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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 25 May 2006 : 15:23:13
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IMMIGRATION ISSUES WARNING
By Fabakary Ceesay
The Public Relations Officer of the Immigration Department, Cadet ASP Lamin Jatta, has warned immigration officials to desist from demanding money from foreigners before they issue laise passé.
The immigration spokesperson said any officer caught doing such malpractices will be dealt with according to the laws of the land. ASP Jatta made this warning in the wake of allegations levelled against his institution by foreigners.
Information reaching this paper have it that immigration and police officers on Tuesday demanded fifty dalasis from each of the passengers who were travelling on board a “gellegelle” vehicle. According to our source, foreigners who were returning to Cassamance, were urged to disembark from their vehicle. It is purported that the officers asked the said foreigners to produce their laise passé. According to our source, those who failed to produce their laise passé were asked to pay fifty dalasis each.
One of the affected foreigners said those who refused to pay the said amount, were taken to Brikama Police Station. The source further indicated that they were detained and later released even though they did not pay anything.
The source has it that they were travelling to Katack (a village close to Kartong).
The Police spokesperson Aziz Bojang said, “it is the responsibility of the immigration officers, so if they allow the police to interfere with their work, it is their fault. We don’t issue laise passez.”
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No.39/2006, 22-24 May, 2006
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BornAfrican
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 May 2006 : 01:17:32
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Momodou,
i am not surprised such things are happening out there in the Gambia. it is sad to see immigration officials within the ECOWAS brutalising citizens of ECOWAS member states. I did experience some of those things.
i did travel from Nigeria to Gambia by land twice. my family was against it, but as a student, i was curious and wanted to know what is happening around West AFrica. The first time, i travelled from Nigeria to Gambia by land. the second time, i travelled from Gambia to Nigeria and Nigeria back to the Gambia, both trips by land. each of those trips last atleast 2 weeks. i normally travel from Gambia to Senegal, Senegal to Mali, Mali to Boukinafasso, Boukina to Niger, Niger to Nigeria. what i experienced on each of those journeys was horrific. i was ripped off by immigration officials even though i had an ecowas passport with me. they have no respect for the laws of ECOWAS. sometimes i had to show them my student ID but they only laugh. the worst immigration officials in the world are in Mali. they are evil, (simply put).infact while in Bamako, i normally sojourn at a hostel and immigration officials know that most immigrants on transit stay at that hostel, so they wait until 3 to 4 in the morning and then raid the place. the hostel owner will normally wake us up and we run. if you are found in there, they will put charges against you that exist nowhere on this planet. if you aren't lucky, you will get stucked in Mali.
the funniest thing was that White Europeans i was travelling with were worshipped by these immigration officials. they had no problems and their passports were only stamped and let go. Black Africans face the wrath of the "immigration officers' power".
the worst thing happened to me in Senegal. my second trip from Nigeria, i was robbed by senegalese soldiers at the border. they took everything from me. i had to sleep in the open with my rock sacks at a garage in Goudiry(a border town in Senegal) over night. i had no choice but to embark on a 400km journy the next morning from Goudiry to Tambacounda by foot . After walking for over 12 hours, i was lucky to get a lift from one kind hearted driver to Tambacounda. this might sound exaggerating but not even an atom weight of it is over expressed. i am 100% sure the allegations made against the officials in the Gambia are true. it has been taking place and is still taking place out there. here we are fighting against the injustice black immigrants are facing in the WEst when i my own backyard, my kinsmen are brutalising me and my brothers simply because we come from different countries. we have to do something about it. the governments know about it, but they don't care. in the midst of it, i wonder how we can progess economically out there because most people conduct their inter-country businesses by land.
my advice to anyone travelling by land across west africa is that you have to be very careful. if you are white European or American, you are safe. my black brothers worship them. the worst borders are Mali-Senegal, Mali-Boukinafasso, Niger-Nigeria. another evil border is Nigeria-Benin, Benin-Ghana borders. these are places where lucifer reside. |
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taalibeh
Gambia
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Posted - 27 May 2006 : 11:23:53
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When was the last time the civil service salaries were reviewed and brought in line with inflation?
This guy is merely looking for promotion by making jammeh recognise his endeavour of increasing his (jammeh's) share of the national cake.
The MD of GPA had been decorated for increasing the revenue collection of the Ports. This is how jammeh gets his foreign accounts beefed up. |
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