Interesting, BUWALU LA NYO-TOFOO (WITCHES CALLING EACH OTHER'S NAME). A
food for thougth for those involved in brutal killings of Gambians. As
long as the people who witnessed or executed these astrocities live in this
world, Gambians should be assured that truth shall prevail.
Thanx Mr. Colly for these interesting revelations.
LAMIN PF MANNEH
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>Subject: Yaya's Power Base?
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:53:27 -0800
>
>THE GNA SOLDIERS NOT THE POWER BASE FOR YAYA JAMMEH
>
>Before dealing with my next subject, I would first
>like to extend my sincere appreciation to all those
>wonderful comments sent by various readers of my last
>issue. Your encouraging words were certainly morale
>boosters and have reinforced my determination and
>spirit to be more sharing with a candid approach.
>
>I cannot however ignore the few questions forwarded
>doubting the credibility of my information, because I
>sincerely believe that every skeptic deserve a
>satisfactory explanation of everything said about the
>Jammeh regime. Saying that I was a true serving member
>of the Gambia National Army (GNA) from its early
>inception in 1985 to its most recent past may not be
>sufficient consolidate the credibility I hope to
>project. If I also stopped at merely explaining my
>broad knowledge of military operations-orders ranging
>from the section, platoon, company or even battalion
>battle drills, the highest operational capability of
>the present GNA my points may still not sink in well
>into the minds of those without proper military
>education. However before elaborating on some more
>tangible lines, I would like to inform everybody that
>I am a well-trained infantry soldier with advanced
>skills of a combatant in field craft, the special
>ability of a sharp shooter but above all the
>discipline of a true soldier. A true soldier precisely
>means a good fighter for the right course without
>being unnecessarily bloodthirsty. It also means being
>professional and having less or nothing to do with
>politics. Soldiers with political aspirations are
>nothing but rebels or bandits in uniform.
>
>However let me now give a broader or additional proof
>of my assertion that Jammeh's government always comes
>up with false coup plots merely to eliminate innocent
>Gambians. Take the case of Captain Yankuba Drammeh the
>current Commanding Officer(CO) of the largest fighting
>battalion in the GNA,1 Infantry Battalion. His office
>and cellular phone numbers are 4722121 and 990178
>respectively. Call him and if he is honest with you
>should be able to tell you the harrowing experience he
>suffered at Mile Two Central prisons accused by Jammeh
>of a dubious coup plot against his government. Or you
>try Captain Cherno Jallow the present CO of the second
>largest battalion on his office number-497100-and he
>could also tell you the terrible days he was
>incarcerated at death row by Yaya for planning a coup
>he could not justify. Captain Alpha Kinteh at the Army
>Headquarters Banjul on 225772or225771 also suffered in
>the hands of Yaya on a coup conspiracy charge no one
>could enlighten for him. I could go on and on, but
>that would simply tie me down on this subject that I
>think I have now been adequately treated, at least for
>this forum. So I will move to my next subject
>deserving equal importance.
>
>As a former member of the GNA I am now trying to find
>the right voice to speak for mainly those honest and
>good soldiers of the GNA who had nothing to do with
>Yaya's coup and are ashamed of being associated with
>him or his government. Nevertheless the general
>civilian public often categorize all the soldiers in
>uniform as other Yaya Jammehs, Edward Singhatehs,
>Lamin Kaba Bajos, Yankuba Tourays or the few stupid
>ones blindly following them. Contrary to that
>stereotype concept, I can speak with confidence that
>90% or more of the GNA soldiers on active service are
>very good, honest and God fearing Gambians holding on
>to their jobs primarily to make a simple living. But
>given the negative legacy of African armies in general
>with the Gambia not an exception, the civilian
>population have developed the wrong notion that all
>the soldiers are evil. Consequently when members of
>the army are improperly treated in a manner that does
>not conform with the standard laws of the nation or
>the constitution, the legal institutions or civil
>population usually brush it aside as unimportant
>isolated problems.
>
>Take for instance the so-called counter coup of 11th
>November 1994 when Yaya Jammeh falsely accused some
>GNA officers and other ranks and then summarily
>executed them in the most gruesome manner. The
>majority were executed on the 13th of November, two
>days after the AFPRC government stated that all of
>them were killed in a fire on the 11th of November.
>The entire Gambian public was aware of the lies of the
>government in that serious crime. But how did they
>react to that unlawful butchery of those innocent
>Gambian soldiers? They simply gossiped their regret
>over the terrible act without a single voice of
>protest raised or any form of pressure exerted on
>Jammeh and his killers to satisfy their doubts.
