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 Posted - 30 Jan 2008 : 12:07:04
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this is a gambian who use to expose the yahya jammeh's army.
read him.
From: ebou colly <ebouc@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Yaya's Power Base?
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 ***** 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 ***** 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 **** 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 ***** 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 ****** 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. .
Culled from Gambia-L archives
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Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
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Santanfara
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Posted - 31 Jan 2008 : 09:47:15
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| The best way to understand ebou colly's piece is to print in out and read it. the karamba topic can be associated with ebou colly's narations.the accounts are harrowing and sad. |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
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Santanfara
3460 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2008 : 08:29:06
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another instalment from the achives of ebou colly. aka samsideen sarr according to realiable sources.
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000
From: ebou colly <eboucolly@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Another Dubious Coup Plot in The Gambia
Another Dubious Coup Plot in The Gambia:
But Who were these Plotters- Lt. Alimamo Manneh and Lt Landing Sanneh?
To start with, let me make an essential reflection. Was it Yaya Jammeh trying
to play the sense of the dramatic two weeks ago when he quoted a well known
Wollof saying to the elders of Banjul that "wishes were like personal houses
and those who built them usually ended sleeping in them"? Well, I wonder whether
Yaya is familiar with this other classic Wollof proverb: " Those who train
their own wrestlers usually become the first victims of their students."
In precise terms therefore, I am saying that if it was really true that
Landing Sanneh and Almamo Manneh actually turned their arms of terror against their
Boss Yaya, then the second proverb perfectly fits the so-called coup plot
announced in The Gambia on the 14th January 2000. By all indications, it was no
secret that Almamo Manneh and Landing Sanneh were Yaya's most notorious thugs,
bullies or killer machines after the tranquilization of Sana Sabally, the
death of Sadibou Haidara and the recent marginalization of Edward Singhateh.
Over the years Yaya made those two monsters who they were and encouraged them
in every campaign of terror, torture and intimidation they had inflicted upon
the peace-loving Gambian people.The vicious activities of these State Guard
henchmen constituted the greatest nightmare of all Gambian, civilians and
soldiers alike. Yet, nobody could do anything about them, because Yaya protected
them with dogmatic intolerance.
When Yaya appointed Landing Sanneh as head of his personal State Guard Unit,
it was apparent that he made his choice of Landing purely on tribal lines
i.e.Sanneh was simply a "Jola" like him. Furthermore, Landing was the *****ic type
of person he could easily manipulate to carry out all his evil orders. But
certainly there were more competent and saner officers to handle that
responsibility better. However, Yaya by habit, and like most other despots, enjoyed
being surrounded by empty-headed people like him whom he could easily lure into
carrying out his dirty work.
Just take a look at the terrible things perpetrated by Landing as Commander
of the State Guard - and in all these cases the Kaninlai tyrant always
commended him. In 1996,for example Yaya Jammeh shamelessly encouraged Landing Sanneh
to pull a pistol on Edward Singhateh when the latter was the Vice Chairman of
AFPRC government, the second most powerful administrator in the Gambia at the
time. Edward Singhateh was merely paying a courtesy call to Mrs. Tuti Faal
Jammeh (Yaya's former wife) when Sanneh under Yaya's directive threatened to shoot
the Vice Chairman. When Yaya got the report, he commended Sanneh for a
wonderful job well done. In that same year 1996,Landing Sanneh the State Guard
Commander unleashed his men under the leadership Almamo Manneh to conduct the most
brutal beating of members of the United Democratic Party (U.D.P.) supporters
at Denton Bridge. To the Army itself Landing was a living terror with absolute
encouragement and total support of Yaya. Former Army Commander and now Chief
-of-Staff, Baboucarr Jatta was in 1997 openly challenged by Landing Sanneh in a
manner that had totally undermined his authority as head of the Army. In that
case also Yaya clearly stood by his ill-disciplined lieutenant against a
whole Colonel. It was the ultimate message from Yaya Jammeh to the entire army
that Landing was untouchable among Jammeh's boys of terror.
However Almamo was a greater terror. Since the coup in 1994 the former
sergeant was permanently identified with Yaya in every sort of terrorist action
imaginable. In 1996 it was Almamo who shot and almost killed an innocent taxi d
river in the streets of Banjul at broad daylight Yaya commended him for it
because Almamo acted on his directive to shoot any driver on the move when his
convoy was passing. Almamo like Sanneh were the very few soldiers in the whole army
with the absolute authority to carry any kind of weapons at all times. Almamo
could arrest any civilian or soldier and torture them with animal brutality
just to please Yaya. The popular P.P.P. politician and former Minister Omar
(O.J.) Jallow had on several occasions fallen victim to Almamo's brutality on the
orders of Yaya Jammeh. He kept the keys to the State House armory; he was
that ugly -looking soldier always in camouflage uniform with dark glasses moving
beside Yaya.
