Thanks for new year messages. It will be good to know the names of the
soldiers Hamat Bah mentioned. I am sure they are Yaya's close protection.
Happy new year...
> In 2004, Lamin Waa Juwara of the Opposition National
> Democratic Action Movement Party NDAM, informed the Point
> Newspaper that his life was threatened by people posing
> as NIA officers. Waa intimated that the men wanted
> to abduct and kill him. But thanks to his
> gallant NDAM supporters, the assassination attempt was
> quelled. They insisted that "Mbarodi" was not going
> to move an inch and that they placed their lives on the
> line if the alleged NIA abductors should behave otherwise.
>
> I remember the late Deyda Hydara talking to Waa on the
> phone and expressed concerned about the state of affairs.
> As a matter of fact, Deyda, condemned the alleged
> plans to kill waa in his "teeth Bite column" He urged
> Gambians to nurture our cherished peace. In short, he
> said killing of political opponents was not the solution to
> the country's economic and political woes. Hydara urged
> the Jammeh administration to be tolerant and uphold the rule
> of law.
>
> JAMMEH SILENCE OVER DEYDA'S DEATH
>
> Decent and democratic leaders will always condemn such barbaric
> act. But president Yahya Jammeh have not demonstrated this.
> He had been silence over Deyda's death. To say that the
> police have condemned it is not enough.
> Gambians are eager to hear what their president will say
> about this horrific incident.
>
> May be his government is implicated. That is why he
> is reluctant to comment on the issue? Whatever, the
> case might be Gambians will know those behind this
> cowardly act one day. Jammeh had always perceived the
> private press as illegitimate sons of Africa. Such a leader
> will do everything
> to undermine the patriotic sons and daughters of Africa
> trying to advocate for press freedom and democracy. He
> always used the word patriotism, when he doesn't practise it.
> If Jammeh was patriotic as he claimed, he wouldn't
> have used violence to topple the democratically elected
> government of Jawara. When you joined the military, you
> sworn to
> defend and uphold Gambia's constitution. But due to greed
> and ignorance you and other junior officers of the Gambian
> army decided to stage a coup against the PPP administration.
>
> TERROR CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOURNALISTS
>
>
> Just recently, a prominent opposition figure in the person
> Hamat Bah, named two or three state Guards personnel as
> being allegedly responsible for the arson attacks on the
> Independent Newspaper. The government have not done
> anything to arrest those responsible for this barbaric act.
> Instead, it tried to down play
> Mr.Bah's claims. Whether they like or not these implicated
> soldiers will face justice one day. The crime they are
> linked to is a serious one, which cannot go unpunished.
> The regime had repeatedly targeted the Point and the
> Independent Newspaper for persecution. Arresting and fire
> bombing media houses in the country. The
> hands of Jammeh and his tyrannical regime are stained with
> blood and its time to seek repentance before it is too
> late. Gambians will not forget the persecution they suffered
> from Jammeh's Gambian / Libyan trained thugs.
>
> WHY WAS ARMY CHIEF VINCENT
> JATTA
> FIRED FROM THE ARMY?
>
> Jammeh is good at diverting public attention when such
> horrific things happerned. Vincent was sacked few days
> after Deyda's death. It is widely claimed that Vincent
> protested Deyda's killing and vowed to resign from the army
> if the killings should continue. Apparently according to
> highly placed sources, the former Army chief is
> placed on constant surveillance. Gambians should not be
> surprised if Vincent is arrested and placed on bogus charges.
> We do know that the autopsy report on Deyda's death
> had indicates the marked of the bullets which was used to
> kill the journalist. The Gambian army should conduct
> an inventory now to establish the owners of the guns.
>
> WHY WAS DEYDA KILLED?
>
>
> Shortly after the Independent Newspaper arson attack, a
> former senior soldier came to our office to indicate that he
> recognised the pistol which was used by the arsonists to burn
> down the independent Newspaper. According to the former
> soldier, the pistol was a "French Mark" which was used by
> the Gambian Army and the then TSG. He said if proper
> inventory is
> conducted the perpetrator(s) of the Independent arson attack will
> be apprehended. Upon receiving this patriotic ex soldier
> in my office, i informed Deyda who insisted that the
> man's assertions should be published. In an interview,
> the former soldier also criticised the police crime coordinator
> for touching the pistol with his hands, while at the
> scene of the crime. The soldier said the CMC failed to
> apply basic investigative techniques while to probe the
> incident. He argued that the CMC should have used a
> plastic cover to touch the gun. By touching the pistol with
> his hands, said the soldier will discredit future
> investigations. He cited the possible way of erasing the
> finger prints of the
> perpetrators by the CMC. He was very right. You
> don't need to go a detective school to know these basic
> things. But for whatever reasons, these fundamental
> investigative procedures were ignored. Our paper ran the
> soldier's story, but there was no denial from the side of
> the government. The former soldier went as far
> as saying that if he was in the military he will trace the
> perpetrators. What type of government do we have back home?
> Its time to end the culture of gun happy soldiers. Nobody
> is safe in today's Gambia.
>
>
>
>
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