>
>The soldiers at Yundum Barracks that evening wept like
>children as their colleagues were driven away in a
>Land Rover pick-up vehicle to the out skirts of
>Nyambai Forest where they were cowardly killed one
>after another. Their dead limp bodies were later
>brought back and handed over to the moronic
>Chief-Of-Staff Baboucarr Jatta who supervised the
>final terrible act of burying the men naked behind the
>toilets. The bulk of the soldiers stood by numb in
>their legs with fear and shock. And as soon as they
>left the barracks the stupefied soldiers started
>telling the whole story the exact manner it happened
>and monsters who took part in the killing. The last
>shots that killed Sergeants E.M.Ceesay and Basiru
>Camara were ordered by Edward Singhateh around
>6.00p.m. His former driver Batch Jallow used a
>Chinese-made A.K 47,folding butt, to shoot and killed
>the two Sergeants at point range. But all the killing
>instructions were coming directly from Yaya. It was
>the worst crime committed against humanity by the
>AFPRC government.
>
>Anyhow the Gambian public seemed to care less about
>that crime. At least the Gambian public could have
>asked for the bodies with proper postmortem performed
>on everyone and of course have them handed over to
>their families for proper burial. There was no war or
>social disturbance in the nation at that moment to
>necessitate that hasty and terrible burial. The only
>reason they was to hide the evidence of what did. Up
>to tkis present time no one shows a glimmer of
>interest in that case. It is not proper for those
>soldiers to remain there forever as if they do not
>deserve to be buried in any cemeteries in the country.
>Why should Yaya Jammeh condition the minds of all the
>Gambians into remaining this silent about something
>that has no iota of justice or human decency? Why?
>Why? Why? These men had wives and children who still
>dont't know where their fathers have disappeared to
>since that day they left for work in 1994.
>
>By comparison however, the other tragic killing of
>Ousman Koro Ceesay six months later seemed to have
>attracted more public sympathy and out cry than the
>innocent Gambian soldiers lying at Yundum.What's the
>logic? It was really ugly killing the former Finance
>Minister of the AFPRC government and burning him in
>his official car to hide the evidence. But did you
>know that Lt.Gibril Saye was bayonetted all over his
>body including both his eyes before he was finally
>shot by Staff Sergent Kanyi? Lt. Abdoulie Faal (DOT)
>had his back bone broken by bending him backwards
>until the bone snap at his waist before he was shot
>and killed with a 9mm pistol.
>
>All these stories were more or less known to the
>Gambian public, but because they were soldiers, the
>crimes were perfectly normal.
>
>So one could judge clearly the precarious message
>behind the whole episode. When Jammeh hits a civilian
>regardless of how friendly or close that person was to
>the tyrant, the action is condemned with the whole GNA
>sometimes blamed for it. Yet when a soldier attempts
>to even question the legitimacy of the idiot and is as
>a result maimed or killed the public says little or
>nothing about it.
>
>Anyhow in actual fact , looking at Jammeh's government
>since the coup in 1994,it has always been the
>civilians who supplied him with the right
>administrative ingredients that has sustained his
>government for so long. The soldiers could not and in
>reality would not if they could. Apparently even the
>most educated and best trained soldiers of the GNA had
>no clue of how to run a government much more Yaya one
>of the most under-educated and less-trained in the
>army. With his grade 11 high school education the
>idiot was not even a member of the GNA. He was a
>gendermarie personnel with then worst record of
>professional or academic attainment. If the civilians
>worshipping him were aware of how mentally backward he
>was, and they decide to stop helping him today, within
>few hours his government would collapse altogether.
>But perhaps the civilians very well know the low
>mental level of the fool and enjoy exploiting it for
>their selfish interest
>
>What is only sad about it is the continuous
>denunciation of the ordinary common soldiers for
>keeping the Kaninlai monsterin power. But can you
>remember Fafa Mbye who selfishly armed the Jammeh
>regime in the beginning with all those decrees and
>legal arsenals used to destroy several selected
>Gambian families? Can you also remember those
>so-called great civilian intellectuals of the Jawara
>era who have totally shifted their loyalty to Jammeh
>with fanatical zeal. On the active front, there were
>the Bolong Sonkos, the Blaise Jagnes,Omar Njie,Famara
>Jatta, Isatou Njie Saidy,Balla Jahumpa and now the
>most prominent being Momodou Lamin Sidat Jobe. Would
>all of them in the end be treated as innocents and
>blame the soldiers for Jammeh's crimes? My friends
>let's be realistic I think it would have been somewhat
>fairer if blame was shared between the greedy civilian
>and the rebels in uniform disguised as soldiers.
