I for one have no problem with your identity, if your name is ebou colly
so be it,and if what you said about the jammeh regime is really the
fact,that is a serious allegation and very disturbing.
However,I very much resent the way you label Kabba bajo.I know Kabba all
my life, he is a friend and a brother, calling him empty- headed and
disloyal is nothing but a lie.Kabba is one of the most intelligent persons
in that government.He is there to help the people of our beloved nation not
to hurt anyone, unlike you calling yourself a true soldier.If you want
people to believe your story, please get your facts right and don't try to
give bad names and images humble and a honourable person like kabba.
Bakary Dembo Sanneh
Bellevue University-Nebraska
>From: ebou colly <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Yaya's Power Base?
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:53:27 -0800
>
>THE GNA SOLDIERS NOT THE POWER BASE FOR YAYA JAMMEH
>
>Before dealing with my next subject, I would first
>like to extend my sincere appreciation to all those
>wonderful comments sent by various readers of my last
>issue. Your encouraging words were certainly morale
>boosters and have reinforced my determination and
>spirit to be more sharing with a candid approach.
>
>I cannot however ignore the few questions forwarded
>doubting the credibility of my information, because I
>sincerely believe that every skeptic deserve a
>satisfactory explanation of everything said about the
>Jammeh regime. Saying that I was a true serving member
>of the Gambia National Army (GNA) from its early
>inception in 1985 to its most recent past may not be
>sufficient consolidate the credibility I hope to
>project. If I also stopped at merely explaining my
>broad knowledge of military operations-orders ranging
>from the section, platoon, company or even battalion
>battle drills, the highest operational capability of
>the present GNA my points may still not sink in well
>into the minds of those without proper military
>education. However before elaborating on some more
>tangible lines, I would like to inform everybody that
>I am a well-trained infantry soldier with advanced
>skills of a combatant in field craft, the special
>ability of a sharp shooter but above all the
>discipline of a true soldier. A true soldier precisely
>means a good fighter for the right course without
>being unnecessarily bloodthirsty. It also means being
>professional and having less or nothing to do with
>politics. Soldiers with political aspirations are
>nothing but rebels or bandits in uniform.
>
>However let me now give a broader or additional proof
>of my assertion that Jammeh's government always comes
>up with false coup plots merely to eliminate innocent
>Gambians. Take the case of Captain Yankuba Drammeh the
>current Commanding Officer(CO) of the largest fighting
>battalion in the GNA,1 Infantry Battalion. His office
>and cellular phone numbers are 4722121 and 990178
>respectively. Call him and if he is honest with you
>should be able to tell you the harrowing experience he
>suffered at Mile Two Central prisons accused by Jammeh
>of a dubious coup plot against his government. Or you
>try Captain Cherno Jallow the present CO of the second
>largest battalion on his office number-497100-and he
>could also tell you the terrible days he was
>incarcerated at death row by Yaya for planning a coup
>he could not justify. Captain Alpha Kinteh at the Army
>Headquarters Banjul on 225772or225771 also suffered in
>the hands of Yaya on a coup conspiracy charge no one
>could enlighten for him. I could go on and on, but
>that would simply tie me down on this subject that I
>think I have now been adequately treated, at least for
>this forum. So I will move to my next subject
>deserving equal importance.
>
>As a former member of the GNA I am now trying to find
>the right voice to speak for mainly those honest and
>good soldiers of the GNA who had nothing to do with
>Yaya's coup and are ashamed of being associated with
>him or his government. Nevertheless the general
>civilian public often categorize all the soldiers in
>uniform as other Yaya Jammehs, Edward Singhatehs,
>Lamin Kaba Bajos, Yankuba Tourays or the few stupid
>ones blindly following them. Contrary to that
>stereotype concept, I can speak with confidence that
>90% or more of the GNA soldiers on active service are
>very good, honest and God fearing Gambians holding on
>to their jobs primarily to make a simple living. But
>given the negative legacy of African armies in general
>with the Gambia not an exception, the civilian
>population have developed the wrong notion that all
>the soldiers are evil. Consequently when members of
>the army are improperly treated in a manner that does
>not conform with the standard laws of the nation or
>the constitution, the legal institutions or civil
>population usually brush it aside as unimportant
>isolated problems.
>
>Take for instance the so-called counter coup of 11th
>November 1994 when Yaya Jammeh falsely accused some
>GNA officers and other ranks and then summarily
>executed them in the most gruesome manner. The
>majority were executed on the 13th of November, two
>days after the AFPRC government stated that all of
>them were killed in a fire on the 11th of November.
