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Sanusi Owens


--- Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Gambia-L:
>
> Find below the cautionary statements made to the
> Serious Crimes Unit of The
> Gambia Police Force, by Messsrs Dumo Saho, Ebrima
> Yarbo, Momodou Marenah,
> Ebrima Barrow and Lt Lalo Jaiteh, in connection with
> the LIES levelled
> against them by the State.
>
> The statements make interesting reading and also
> show how these men were set
> up and entrapped by an Italian security agent, who
> is one of Yahya Jammeh's
> chief security advisers. It would seem that the
> Italian, Francesco Caso,
> deliberately tried to incite the procurement of
> guns, for the purpose of
> setting the men up. He tried it also on Sheriff
> Dibba, Lamin Waa Juwara, but
> these two men were not drawn into the trap. If you
> remember well, one of my
> source once reported on the L, that there are/were
> Italian Security Agents
> who are/were working for Jammeh.
>
> Having said that, I must caution that Gambians
> should be very vigilant with
> some of these foreigners they are dealing with,
> especially when they do not
> know them.  It would seem that Yahya Jammeh will
> stop at nothing.  The
> Gambia is now a POLICE STATE, and we should all be
> on our guard.  If
> foreigners come to our country and pose as
> investors, we should make sure
> that they are genuine investors before dealing with
> them.
>
> Reading the statements of Brothers Dumo Saho, Ebrima
> Barrow and the rest of
> the brothers, which are reproduced below in full, I
> was almost in tears and
> could see clearly how they were being duped and set
> up by this Italian,
> Francesco Caso, a security adviser to Yahya Jammeh.
>
> Anyway, with the benefit of hindsight, one can
> always say these things:  at
> the time, it is always very easy to be drawn into
> traps like these.
> Perhaps, if the Italian had come to me, he could
> probably have gotten me to
> work on his behalf, or to introduce him to other
> Gambians. So we should
> attach no blame to Dumo Saho and the other brothers.
>  They were all victims
> of a vicious and purposefully arranged plot by this
> Italian and Jammeh's
> henchmen (and almost certainly by Yahya Jammeh
> himself).
>
> I urge people to check back through the archives:
> my source had already
> told us about the presence of Italian security
> advisers at Statehouse. We do
> really need to be on our guard, and to heed the
> information being supplied
> by my sources in The Gambia.  We need to take
> seriously the information that
> is forwarded by my sources so that we can avoid
> similar tragedies in the
> future.
>
> I cannot end this posting without commending Annika,
> the wife of Dumo Saho.
> She has been working tirelessly to secure the
> release of her husband, and
> she should know that she has many friends both in
> and out of The Gambia, who
> will do all in their power to assist her and her
> husband.  We have to
> maintain the pressure on Jammeh and his regime, and
> we shall success in
> having Dumo Saho, Lt. Jaiteh, Ebrima Yarboe, Momodou
> Marenah, Ebrima Barrow
> and others released.  I also know that Amnesty
> International in London are
> working very hard on the case and their able West
> Africa team, led by
> Marcella Favretto, will leave not one stone unturned
> in their efforts to
> secure the release of our brothers.
>
> By the way, these statements were sent to me by one
> of my most trusted
> sources in The Gambia, and needless to say, I am
> sending them as received.
> SO READ THEM CAREFULLY!!
>
>
> Ebrima ceesay
> Birmingham, UK
>
>
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>
>
> >CAUTIONARY STATEMENT By Ebrima Barrow, 3/7/2000
> >
> >Address: 43 Kombo Sillah Drive, New Jeshwang Age:
> 49, Occupation: Salesman
> >Cautioned by: P/insp Biram S Jobe of Serious Crime
> Independent witness:
> >Sulayman Jammeh
> >
>
> I am Ebrima Barrow, a Gambian born in Salikene in
> Central Baddibou at the
> North Bank Division. I left the Gambia in 1973 and
> travelled to Europe. I
> finally came back home in 1997 and settled as a
> businessman at New Jeshwang
> in Serrekunda. One day I visited Bakau in the month
> May 1999, precisely the
> beginning of May. As I went into the restaurant just
> opposite the Bakau
> Market, I met a certain whiteman who later
> introduced himself to me as Mr
> Francesco Caso, an Italian national from Naples in
> Southern Italy. On my
> first meeting, the two of us had discussed about
> money issues – concerning
> The Gambia and Italy in the Italian language. Later
> in the month of May,
> when I visited him, he later talked about guns to me
> and asked if there was
> any way of getting one for him. I told him in my own
> capacity I could not
> get him any but we could try and see by going to
> Banjul. So he told me that
> the guns, if possible, could be used for changing
> the government of the
> Gambia.
>
> In Banjul, we went to Wellesley Street to meet one
> Momodou Marenah. There, I
> went alone to talk to Momodou Marenah and we both
> agreed that there were no
> guns but if the whiteman brings the money, we could
> dupe or trick him by
> securing his money and do away with himself. But the
> whiteman, after going
> with us to Hagan Street, he failed to produce any
> money for me. When Marenah
> went inside a compound, he came out and asked for
> the money, but the
> whiteman didn't produce any money. He said that the
> whiteman had to produce
> the money first because this was a very risky
> business and that was meant to
> fool the whiteman – Francesco Caso. When Francesco
> said that he had money,
> the two of us (myself and himself) had driven back
> to Bakau to his Porto
> Bello Restaurant.
>
> One day, myself and Francesco went to S. M. Dibba
> (Sheriff Mustapha Dibba)
> and we greeted him. But, as Francesco talked to
> Dibba, I could see how Dibba
> distrusted Francesco. So he, Dibba, called me by the
> side, and told me not
> to go back to him with such a visitor. In June of
> the same year, I went with
> Francesco Caso to meet Waa Juwara of Brikama, but
> Waa Juwara never wanted us
> to discuss anything about toppling the present
> government. So Waa Juwara
> told me to tell Francesco that we do not need a
> foreigner to come and change
> the government for us by force of arms.
>
> I then met one Dumo Saho who owned a mechanical
> workshop in London Corner in
> Serrekunda. We talked about many things. I later
> mentioned to Saho about a
> certain Italian national who owns a restaurant in
> Bakau. I mentioned to Saho
> all that had transpired between me and Mr Caso. So
> he suggested that we both
> meet him, Mr Caso. I told him that first of all, I
> had to inform Francesco
> Caso before we could go to see him. So I met Mr Caso
> and he accepted the
> idea of seeing Mr Saho in Mr Caso's Bakau
> Restaurant. So it was a cordial
> meeting. This meeting was pertaining to changing the
> government by the use
> of force. Mr Saho, according to him, said they had
> the money and the men to
> do the job but they had no arms. During the
> recourse,
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