>
>Even with that, an objective critic may want to think
>twice if the calibre of soldiers in power is well
>scrutinised. For example the sadist Edward Singhateh,
>apart from his animal brutality which makes him a
>notorious killer of innocent Gambians,the half-cast
>has nothing in his brain to make him a competent
>administrator. As for Yankuba Touray, his only
>effective role in the system is taking the local
>political platform and reinforcing every lie uttered
>by Yaya. He has the mental ability of a kindergarten
>child. He is absolutely zero when it comes to
>formulating government policies let alone executing
>them.
>
>Lamin Kaba Bajo? He is the one I respect the least
>among them. Hiding behind religion, he is the most
>empty-headed and disloyal person in the history of
>security forces in the Gambia. At the time of the coup
>in 1994,Lamin was a captain commanding the whole
>Presidential Guards of Ex-President
>Jawara.However,when the coward heard about the
>advancing soldiers coming to overthrow the government
>he abandoned the unit and ran away to Dakar Senegal
>with President Jawara's family.He returned a week
>later to be given a high position by Jammeh because
>they were old friends.
>
>These are men who have no virtues, carry little or no
>valuable knowledge in their head and lacked every form
>of human conscience to make them good administrators.
>
>So take it from me, an ordinary civil disobedience of
>the Jammeh establishment would have been the easiest
>way to expel his government from power. The real
>soldiers would prefer it that way. A genuine mass
>movement will in fact attract a lot of soldiers to
>move along with it rather than against it. But instead
>even the career politicians remain silent in their
>chambers. Where are the Sheriff Dibbas, Andrew
>Camaras, Gibou Jagnes etc. etc.?
>
>You may not know this but frankly speaking it hurts
>all serving soldiers dearly to associate Yaya Jammeh
>with true military characters or values since the man
>is nothing but a pathological liar, a "corruptomaniac"
>and a mass murderer under the guise of the noble army
>uniform. He lies about every thing under the sun, he
>even decorated him self with the ECOMOG medal and
>would often lie shamelessly about the peacekeeping
>role he played in Liberia when he had never step his
>foot there. He lies about how Sana Sabally and the
>late Sadibou Haidara aimed their weapons at him on the
>27th of January 1994 and attempted to shoot him
>without success because his "jujus" caused the guns to
>malfunction. The soldiers who apprehended Sana and
>Sadibou would tell you how Yaya almost shit his pants
>that day out of fear hiding away from the actual
>encounter.
>
>And where did he get all the millions of Dalasis he
>has been spending on his private multi-million Dalasi
>projects in the country? The soldiers are all
>disturbed by his wave of corrupt activities. Take for
>instance the insult to all military ethics by Jammeh
>giving the official residence of the CO at Fajara
>Barracks to his mother. The house was once occupied by
>Major Ebrima Chongan and should have now been occupied
>by the current Commander.
>
>I don't need to say any more on why I termed him a
>mass murderer anyway. But believe in me, looking at
>the danger Yaya has entangled himself with as the
>pitiful President of The Gambia condemned on a clear
>path of ultimate doom, few or no soldiers would even
>contemplate eliminating him for fear of being stock
>with the possibility of becoming another suicidal
>leader. However the idiot lives in a dream world of a
>child's mind far duller than that of Samuel Doe's who
>once got the message and chance to leave the political
>scene when he could but played the fool until he was
>captured and butchered. With Yaya,his recent remarks
>in The Gambia saying that presidents don't die in
>their own political problems indicates how unreceptive
>his brain is in political history of the African
>continent.
>
>But I would still insist that the civilians and not
>the soldiers for once take the bull by the horns and
>do it to Yaya Jammeh. Or would they continue to find
>their personal opportunities of big positions in the
>government while still blaming the soldiers for
>keeping Jammeh in power? Was it not a shocking shame
>that Abdoulai Sallah after retiring with absolute
>disgrace as ambassador has accepted another
>ministerial position from Yaya? No wonder with all the
>clear evidence seen the civil community is still
>sheepishly appealing to Yaya the number one
>orchestrator of the killing of Ousman Koro Ceesay to
>investigate the case and tell them what they have
>certainly known already. Is that not something?
>
>The soldiers should continue to pray hoping that time
>would show the clear truth. But I am still looking
>forward to that special day when the remains of our
>colleagues are removed from the back of the toilets of
>Yundum and paraded with honour before given the
>peaceful burial they honestly deserve. The Gambian
>constitution will be rectified to cover all of the
>soldiers dead or alive and will ensure that such
>things would never be entertained in our midst again.
