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jambo
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 Posted - 20 Apr 2006 : 11:40:36
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good morning, any confirmation or news on Mr Balajo being released.
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royale
Gambia
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Posted - 20 Apr 2006 : 14:45:37
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I'm not sure about Mr Balajo, but i just heard that ramzia Diab was released without charge also Mr Raif Diab. I hope the rest of the detainees were also released including this Mr Balago.
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Nguru
Gambia
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Posted - 20 Apr 2006 : 14:57:13
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| Yes Mr Balajo was released on Saturday |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 20 Apr 2006 : 22:14:14
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| Im glad to hear the three people were released. I was a friend of Mr. Balajo when he lived in Senegal. I'm wondering if there is someway to get a message to him and his family. |
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jambo
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Posted - 21 Apr 2006 : 10:48:26
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NGURU, if he was released on saturday do you no why it was not announced, i am sure members of bantaba would have been happy to hear of this good news.
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jambo
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Posted - 21 Apr 2006 : 20:16:35
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| is there any news of other detainees, the ones "supposedly" killed as they were being transferred to another prison. |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 21 Apr 2006 : 22:54:06
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| Good point Jambo. Nguru, pls explain you found out that Mr. Balajo was released? Any other news of the detainees who remain? |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 23 Apr 2006 : 01:18:35
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Nguru, you are right..
Pls see news article below about the release of Mr. Dibba and Mr.
Balajo on April 18th. from the Independent Last Line on Mr. Balajo..
SM Dibba Released
Tuesday 18th April 2006
By Pap Saine
Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, former Speaker of the National Assembly, was on Saturday released from detention at the Mile Two Central Prisons, after spending barely ten days, reliable sources informed The Point.
He was detained following an allegation that he was involved in the 21 March abortive coup.
Mr Dibba, 69, served as Speaker of The Gambia National Assembly from January 2002 to March 2006.
Mr Dibba joined active politics in 1960. From 1962 to 1970, he served as Minister at various ministries including Local Government, Works, and Finance.
A veteran politician, Mr Dibba became the first Vice-President of The Gambia in 1970 and served for about two years.
From 1972 to 1974, he was Gambia’s ambassador to Belgium and the EU. In 1974 and 75, he was minister of Economic Planning.
He resigned from the PPP in July 1975, and in September 1975 formed his National Convention Party (NCP) and contested for presidency in the presidential elections of 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1996 and 2001.
After the 2001 presidential election, which the APRC won, Mr Dibba formed an alliance with the APRC. He was later appointed Speaker of the National Assembly.
Meanwhile, a former senior officer of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Kemo Balajo, was also released, our sources added.
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 23 Apr 2006 : 02:06:44
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Hi Everyone,
I'm having a hard time keeping track of everyone that was arrested and detained as "coup plotters".
Who is left to be released?
Below is an listing taken from the Gambia L Archive of those who were first detained....
HOW THE ALLEGED COUP PLOTTERS WERE ARRESTED*
*By Yaya Dampha*
Over 30 people were arrested for taking part in the alleged coup plot that is said to have been uncovered late Tuesday evening. The head of the alleged coup plotters is the former Chief of Defence Staff Col. Ndure Cham. Foroyaa is reliably informed that army officers, intelligence agents and civilians have been arrested and put under custody by the security forces. Those arrested are, Major Sang Pierre Mendy, Commander of the Fajara Barracks, Captain Muhammed Jah, Chief Clerk, PRO, Captain Bunja Darboe, Captain Pierre Mendy, Commander of the National Guards, Captain Savage, Commander of the Military Police, Captain Wassa Camara, Second in Command at the Military Police, Lieutenant Samba Bah of Yundum Barracks, Lieutenant Yaya N.S. Darboe, RSM Alpha Bah, RSM Famara Jammeh, Sergeant Abdoulie Sanyang, Private Lamin Sonko, Rtd. Col. Vincent Jatta, Rtd. Col. Mayor Abdoulie Conteh, Samba Bah, former Secretary of State for the Interior, Abdoulie Kujabi former Director of NIA, Daba Marenah, former NIA Director, Lamin Kassama, Security Officer at Gambia Civil Aviation Authority, Kemo Balajo, Internal Operation Commander at the National Intelligence Agency, Mr. Singhateh, Deputy Director of NIA, Alieu Jobe Accountant General, Rife Diab a businessman and M C Cham a long serving minister in the former PPP regime. The Inspector General of Police, Ousman Sonko, and the Director of Immigration, Musa Mboob and Secretary of State for Interior were called for questioning.