Interestingly however with all the terror and madness associated with Almamo
the non- commissioned officer, Yaya in 1999 promoted him to the rank of a
lieutenant when the ***** could barely read or write. It was a clear manifestation
of rewarding the most terrible and incompetent soldier in the whole Gambia
Armed Forces. Then all of a sudden we are informed that Almamo and Landing were
trying to topple their Boss Yaya but the former was butchered and the latter
put on chains. Thank god what a great riddance that was for the Gambian people.
The only person who lost dearly is Yaya Jammeh,but knowing him fully well he
would try all his tricks to turn it into a childish victory story for himself.
He would fabricate big lies again about super-coup activities he had foiled
only to once again expose his puerile mind.
Apparently a lot of people may wonder what really brought Yaya and Almamo
together in a whole army of over 1000 men; that's a simple answer ; they are more
or less the same caliber in several ideas especially in the field of
primitive 'Jujus'. Yaya and Almamo had always shared the funny dream that the abundant
of charms and 'Jujus' supplied to them by their marabouts were actual bullet
proof stuffs. Well, I only hope the demise of Almamo was a proper wake up call
for the superstitious Jammeh to now know that those things don't work at all.
As for the rest of the Gambian soldiers the fall of the mighty Lt. Landing
Sanneh and Lt. Almamo Manneh was typical example of what could happen to those
who have less faith in god and decided to choose the satanic path of evil
doers. The Jammeh government had been built through treachery and deceit and Yaya
has perfected his skill of destroying his greatest loyalists particularly the
fanatical ones; ask Edward Singhateh if you want to know more about that. As a
matter of fact it would have been an insult to the Gambia Army for Almamo and
Landing to successfully lead them in a coup. Even Kukoi with his own madness
would have been a better choice.
Besides Gambians are now fed up with lies of one coup conspiracy after
another. Samsudeen Sarr and Mamat Cham, Sana Sabally, Sadibou Haidara and even the
current vocal secretary of state for the Interior Ousman Badjie were all at one
time accused of dubious coup conspiracies and incarcerated at Mile Two
Central Prisons for months and years. But were some these people not eventually
released and appointed to the highest and most sensitive security positions in
Jammeh's government? How could Samsudeen Sarr and Ousman Badgie accused coup
plotters become Commander of the Gambia Army and Secretary of State for the
Interior respectively? Furthermore didn't they try every thing in vain to deceive
the whole world about what really happened to the late Koro Ceesay? So for God's
sake let the narrow-minded intellectual sycophants of Jammeh's government
give us a break about their dubious coup conspiracy theory. They have really made
the APRC government synonymous with Lies, Lies and Lies.
By the way I am definitely left wondering why another notorious bafoon among
Jammeh's thugs survived the downfall of his partners. Musa Jammeh was the
third person in the three-man bullies controlled by Yaya. Perhaps Musa was spared
simply because he was a "Jola" and a closer relative and puppet to Jammeh. Yet
Musa is shamelessly more dangerous than the other two. Before the coup in 1994
Musa was among Ex-President Jawara's closest body guards. And it is evident
that since then in order to clear that past image, he had turned into one of
the worst tools of Yaya. Anyway he should be keenly watched as another
Jammeh-created snake that could at any moment spit his venom to his boss.
I cannot however conclude my observation without mentioning one of the most
critical and disturbing aspect Jammeh's coup consequences. How come every time
Yaya Jammeh's government snaps with a fake coup it is only the Mandingos,
Wollofs Fullas who are killed in the process and buried in the most indecent
manner. Check this list since 1994:
Name of Soldier Executed Ethnic Group
Burial Site 1.Lt.Basiru Barrow Mandingo Behind Yundum Barracks toilets. 2.
Lt.Gibril Saye Wollof Ditto 3.Lt .Abdoulie Bah Fullah Ditto 4.Lt. Abdoulie Faal
(D O T)Wollof Ditto 5.SSgt.Fafa Nyang Wollof Ditto 6.Sgt.Basiru Camara
Mandingo Ditto 7.Sgt.E.M.Ceesay Wollof Ditto 8.Lt.Almamo Manneh Mandingo Not yet
known 9.Cpl.Dumbuya Mandingo Not yet known
In the final analysis, it is clear tha members of Jammeh's ethnic group are
always unaffected. Landing Sanneh was for instance Almamo Manneh's Boss in
every respect, then how come the former, a Jola, survived the so-called coup
attempt and the latter, a Mandingo, died in the shoot-out? Why not just call it the
execution of more Mandingos? But Jammeh should know that the day of reckoning
is drawing near and he should also start marking his own spot behind the
toilets at Yundum Barracks. What goes around comes around body!
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