Jammeh's propaganda strategy exposed Saja, Fye and Neneh at the forefront-Revelation Part One!
Jammeh's propaganda strategy exposed Saja, Fye and Neneh at the forefront-Revelation Part One!

By Staff Writer

Following months of investigation and monitoring of public officials and pro-Jammeh actors, the Freedom Newspaper has received a dossier of information pertaining to Observer managing director, Saja Taal, Youth and Sports minister, Sheikh Omar Fye, Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, information minister and many others on how their activities have been implicating members of the Gambian public while at the same time blackmailing the dictator, President Yahya Jammeh.
It was disclosed to the Freedom Newspaper that Neneh and Saja have lied to get their jobs in their attempts to please the Gambian Dictator and in the process, have placed scores of innocent citizens either in trouble or get them lose their jobs.
According to the information received by the Freedom Newspaper, following the one-week media blackout after the killing of Deyda Hydara by the Jammeh Government in December 2004, in which the Observer took part, Saja Taal and Neneh Macdouall went to President Jammeh who is also the owner of the Daily Observer newspaper, to ask him to take drastic actions against Ndey Tapha Sosseh, then editor-in-chief. Jammeh, Macdouall and Taal then proceeded to form an impromptu so-called board of governors for the Observer Company Gambia (Ltd), with Neneh Macdouall then the deputy director of the national television and the one who led a pro-Jammeh student march that culminated into a beach party on the morning after the murder of Deyda (while Gambians were crying at the mortuary), as chairman. Few days later, Neneh and Saja asked then Managing Director, Sheriff Bojang who was also a board member, to ask Ndey Tapha to proceed on a one-week leave without any cause. Before the end of the week, then interior minister and also former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director Samba Bah, nominated his friend, one Momodou Sanyang (not the one at GRTS) to be editor-in-chief. Neneh and Saja thereupon sent a person to the Observer to collect a letterhead which they used to draft an appointment letter for Momodou Sanyang with a salary scale of D7,500 (all benefits included). Sheriff, although unhappy, went ahead to call a staff meeting to introduce Sanyang to the journalists as their new editor.
Sanyang was somebody who knew nothing in journalism and so, Lamin cham, then sports editor, had to be appointed as his deputy who would be doing all the work while Sanyang would select Government-friendly articles for publication and ensure that anything deemed critical of the government was not published.
All the reporters planned to resign with Sheriff Bojang but to their chagrin, Bojang betrayed that course by downplaying a total staff resignation campaign scheme. He was quoted as saying that he could not take such decision at that juncture as according to him, he was about to be sponsored by Amadou Samba, President Jammeh's business partner, to do a masters degree in the UK and so, could not afford to offend Jammeh which he was quoted as saying would eventualy jeopardise that opportunity for him.
In the same week, Sheriff visited Ndey Tapha at her family house and shed cricodile tears with the same impending sponsorship excuse, for not resigning in protest to her predicament. Unfortunately for Sheriff, in April 2005, President Jammeh sacked him from his post, but furtunately also for him, his educational pursuit plan had already went through. As the saying goes - one good turn deserve another - despite Sheriff's clandestine call for some reporters to resign, everybody refused to resign to protest his sacking reminiscent of the Ndey Tapha case.
Consequently, Momodou Sanyang was elevated to replace Sheriff while Lamin Cham became editor-in-chief. Things became worse at the Observer prompting the cancellation of many critical columns by their anchors due to interferance by Sanyang and his board members, which the journalists could not condone. But little did the already frustrated journalists know that the last stroke that broke the camel's back was to come on 7th October 2005 with the sacking both Sanyang and Cham.
Saja Taal, the deputy board chairman and a junior university lecturer and Mam sait Ceesay, Press Officer at the office of the president, became managing director and editor-in-chief respectively. What was more amazing to the public was that Mam Sait was still doing his full time work at Jammeh's office and using a Gambia Government (GG) car which the Observer fueled.

To be continued
Editor's note: The story is a marathon one and we therefore urge all our readers to follow and avoid missing any of its series as many pertinent state issues have been intercepted and will be published. At the end of the day, Freedom Newspaper will succeed in showing the Gambian people who Mr Jammeh, Neneh, Saja, GRTS Momodou Sanyang, Omar Fye, Kebba Dibba and many others are. The readers will also know the specific roles played by Mr Jammeh, Omar Fye (then director of press and public relations at the office of the president,d DPPR), Saja Taal and Mam Sait in the Freedom Newspaper hacking; Mr Jammeh's forceful order of publication of names of subscribers which he said was his birthday gift, and what obtains at the NIA and State House and how angry Jammeh is with 'Hacker' Ebou Jallow and Tijan Massaneh Ceesay for their unability to stop the Freedom Newspaper from publishing.
At the end of the day, we will also succeed in showing the Gambian people that Freedom Newspaper is here for them and Jammeh and his fellow crime perpetrators will be finished.

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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 (Archive on Wednesday, January 31, 2007)
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