By Hammadi Maasinah
The noise is too much,the dust is too thick. The dust will settle,there will be total and deadly silence in Banjul when the truth is revealed. The press conference organized by Crispon Johnson,Neneh Mcdoll and Firdaus was another "cry wolf". How many times has Yahya Jammeh instigated such moves before our eyes for the past 13 years? This character has always been feeding on fabrication upon fabrication. Still there are Gambians who cannot see the light?! Earlier Yahya used people like Baba Jobe to do the dirty work-Alimenta's case made a bad name for Baba and the IG of police at the time. The end result was just too bad! The Gambia paid a lot of euros to the departing Swiss company simply because we have an insane,disrespectful bandit in power called Yahya Jammeh. Hans Benjamin and his team were no fools,they reserved a lot of tactics against Jammeh because they were informed from the on set that the man changes like a crazy chameleon every hour! His mood swings are worse than many criminally insane minds. After all the same President used every method he had at his disposal to stop Alimenta from winning at a court of law. Could he? He could not. Infact knowing how strong their case was against Jammeh Alimenta resorted to administrative procedures. The EU and other financial institutions which are there to proctect investors from the Western hemisphere against insane men like Jammeh in The Gambia, stepped in to safe the Swiss team. Before the end result was known the same radio Gambia,the same Gambia Television,the same Daily observer and the same state house accused Alimenta of money laundering! Their premises at Saro Oil Mill where sealed and siezed by Baba Jobe's cartel at the time. What was Baba's "lunch" afterwards? Mile Two!
Let us revisit part of the list of Business men Yahya Jammeh accused of duping the nation.
1-Samuel Sarr-The Nigeria-Sani Abacha oil deal.
Later on newspapers like Thisday in Nigeria and revelations pumped into the streets by Gambian investigators proved beyond any reasonable doubt that Yahya himself is the thief.
That case is still on,Yahya knows it is still on and the ending will hit his fat head with a rude shock.
2-Tarik Musa of TK MOTORS.
Yahya Jammeh took hundreds of double cabin 4 wheel drives from the poor Lebanese's car dealership. He used them during the 2001 elections campaign. He never refunded Tarik a single butut or penny. Instead Yahya accused Tarik of bogus charges then deported him. These double cabin pickup 4 wheel drives are what Gambians locally call-"Afinjang"-shake it or fanning.
If Yahya was/is clean why did he order his police to deport Tarik Musa to England? Why didn't he resort to court?
3-Babanding Sisoho-DABIA AIRLINES.
The man came to The Gambia with his own money. He bought a hotel,bought the motor bikes that escort Yahya Jammeh's convoy of unstable characters and sponsored his first elections plus many other things.
Sisoho was shamelessly forced out of The Gambia with a lot of stigmas attached to the man's name. Yahya instead ripped the parts of the Malian tycoon's plane at the Banjul International airport,sold all those parts at cheap prices. Certainly those who do not really know Yahya will never understand why Hammadi writes in this forceful way. Even if Sisoho was unwanted in other parts of the world he spent a lot on Jammeh,his mother and former wife Tuti Faal! Jammeh never rewarded him with anything honorable. For goodness sake Sisoho was held in Miami for days just because he wanted to order a demilitarized (used) Veitnam-war chopper for Jammeh in 1996/7. Yahya the liar said he was going to use that chopper for spraying insecticides? This case is still fresh in the minds of attorneys in Miami,Swiss and The Gambia! Yahya's own so-called Lt General Tamba knows a lot about the Sisoho case. So does his former IGP Landing 13 Badjie. Just to remind Jammeh let him tell us why he was screaming when he saw worms on his blanket one night. Useless coward!
4-Boto-of Boto construction.
The man is the "handler" of Jammeh's business accounts when it comes to road construction. Boto is like Baba Jobe both have shares in these companies which belong to Jammeh as an anonymous owner. As time goes on Hammadi will be revealing serious leads for legal men and women who want to follow Yahya's tail everywhere.
Today where is Boto? In and out of Mile,going to court,being granted bails! Boto is a scape goat! Yahya is the owner of Boto construction,he is a liar in power.
5-Yahya's pilots from Russia. They were used,dumped and insulted. These professionals made a mistake by starting with Yahya. Couldn't they have set up an agency with competent Gambians on the ground? Yes they could! Where are they? They have been expelled out of Banjul like common criminals. When Yahya was begging them to come pilot his plane before he was exposed to other pilots elsewhere.
