Mr Jallow was another nonsense by the political police
of Yahya Jammeh(NIA).These people are the biggest
manipulators in our country.They alway know how to
frame you when they want to get you.I am surprise a
decent Gambian like Satang will involved in such an
allegation of drug dealing.I hope the Gambians know
who are the drug dealers.Yahya Jammeh forget that he
is the greatest drug dealer in our country.His record
with the Malian millionaire is a clear
testimony.Satang is only a critical gender activist
advocating for humanizing condition which the regime
has place on the women folk in our country.
Abdou Karim Sanneh
Manchester UK
--- Ams Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This was culled from the point: As NGO's,
> Diplomats and concerned
> Gambians filed protest against the kidnaping and
> detention of our dear
> sister, the police apparatus' excuse/accusation
> against activist/progressives
> is either: DRUG TRAFFICKING OR CONSPIRING TO
> OVERTHROW THE ILLEGITIMATE
> REGIME OF YAHYA JAMMEH.
>
>
> PCOs Interrogate Santang Jobarteh
>
> Gender activist Satang Jobarteh on Thursday was
> interrogated by plain cloth
> officers at the Kairaba police station. Reliable
> sources reaching this
> newspaper said some plain cloth officers on
> Thursday, raided the house of
> Satang Jobarteh, a renowned gender activist.
> According to our sources, the
> raid followed claims that Mrs. Jobarteh, who is the
> proprietor of Simma
> Vocational Training Centre, was allegedly engaged in
> drug trafficking. A
> charge the gender activist strongly denied, saying
> that the whole thing was
> aimed at smearing her image.
>
> Satang Jobarteh told The Point is an exclusive
> interview that she was not the
> least intimidated by the raid as her hands are
> clean. She said as a women’s
> rights activist and a writer, she would never
> involve herself in such shady
> deals and vowed to contiune in the struggle for
> women’s rights. Explaining
> the circumstances that led to her invitation to the
> Kairaba Police station
> for questioning, Mrs. Jobarteh said, “On Thursday,
> when I finished work,
> three unidentified gentlemen, not in uniform
> actually, so I wouldn’t be able
> to call them police.
>
> I don’t know. They came to my house and told me
> they wanted to search the
> place because they had information that I was
> involved in drug trafficking”.
> According to Mrs. Jobarteh, she requested the three
> men to identify
> themselves and one of them identified himself as Mr.
> Jeng. He later showed
> her an identity card but refused for its particulars
> to be read. “When I
> wanted to read, they said people were not allowed to
> touch the card. So, I
> said, well you are highly welcomed, you can go ahead
> with your investigation
> if that is the case, “ said Mrs. Jobarteh. She
> added that after an intensive
> search of her house, the officers could not find the
> drugs said to have been
> hidden in her apartment.
>
> She told The Point that the three men wanted to
> whisk her off secretly to the
> Kairaba Police Station but she insisted that there
> should be somebody to
> witness her departure. “I told them it is not safe
> because nobody was around
> to witness my departure. I am living alone and if I
> should go without people
> knowing about, it could be detrimental to me”,
> said Mrs. Jobarteh. When asked
> whether she knew why the officers should search her
> house, she replied: “It
> is surprise to me.
>
> I didn’t really know, but as an activist you have
> to accept and expect some
> of these things anytime. This is the price of
> activism.” She added that
> nothing is easy and gender activists should be ready
> to expect some of these
> things. She added that the raid would only give her
> more vigour to carry out
> her work pointing out that “as an activist you
> really have to be strong; you
> have an objective that you want to attain and you
> have to carry on. You have
> to be strong, you have to be assertive”.
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