>The entire Gambian public was aware of the lies of the
>government in that serious crime. But how did they
>react to that unlawful butchery of those innocent
>Gambian soldiers? They simply gossiped their regret
>over the terrible act without a single voice of
>protest raised or any form of pressure exerted on
>Jammeh and his killers to satisfy their doubts.
>
>The soldiers at Yundum Barracks that evening wept like
>children as their colleagues were driven away in a
>Land Rover pick-up vehicle to the out skirts of
>Nyambai Forest where they were cowardly killed one
>after another. Their dead limp bodies were later
>brought back and handed over to the moronic
>Chief-Of-Staff Baboucarr Jatta who supervised the
>final terrible act of burying the men naked behind the
>toilets. The bulk of the soldiers stood by numb in
>their legs with fear and shock. And as soon as they
>left the barracks the stupefied soldiers started
>telling the whole story the exact manner it happened
>and monsters who took part in the killing. The last
>shots that killed Sergeants E.M.Ceesay and Basiru
>Camara were ordered by Edward Singhateh around
>6.00p.m. His former driver Batch Jallow used a
>Chinese-made A.K 47,folding butt, to shoot and killed
>the two Sergeants at point range. But all the killing
>instructions were coming directly from Yaya. It was
>the worst crime committed against humanity by the
>AFPRC government.
>
>Anyhow the Gambian public seemed to care less about
>that crime. At least the Gambian public could have
>asked for the bodies with proper postmortem performed
>on everyone and of course have them handed over to
>their families for proper burial. There was no war or
>social disturbance in the nation at that moment to
>necessitate that hasty and terrible burial. The only
>reason they was to hide the evidence of what did. Up
>to tkis present time no one shows a glimmer of
>interest in that case. It is not proper for those
>soldiers to remain there forever as if they do not
>deserve to be buried in any cemeteries in the country.
>Why should Yaya Jammeh condition the minds of all the
>Gambians into remaining this silent about something
>that has no iota of justice or human decency? Why?
>Why? Why? These men had wives and children who still
>dont't know where their fathers have disappeared to
>since that day they left for work in 1994.
>
>By comparison however, the other tragic killing of
>Ousman Koro Ceesay six months later seemed to have
>attracted more public sympathy and out cry than the
>innocent Gambian soldiers lying at Yundum.What's the
>logic? It was really ugly killing the former Finance
>Minister of the AFPRC government and burning him in
>his official car to hide the evidence. But did you
>know that Lt.Gibril Saye was bayonetted all over his
>body including both his eyes before he was finally
>shot by Staff Sergent Kanyi? Lt. Abdoulie Faal (DOT)
>had his back bone broken by bending him backwards
>until the bone snap at his waist before he was shot
>and killed with a 9mm pistol.
>
>All these stories were more or less known to the
>Gambian public, but because they were soldiers, the
>crimes were perfectly normal.
>
>So one could judge clearly the precarious message
>behind the whole episode. When Jammeh hits a civilian
>regardless of how friendly or close that person was to
>the tyrant, the action is condemned with the whole GNA
>sometimes blamed for it. Yet when a soldier attempts
>to even question the legitimacy of the idiot and is as
>a result maimed or killed the public says little or
>nothing about it.
>
>Anyhow in actual fact , looking at Jammeh's government
>since the coup in 1994,it has always been the
>civilians who supplied him with the right
>administrative ingredients that has sustained his
>government for so long. The soldiers could not and in
>reality would not if they could. Apparently even the
>most educated and best trained soldiers of the GNA had
>no clue of how to run a government much more Yaya one
>of the most under-educated and less-trained in the
>army. With his grade 11 high school education the
>idiot was not even a member of the GNA. He was a
>gendermarie personnel with then worst record of
>professional or academic attainment. If the civilians
>worshipping him were aware of how mentally backward he
>was, and they decide to stop helping him today, within
>few hours his government would collapse altogether.
>But perhaps the civilians very well know the low
>mental level of the fool and enjoy exploiting it for
>their selfish interest
>
>What is only sad about it is the continuous
>denunciation of the ordinary common soldiers for
>keeping the Kaninlai monsterin power. But can you
>remember Fafa Mbye who selfishly armed the Jammeh
>regime in the beginning with all those decrees and
>legal arsenals used to destroy several selected
>Gambian families? Can you also remember those
>so-called great civilian intellectuals of the Jawara
>era who have totally shifted their loyalty to Jammeh
>with fanatical zeal. On the active front, there were
>the Bolong Sonkos, the Blaise Jagnes,Omar Njie,Famara
>Jatta, Isatou Njie Saidy,Balla Jahumpa and now the
>most prominent being Momodou Lamin Sidat Jobe. Would
>all of them in the end be treated as innocents and
>blame the soldiers for Jammeh's crimes? My friends
>let's be realistic I think it would have been somewhat
>fairer if blame was shared between the greedy civilian
>and the rebels in uniform disguised as soldiers.
