Soffie
> I think the information below will assist you with
> your enquiries
>
> Many thanks
>
> Sanusi Owens

>
>
> --- Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> Gambia-L:
> >
> > Find below the cautionary statements made to the
> > Serious Crimes Unit of The
> > Gambia Police Force, by Messsrs Dumo Saho, Ebrima
> > Yarbo, Momodou Marenah,
> > Ebrima Barrow and Lt Lalo Jaiteh, in connection
> with
> > the LIES levelled
> > against them by the State.
> >
> > The statements make interesting reading and also
> > show how these men were set
> > up and entrapped by an Italian security agent, who
> > is one of Yahya Jammeh's
> > chief security advisers. It would seem that the
> > Italian, Francesco Caso,
> > deliberately tried to incite the procurement of
> > guns, for the purpose of
> > setting the men up. He tried it also on Sheriff
> > Dibba, Lamin Waa Juwara, but
> > these two men were not drawn into the trap. If you
> > remember well, one of my
> > source once reported on the L, that there are/were
> > Italian Security Agents
> > who are/were working for Jammeh.
> >
> > Having said that, I must caution that Gambians
> > should be very vigilant with
> > some of these foreigners they are dealing with,
> > especially when they do not
> > know them.  It would seem that Yahya Jammeh will
> > stop at nothing.  The
> > Gambia is now a POLICE STATE, and we should all be
> > on our guard.  If
> > foreigners come to our country and pose as
> > investors, we should make sure
> > that they are genuine investors before dealing
> with
> > them.
> >
> > Reading the statements of Brothers Dumo Saho,
> Ebrima
> > Barrow and the rest of
> > the brothers, which are reproduced below in full,
> I
> > was almost in tears and
> > could see clearly how they were being duped and
> set
> > up by this Italian,
> > Francesco Caso, a security adviser to Yahya
> Jammeh.
> >
> > Anyway, with the benefit of hindsight, one can
> > always say these things:  at
> > the time, it is always very easy to be drawn into
> > traps like these.
> > Perhaps, if the Italian had come to me, he could
> > probably have gotten me to
> > work on his behalf, or to introduce him to other
> > Gambians. So we should
> > attach no blame to Dumo Saho and the other
> brothers.
> >  They were all victims
> > of a vicious and purposefully arranged plot by
> this
> > Italian and Jammeh's
> > henchmen (and almost certainly by Yahya Jammeh
> > himself).
> >
> > I urge people to check back through the archives:
> > my source had already
> > told us about the presence of Italian security
> > advisers at Statehouse. We do
> > really need to be on our guard, and to heed the
> > information being supplied
> > by my sources in The Gambia.  We need to take
> > seriously the information that
> > is forwarded by my sources so that we can avoid
> > similar tragedies in the
> > future.
> >
> > I cannot end this posting without commending
> Annika,
> > the wife of Dumo Saho.
> > She has been working tirelessly to secure the
> > release of her husband, and
> > she should know that she has many friends both in
> > and out of The Gambia, who
> > will do all in their power to assist her and her
> > husband.  We have to
> > maintain the pressure on Jammeh and his regime,
> and
> > we shall success in
> > having Dumo Saho, Lt. Jaiteh, Ebrima Yarboe,
> Momodou
> > Marenah, Ebrima Barrow
> > and others released.  I also know that Amnesty
> > International in London are
> > working very hard on the case and their able West
> > Africa team, led by
> > Marcella Favretto, will leave not one stone
> unturned
> > in their efforts to
> > secure the release of our brothers.
> >
> > By the way, these statements were sent to me by
> one
> > of my most trusted
> > sources in The Gambia, and needless to say, I am
> > sending them as received.
> > SO READ THEM CAREFULLY!!
> >
> >
> > Ebrima ceesay
> > Birmingham, UK
> >
> >
>
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> >
> >
> > >CAUTIONARY STATEMENT By Ebrima Barrow, 3/7/2000
> > >
> > >Address: 43 Kombo Sillah Drive, New Jeshwang Age:
> > 49, Occupation: Salesman
> > >Cautioned by: P/insp Biram S Jobe of Serious
> Crime
> > Independent witness:
> > >Sulayman Jammeh
> > >
> >
> > I am Ebrima Barrow, a Gambian born in Salikene in
> > Central Baddibou at the
> > North Bank Division. I left the Gambia in 1973 and
> > travelled to Europe. I
> > finally came back home in 1997 and settled as a
> > businessman at New Jeshwang
> > in Serrekunda. One day I visited Bakau in the
> month
> > May 1999, precisely the
> > beginning of May. As I went into the restaurant
> just
> > opposite the Bakau
> > Market, I met a certain whiteman who later
> > introduced himself to me as Mr
> > Francesco Caso, an Italian national from Naples in
> > Southern Italy. On my
> > first meeting, the two of us had discussed about
> > money issues – concerning
> > The Gambia and Italy in the Italian language.
> Later
> > in the month of May,
> > when I visited him, he later talked about guns to
> me
> > and asked if there was
> > any way of getting one for him. I told him in my
> own
> > capacity I could not
> > get him any but we could try and see by going to
> > Banjul. So he told me that
> > the guns, if possible, could be used for changing
> > the government of the
> > Gambia.
> >
> > In Banjul, we went to Wellesley Street to meet one
> > Momodou Marenah. There, I
> > went alone to talk to Momodou Marenah and we both
> > agreed that there were no
> > guns but if the whiteman brings the money, we
> could
> > dupe or trick him by
> > securing his money and do away with himself. But
> the
> > whiteman, after going
> > with us to Hagan Street, he failed to produce any
> > money for me. When Marenah
> > went inside a compound, he came out and asked for
> > the money, but the
> > whiteman didn't produce any money. He said that
> the
> > whiteman had to produce
> > the money first because this was a very risky
> > business and that was meant to
> > fool the whiteman – Francesco Caso. When Francesco
> > said that he had money,
> > the two of us (myself and himself) had driven back
> > to Bakau to his Porto
> > Bello Restaurant.
> >
>
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