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Momodou
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 Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 23:51:51
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NDONDI NJIE AND OTHERS RELEASED
By Yaya Dampha
The Former Chairman of the IEC, Mr. Ndondi Njie and two other commission members, namely Sulayman Sait Mboob and Ebrima Sanneh, were arrested by the National Intelligence Agents last Wednesday.
They were all arrested after being sacked. Readers would recall that when the new IEC Chairman, Mustapha Carrol, was taking oath the President told the nation that he had given his money to the IEC to buy films for the supplementary registration of voters. The President claimed that the IEC boss had mismanaged that money. The President did not say how much he gave to the IEC. However, during the last budget speech, Gambians were told that the amount of one hundred and twenty million dalasis was allocated to the IEC for them to be able to carry out their functions. When contacted, the NIA Officer refused to talk to FOROYAA. FOROYAA was been reliably informed that the three former IEC Senior Officers were later transferred to the Serious Crimes Unit of the Police where they were detained for two days before being released on Monday night. Our efforts to speak to the Police Public Relations Officer on why the three were arrested and on what conditions they were released, proved futile.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 63/2006, 9-10 July, 2006
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