>
>Even with that, an objective critic may want to think
>twice if the calibre of soldiers in power is well
>scrutinised. For example the sadist Edward Singhateh,
>apart from his animal brutality which makes him a
>notorious killer of innocent Gambians,the half-cast
>has nothing in his brain to make him a competent
>administrator. As for Yankuba Touray, his only
>effective role in the system is taking the local
>political platform and reinforcing every lie uttered
>by Yaya. He has the mental ability of a kindergarten
>child. He is absolutely zero when it comes to
>formulating government policies let alone executing
>them.
>
>Lamin Kaba Bajo? He is the one I respect the least
>among them. Hiding behind religion, he is the most
>empty-headed and disloyal person in the history of
>security forces in the Gambia. At the time of the coup
>in 1994,Lamin was a captain commanding the whole
>Presidential Guards of Ex-President
>Jawara.However,when the coward heard about the
>advancing soldiers coming to overthrow the government
>he abandoned the unit and ran away to Dakar Senegal
>with President Jawara's family.He returned a week
>later to be given a high position by Jammeh because
>they were old friends.
>
>These are men who have no virtues, carry little or no
>valuable knowledge in their head and lacked every form
>of human conscience to make them good administrators.
>
>So take it from me, an ordinary civil disobedience of
>the Jammeh establishment would have been the easiest
>way to expel his government from power. The real
>soldiers would prefer it that way. A genuine mass
>movement will in fact attract a lot of soldiers to
>move along with it rather than against it. But instead
>even the career politicians remain silent in their
>chambers. Where are the Sheriff Dibbas, Andrew
>Camaras, Gibou Jagnes etc. etc.?
>
>You may not know this but frankly speaking it hurts
>all serving soldiers dearly to associate Yaya Jammeh
>with true military characters or values since the man
>is nothing but a pathological liar, a "corruptomaniac"
>and a mass murderer under the guise of the noble army
>uniform. He lies about every thing under the sun, he
>even decorated him self with the ECOMOG medal and
>would often lie shamelessly about the peacekeeping
>role he played in Liberia when he had never step his
>foot there. He lies about how Sana Sabally and the
>late Sadibou Haidara aimed their weapons at him on the
>27th of January 1994 and attempted to shoot him
>without success because his "jujus" caused the guns to
>malfunction. The soldiers who apprehended Sana and
>Sadibou would tell you how Yaya almost shit his pants
>that day out of fear hiding away from the actual
>encounter.
>
>And where did he get all the millions of Dalasis he
>has been spending on his private multi-million Dalasi
>projects in the country? The soldiers are all
>disturbed by his wave of corrupt activities. Take for
>instance the insult to all military ethics by Jammeh
>giving the official residence of the CO at Fajara
>Barracks to his mother. The house was once occupied by
>Major Ebrima Chongan and should have now been occupied
>by the current Commander.
>
>I don't need to say any more on why I termed him a
>mass murderer anyway. But believe in me, looking at
>the danger Yaya has entangled himself with as the
>pitiful President of The Gambia condemned on a clear
>path of ultimate doom, few or no soldiers would even
>contemplate eliminating him for fear of being stock
>with the possibility of becoming another suicidal
>leader. However the idiot lives in a dream world of a
>child's mind far duller than that of Samuel Doe's who
>once got the message and chance to leave the political
>scene when he could but played the fool until he was
>captured and butchered. With Yaya,his recent remarks
>in The Gambia saying that presidents don't die in
>their own political problems indicates how unreceptive
>his brain is in political history of the African
>continent.
>
>But I would still insist that the civilians and not
>the soldiers for once take the bull by the horns and
>do it to Yaya Jammeh. Or would they continue to find
>their personal opportunities of big positions in the
>government while still blaming the soldiers for
>keeping Jammeh in power? Was it not a shocking shame
>that Abdoulai Sallah after retiring with absolute
>disgrace as ambassador has accepted another
>ministerial position from Yaya? No wonder with all the
>clear evidence seen the civil community is still
>sheepishly appealing to Yaya the number one
>orchestrator of the killing of Ousman Koro Ceesay to
>investigate the case and tell them what they have
>certainly known already. Is that not something?
>
>The soldiers should continue to pray hoping that time
>would show the clear truth. But I am still looking
>forward to that special day when the remains of our
>colleagues are removed from the back of the toilets of
>Yundum and paraded with honour before given the
>peaceful burial they honestly deserve. The Gambian
>constitution will be rectified to cover all of the
>soldiers dead or alive and will ensure that such
>things would never be entertained in our midst again.
