The AFPRC regime to no doubt is repressive and full of retroactive
legislation, the evidence are clear. The worse thing that had ever happened
to the Gambia is the emergence of the men in arms who qualified for the
title of maximum ruler

This regime  believes that  Gambia is their private property. People will
need permission from them to be there through supporting them. One thing the
government fails to realise is that there is a limit to everything and what
goes around comes around. It is just  unbelievable that these people are
not learning from other experiences that you cannot hold people to ransom.
It has never worked and it will never.

The arrogancy of the AFPRC regime is becoming more clear for the fact that
they can even seize someone's citizenship just because of a political
difference. I believe the  next thing they will do is deporting Gambians
from the Gambia. Or produce a special passport for Anti-AFPRC people.


The Struggle continues!!!!
Ndey Jobarteh




-----Original Message-----
From: chernob jallow <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 29 October 1999 20:17
Subject: Re: Jammeh's government seizing Gambian passports


>Hi Jabou,
>
>I read your revealations on the above subject with utter dismay. And
>suspicion. Talking about a "Jammeh list" of individuals abroad who are not
>in the good books of the APRC government, gives me a poignant reminder to
>what somebody at State House told me earlier this year: there exists a list
>of Gambians abroad who are deemed "enemies" of the APRC government. My
>informant alleged that the List emanated from the State House. He also
>cautioned me not to visit The Gambia because he said my NAME was also on
>this List. There is no way I can verify this information; but when I mail
in
>my passport to the Gambian embassy for renewal in a few months time,it will
>be clear if I will be meted out a  treatment similar to what was done to
>those you mentioned in your expose'. Let's see.
>
>Cherno B. Jallow
>Wayne State University
>Detroit, MI
>
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Jammeh's government seizing Gambian passports
>>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:30:18 EDT
>>
>>Folks,
>>
>>It seems that the Jammeh government has now taken to essentially
>>terminating
>>the birthright of citizenship of some Gambians abroad by seizing their
>>passports when they go to renew them at Gambian embassies abroad.
>>l have first hand  evidence, not  based on heresay or  rumour, but
received
>>direct from the individuals that this has happened to. The said individual
>>is
>>a close friend from childhood, and is currently in  the employ of a major
>>international  organization  here in the U.S..A year  or  two ago,  this
>>individual's passport, along with that of his wife and  children. expired.
>>He
>>sent the passports, along with a check to cover the costs  of renewal, to
>>the
>>Gambian embassy in Washington D.C. After  an unusually long time had
>>elapsed,
>>and the passports were not returned to them, he placed a call to the
>>embassy
>>to make enquiries from then ambassador Krispin Grey Johnson,  who he went
>>to
>>high school  with, and  whom he also ran track with at St Augustine's high
>>school, and  considered a friend.He was told that the ambassador was not
>>available to speak with him, nor was he available after several other
>>calls.
>>He was finally told that the ambassador  had seized the passports  and
>>mailed
>>them back to Gambia because he was on Jammeh's list. This included  not
>>only
>>his own passport, but that of his wife and children, right  down to the
>>then
>>5 year old child. Sometime after receiving this news, his check was mailed
>>back to him, and he said that ambassador Johnson continued to avoid  his
>>phone calls until the day he left the country. This family now has to  use
>>travel documents issued to them by the international organization they
work
>>for in order to  travel.l have been told of at least two other individuals
>>who have had their passports seized when they have gone to the embassy to
>>renew  them. The Gambian embassy in D.C  who are subscribers to  this list
>>(albeit  ghost subscribers) know very well that the case in point l am
>>referring to  is 100% true.
>>This information is  even more startling if you consider  the fact that
>>this
>>individual  resigned from his position almost 10  years before  the
Jawara
>>regime ended, due to  the fact that he felt his professional judgements
>>were
>>not being respected, and he did not want to compromise his  professional
>>credibility.He then started a  consultancy firm of his own, and infact was
>>refused contracts  by Jawara's government  for years as punishment for his
>>having resigned. He depended on outside sources for years. He hasn't  a
>>clue
>>why he is on anyone's list or why.
>>
>>
>>Jabou Joh
>>
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