Highly  placed   sources  have   confirmed   the  arrest  of  sacked   army
chief   of  staff   LT.Colonel  Vincent    Jatta   by   the   National
Intelligence   Agency  the  (NIA) .    Former  Army  chief  of    staff
Jatta ,      is    reportedly  being  questioned    by  the  NIA  and
Military  intellegence   officers    over   issues   relating   to  state
security,     authoritative   sources    intimated.

Mr.Jatta   who   recently replaces  sacked   Army chief   of  staff  Colonel
  Baboucarr   Jatta,    was   arrested    by   State    security   agents
amids   reports   that    he  wanted  to   quit   the   army   following
the    brutal   murder  of   Deyda   Hydara.   Jatta   was  said   to   have
   lamented   about    the   lapse   of   security   in   tiny   West
African  country.

According    to  sources  form   Banjul,     his    family   are
apparently    worried   about   Jatta's     safety.      Vincent    Jatta,
     a   career  infantry   soldier   was   said  to   have   been
abducted   by   his   captives,    who   are   reportedly    forcing
statements   on    him.    "There   are   attempts   to  frame   Vincent
and   other   soldiers   close   to  him.      He   is   not  deported.
Deported   for  what?     He   is  a   Gambian.        I     can    confirm
  to    you   that    Vincent   is    being   held    by   the   NIA    and
   soon    gambians   will   know   why   he  is   detained."    said  a
source.

Authorities   in   Banjul,   declined   to   make  any  public   statement
on   Jatta's   arrest.     His   arrest   came  in   the   wake  of
growing  insecurity  in   The   Gambia.    Armed  men   have  been   on
rampage,    killing  and   terrorising  those   perceived  to   be  critical
  of   the  Jammeh  dictatorship.      The     government   has    always
denied    responsibility   for   these  atrocities.      But   observers
and  citizens  alike  believed   that    the   government   must   be  a
party  to     what  they  described   as    these  "cowardly  attacks."

Since    the   toppling  of  the  democratically  elected  government  of
Sir   Dawda   Kairaba   Jawara,   by   former  army  lieutenant  Yahya
Jammeh  in   July   of   1994,     the     current   government   had   been
   at   logger   head   with  the   press  and    the    opposition.
Jammeh    had   on   many  occasions   declared   his   intention   to
bury   his   perceived  critics  "six  feet  deep".      Servants  of   his
  government   violate    citizens   rights  with  impunity.        He
also  interfered  with  the  running   of   the  judiciary.

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