Then theres also Lamin Fatty, the reporter who is also detained.
Pls if you would update who are the missing now. Thanks. |
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi |
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jambo
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Posted - 23 Apr 2006 : 15:23:14
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| newfy you are right it is hard to keep track, i have faith in members of bantaba keeping us informed. |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 24 Apr 2006 : 03:43:12
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| Jambo,Nguru, and all pls have a look at the Point today. They report that Mr. Balajo has been rearrested. What the heck is going on? Newfy |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 24 Apr 2006 : 05:30:54
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Heres the update from the Point website...
7 Detainees Released
- Journalist Madi Ceesay, Musa Saidykhan Among
Friday 21st April 2006
By Pap Saine & Pa Modou Faal
According to reliable sources yesterday seven detainees have been released namely Madi Ceesay, General Manager of the Independent Newspaper and also President of the Gambia Press Union (GPU); Musa Saidykhan, Editor-in-Chief of the Independent Newspaper; Raif Diab, a businessman; M.C. Cham, a veteran politician; Lai Conteh, former Mayor of KMC; Ramzia Diab, former Member of the National Assembly; and Musa Dibba, a former NIA financial director. Sources have also informed The Point that Madi Ceesay and Saidykhan have been released without being charged and they have been ordered to report to the NIA headquarters this morning at 10:00am. Sources further revealed that Lamin Fatty, a journalist of the Independent paper who was arrested on Monday April 10th, has not been released.
It would be recalled that Editor-in-Chief Saidykhan was arrested at about midnight on March 27th whilst General Manager Ceesay was arrested on 28th March, the same day on which the Independent newspaper paper was closed.
Mean while, Mr Kemo Balajo, a former senior NIA Officer who was released last Saturday was rearrested on Wednesday. Balajo was first arrested on March 22.
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jambo
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Posted - 24 Apr 2006 : 11:06:37
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| hi newfy, i keep trying to the point but it doesn't appear, i had heard that balajo was re arrested is this charge serious, truthful hold any merit. can yu keep bantaba informed. many |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 24 Apr 2006 : 21:37:31
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| hi jambo, I will keep you and Bantaba with what I find on the Internet. No problem. Jamm ag salaam. |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 24 Apr 2006 : 21:47:27
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hi jambo, the point website is up and working, just to let you know. I found this on the Point about AlHagie Nyabally. Pls see below.
Detained Alhagie Nyabally’s Wife Expressed Worry
Monday 24th April 2006
By Abba A S Gibba
Kaddy Samateh, wife of former Gambia Student Union president Alhagie Nyabally, who is presently detained, has expressed fear about her husband’s condition in detention.
Mrs Samateh-Nyabally, who walked into our offices last week to allay her fears about the arrest of her husband, said since he was picked up last Monday by security personnel, Alhagie has been held incommunicado.
According to Mrs Nyabally, the two officers who picked up her husband at home identified themselves as Lamin Saidyleigh and Modou Bojang.
She said few minutes after her husband was arrested and whisked away, she called him on his cell phone to know his whereabouts.
Nyabally, she explained, told her he was informed they were going to Serrekunda Police Station but instead were heading to Brikama.
She said she later called her husband again, and he said they were at the Yundum Police Station.
Mrs Nyabally said when she and other family members went to the station to check on her husband, they were told he was not there.
As they were about to leave the station, she added, Mr Nyabally called her from inside the cells but were not allowed to talk to him.
They were subsequently sent away from the station, she said, adding that since then she had been denied access to or communication with her husband.
She is therefore appealing to the authorities concerned to release her husband.
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Nguru
Gambia
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Posted - 25 Apr 2006 : 18:11:56
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I spoke to some senior NIA officers who told me that Mr. Nyabally's arrest was in connection of a purported student demonstration he was planning instigate during the commoration of the 2000 bloody student riot. They told me that they believe Mr. Nyabally was preparing communiques for the student body and thereby seeking international support for the purported demonstration. Seven of his computers were confiscated but no illegal document was found.
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