We will expand on the list as time goes on.
This is why when I see mouths like Crispin and Neneh Mcdoll washing us with their saliva it makes me laugh. They do not even understand what they are talking about. The worse thing is when Yahya uses someone in his movie with a remote control while he is drunk. Yahya himself sits in the drawing room(a section of the state house) laughing at these mad heads when they are defending his crimes in public. Yahya Jammeh runs a state like a drug baron. He uses everything and anything to patch his holes of criminal activities. He cares less about those who talk the talk. He knows they are lying so why respect them?
How can these baked minds know Carnegie more than Yahya himself?
Of course the question from the British High Commissioner was as clear as spring water. Infact I think amongst all those who were shouting there,it is Firdaus who understood a little bit of what the diplomat asked them. She was quick in saying something like...there is a limit as to what and what they can reveal. Because according to her...the case was still under investigations. I can bet Yahya liked that answer very very much.
The British High Commissioner's usage of the term "scape goat" is pleasing to many people. He did very well.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Briton who was arrested in connection with this Carnegie case is a huge scape goat!
The British High Commissioner may as well find out the closed case of one French national called Mr Arneau. He was arrested in Banjul,accused of keeping camouflaged uniforms and zodiac boats at a fishing village in the Kombos. The man was wrongly accused because he offended the cartel of Jammeh in Banjul. He was later on released. During his detention some NIA officers tried all they could to have an affair with the French national's Senegalese wife. The lady refused. Her name will be withheld out of respect. Those files are there in Banjul,let them deny it.
The British High Commissioner should not relax. His national will surely be used as a scape goat. Yahya Jammeh knows that a court case is in the making against him regarding the Carnegie saga. He calculated this move. He is trying a replica of what ensued in Tchad. His unschooled and foolish mind did not study the facts before reacting. The case of those French who were accused of human trafficking in Tchad was not meant to cover crimes for Debby. Infact even though Idriss Debby was setting an example...didn't we see the same French help him repell the attacking rebels? Now what should Yahya expect in a case where he himself was involed in a deal but later on turned against his play mates? Trying to lie before Gambians saying the first samples were more than what was being mined. If that is the case why did they send the samples abroad. How about the laboratory at Abuko/ How about testing those samples in Britain itself? Why couldn't our own Gambian geologists test those samples? Yahya had a better offer from other companies therefore used those to give him cooked results then only to expell the British. This is the same way he used other companies in GAMTEL when he wanted some people out. He uses our local companies to make money,helps the new faces fight the old ones. He makes kickbacks at any time a new business tycoon shows up. That is why he accused Carnegie. Sooner or later we will discover who the new faces are and how him Yahya and the new faces cooked up a charge against the British National! Time is on our side very soon Yahya will be exposed. Just watch and see what Hammadi will do!
The British High Commission should not honor the words of Crispon Grey Johnson he himself is being used and will be dumped when his turn ends. Infact he may lose his life later because Yahya will never let him go way with what he knows about the case. Firdaus the SOS Justice is simply not a problem,she is a docile little fish before Yahya. The only people who matter to Yahya at this point especially when it comes to what he wants said or done are Johnson and Neneh. Neneh is in it because she is an agent of the latest Banjul cartel whereas Crispon is the mouth piece of the thief in power. Crispon himself has always been a stooge so this is not new.
Another thing the British High Commission should know is that,something similar to the Barat Joshi case will never be repeated at the department of state for foreign affairs. The same case led to the resignation of Dr Sedat Jobe under very shady circumstances. Johnson is not Jobe neither is he Blaise Jagne. Johnson is a certified boot licker who will say anything to keep his job. Does the British High Commissioner know how long Johnson has been waiting to be the SOS foreign affairs? Does he know the close ties that exist between Neneh Mcdoll and Yahya Jammeh? These are questions he does not have to ignore!
One thing I will predict here will happen. Yahya will end up sacrificing Crispin Grey-Johnson.
Another thing will happen to Yahya himself sooner or later. His assets will one day be frozen in the West. Let him make no mistake. These business gurus he is offending in their own game know how to pay back. They will pay back and when they do they will not miss. The only leader these gurus respect is a leader who does not need anything from them. Does Yahya refuse gifts,rewards and kick backs? Lest we forget how poor he was in 1994 and how rich he is in 2008!