Gambia-L: I am sending the e-mail below from one of my sources in the Gambia unedited. Ebrima Ceesay Birmingham, UK ________________________________________________________________ >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: YAHYA JAMMEH IS BOTH A BUTCHER AND A LIAR >Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:33:18 GMT > >Ebrima, >Please ignore my message of yesterday on the AFRPC/APRC thuggery and >terrorism displayed on Saturday and Sunday in and around the Basse area >because it has been adequately reported by Saihou Mballow and others. By >way of an up-date, reports reaching me in Banjul, and partly reported in >today's papers, is that Ousainou, Yaya Jallow, Waa Juwara and the entire >entourage are now save and not under arrest, as some feared. They are >expected in Banjul later in the day. Yahya and his disgraced Government >may be stupid, but not crazy, to arrest the UDP leadership for terrorist >acts committed by Baba Jobe, his brother the Assistant Commissioner, URD, >Momodou "Pika" Jallow who was involved in the kidnapping of Shyngle Nyassi, >and a bunch of nonentities-cum-Libyian trained third rate terrorist. AN >ARREST TANTAMOUNTS TO CIVIL UNREST WHOSE MAGNITUDE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN THE >GAMBIA. As Ousainou said, if the UDP were a violent Party as the APRC, most >of those hudlums who ambushed the UDP entourage would have been killed. >Despite this blatant act of terrorism, provoked by these thugs, and >command-controlled from Kanilai, with Baba Jobe and his brother acting as >field commanders in Basse, The Observer managed to put yet another spin to >the story by suggesting that the Julangel and Jimara skirmishes last Friday >was over the raising of the green flag of the APRC. Ebrima, that is a lie >and it is about time that Amadou Samba be told that his constant peddling >of dis-information to the gambian people must stop and MUST STOP NOW. The >skirmish was not a skirmish but an attempt by the APRC thugs to prevent the >UDP from having their rally in exercise of their democratic right. The >APRC did not want the meeting to proceed because of the prominent people of >Julangal and Jimara who came out in full force to support the party of >their choice. AMADOU SAMBA , PLEASE STOP PEDDLING LIES TO THE GAMBIAN >PEOPLE. >Why did you fail to tell your readers what Alieu Njie, the dead APRC >supporter and employee of the BAC, was doing, driving a Basse Area Council >vehicle full of thugs and murderers, armed to the teeth including Alieu >himself(according to my APRC sources) transporting these people from >village to village to intimidate Gambians who are going about exercising >their democratic right. There were two Basse area Council vehicles involved >,and not one as reported by The Observer. Where is the other vehicle, >Amadou Samba? The one confiscated from the banned PPP and shamelessly >driven around by your APRC Government. >Yaya is also a liar. At the tractor presentation ceremony, he said that >the problems of the farmers, i.e. non-payment of their groundnuts has been >resolved and that "every butut has been paid". I say to Yahya, "That is a >lie, a damn lie". Why don't you go to the farmers, as Ousainou is doing, >and tell them that you owe them nothing from last year and this year's >groundnut produce. The farmers are still owed over 40 million dalasi, part >of which you, Baba and your cronies pocketed. You are a pathological liar, >jamus. The "groundnut problem" as you called it did not start with the PPP >regime. The problem started the day Baba Jobe led a bunch of un-educated, >ill-desciplined paratroopers to the premises of GCC, a >legitimately-acquired property belonging to ALIMENTA and occupied it >illegally. That's when your "groundnut problem started and not "when the >former government cheaply sold the Denton Bridge facility to a company >which was trying to bring hardship to the farmers." BLAME YOURSELF, BABA >JOBE AND YOUR INEPT GOVERNMENT FOR THE MESS AND NOT THE PPP REGIME AND/OR >ALIMENTA. Your new Attorney General wants to go to court with ALIMENTA, let >him try. My advise to you is try and resolve the Louis Diaz mess before you >take on ALIMENTA. >Ebrima, "these people" will go. YAHYA WILL BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE. THE >GAMBIAN PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH. > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------