President Directs Action On Ghanaians killed in The Gambia

 PRESIDENT J. A. Kufuor has directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to lead a government delegation to The Gambia tomorrow, to lodge a complaint with that country’s Head of State, following reports that The Gambian security agents had killed 13 Ghanaians.

The President has also mandated the delegation to ascertain from The Gambian authorities, the circumstances leading to the death of the Ghanaians.

A statement issued in Accra last night, said the ministry would notify the next of kins of the affected Ghanaians in due course.

The statement confirmed that 13 Ghanaians were killed in The Gambia on Saturday, July 23, 2005, by that country’s security agents.

The deceased were among a group of about 54 Ghanaians who travelled to The Gambia from Dakar, Senegal.

It, however, said the “circumstances surrounding the death of the Ghanaians remain unclear at this point in time”.

It said the Ghana Embassy in Dakar was in contact with the office of the Ghana Honorary Consul in Banjul over the deaths.

A Gambian newspaper, The Observer, in one of its editions last month, was quoted as saying that eight men were killed at the Tanji-Bird Watching Sight near Brufut.

The report said the bodies, believed to be aged between 30 and 40, were found at different spot within a vicinity called Karanti, about 400 metres from an area known as Ghana Town, fuelling speculations that the victims were Ghanaians.

The newspaper said hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the bizarre incident as a contingent of police intervention personnel were deployed to the scene to supervise medical workers who had been detailed to put the bodies into an ambulance.

It said one of the bodies had a broken skull, while others bled badly through their noses and other parts of their bodies.

END OF STORY FROM GHANAWEB.COM



Indepent Opinion....

There is no way that Banjul can cover its stinking approaches within our SubRegion anymore.Read this very story and then see for yourselves the latest evidence against our government. Here we can see Ghanains being forced out of The Gambia while mourning the death of their family members! At the same time we are still calling ourselves The Smiling Coast? A Chinese Philosopher said.."Between two evils he would choose the lesser one"...The two evils under Yaya Jammeh are:Civil war and Regional Conflicts. As far as we have no Chinese philosophers at Albert Market I would wait for Gambian philosophers to tell us the right track.

Rumours along the corridors of the AU building have been spiralling around Yaya's head as far as his hatred for Kufour is concerned.In the open Yaya calls Kufour BIG BROTHER but we will soon see the reality.How can the paramilitary kill 13 Ghanains, then mercilessly force their relatives out of the country? In all this Yaya Jammeh the Commander in Chief stays mute, to the extent that his counterpart petitions him and his government? In our papers we have been told 9 died. In Ghanaweb.com and other local newspapers in Accra said that 13 people were shot to death by Gambian Authorities? If this is not tension then tell us what is tension? The first question here is...Are Gambians in Ghana and other parts of West Africa safe anymore? How about if Ghanaians back home ie in Accra etc start targetting innocent Gambians?

Well this is the outcome of Ignoring dictators who kill. If Kufour and others had handled Yaya at the level of the AU after Deyda was killed he might not have continued the killing spree. Now here is the same country and the same government that killed Koro and Deyda extending the guillotine to Accra. In all this mess Kufour would still sit around and then see the AU raise Yaya's political credentials during the AU summit to be held in Banjul? Truth can never be buried by lies.One day all these souls will speak for themselves. Time will tell if anyone can ever defend Yaya Jammeh's legacy.

Alu.





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