Ever since the National Assembly of The Gambia in year 2000 indemnified the security forces, especially those who took part in the massacre of their own Gambian brothers (armless students) on April 10 and 11through the Indemnity Act, Gambians became so fearful of you, the people they pay to maintain through their taxes. Today, we are paying the prize of the Indemnity Act by which the loose security forces can at any time, whether under the command of Yaya Jammeh or not, are always terrorizing the civilian population. It is with great sadness that exactly 16 years since the massacre…
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Money is not everything. That is true, especially when you do not know where to shop and hide some.Thanks to those doing business in tax haven ways, the world has come to know of the “Panama Papers,” a trove of more than 11 million pages of documents covering over 40 year and leaked this month. The business fixer is Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm fancied in the world of international finance as a facilitator of those who want to create off-the-books shell companies to launder money, dodge sanctions and hide cash from tax authorities. The documents give a peak…
We learn with horror and express great concern over excessive state-sponsored violence and reported torture by National Intelligence Agency (NIA) personnel against peaceful demonstrators for political and electoral reforms in The Gambia. We condemn the reported torture and gruesome deaths of three UDP leaders: Mr. Ebrima Solo Sandeng, Ms. Fatoumata Jawara and Ms. Fatou Camara, and many other peaceful demonstrators who sustained life-threatening injuries in the hands of NIA personnel. We call for the immediate release of remains of murdered leaders to their families for proper burial. We condemn without reservation the arrest(s) of United Democratic Party (UDP) leader, Hon.…
Well Done In the front end you make all these promises, but in the back end you pile money up to the sky. Well done! You’ve done a wonderful job of tearing down the country into pieces. Well done! You’ve done a splendid job of selling out the country with your business plan. Well done! Kanilai Farms, Kanilai Cosmetics, Kanilai Mburu, Kanilai Transportation, Kanilai Dem Macca, Kanilai Tobaski, etc. Well done! Strictly personal gains you’ve pursued all these years. And now tax rates are higher that the plane you fly in. Well done! Meeting peaceful protesters at the gate with…
By Mathew K Jallow More directly, the Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh poses an existential threat to Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry; more immediately, the very quintessence of ECOWAS, and more broadly, to the concept of the African Union. His deleterious reign of terror can no longer be ignored, brushed aside or resigned to the mercy of Africa’s paradoxically dangerous and imperfect vehicle for democratic political change; elections. Yahya Jammeh’s antiseptic language, dressed in boring fustian rhetoric, often appears benign on the surface, but peeling off the layers of sophomoric demagoguery, reveals a degenerate antediluvian obliviousness and demonic impulses for violence rooted in his…
By Abdul Savage FIRST and FOREMOST, I MUST make a Disclaimer here that this thesis, like with all of my writings relative to the Gambian Predicament, is meant to ask Provocative, Vital and Crucial Questions in our quest of National Discourse surrounding our current Predicament. AND SO, let’s continue the discussions, and here is my input for us to ponder over: What the Gambia would look like after a “CHANGE” and this mass exodus of people in the so-called struggle started returning to the Gambia? Imagine people in this so-called struggle returning to the Gambia after a “CHANGE”? Imagine the…
Breaking News: Teranga FM Manager Alh. Abdoulie Ceesay Gains His Freedom! By Gainako’s Africa Roving Reporter Gainako reports with high authenticity that the Manager of Teranga FM Radio, Journalist Alhagie Abdoulie Ceesay, has made it safely to a neighboring country (name withheld) couple of days ago, gaining his freedom. Alhagie was arrested and charged by the Jammeh administration for allegations of distributing pictures of Gambia’s criminal leader Yaya Jammeh under gunpoint. Reliable sources in fact confirmed that the pictures were a set up for the vocal Radio Journalist as“bait” to get him in trouble because of his entertainment of divergent…
20/04/2016 The political situation in the Islamic State of The Gambia is marked by the arrest, detention and death of some opposition leaders following demonstrations advocating political reforms prior to the presidential election scheduled to hold in December 2016. ECOWAS reiterates that the consolidation of peace and stability in the Islamic State of The Gambia can only result from a consensual, inclusive and nationally-owned process and respect for constitutional order. ECOWAS therefore calls on the political stakeholders including opposition members and civil society organizations to display a profound sense of civic responsibility and patriotism in the exercise of their civil…
By Gainako’s Banjul Correspondent Leader of the United Democratic Party Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, several members of his executive and other supporters who were arrested last week for protesting were paraded in court in Banjul today for allegedly staging a demonstration against the dictatorship regime in the Gambia. Mr. Darboe and his supporters were protesting against the arrest and killing of a youth leader of the United Democratic Party Solo Sandeng who was tortured to dead and unceremoniously buried without the consent of his family. Two other female protesters Mariama Jawara and Nogoi Njie were also allegedly tortured, raped and killed.…
By D.A Jawo Once again, our African institutions have failed us, with both the African Union and Ecowas keeping so mute over the deplorable and naked human rights violations being perpetrated against innocent Gambians by their very government. We have heard the swift condemnations of the atrocities being committed in the country from the United Nations, the European Union as well as the United States and other members of the international community, but we are yet to hear any condemnation of the situation from our very own continental institutions as if they do not care about the welfare of ordinary…