested makeshift cells, without
>access to
>lawyers and even members of her family. The arrest of persons elected by
>the
>people, who by right do enjoy some immunity from such arbitrary arrests,
>has
>become common recently in the country. Another APRC member of the National
>Assembly, Omar Demm, has been in detention since the foiling of the
>alleged
>coup attempt in March. The former Mayor of the country's largest
>municipality,
>Mr. Abdoulie Conteh also spent six weeks in detention earlier this year.
>There has yet been no official word on the widespread rumor of the former
>lawmaker's death. Also rife on the grapevines is the rumored death of
>former
>NIA director General, Abdoulie Kujabi. It is the third time rumors have
>been
>circulating this year on his alleged death. Mr. Kujabi, formerly very
>close to
>President Jammeh, has been in detention since March 2006 and has been seen
>in
>the hospital in Banjul six weeks ago. Though he was arrested in connection
>with the alleged coup attempt, Mr. Kujabi is yet to be formerly charged
>with
>any crimes.
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