Shattering Revelations
The Point  (Banjul)
March 24, 2001
Posted to the web March 24, 2001
Banjul
The most dramatic revelations were made during the UDP campaign tour
of Kiang East in the villages of Generie and Kaiaf when two senior
members of 22nd July movement defectors, Fabakary Kolior Camara and
Lamin "Sierra Leone" Sanneh spoke of their activities whilst they
were members of the movement.

At the UDP rally in Generie on Tuesday March 20, 2001 Lamin Sanneh
alleged that during the last presidential elections, Baba Jobe
mobilised over hundred 22 July movement members with a fleet of
vehicles throughout Kiang to pull down the flags of UDP and
photographs of the UDP presidential candidate, Ousainou Darboe and to
further intimidate the population so as to force them to stay away
from polling stations in order not to vote for the UDP presidential
candidate.

Mr. Lamin Sanneh further disclosed that the movement members
intercepted a UDP vehicle on the campaign trial from Kwinella going
eastwards at Bumarie He said they destroyed the drums and forced the
UDP campaign team to disembark and they commandeered their vehicle at
gun point to join their convoy on their journey towards Kalagi Bridge.
The most interesting highlight of the Generie rally on Tuesday was
when Lamin Waa Juwara, the UDP national organising secretary gave an
account of his ordeal at the fateful Mansakonko Good Governance
workshop.

The step mother of Fabakary Kolior Camara, Madam Nyokono Samura of
Kiang Kolior village broke in tears and demanded for forgiveness from
Mr. Juwara for Mr. Fabakary Kolior Camara.

The entire crowd including the UDP party leader Ousainou Darboe,
chanted that they have forgiven those who have tried to mislead these
young people for their own personal schemes.
Fabakary Camara who was in tears and the entire crowd shouted "Down
with the APRC."
The meeting continued when Fabakary Kolior Camara took the podium and
gave an account on how they were recruited into the 22 July movement
He disclosed that they had their first formal training session in
Janjanbureh at the Armitage Senior Secondary School in September
1995, when they had their first contact with some Libyans who were
sent to indoctrinate them and screen them for graduation from the
ordinary 22 July movement membership to the Action group membership.
He revealed that the Libyans withdrew a subvention for allowance and
training when they discovered that more than half of those sent to
Libya were not trainable because they were indisciplined and lacked
commitment to the revolution.

According to Fabakary Kolior Camara, the July 22 movement was
dissolved but the Action Group was maintained and renamed the APRC
youth wing.

Fabakary K. Camara who was in tears also disclosed that they were
ordered by Baba Jobe and Soma Jobe to go to Sibeto village in Kiang
central to intercept Lamin Waa Juwara on his way to the good
governance workshop when he was coming from Banjul to Mansakonko.
He categorically stated that they were given orders to assassinate
Mr. Lamin Waa Juwara.

According to Mr. Fabakary Camara, the assassination team of the July
22 movement members that went to Sibeto spent the whole night in
Sibeto but returned in the early hours of the morning to their
headquarters in Soma, Lower River Division after they could not trace
Mr. Juwara's whereabouts.
He said they had fresh instructions to disrupt the good governance
workshop and to expell Mr. Juwara out of the Lower River Division
(LRD).

Mr. Camara claimed that Lamin Kaba Bayo the then Secretary of State
for local government, who was supposed to deliver the opening address
at the workshop was privy to all the plans for the disruption of the
workshop.

Mr. Fabakary Kolior Camara who was subbing further claimed that he
was the first person that assaulted Mr. Juwara at the Good Governance
workshop in Mansakonko.

At the end of the rally in Generie and Kaiaf, several reporters spoke
to Mr. Lamin Waa Juwara who expressed concern for "the safety of
these two young people who were misguided and have decided to break
ranks with the July 22 movement".

Mr. Juwara further said that "Fabakary Kolior Camara and
Lamin 'Sierra Leone' Sanneh are not ordinary defectors but people who
knew everything that transpired in an earlier close door meetings".
Mr. Juwara however warned them not to disclose anything related to
the Basse UDP ambush since the matter was before the court of law.
Mr. Juwara finally warned that "if anything happens to these young
people either in the forms of assassination or disappearances,
president Jammeh would be held responsible".

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