By Yero Jallow. Ousman Saidykhan, a younger brother to Journalist Abubacar Saidykhan is said to be arrested and currently being held by Gambia’s security forces. According to a family source that reached out to Gainako, no official reasons were advanced by the state for arresting Ousman Saidykhan. It can be recalled that Ousman was arrested by the security forces back in December 2012 after Abubacar left the Gambia for safety reasons to neighboring Senegal. The arrest of Ousman adds to the many arbitrary arrests and citizens’ disappearances that came to define Jammeh’s capricious regime. The arresting of innocent citizens is…
Author: Gainako
The embattled opposition UDP Youth Secretary, Ebrima Solo Sandeng was acquitted and discharged of the charges against him at the Brikama Magistrates Courts Monday morning. Sandeng was standing trail for false information and for holding a political meeting without a valid permit; which charges he pleaded not guilty since the start of the trail. After several adjournments and a few prosecution witnesses were called at the trial the prosecution could not substantiate the charges, the opposition youth is facing. Consequently he was acquitted and discharge. Sandeng walked out of the Court a freeman once again. In a brief telephone conversation…
By Journalist Abubacarr Saidykhan- Dakar Out of criticisms in and around The Gambia, reservations have started emerging in relations to the maiden appointment of the new Pakistan Chief Justice named Eli Nawaz Chowhan to the Republic of the Gambia done by the current President of the Country Yahya Jammeh. Mr Chowhan, who is said to have bagged countless legal experiences ranging from the former International Criminal Court stationed in Yugoslavia, is perceived by many, as one of the ruthless mercenary CJ’s that the Gambia had ever known in the annals of the history of our Judicial system. According…
GAMBIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA (GFAA) PRESENTS 2014 MOTHERS’ DAY CULTURAL WEEKEND BLAST IN ATLANTA GEORGIA SATURDAY MAY 10 & Sunday May- 11th, 2014. DON’T MISS GROWING ANNUAL EVENT TO HONOR OUR LOVING MOTHERS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO TH E FAMILY…
By Momodou Ndow From infancy onward, our ability to successfully regulate our emotions is a tremendously important skill that is not only crucial to archiving our personal objectives, but will also affect our character, which will in turn determine how we socially interact with others. Between the ages of 5-12, we start to form moral values, recognize cultural and individual differences. And by our teenage years, our moral compass would have been fully formed, regardless of our cultural background. Emotional competence and a decent moral compass are central to setting principles to live by in life. Emotional competence…
Selfishness is a feature of human nature. Selfishness lifted the world from stone ages to the age of computing. Man has conquered everything along his way to make the world what it today. The challenge for mankind is treading the fine line between good selfishness and bad selfishness, if one such exists. Sam Walton created Wal-Mart for his own selfish profit motives but an estimated 1.6 million employees and their family makes living off of him. Consider how indirectly benefits from corporate taxes paid in all the nations Wal-Mart do business and the employees income taxes. Here is what…
Ahead of the EU Africa Summit from April 2-3 in Brussels, which brings together Africans and EU leaders, David Martin, former vice president of the European Parliament has called on the EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs, Catherine Aston and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosso to impose travel ban and freeze assets of President Yahya Jammeh and his immediate circle in order to put an end to impunity in the Gambia. This development came on the heel of a recent visit to Brussels by Dr Amadou Scatred Janneh and Alieu Badara Ceesay of CCG and CHRG-UK respectively…
Why Do We Have To Stain Our Hands With The Blood Of Our Innocent People Because Of Another Man’s Wickedness, Ungodliness And Heartless Nature??? Many where questioning me as to what went wrong and that of my stances following a lengthy period of silence as the remorse keeps on flying that I have decided to take the back seat in our collective struggle against injustice and the brutality that our people are been subjected to daily, under the current regime of the ruling “APRC” party. That’s right folks, by the way, I have always been a backbench-er for that matter…
March 14th, 2014 AN OPEN LETTER TO CORDEG LEADERSHIP Dear Mr. Chairman, We write to you with the deepest sprite of human relations and love for our Country. Our dear Gambia is undoubtedly in real deep Trouble! For almost two decades, Gambians have been governed by the most improbable type of mad tyranny. Gambian masses are yet to see any light in the dark tunnel ahead. Everyone in the country has something to lose in the continuity of the mad and virulent dictatorship. Ironically, the key players – the people, their political representatives and leaders – have yet to…
Yaya Jammeh has clearly overstayed his welcome. All of his renegade companions who jointly staged a military coup d’etat against a constitutionally-elected government have either been jailed, exiled or murdered. The lone survivor is now practicing law in Banjul after he was fired from his ministerial post. During the twenty year period of one of Africa’s worst dictatorships, The Gambia has been transformed from the bastion of democracy on the continent to a highly repressive and very secretive society where the ruler, as he prefers to be known and aptly so, rely’s on mystical powers to rule a despondent and…