>If soldiers are killed again under any circumstances,
>our families must get the bodies and we would lay our
>lives to stop any bastard trying to bury us behind
>toilets of our own barracks. Sorry to say, but for the
>moment any of you out there could end up in those
>shallow graves at Yundum Barracks.
>.
>
>On a final note, be assured that I am committed to
>reestablishing good governance in The Gambia and the
>preparations for that campaign is in earnest. It is
>just a matter of short time when we will roll into the
>country and clean the nation of that terrible
>government. I know what it would take.
>
>Well Mr. Ebrima Ceesay for a while I simply thought of
>ignoring your rather confrontational remarks for
>obvious reasons but a second thought after all, made
>me change my mind. It really fascinated me reading the
>level of obsession you expressed in struggling to
>expose my identity. I doubt as to whether you realized
>how desperate you sounded. You even sounded quite
>threatening saying something to the effect that you
>may use your super knowledge of the information super
>highway to trace my location and expose my true
>identity. And you also said you have other means of
>secret techniques at your disposal to reveal who I am.
>Great, you can go ahead and make my day. I sincerely
>do not think you possess any special knowledge or
>secret formula to proof to the world anything
>different from Ebou Colly being really the person I
>am. And I seriously think you lack a thorough
>knowledge of how the Internet works.
>
>Anyhow I am only pleased that you seemed to have
>nothing to challenge about the credibility of my
>information regardless of what I consider the
>tremendous show off you displayed on your knowledge of
>the Jammeh era. Credibility of the information
>supposedly matters greater in the so-called debate.
>Playing your game however, I wonder whether you gave a
>serious thought to the reason why I should be hiding
>my identity if in reality I am. Perhaps it is for a
>very genuine reason that should be respected as long
>as I am willing to supply the relevant information I
>want to share with all Gambians out there. After all
>if it were not for credibility, what other relevance
>would you say my real identity has in the so- called
>debate? The way I see it, correct me if I am wrong,
>the only sensible reason I could make out of it are
>these two possibilities: (1) You seemed to have
>already been telling everybody around you how well you
>actually know me as a different person from Ebou Colly
>and now you are burdened with the challenge of
>confirming it ;or (2) You disliked what I said about
>Jammeh and his terrible government so you mapped out a
>scheme of silencing me. Brother I think you have a
>tough job in hand because my course is already mapped
>out too and the psychological game of an amateur shall
>not make me deviate from it.
>
>I did not bother to answer your questions directly
>because, just as you put it in one of your second
>submission you know the answers but only want to check
>with me. Several doubts have been clarified in this
>text and many more shall come but based purely on my
>plan and pace. This is a forum for all
>Gambians to receive what I have to offer so don't just
>expect to change my program into a hide and seek game
>with you or any other person for that matter.
>
>However, for once I will try to help you with these
>questions you asked? The speeches you referred to on
>the first day of the coup from Radio 1 FM, I assume
>you very well knew at the time that the late Lt.
>Basiru Barrow announced the English version while
>Capt. Momodou Lamin Sonko repeated it in Mandinka and
>Wollof. Unfortunately the lieutenant was among those
>butchered on the 11th of November 1994 and is still
>lying behind the Yundum Barracks toilet but the
>captain is still around living somewhere in the USA.
>With that information it should be a piece of cake for
>you to trace him using your super knowledge of
>cyberspace or those secret formula you have. He is
>certainly the only person who can tell you who wrote
>that speech because I honestly have no idea about the
>author.
>
>You also made mention of a speech that I had
>something to do with hiding it, eh? Presumably you
>seemed to be referring to Yaya Jammeh's maide speech
>at Radio Gambia, right? If that is the one, you must
>have to my surprise missed that clear answer to who
>actually wrote it. That speech in its original
>manuscript has been on display at the small museum on
>ARCH 22 in Banjul. It is there neatly laminated and
>placed on an antique-looking table standing beside a
>similar chair with the following inscription printed
>above: This speech was written by His Excellency Yaya
>Abdulasis Junkung Jamus Jammeh President of The
>Republic Of The Gambia sitting on this table and chair
>well before he overthrew the P.P.P. government.
>Something very similar to that. I don't know how you
>really missed that with your outstanding journalistic
>credentials. Or should I say that you were among those
>gullible journalists easily fed with so many lies by
>the then AFPRC boys about all those officers who did
>not take part in the coup including the 36 of them
>incarcerated at mile two?
>Of course I was never part of the coup plotters like
>the majority of the officers, and I am perfectly proud
>of that.
>
>Ebou Colley
>
>
>
>.
>
>
>
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