Author: Gainako

Dispatched by Sarjo Bayang Very reliable information filtered through highly placed sources reveals heavy presence of Syrians in Gambia posing as medical doctors organised by President Yaya Jammeh. They are being tracked and details emerging connect these purported doctors to massive drug dealings involving South American and East European cartels. Ukraine is named as partner in these dealings. There is further trace of East European tourists engaged in drug business. While anticipating possible upheaval from majority of Gambians who can no longer tolerate the excesses of Jammeh, he now resorts to engaging the services of mercenaries to fall on…

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By Kaba Sallah Friends, compatriots in the surging struggle against the entrenched Dictator and Butcher of Kanilai, Yaya Jammeh, it’s time to drop “ maslah” –  the fear of not offending or stepping on people, the blind eye – and call a spade a spade! Hamat Bah of the NRP is a collaborator, an enabler, , a plant, a Jammeh spy or mole,  an accomplice to crimes ( human and economic) against the state and battered people of The Gambia! For every armed robbery, there is a diversion, a distraction, a look-out, an ‘inside-job’, and Hamat Bah provides a perfect…

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 18 December 2013 The Gambia must immediately release three opposition members convicted of sedition The sedition convictions against three opposition party members in Gambia must be quashed and the authorities must release them immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said. Amadou Sanneh, National Treasurer of the United Democratic Party (UDP) and two other UDP members, Malang Fatty and Alhagie Sambou Fatty, were today convicted of sedition and sentenced to up to 5 years of imprisonment after claiming one of them had suffered harassment and death threats from the Gambian authorities.

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  By Kebba Jeffang The alleged sedition case involving Bai Mass Kah, a Messenger at the Foroyaa Newspaper, which was scheduled for hearing yesterday, 17 December, before Magistrate  Isatou  Janneh of the Kanifing Court, was said to have been adjourned to the 30 December, 2013. The case, did not proceed in open court, but both the police prosecutor Sergeant. 335 Sohna Nying and defence counsel Lamin S. Camara were seen in the magistrate’s chambers discussing the matter.

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Reports out of Banjul has it that the toothless and rubber stamping Special Criminal Court in Banjul has convicted UDP’s Treasurer and successful businessman Amadou Sanneh. He was sentenced to five years in Jail without an option of a fine. The verdict which was disgracefully read in front of a full court house after the presiding Judge Nkea took recess to consult with higher authorities before passing his judgement. Mr. Sanneh was arraigned alongside Malang Fatty and Sambou Fatty and charged with conspiracy to commit an act with seditious intention, sedition, possession of seditious publication and false swearing. He…

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Who Killed Deyda? By Baboucarr Ceesay Who killed Deyda? This famous nine-year-old unanswered question that the media fraternity of The Gambia has indefatigably been asking since 2004 to date breeds the question: “Any answer to our nine-year-old question?” On December 16, 2004, Deyda Hydara was shot by gunmen who are yet to be brought to justice and the state did not yet carryout any thorough investigation to unveil the truth about this cowardly killing. His killers have smeared the image of our country and have also deprived Gambians of a man who could have served his country longer for…

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Barely few months after her abrupt escape from the corridors of harm in Banjul, the famous ‘Fatou Show’ has resurfaced online through the popular Senegalese online site Seneweb.com. The most popular television show in Gambia “The Fatou Show” was yanked from GRTS when she was arrested by the government and accused of passing information to an online media. She fled the country for safety and is now resident in the United States. The ‘Fatou Show’ will air every Thursday from 3:00pm to 4:00pm US Eastern Time; 8:00pm Gambian Time.  Fatou broke the news on her face book page announcing…

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We are normally not in the business of writing open letters. We prefer a face to face dialogue with government officials to communicate our concerns about our country – a country we watch helplessly drifting into ethnic strife, fueled, in part, by the ability of the dictatorship to convert or transform foreign assistance into a potent source of financing of self-perpetuation schemes of a very corrupt and inept regime that continues to divide a once culturally and ethnically cohesive country. 

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By Momodou Njai I am not surprised that it is our very own people instilling fear among us to stop other people from donating to a cause that is bigger than their guts can take! If this person was really concerned about the lives of Gambians on the ground, the last thing one should be worrying about, is bank information about donors. Life is more precious than gold! Can that person really put a price on our lives for taking such a risky move by saying that we are going to march! Notice that this person admits by saying it…

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Compatriots, Journalists and Friends of the Media, Monday, December 16, 2013 will mark the ninth anniversary of the gruesome murder of Deyda Hydara, the heroic co-proprietor and managing editor of The Point Newspaper. He was assassinated in a drive-by shooting. Yet the gunmen behind this nefarious act are yet to be arrested and brought to book. The Gambia Press Union once again calls on the Government of The Gambia to expend all its efforts and tools to investigate this matter in order to bring the culprits to book. Failure to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book…

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