Mafy, that was a good one and I love it!!!!!!!! You
are right many have to thank Yahya personally, because
it is due to the coup d'etat that many seized the
opportunity to apply for the refugee passport. In fact
many had to lie in order to get one for themselves and
their families. Thank god they can now visit Gambia,
their own nation. I am least against the asylum
seekers, because some really deserve it and many are
my dear friends. But to capitalize on it to blindly
mastermind people is what I hate.

As for Mr. Ebou Colley aka S, we are waiting for our
answers!!!! Brother, take a sip of cold water and
chill. Do you want your old job back as a security
officer in a very famous city in US; years ago before
you decided to return to Gambia and join the army?
Technology has made this world a small one for any to
hide his/her identity.

Please brothers and sisters let us be careful and not
rush to judgment. We do not have to agree all the time
but let us love one another.

Your Home Boy,
Sulayman

--- Malafy Jarju <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the wake of all the overpontifications,
> questionable first hand follies, and fallacious
> accounts of the circumstances leading to the most
> recent and previous coups, one common denominator is
> the fact that most of the story tellers are refugee
> passport holders who were either in the inner-circle
> of the AFPRC or were former ranking army officers
> who absconded because of thievery or participation
> in  uncovered coup plots.
>
> One such person calls himself Mr. Ebou Colly.  A
> former Lt. Colonel now masquerading as  Ebou Colly.
> The Lt. Colonel has all the rights to restate his
> observations while in the GNA.  My contention with
> his uproar  is twofold;  a) Why hide behind a fake
> name; b) Why deal the ethnicity card.  He carefully
> picked a Jola name - 'Colly', which is clearly an
> attempt to convey the illusion that he could not
> harbor any rooted resentment toward Jolas.   He used
> a check-list of names/victims of false-coups, to
> incite and justify contempt for the Jolas.
>
> Well Mr. Colly!  as the newest member of Gambia-l,
> please be advised that this forum, as reflected by
> the ethnic composition of the Gambia is not
> Anti-Jola and so I don't think you can succeed in
> inciting a reprisal against Jolas.  The fact that
> all of the attempted coups in The Gambia since July
> 22, 1994 are committed by non Jola's does not imply
> that 'all Jolas are benefiting from a Jola President
> and thus the docility'.
>
> On the late Lt. Almamo Manneh and Lt. Landing
> Sanneh, I don't wish to elaborate on the former
> because the dead deserve a peaceful 'RIP'.  The
> latter is an acquaintance of mine and I stand to
> tell Gambia-l how disappointed I am that he heeded
> to outside interest to embark on a suicidal fantasy
> of staging a two man coup. The highlight of my
> involvement with Lt. Sanneh includes computerizing
> his State House Office and familiarizing him with
> basic computer skills.  Lt. Sanneh is no stranger to
> me.  Folks,  I have no doubt  that Lt. Sanneh and
> Lt. Manneh intended to stage a coup.  Sanneh
> himself, under absolutely no duress confessed his
> involvement as the ring leader and asked for a
> chance to apologize on National TV.  The truth my
> friends will eventually unfold.
>  This man practically grew up with Yahya Jammeh,
> went to the same school, and was as close  to The
> President as anybody can get.  Folks, Ebou Colly
> need to be reminded about the Bob Marley lyric that
> says "Your worst enemy could be your best friend and
> your best friend your worst enemy".  The
> assassination of Thomas Sankara by a close friend
> and confidant ( Blaise Campore ) and the
> assassination of the Niger President by the head of
> his Presidential guard shows that  trust cannot go
> unabated.  This theory of a fake coup conspiracy is
> pure nonsense.
>
> During the shoot-out at Lt. Sanneh’s residence, his
> wife  yelled out - "hand  yourself over before they
> kill us all!!!:  This upon hearing the leader of the
> soldiers give firm orders and said "cease fire,
> there are children inside, cease fire I say!" Lt.
> Sanneh gave himself up at that point thus saving his
> life.  If these soldiers were butchers or
> blood-thirsty, they would not have cared about the
> welfare of Lt. Sanneh’s  wife and children.  Folks,
> all these facts are on record, I am not fabricating
> anything here.  The intelligence agency has almost
> completed its investigation and most of you will be
> surprised when the revelations are on air!
>
> In fact Mr. Ebou Colly - are you not part of the
> coup plot?  Are you not a former Lt. Colonel? There
> is a network that’s ready to reveal your identity
> while you hide in the Bronx and incite civil war in
> the Gambia.  Lt. Sanneh will very soon appear on TV
> and give his version to the Gambia public.  This
> regime cannot be called "butchers" when all of us
> have seen what happened in Accra Ghana in 1979/80.
> Is Rawlings not your darling now?.  We all
> remembered when Jawara ordered Sgt. Ousman Jallow to
> liquidate some rebels in a professional serial
> killer style!  Those of us crying foul today were
> cheering this very man.  You are saying that there
> are graves behind toilets. Yes, say it!  But, wasn’t
