Hi Ebou!
I am still reeling from your thunderous posting! There are many
explosive things which if accurate are truly revelations at least to me.
I am however disturbed by the tribal undertones inherent in your
posting. Whether this is intentional or not, given your last name, is not
decipherable. However, the latter part of your posting sounds like an
incitement or at the least an attempt to create tribal animosity from the
majority of Gambia's tribes towards Yaya Jammeh in particular and the Jolas
in general. Do you think this is a healthy recipe for The Gambia? Thanks.
Buharry.
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From: ebou colly <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Another Dubious Coup Plot in The Gambia
> Another Dubious Coup Plot in The Gambia: But Who were these Plotters- Lt.
> Alimamo Manneh and Lt Landing Sanneh?
>
> To start with, let me make an essential reflection. Was it Yaya Jammeh
> trying to play the sense of the dramatic two weeks ago when he quoted a
well
> known Wollof saying to the elders of Banjul that "wishes were like
personal
> houses and those who built them usually ended sleeping in them"? Well, I
> wonder whether Yaya is familiar with this other classic Wollof proverb: "
> Those who train their own wrestlers usually become the first victims
of
> their students."
>
> In precise terms therefore, I am saying that if it was really true that
> Landing Sanneh and Almamo Manneh actually turned their arms of terror
> against their Boss Yaya, then the second proverb perfectly fits the
> so-called coup plot announced in The Gambia on the 14th January 2000. By
> all indications, it was no secret that Almamo Manneh and Landing Sanneh
> were Yaya's most notorious thugs, bullies or killer machines after the
> tranquilization of Sana Sabally, the death of Sadibou Haidara and the
> recent marginalization of Edward Singhateh. Over the years Yaya made
those
> two monsters who they were and encouraged them in every campaign of
terror,
> torture and intimidation they had inflicted upon the peace-loving Gambian
> people.The vicious activities of these State Guard henchmen constituted
> the greatest nightmare of all Gambian, civilians and soldiers alike. Yet,
> nobody could do anything about them, because Yaya protected them with
> dogmatic intolerance.
>
> When Yaya appointed Landing Sanneh as head of his personal State Guard
Unit,
> it was apparent that he made his choice of Landing purely on tribal lines
> i.e.Sanneh was simply a "Jola" like him. Furthermore, Landing was the
> idiotic type of person he could easily manipulate to carry out all his
evil
> orders. But certainly there were more competent and saner officers to
handle
> that responsibility better. However, Yaya by habit, and like most other
> despots, enjoyed being surrounded by empty-headed people like him whom he
> could easily lure into carrying out his dirty work.
>
> Just take a look at the terrible things perpetrated by Landing as
Commander
> of the State Guard - and in all these cases the Kaninlai tyrant always
> commended him. In 1996,for example Yaya Jammeh shamelessly encouraged
> Landing Sanneh to pull a pistol on Edward Singhateh when the latter was
the
> Vice Chairman of AFPRC government, the second most powerful administrator
in
> the Gambia at the time. Edward Singhateh was merely paying a courtesy call
> to Mrs. Tuti Faal Jammeh (Yaya's former wife) when Sanneh under Yaya's
> directive threatened to shoot the Vice Chairman. When Yaya got the report,
> he commended Sanneh for a wonderful job well done. In that same year
> 1996,Landing Sanneh the State Guard Commander unleashed his men under the
> leadership Almamo Manneh to conduct the most brutal beating of members of
> the United Democratic Party (U.D.P.) supporters at Denton Bridge.
>
> To the Army itself Landing was a living terror with absolute encouragement
> and total support of Yaya. Former Army Commander and now Chief -of-Staff,
> Baboucarr Jatta was in 1997 openly challenged by Landing Sanneh in a
manner
> that had totally undermined his authority as head of the Army. In that
case
> also Yaya clearly stood by his ill-disciplined lieutenant against a whole
> Colonel. It was the ultimate message from Yaya Jammeh to the entire army
> that Landing was untouchable among Jammeh's boys of terror.
>
> However Almamo was a greater terror. Since the coup in 1994 the former
> sergeant was permanently identified with Yaya in every sort of terrorist
> action imaginable. In 1996 it was Almamo who shot and almost killed an
> innocent taxi driver in the streets of Banjul at broad daylight Yaya
> commended him for it because Almamo acted on his directive to shoot any
> driver on the move when his convoy was passing. Almamo like Sanneh were
the
> very few soldiers in the whole army with the absolute authority to carry
any
> kind of weapons at all times. Almamo could arrest any civilian or soldier
> and torture them with animal brutality just to please Yaya. The popular
> P.P.P. politician and former Minister Omar (O.J.) Jallow had on several
> occasions fallen victim to Almamo's brutality on the orders of Yaya
Jammeh.
> He kept the keys to the State House armory; he was that ugly -looking
> soldier always in camouflage uniform with dark glasses moving beside Yaya.
