After Five Days in Police Custody UDP No. 2 Released

The Independent (Banjul)
NEWS
November 29, 2002
Posted to the web November 30, 2002

By Pk Jarju
Banjul

The number two man in the United Democratic Party leadership has confirmed
his release after five days. After five days in police custody in police
cells.

Yaya Jallow told The Independent Wednesday that he was just told by the
Bundung police to go home after he was held by them for five days in what
later passed off as a weekend raid in the homes of members of the UDP
leadership among them Ousainou Darboe who is still being held.

Shyngle Nyassi and Lang Marong are still not accounted for, although there
is strong suspicion that they are being held at an undisclosed location.

An unperturbed and softly spoken Yaya Jallow said he was refraining from
explaining why he was arrested and detained because those who were
responsible for his detention did not inform him.

'I was only told to go home and that was all' he told our reporter.

Asked whether he would in any way drag the state to court for unlawful
arrest and detention, Jallow was non-committal, saying he cannot issue any
comment over the matter because it was being studied by his lawyer.

Up to the time of going to press, no official confirmation was made about
the reported arrest of two other UDP members Rawan Secka, and Baba Drammeh,
who face the same charge as Darboe, Nyassi and Marong. Mr.

Jallow who was arrested on Friday together with Ousainou Darboe, Shyngle
Nyassi and Lang Marong was released on Tuesday noon shortly after the suite
filed by a team of lawyers seeking their unconditional release was left in
the files by Justice Abdukarim Savage.

Although the rationale behind his sudden release by the state remains
unclear, yet sources informed The Independent that his release was on the
grounds that he was not among the six UDP members facing murder charges at
the High Court

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