>If soldiers are killed again under any circumstances,
>our families must get the bodies and we would lay our
>lives to stop any bastard trying to bury us behind
>toilets of our own barracks. Sorry to say, but for the
>moment any of you out there could end up in those
>shallow graves at Yundum Barracks.
>.
>
>On a final note, be assured that I am committed to
>reestablishing good governance in The Gambia and the
>preparations for that campaign is in earnest. It is
>just a matter of short time when we will roll into the
>country and clean the nation of that terrible
>government. I know what it would take.
>
>Well Mr. Ebrima Ceesay for a while I simply thought of
>ignoring your rather confrontational remarks for
>obvious reasons but a second thought after all, made
>me change my mind. It really fascinated me reading the
>level of obsession you expressed in struggling to
>expose my identity. I doubt as to whether you realized
>how desperate you sounded. You even sounded quite
>threatening saying something to the effect that you
>may use your super knowledge of the information super
>highway to trace my location and expose my true
>identity. And you also said you have other means of
>secret techniques at your disposal to reveal who I am.
>Great, you can go ahead and make my day. I sincerely
>do not think you possess any special knowledge or
>secret formula to proof to the world anything
>different from Ebou Colly being really the person I
>am. And I seriously think you lack a thorough
>knowledge of how the Internet works.
>
>Anyhow I am only pleased that you seemed to have
>nothing to challenge about the credibility of my
>information regardless of what I consider the
>tremendous show off you displayed on your knowledge of
>the Jammeh era. Credibility of the information
>supposedly matters greater in the so-called debate.
>Playing your game however, I wonder whether you gave a
>serious thought to the reason why I should be hiding
>my identity if in reality I am. Perhaps it is for a
>very genuine reason that should be respected as long
>as I am willing to supply the relevant information I
>want to share with all Gambians out there. After all
>if it were not for credibility, what other relevance
>would you say my real identity has in the so- called
>debate? The way I see it, correct me if I am wrong,
>the only sensible reason I could make out of it are
>these two possibilities: (1) You seemed to have
>already been telling everybody around you how well you
>actually know me as a different person from Ebou Colly
>and now you are burdened with the challenge of
>confirming it ;or (2) You disliked what I said about
>Jammeh and his terrible government so you mapped out a
>scheme of silencing me. Brother I think you have a
>tough job in hand because my course is already mapped
>out too and the psychological game of an amateur shall
>not make me deviate from it.
>
>I did not bother to answer your questions directly
>because, just as you put it in one of your second
>submission you know the answers but only want to check
>with me. Several doubts have been clarified in this
>text and many more shall come but based purely on my
>plan and pace. This is a forum for all
>Gambians to receive what I have to offer so don't just
>expect to change my program into a hide and seek game
>with you or any other person for that matter.
>
>However, for once I will try to help you with these
>questions you asked? The speeches you referred to on
>the first day of the coup from Radio 1 FM, I assume
>you very well knew at the time that the late Lt.
>Basiru Barrow announced the English version while
>Capt. Momodou Lamin Sonko repeated it in Mandinka and
>Wollof. Unfortunately the lieutenant was among those
>butchered on the 11th of November 1994 and is still
>lying behind the Yundum Barracks toilet but the
>captain is still around living somewhere in the USA.
>With that information it should be a piece of cake for
>you to trace him using your super knowledge of
>cyberspace or those secret formula you have. He is
>certainly the only person who can tell you who wrote
>that speech because I honestly have no idea about the
>author.
>
>You also made mention of a speech that I had
>something to do with hiding it, eh? Presumably you
>seemed to be referring to Yaya Jammeh's maide speech
>at Radio Gambia, right? If that is the one, you must
>have to my surprise missed that clear answer to who
>actually wrote it. That speech in its original
>manuscript has been on display at the small museum on
>ARCH 22 in Banjul. It is there neatly laminated and
>placed on an antique-looking table standing beside a
>similar chair with the following inscription printed
>above: This speech was written by His Excellency Yaya
>Abdulasis Junkung Jamus Jammeh President of The
>Republic Of The Gambia sitting on this table and chair
>well before he overthrew the P.P.P. government.
>Something very similar to that. I don't know how you
>really missed that with your outstanding journalistic
>credentials. Or should I say that you were among those
>gullible journalists easily fed with so many lies by
>the then AFPRC boys about all those officers who did
>not take part in the coup including the 36 of them
>incarcerated at mile two?
>Of course I was never part of the coup plotters like
>the majority of the officers, and I am perfectly proud
>of that.
>
>Ebou Colley
>
>
>
>.
>
>
>
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