The Point Published Friday, 30 June, 2000
     
     
       
     
     Family Expresses Concern Over Whereabouts of Momodou Saho
      
     
     The family of Momodou Saho alias Dumo says he was picked up from his home in London corner by plainclothes men, who said he was wanted at the Banjul police station. According to the family the incident took place on Saturday June 24 between 5.30 and 6 p.m. 

      According to Amie Saho, Dumo's younger sister the family had searched for him at the Banjul police station and the National intelligence Agency headquarters in Banjul, but could not trace him. Annika Renberg, the wife, who is Swedish, said she and Dumo's younger brother, Mustapha Saho, had spent two hours at the NIA gate in Banjul trying to make contact, but were not allowed in by the gatekeepers who told them that Dumo was not there. This was on Monday the 26th June, after several calls at the Banjul police station where they were asked to try the NIA. The wife subsequently reported at the Banjul police station that her husband was missing, and was abducted. 

      Asked if there was some politics involved , Annika said she was not sure, but that she knows Dumo was a "political person," and had lived in Sweden for ten years in exile because of political activities, but had since retired from active politics owing to the demise of the political organization to which he belonged. 

      She said Dumo was a member of the Movement of Justice in Africa, MOJA Gambia chapter (Moja -G), to which most of his friends now in the APRC government belonged. She said Dumo has not been interested with any other political party in the Gambia following the demise of Moja-G, and had always remained apolitical. 

      Dumo is a founder member of a non government organization, "Boka Loho" which is currently running community development projects in the urban, semi urban and the rural areas of the Gambia. Among these are two skills centres in Latrikunda Piccadilly and Last Bundung. 

      According to the nightwatchman at the "Boka Loho" skills and multipurpose centre at Latrikunda, one Momodou Jallow of Nemakunda, plainclothe men knocked at the gate of the centre on Wednesday night at about 2 a.m. asking for Dumo. He said by this time he had already locked the gate, and told them he does not open when he had already closed, and that it was also very late in the night. One of the men, he said, jumped over the fence and opened the locked gate to let in four others, while others waited outside with two vehicles. He said the four men searched the place all over before returning to join the others waiting outside with the vehicles.