Suntou,
I think you are a very fine man to go this lane. This is very low. I
sincerely hope you will find time to re-examine you position.
Malanding Jaiteh
SUNTOU TOURAY wrote:
> Suntou please post for me on the G-L. Thanks:
> It was a warn Tabo-Koto July mid-morning in 1994. The time was around
> 9.30 am . The coup was in progress, but I did not know it yet. As I
> headed for the Latri-Kunda car park for The Daily Observer in Bakau,
> I notice something very strange. Everyone in Tabo-Koto and Fagi-Kunda
> seemed to be coming towards my direction and there were no moving
> vehicles on the roads. As I walked towards the car park, I kept asking
> people I met what was going on, but no one really knew. Around the
> Latri-Kunda market, I saw people I knew and went to them. They thought
> a coup was in progress, but were not sure. I decided to press on to
> Sere-Kunda. I walked all the way to Sere-Kunda market as many other
> people were also doing. Throughout the trip, military vehicles were
> coming and going either towards Brikama or Banjul . There was a large
> crowd of confused citizens around Sere-Kunda market who had idea what
> was going on either. Everyone saw what I saw; soldiers with guns
> driving ceaselessly up and down the streets. At the Sere- Kunda police
> station, a group of soldiers had surrounded the station; trapping all
> the police officers inside. Outside the station another crowd of
> curious onlookers gathered. I elbowed and shouldered my way through
> the crowd to a military officer standing outside the station main
> door, who liked like he was the leader of the military contingent and
> I asked him what was going on. "Mr. Jallow, get out of here.” He said.
> I repeated my question and he repeated his answer. So I walked back. I
> was able to gather pieces of information here and there and I went to
> Sweabou Conateh's newspaper office at the Sere-Kunda market and called
> the Observer and the Point to file a report. I think I was the only
> reporter out and about gathering news on that day. Everyone else from
> the Observer to the Point and Sweabou’s Gambia News were holed up in
> the safety of their offices. In any case, after three hours, I began
> to the long walk back to Fagi Kunda. Around the twin storey building
> near where the Brikama Highway branches into the Banjul and Sere-
> Kunda roads, I found a group of about five people standing by the side
> of the road talking rather animatedly. The gentleman in the middle was
> doing the talking while everyone else listened. I stopped to listen to
> what they were discussing, but within a few minutes, some military
> vehicles appeared in the distance around Bambo Nightclub, racing
> towards Brikama. As the military vehicles approached the gas station
> at the corner, the man in the center of the group turned around and
> without saying a word, bolted and ran inside the twin storey compound
> leaving a trail of dust behind him. I turned and looked at him
> disappear hurriedly behind gate of the compound leaving the other
> people behind. I could not believe what I was seeing. The man was none
> other than the brave savior, the hero, the sacrificial lamb. The man
> was Halifa Sallah. I turned around and headed for Fagi-Kunda and
> towards home. Needless to say, I was very, very disappointed.
>
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