Kukoie Samba Sanyang arrested in Guinea Bissau with former Lt Badjie...
Why President Jammeh cannot win the confidence of Nino Viera...
Details
reaching me have once again revealed scary and worrisome pitfalls. It
has been revealed that a former rebel leader and the first Gambian son
who brought blood birth on Gambian soil following the departure of
colonialists Mr Kukoie Samba Sanyang was arrested in Guinea Bissau's
capital about a month ago. Sanyang was arrested for what sources are
calling serious security threats or reasons on one side. On the other
side there are sources revealing that,he was arrested to be used as a
pawn in exhange of Salif Sadio the Casamance rebel leader. Many people
believe Sadio is currently being fed and sheltered by President Jammeh
in The Gambia.
President Veira Wants Gambia to hand over MFDC
Rebel Leaders Before He Hand Over Kukoi
The source I spoke to
today at the Banjul court house said Kukoie Samba was rounded up in
Bissau during a recent trip to the Lusophone country's capital city.
According to the same source Kukoie was shuttling the area in
preparation of a shocking attack against President Jammeh's Kanilai
base. Whether true or not true the same source has revealed that there
is heightened security around Jammeh these days. This according to the
same source led to the sudden departure of President Jammeh from the
state house premises last week. The same source revealed that President
Jammeh is so eager to receive the fugitive Kukoie back therefore slay
him like a chicken. In President Jammeh's own words,he said..."If I lay
my hands on Kukoie Samba Sanyang I will be using his skull to drink
water from a jar..."The
same source revealed that President Jammeh is pressing so hard to be
able get Kukoie handed over to The Gambia government with utmost
urgency, amidst the sour relations existing between Banjul and Bissau
these days. The same source said President Jammeh is preparing to use
the services of William John Joof a former Gambian Ambassador to
Guinea Bissau. It is said that Joof is so close to Guinea Bissau's
first lady. According to this source William John Joof and NIA Director
Harry Sambou are working via indirect routes in Bissau with the soul
aim of influencing Nino Viera to hand over Kukoie. However,it is also
said that Nino Veira has in return asked President Jammeh to facilitate
the arrest and handing over of Salif Sadio to Guinea Bissau. Guinea
Bissau sees Sadio as an enemy against the existence of ther own state.
Unfortnately,as usual... President Jammeh resorted to using invectiives
against Nino and Wade behind the scenes. He said why ask him to hand
over Salif Sadio when Sadio is a Senegalese? On the other hand Sadio is
an unwanted trouble maker in Senegal therefore would have been captured
by Senegalese forces if he was spotted on Senegalese soil. There are so
many questions that still remain unanswered near President Jammeh? This
further implicates President Jammeh and the Gambia.
Gambian mercenaries with Kukoie? the region is not yet stable...
It
is no news for those who remember Kukoie's nick name Dr Manneh. He
chose the name because his followers said he looked like Dr Manneh
President Jammeh's current spokes person for the APRC.
Kukoie
Samba Sanyang,Charles Taylor and other Gambian mercenaries like Jackal
and others were one of the most vicious fighters in Liberia and
Sieraleone. Kukoie it is believed was put on President Jammeh's pay
roll during the late nineties and early twenties. This was when he came
to meet Jammeh in Banjul about three years back. How and why have
they started seeing each other as arch enemies now?
Kukoie
according to sources was arrested with other Gambian mercenaries
and one Lt Badjie a former special guard of President Jammeh. According
to a member of the Gambian army that I spoke with today, Lt Badjie is
more of a threat to President Jammeh than Kukoie. Badjie was said to
have been the architect of all the bunkers at Kanilai and he also
helped identify good locations for the installation of strategic
military posts around the state house and Jammeh's Kanilai base. My
source further revealed that Kukoie's arrest has since been confirmed
by President Jammeh's secuirty apparatus. Some close elements of the
President expressed concern because they said that deep-rooted sources
in Bissau told them Kukoie has so far escaped into the wilderness of
Guinea Bissau. What next? Has Kukoie been used as a cover up to pay
President Jammeh what he was doing to Senegal and Guinea Bissau through
Salif Sadio only to be set free with a special mission? Or what? This
vicious circle is yet to be determined...but as times goes on a lot of
scary things will be see near our borders. The Gambian President
himself is the person behind the unrest in Casamance and former
Liberia. This is a fact. How can he then expect to escape poetic
justice?
Our
country has already been tagged a catalyst or a hot spot that is
helping brew wars in Africa. This is not far from the truth because
President Jammeh went all out to swipe at those countries working on
sending troops to Darfur Sudan. He went against that peace keeping
mission on Gambia Television when Sudan's President visited him on
September 13th 2006. He was not also seen at the recent peace talks in
Nigeria where the President of Ivory Coast was being talked through for
a lasting peace in his country. Is that not why President Wade of
Senegal was called and commended by the US President George Bush at the
beginning of this week? Where does President Jammeh stand when he sent
Salif Sadio to receive money from Ivory Coast and buy arms? Where does
he stand when he supported the Sudanese President not to accept troops
on Sudanese soil? These are things Jammeh said on TV. Is that what
Gambians want in this mad world of endless turmoils?
There
are African Presidents already angered by what President Jammeh said
when the Sudanese leader visited Banjul. Will Jammeh once again say
...Let the whole world get to hell"? exactly as he did when he was
asked about press freedom in The Gambia?
More revelations on the way. As far as we are concerned the war with President Jammeh has just begun.