Gambia-L: The e-mail below, as usual, has come from one of my sources in the Gambia. Ebrima Ceesay __________________________________________________________________ Ebrima, Tell Latirr Downes-Thomas that he has a difficult task in his hands to document the names of those individuals sacked or retired prematurely under Yahya Jammeh. Because, Ebrima, the last time I check our records, and this was a long time ago, about 52 persons had been dismissed by the dictator. And this figure, Ebrima, did not even include, say, those in the Security Forces such as the Army or the Police Force. This dismissal list just goes on and on. Anyway, I am writing to tell Latirr Thomas to add the name of Cherno B Touray, the Commissioner of Central River Division (CRD), to his List because Cherno alias "Law" has just been dismissed from his post. He (Cherrno) has been sacked as a result of the statement attributed to him by one of the witnesses at the Inquiry in which he, Cherno, was quoted as saying that "the order to shoot the children had come from Yahya Jammeh". And guest what? Cherno is being replaced in his post as Commissioner of CRD by none other than Momodou Bojang, former SoS at the Interior and also a former Commissioner of CRD. Update on Cheyaasin Secka: Ebrima, a search is still on by the Kanilai butcher to find a replacement for Cheyassin Secka, but he has not yet found one. Once he finds someone Cheyassin will go. So far, Yahya Jammeh has approached four seasoned lawyers, but they all declined to serve under him. Most people have now learned their lessons. They all know that Yahya just uses people and dumps them after they have done the dirty job for him. All the same, once a suitable replacement is found to man the AG chambers, Cheyassin will go. And, Ebrima, as I send you this piece, further investigations by the NIA and Forces into the background and activities of Cheyassin Secka are going on. These investigations so far revealed that he still maintains strong links with Almamy Sabally alias "Rambo" (by the way "these people" are all fascinated by the Rambo character). Remember that Yahya himself is also nicknamed "Rambo". So was the late Almamo Manneh. Anyway, Ebrima, this Sabally is the chief body guard of Charles Taylor who, by the way, has been incriminated in documents obtained by the BBC from the Sierra Leone police in gun running in exchange for diamonds. Charles Taylor has been caught red handed this time around. So let us see what he has to say about this one. Ebrima, by the way, I now concur with you when you said recently that Yahya Jammeh may change his mind about a particular decision he wants to take if he realises that it has been leaked or revealed on the L in advance. Next time if he plans to sack or arrest someone innocent, I'll leak it to the L, so that that can stop his pending action. But from now on, if I do know that he is about to dismiss or arrest someone I consider an "enemy" of the Gambian people, then I'll only report it on the L after the action has been effected; otherwise, if leaked to the L, he may, as you said, change his mind on the decision. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------