Folks, I was alerted to this story by a friend and this is not that 
farfetched but a reminder of what Murder Inc. is capable of doing.  Where 
are these five individuals?  Are they dead, alive, eaten?  This and many 
other reasons are reason enough for Gambians to vote Mega Mouth out of 
office, in three weeks time.  These are Gambians like you and I and what 
befell them could have happened to any of us and there are others that this 
will happen to, if we let the lunatic in another five years.

Gambians, you cannot claim that you are afraid to vote Yaya out.  None goes 
to the ballot box with you and none puts a pistol to your head to vote for 
any.  Thus, if you vote for Yaya to continue our misery, when the slaughter 
continues, we have none to blame but ourselves.  Please do the right thing 
and vote Yaya out for our sanity and the future of generations to come.

"is civil war inevitable in The Gambia?"

Folks, praying is not going to get us out of this mess, it is taking your 
vote to the booth and casting it for the opposition.  We can pray all we 
want, but if you vote for Yaya, you will have served yourself a death 
sentence.  Just look at the randomness of the murders and tortures and 
illegal detentions, and you will not fail to realize that none is immune 
from his grip.  These five were some of his most ferocious pit bulls, but 
that did not buy them a days worth of air.  Where is Sheriffo Mustapha Dibba 
today?  How about all the others detained due to a scam he cooked up?  He 
murdered the students, Koro, Deyda, and many many others and the bloodthirst 
is not going to stop unless we stop him.  Gambians, please take a real good 
look at the above quote.  The probability of it coming to fruition is not 
remote, but very very probable and it will be a very ugly scene if it came 
to pass.  Why do we have to let a whole nation go through that because of 
one Murderer?  Thus, if we let our greed, shortsightedness, tribal, 
religious, or other tumors blind us to wish the status quo upon us, we shall 
all live in the hell we build.

Yes, folks, contrary to some of our tree hugging beliefs and peace and love 
naivety, Yaya can feed you and I to his crocs or any of his big cats when he 
sees a need for perfect disposal.  This way there will be no graves to 
uncover or bones to recover.  Just like Hitler, he is experimenting with 
various ways of getting rid of evidence.  We have heard the latrines at 
Yundum barracks, farm burials, drownings, gun downs (cartel style), etc.  We 
can stop this madness Gambians!  Please read on.



Gambia: Gambia's Ex-Intel. Chief Daba Marena & 4 Others Executed



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The Gambia Echo (Raleigh)

August 26, 2006
Posted to the web August 28, 2006

Ebrima G. Sankareh


Ever since the press release by Gambia's Inspector General of Police on 
Tuesday April 4th, 2006 that the Ex- NIA Director General Daba Marena and 
four other military officers have escaped while en-route to Janjangbureh 
Prisons, a combustible combination of rumor and speculation fuelled further 
by ailing and physically assaulted security detainees on treason charges 
have poisoned the atmosphere and raised eye brows in the beleaguered 
mini-West African State of The Gambia.

Today, we at The Gambia Echo report with 360 degrees certainty that the 
Inspector General's report was totally false and without a scintilla of 
merit. The Ex- Director General of The Gambia National Intelligence Agency 
(NIA) Mr. Daba Marena, Lt. Ebou Lowe, Lt. Alieu Ceesay, Warrant Officer 
Alpha Bah and Staff Sgt. Manlafi Corr have all been executed in a fashion 
reminiscent of Idi Amin's Uganda. According to our unassailable sources at 
Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy's office, State House, NIA, Interior, Mile 
II Prisons, Banjul Army HQs, Fajara Barracks and Yundum Barracks Marena and 
the four officers were tortured to the point, that living was not the 
option.

According to our lead source at the vice President's office "President 
Jammeh had made it abundantly clear on National TV that this time no mercy 
will be shown to the traitors and he did exactly that especially, with Daba 
Marena and Manlafi Corr his most trusted lieutenants". Some of them were 
literally blind before they were executed a source at the NIA said. 
"Probably, they did not want them to see with the naked eye who among their 
comrades was going to kill them" the source conjectured.

At the Interior Department headed by Col. Baboucarr Jatta the Ex-army chief 
who presided over the summarily execution of numerous school children on 
April 10-11, 2000, while Jammeh was with Castro in Cuba, our source says, 
"the circumstances were bizarre; just why they killed them is beyond our 
comprehension". "How sure are you sure that they really killed them; say on 
a scale of 1-100%" we asked our long time source. "My friend" he responded, 
"a dead person is a dead person; there is no scale but I can swear that any 
person who still believes that these officers escaped during a transfer of 
prisoners as reported by the government, then that person must really be a 
donkey".

At Mile II Central Prisons (the metaphorical Hell on Earth) every body is 
nervous and all office phones like in most places in today's Gambia are 
bugged by the all too powerful NIA but we managed to access the system as 
usual. What we gathered from Mile II is that prisoner transfer or a 
semblance thereof did take place but well before that, torture was meted in 
the cruelest form. "You could hear big men crying loud to Allah to come to 
their rescue; some calling their moms and love ones to plead with the 
President to forgive them; some claiming that they are framed by jealous 
people. This is life in Mile II". According to this source, since 1994 life 
here has been rough most of the time. "Sometimes we see prisoners and after 
two days they disappear but Allah is great," reveals the source.

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Perhaps the most alarming testimony comes from our source at State House 
thus: "it is sad that those people died a terrible death. They were 
tortured, some had their eyes bulged and bleeding profusely, limbs broken to 
the extent that living was not worth anything to them." How true is it that 
their death bodies were given to the crocodiles at the President's Kanilai 
zoo we quizzed our source. "I cannot confirm if their bodies were given to 
crocodiles but it is a possibility since under Jammeh everything is possible 
" says a highly emotional source that has confided in this reporter three 
months now that Marena was not alive. According to this source it is 
seminally stupid for the police to tell the Gambian public that five 
officers under lock and key could escape in a car accident. Let them show us 
the car on TV, the location, and the escort officers and interview them.

It can be recalled that in March this year the government of President Yahya 
Jammeh reported that a coup plot was uncovered only hours before its 
maturation while the dictator was visiting the West African state of 
Mauritania. Among the presidential delegation was Daba Marena who was 
arrested only hours after they returned home in the wee hours of March 21, 
2006. On April 4th, the regime issued the following Press Release: "During 
the transferring of some of the suspected March 21st coup plotters to 
Janjangbureh Prison in the Central River Division, former NIA Director, Daba 
Marena alongside others have managed to escape. Among those who also managed 
to escape (were) Lt. Ebou Lowe, 2nd. Lt. Alieu Ceesay, Warrant Officer Alpha 
Bah and Staff Sgt. Manlafi Corr The vehicle in which the escapees were being 
transported had crashed into a ditch and almost somersaulted. The five men 
are still at large and believe to be on the run. The cooperation of the 
general public in volunteering any information that would lead to the arrest 
of these fugitives is sought. The public is also reminded that any person(s) 
who harbour(s) or render(s) any assistance to these suspects is/are liable 
to an offence, and would be dealt with accordingly. The general public is 
hereby assured that there is no cause for alarm as the situation is under 
control."

Beneath the fa蓷de of this pathological concoction and semantic 
inconsistency is the naked truth about the situation in The Gambia. With the 
Radio Gambia, the TV and the Daily Observer in the President's hand and the 
independent media outlets emasculated, the security apparatus tribalised and 
mainly dysfunctional mere anarchy looms large hence the unfortunately raging 
question: is civil war inevitable in The Gambia? You ponder!!

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