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shaka
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 Posted - 10 Mar 2010 : 02:15:36
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Eleven senior Military, Police, Drugs Enforcement Agency officials and a former minister were arrested in Gambia in a vast dragnet probably related to drug trafficking, it was learned Tuesday from police sources. Former Minister of Fisheries Antouman Saho, who was fired in February, was arrested Saturday after the arrests last week of the Police Chief and his Deputy, Chief of the Navy, the Deputy Chief of the Army and the head of the Drugs Enforcement Agency and his Deputy.
"Those who have high positions in the field of security should not be involved in drug trafficking. I swear that this country will never be a narco-state", President Yahya Jammeh said Tuesday on the National Radio.
"I have zero tolerance for criminals. I have a double zero tolerance for drugs. Where you have drugs, you have violence and you have a state of anarchy, which is unacceptable," he said.
The Chiefs of Police, Ensa Badjie, and Navy, Sarjo Fofona, number 2 of the Army, Yanykuba Drammeh, the leader of the Drugs Enforcement Agency, Ebrima Bun Sanneh, and other officials were detained in the Central Prison in Banjul and have not yet been charged.
According to local media they had been dismissed before being arrested.
The government gave no explanation for this wave of arrests. "These people have all been arrested in connection with drug trafficking", a top military official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
West Africa has become in recent years a major transit point for South American cocaine destined for European markets.
The regime of President Jammeh, in power since 1994 in this former British colony is regularly criticized for its violations of human rights.
SOURCE:
http://www.seneweb.com/news/elections2007/article.php?artid=29828
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Lily
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Mar 2010 : 13:48:06
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| Do you think these people really were involved in drugs (in which case arrest them!) or is it just an excuse to remove them from their positions? |
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shaka
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Posted - 11 Mar 2010 : 01:03:09
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| They have already been arrested and detained Lilly. If you mean 'mean prosecute them', then there is one or two things you are not familiar about this Government. They prosecute as and when they want to, irrespective of a detainee's legal right. Until then a detainee rots in jail for as long as it take. If you want information from the grapevine about these security Chiefs, then it is that; it is a known fact that most of the above named are crooks per excellence. It is not a myth in the Gambia that both the Police Chief, 'Jesus' Badjie and the National Drugs Enforcement Chief, Bun Sanneh are directly in involved with drugs trafficking in the Gambia. 'Jesus' was a former CID in the Police Force specialised in narcotics for many years prior to his appointment as Police Chief. The former Minister Antouman Saho was also a former Chief of the Gambia Navy and he is a corrupt as they come. He had been alleged to have been on the take from fishing trawler owners caught illegally 'emptying' Gambian waters of huge quantities of fish stock by Navy patrol boats for many year before Jammeh even came to the scene. Sacked Navy chief Fofona was a subordinate of Mr Saho(one of his deputies i think) in the Gambia Navy durring Saho's reign. The two Deputies of Police and NDEA were immediate surbordinates to their respective bosses. Connect the dots. It is alleged that the GGC loading bay in Sarro next to the Denton bridge was the point of despatch of consignment of drugs brought in by Navy swift boats from the boats of South American drugs barons in the outer waters. There happens to be a Military Post at the Denton bridge where Armed soldiers patrol the traffic. Could it be possible that this is where Deputy Chief of the Army, Drammeh fits in? These are some of the info i gleaned from Banjul, Lilly. Remember, all this remains rumours until the above named are prosecuted on similar facts in a court of law. Now what do you think? |
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