Mr Kabir,
Please do not hesitate to add my name to your list of signatures. If at any
rate you didn't hear from me, it is because I was tied up with stuff.
Could I also add that one of the things that I found funny about the State's
abduction of Dumo was it's flat denial of any knowledge of the whereabouts of
Dumo and then when the plot thickens, they finally parade him as
co-conspirator in some 'coup plot". Not only does this make liars out of
them, it lays bare the holes in the stories they keep cooking up about those
they have abducted so far.
Also Mrs. Sahor has made very wry observation which we need to point out. As
she herself poignantly noted, "Friends,
Yesterday, on my way home from the centre, over the car-radio, the chief of
Police had issued a press release, saying that a number of people (including
Modou Ousman Sarho, Dumo) had been taken to Kanifing Court - suspected for
treason - and that they were to remain in custody in order not to complicate
the investigation. Three people (including Mr Kanteh & Saul Ndow) were still
"wanted". Next week it will be a matter for the High Court. I almost didn't
believe my ears. Just imagine -THIS HAD BEEN GOING ON WHILE WE WERE IN BJL
COURT! At the 10 o'clock news I was able to confirm." [Emphasis mine] This
goes to inform you that these people have already been tried and sentenced in
the mind of the State authorities. How can it make any sense at all for
someone whose whereabouts is being enquired or its legality questioned in a
law court in Banjul where it is flatly denied by the State that he is not in
custody, only to hear on the news soon after the ordeal of court appearance
by his family that the person is to be charged after all on some spurious
offences? This observation by Mrs. Sahor needs to be exploited by the
petition.
Finally, to Mrs. Sahor, I say keep your heap up. I'm sure in these heart
wrenching moments, you even question the compassion and well-meaningness of
the African. Do not let what they are doing to your husband make you think
twice or shaken your faith about the Gambia in particular and that an evil
like Jammeh represents the African conscience. Perhaps, you might wish to get
in touch with Dumo's former comrade Mr Sarjo Jallow who is now the official
mouth piece of Dumo's abductors and ask him what he would do help a former
comrade. Remember this is the same person who exploited Scandinavian
compassion when he said he was being persecuted for holding dissenting views
in the Gambia in the 80s. How can he part of thing like Dumos abductors? It
would be interesting to get a reply from him.
God be with you in these trying times.
Hamjatta Kanteh
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to
tolerate the intolerant.
Karl Popper 1902-1994
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