I fled The Gambia on august 10, 2014, on august 1 & 2, of the same year, I was unlawfully detained under very brutal conditions for allegedly feeding wrong information to Gambians and enemies of the Gambia government base abroad and belonging to opposition parties, an accusations which are baseless. Prior to fleeing the Gambia, I remain an employee of the national drug enforcement agency up to the time I fled the Gambia. I have in the past work as a journalist for Foroyaa newspaper of the Gambia and had to quit the journalism profession as a result to similar unlawful detention; and was unemployed for few years before joining the prosecution department of my current employer prior to fleeing the Gambia.
On the first and second day of august 2014, I was unlawfully detained and while under detention, I was showed all the stories I reported then a journalist at foroyaa newspaper from the internet; that am still connected to media and feeds wrong information to enemies of the Gambia government like one Mr. mbaye with an online newspaper, whose first name I cannot recalled. They also played me a video of my brother married ceremony to the daughter of Dr sidait Jobe once a Gambian foreign minister under the jammeh administration, who resigned and flee the Gambia; in this video, I was seated among Dr Sidait Jobe my brother in-law and Ousanou Darboe leader of the biggest opposition political party in the Gambia whose present was due to him belonging to the extended Jobe family from fulladu region of the Gambia. Well, according to them, because I was seated with these prime enemies of Gambia government, so I belong to the opposition and an enemy of the government. I was brutally tortured under detention and inflicting injuries on me whose photos are enclosed.
Just moments preceding my release from that unlawful detention, they unequivocally put it to me that an enemy can never turn to a friend and once their enemy, you shall always remain one and they are determined to go at any length in silencing the unpatriotic wolf in sheep clothing like myself and further stressing their intention of harming me by emphasizing repeatedly that I am black-listed and all eyes are on me and shall come back for me and when they do I shall become history. On the contrary, I do not see myself as enemy of the government then in journalist, but stake-holder and partner in the development and prosperity of our mother land The Gambia. Knowing that am very innocent of all the allegations made against me and that I still remain unsafe even in life outside journalism and judging them by their continuous brutality of patriotic and law abiding Gambians of my standing, I therefore deem it fitting and safe to flee my be-loved home land The Gambia and seek asylum and refuge with my family abroad than got killed by my so-called enemy.
Story of Abdou Keita