> it during Jammeh’s era that the bodies of two
> Gambian soldiers who were buried in Liberia exhumed
> and flown back to Banjul for the usual military
> burial?  Mr. Colly,  I believe you are only angry
> because your role as a soldier was more
> politically-oriented and as such you were eventually
> ejected from the Army because of your own virtue.
> The Captain Cherno Jallow you mentioned is currently
> serving in Sieraleone with the UN peace-keeping
> force.
>
> How can we contact Mr. Cherno Jallow on the phone
> when the man is not even in the country, let alone
> call a seven digit number 4722121 when all phones in
> The Gambia are six (6) digits.  I suggest you
> provide us with ‘more credible’ stories next time.
> A smear campaign with distorted facts will not win
> you any sympathizers.  I know these officers you
> mentioned.  You’re deliberately mentioning their
> names so as to indirectly stain their characters in
> a forum where they don’t have access.  Yes Yahya’s
> power base is in the Gambian people.  He is serving
> the Gambian people as mandated by the constitution
> by virtue of being democratically elected as
> President.
>
> If all your allegations are right,  how can a few
> soldiers make Yahya stay in power for all these
> years?  How can a few soldiers stand against a Fully
> Trained Army of your caliber?.  Wow, this is
> mind-boggling, a few soldiers against mighty Ebou
> Colley and his Battalion!!!  With all the
> information that you have, don't you think you owe
> it to Gambia-l to tell us your role, title/rank in
> the Army and your subsequent fallout with the regime
> and subsequent fleeing into exile.  You're too busy
> calling Yahya Jammeh, Yankuba Touray, Edward
> Singarteh, and Kaba Bajo bastards, thugs, cowards,
> and empty heads.    I challenge you to tell Gambia-l
> what your qualifications are. What
> University/College or Military institution did you
> attend and what qualifies you to call anybody an
> empty head.  What skills do you have and what job if
> any did your A-1 resume got you in the real world.
> It is always interesting that those who always want
> to come across as more intellectual have little or
> no proof/title to back it up.  THE ABILITY TO READ
> AND POMPOUSLY WRITE in the Queens language does not,
>  by no means, make one an intellectual or worthy of
> the title 'Learned'.  Even having a Ph.D doesn't
> automatically qualify one as an intellectual.
>
> You stated that  Yahya Jammeh is a coward.  Folks,
> It was the same Yahya Jammeh who on the night before
> the coup was disarmed and risked being apprehended
> and put on death row.  It takes a man of great
> courage and guts to lead a coup in broad daylight
> the next day.  He led the march to Banjul to rescue
> us from thirty years of corruption, tribalism, and
> marginalization  in the highest degree.   All of you
> writing nonsense now against this regime are the
> same people who were scrambling for positions.  Your
> colorless and opportunistic characters are the very
> baits that hooked you up during the course of
> events.
>
> On the issue of tribalism, the last time I checked,
> Eleven out of thirteen secretaries of state are non
> Jolas and that's not because there are no qualified
> Jolas.  If Jammeh is playing the ethnic card, all of
> these secretaries of state would have been Jolas,
> and surely, he could have filled all these positions
> will Jola intelligentsia even from this Gambia-l
> alone.
>
> If President Jammeh is tribalist, he would not have
> publicly stated that he won the presidential
> elections mainly because of the 56% percent of the
> larger ethnic groupings that he carried, including a
> majority of the Mandingos.  It is easy for the likes
> of Ebou Colly with refugee passports to incite
> ethnic hatred in the comforts of their new found
> status thousands of miles away.  We at Gambia-L
> should ask ourselves who the real victims of a civil
> war in Gambia would be. Over 90% of Gambia-l
> subscribers are in the diaspora and would not be
> personally affected by an all out civil war but some
> of us still have our loved ones back home.  If Ebou
> Colly also thinks that a civil war in the Gambia
> would result in a swift and decisive massacre of all
> Jolas, I am here to tell you that you must be living
> in a dream world.  We are all brothers and sisters
> in the Gambia.  I for one cannot raise a finger of
> hatred toward any Gambian because of his/her
> ethnicity.
>
> I suggest Mr. Ebou Colly, or whatever you choose to
> call yourself to take your simplistic fiery rhetoric
> to another forum.  Besides, if the Jolanization
> syndrome that you so tirelessly try to portray is
> real, then even the SOS for foreign affairs position
> would have been given to Mr. Mbye Sagnia who is at
> the EU in Brussesl.  Some of us on this Gambia-l
> were taught by Mbye Sagnia  who is arguably the best
> French Scholar from The Gambia.   He was born at
> Kombo Berending and he is a Jola.  He was frustated
> out of the Jawara regime after having been left to
> inhale chalk for years at Armitage School.
>
> THIS PRESIDENT  ( YAHYA JAMMEH ) IS HERE FOR ALL
> GAMBIANS REGARDLESS OF LANGUAGE AFFILIATION.  QUITE
> A CONTRAST FROM 30 YEARS OF MARMARGINALIZING THE
> FONIS
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