SABALLY, PLEASE TELL GAMBIANS ABOUT YOUR ROLE IN 11/11
By Yankuba Jambang,Associate Editor
Sanna Sabally has again failed to come clean about the atrocities allegedly committed under his command and watch on November 11, 1994 when scores of Gambian soldiers were rounded up and summarily executed without trial !!! However, Sanna has provided Gambians with an important clue in his latest piece to the Freedom Newspaper wherein he stated:
"The plots against us [ the council (AFPRC) on Friday 11 November, 1994 aimed at very dangerous things...They tried to arrest, or injure or slay us and our families and our close bodyguards...What do you expect us to do-fold our arms and be herded to the gallows"?
These words tell us that Mr. Sabally does have valuable knowledge about the alleged execution of late Lt. Basiru Barrow and dozen other members of the Gambia National Army. Oh! really Mr. Sabally, 'what do you expect us to do'. Is this what you have to say? 'what do you expect us to do' literally means you (Sanna Sabally) participated in the executions contrary to common sense, contrary to the laws of the republic of the Gambia, contrary to the forgiveness you are preaching.
If at all, there was a coup in the making which, your government happened to foil; you (Sabally) knew a place in Banjul called Mile 2 Central Prison; you knew were the courts were. Why didn't you charge them with 'treason and felony'? Certainly, The Gambian Law has provisions for persons charged with treason, felony, murder/attempted murder etc. But according to your own statement "what do you expect us to do-fold our arms and be herded to gallows", you chose to take the law into your own hands and killed Lt. Barrow and others without due process of law! Mr. Sabally, you and your men will be tried for these heinous crimes no matter how long it takes.
I want to ask you these questions Mr Sabally:
(1) Did you kill or ordered the killing of any Gambian (s) while in office? If yes, tell us why- and if NO is your answer, why does your name feature so prominently in the November 11 incident than any other AFPRC member? I want clear answers if you wish to answer me. I do not need your Qur'anic quotations because I was born a Muslim and I am still a Muslim in the most absolute sense of the word 'Muslim'.
(2) Did you and late Sadibou Hydara try to kill Yahya Jammeh and overthrow his government you once helped consolidate? I ask you this because according to the statement issued by Jammeh's government following your arrest, was that you wanted to take the life of president Jammeh. If this was anything to go by, then president Jammeh was merely vilified in the 11/11 incident. This is because if he could only condemn you to jail after an attempt on his life, then he could have as well done the same for Barrow and co. if indeed he were in command of the 11/11 executioners. Jammeh was then right to check your 'cruelty' lest we would have lost many more Gambians.
(3) Does this phrase "run for your life" mean anything to you?
(4) Who shot at Dr. Kora's Volvo in Fajara; Jammeh, Sadibou, Kaba, Touray or Edward?
Remember this Mr. Sabally; no one is responsible for your present predicament, but yourself. You and other members of the defunct AFPRC have decided to unconstitutionally seize power; Gambians did not ask you to do that. When you toppled the PPP government in 1994, you did not represent me nor did you represent any Gambian on his or her consent. You have wilfully disrupted our civility, peace, love and serenity in the name of greed and unquenchable thirst for power.
Mr. Sabally, you said "they have declared war on us..." but the only thing I could recall on your broadcast on Radio Gambia was that the coup was foiled and the "situation" was "now under control". You failed then to tell Gambians the truth. If Barrow and co had declared war on you and your government, how many men did they kill or injure? None! I believe the coupists would not have declared war on you with bayonets and sticks or clubs; they must have had at least a few rifles to aim at you and your 'gallant men'. November 11 alleged coupists were killed in cold blood without them firing a shot! You have had the opportunity to arrest and bring them to book but you blatantly refused them justice they deserved and today you are harping about peace and forgiveness. As the Jamaican singer says: "I need no peace, but all am crying for is justice".