From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Mathew K Jallow's item
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, 20 April, 2009, 4:50 PM

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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