>
> Interestingly however with all the terror and madness associated with
Almamo
> the non- commissioned officer, Yaya in 1999 promoted him to the rank of a
> lieutenant when the idiot could barely read or write. It was a clear
> manifestation of rewarding the most terrible and incompetent soldier in
the
> whole Gambia Armed Forces.
>
> Then all of a sudden we are informed that Almamo and Landing were trying
to
> topple their Boss Yaya but the former was butchered and the latter put on
> chains. Thank god what a great riddance that was for the Gambian people.
The
> only person who lost dearly is Yaya Jammeh,but knowing him fully well he
> would try all his tricks to turn it into a childish victory story for
> himself. He would fabricate big lies again about super-coup activities he
> had foiled only to once again expose his puerile mind.
>
> Apparently a lot of people may wonder what really brought Yaya and Almamo
> together in a whole army of over 1000 men; that's a simple answer ; they
are
> more or less the same caliber in several ideas especially in the field of
> primitive 'Jujus'. Yaya and Almamo had always shared the funny dream that
> the abundant of charms and 'Jujus' supplied to them by their marabouts
were
> actual bullet proof stuffs. Well, I only hope the demise of Almamo was a
> proper wake up call for the superstitious Jammeh to now know that those
> things don't work at all.
>
> As for the rest of the Gambian soldiers the fall of the mighty Lt. Landing
> Sanneh and Lt. Almamo Manneh was typical example of what could happen to
> those who have less faith in god and decided to choose the satanic path of
> evil doers. The Jammeh government had been built through treachery and
> deceit and Yaya has perfected his skill of destroying his greatest
loyalists
> particularly the fanatical ones; ask Edward Singhateh if you want to know
> more about that.
>
> As a matter of fact it would have been an insult to the Gambia Army for
> Almamo and Landing to successfully lead them in a coup. Even Kukoi with
his
> own madness would have been a better choice.
>
> Besides Gambians are now fed up with lies of one coup conspiracy after
> another. Samsudeen Sarr and Mamat Cham, Sana Sabally, Sadibou Haidara
and
> even the current vocal secretary of state for the Interior Ousman Badjie
> were all at one time accused of dubious coup conspiracies and incarcerated
> at Mile Two Central Prisons for months and years. But were some these
people
> not eventually released and appointed to the highest and most sensitive
> security positions in Jammeh's government? How could Samsudeen Sarr and
> Ousman Badgie accused coup plotters become Commander of the Gambia Army
and
> Secretary of State for the Interior respectively? Furthermore didn't they
> try every thing in vain to deceive the whole world about what really
> happened to the late Koro Ceesay? So for God's sake let the narrow-minded
> intellectual sycophants of Jammeh's government give us a break about their
> dubious coup conspiracy theory. They have really made the APRC government
> synonymous with Lies, Lies and Lies.
>
> By the way I am definitely left wondering why another notorious bafoon
among
> Jammeh's thugs survived the downfall of his partners. Musa Jammeh was the
> third person in the three-man bullies controlled by Yaya. Perhaps Musa was
> spared simply because he was a "Jola" and a closer relative and puppet to
> Jammeh. Yet Musa is shamelessly more dangerous than the other two. Before
> the coup in 1994 Musa was among Ex-President Jawara's closest body guards.
> And it is evident that since then in order to clear that past image, he
had
> turned into one of the worst tools of Yaya. Anyway he should be keenly
> watched as another Jammeh-created snake that could at any moment spit his
> venom to his boss.
>
> I cannot however conclude my observation without mentioning one of the
most
> critical and disturbing aspect Jammeh's coup consequences. How come every
> time Yaya Jammeh's government snaps with a fake coup it is only the
> Mandingos, Wollofs Fullas who are killed in the process and buried in the
> most indecent manner. Check this list since 1994:
>
>
>
>
> Name of Soldier Executed Ethnic Group Burial Site
> 1.Lt.Basiru Barrow Mandingo Behind Yundum Barracks toilets.
> 2. Lt.Gibril Saye Wollof Ditto
> 3.Lt .Abdoulie Bah Fullah Ditto
> 4.Lt. Abdoulie Faal (D O T)Wollof Ditto
> 5.SSgt.Fafa Nyang Wollof Ditto
> 6.Sgt.Basiru Camara Mandingo Ditto
> 7.Sgt.E.M.Ceesay Wollof Ditto
> 8.Lt.Almamo Manneh Mandingo Not yet known
> 9.Cpl.Dumbuya Mandingo Not yet known
>
> In the final analysis, it is clear tha members of Jammeh's ethnic group
are
> always unaffected. Landing Sanneh was for instance Almamo Manneh's Boss in
> every respect, then how come the former, a Jola, survived the so-called
coup
> attempt and the latter, a Mandingo, died in the shoot-out? Why not just
call
> it the execution of more Mandingos?
> But Jammeh should know that the day of reckoning is drawing near and he
> should also start marking his own spot behind the toilets at Yundum
> Barracks. What goes around comes around body!
>
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