EXCLUSIVE: FATOU JAW MANNEH CASE HAS CAUSED SERIOUS DIVISIONS IN THE GAMBIAN GOVERNMENT!! The Watchman
EXCLUSIVE: FATOU JAW MANNEH CASE HAS CAUSED SERIOUS DIVISIONS IN THE GAMBIAN GOVERNMENT!! The Watchman
EXCLUSIVE: FATOU JAW MANNEH CASE HAS CAUSED SERIOUS DIVISIONS IN THE GAMBIAN GOVERNMENT!! The Watchman
 
When President Nino Viera of Guinea Bissau visited The Gambia last month, it was interesting to see that standing next to each other to greet the head of state were SOS Ismaila K. Sambou and SOS Crispin Grey Johnson. This is no coincidence. If Freedom Newspaper readers will recall, the Watchman profiled these two members of Jammeh's firing squad and this has caused them a lot of concern. They are extremely worried about their reputation, not only because they are intellectuals unlike their brutish boss, but also due to their sensing that the end is very close for the Jammeh regime.
 
According to rock solid contacts, the 2 men are now convinced that Jammeh's antics especially regarding the case of Fatou Jaw Manneh are not only a disgrace to the concept of press freedom as it is supposed to be but also show how unpredictable and childish a creature Yahya Jammeh has morphed into. In fact, Crispin Grey Johnson has been fielding international calls from former colleagues in global bodies who see his association with Jammeh as very dangerous and have been urging him to leave before he is demoted or even imprisoned. Ismaila Sambou for his part is very worried that a positive article about him in Freedom Newspaper could spell doom for his hard earned tenure. He has been bitterly complaining about the possibility of Dr. Yahya Jammeh aiming his wrath at his direction and has taken to praying profusely. Perhaps if his president still believes in God, he will be saved.
 
The debate over which direction the Fatou Jaw Manneh case should proceed on has pitted the hardliners in Jammeh's joke of a cabinet against the rest of its members. Now the interesting part about the rest of the secretaries of state is not that they are vocalizing their resistance to how the Fatou Jaw Manneh debacle is being handled. That of course will mean immediate ex-communication from the cult of the APRC leader. Rather, they have taken to extreme silence and vague pronunciations when called upon to opine about the matter. The hard liners are Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay, Yahya's Lady Macbeth and of course so-called "colonel" Lang Tombong Tamba. These 2 have been pushing Yahya Jammeh to viciously go after the stranded and falsely imprisoned journalist but Yahya Jammeh's spies at The Gambian embassy in DC have been telling him to tread very carefully not  only because the case has been under the careful scrutiny of the US government for sometime but also due to the fact that most Gambians in these United States have been expressing their utter contempt for anyone of their compatriots who is faintly linked to such a disrespectful and arrogant mimicry of an administration. 
 
Although it has been reported that Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay has a personal animus against Fatou Jaw Manneh hence her militant stance, that is only half the explanation, the tip of the iceberg if you will. Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay is underestimated by many of her enemies who always miss her greatest hidden gift: the ability to influence and psychologically manipulate her intended victims. She has been doing this to an unsuspecting Jammeh for a while through this method: she tells Jammeh everyone is out to get what they can out of him (his wife included) while she is there for him only because of her admiration for his love for The Gambia and nothing else. Isatou Njie Saidy (the hippo) does this to a lesser degree but she gets away with a lot simply because she facilitates Jammeh's romantic escapades (for those of us who don't know). One can see why first Lady Zei nab Jammeh hates these 2 women.
 
Lang Tombong Tamba has privately told President Jammeh that Fatou Jaw Manneh is even more dangerous than the Singateh brothers because while Peter and Edward used guns to enforce their will, Ms. Manneh uses the pen to speak the truth and after the utterly evil deed that was the murder of Deyda Hydara (May Allah Bless his Soul) they could not afford to risk making her disappear by "accident". Lang Tombong Tamba for all his alleged military know-how has spent countless sleepless nights conferring with stupid NIA agents and corrupt State Counsels on how to best implicate Fatou Jaw Manneh for trumped up crimes and has yet to arrive at a clever solution. That's why Fatou Jaw Manneh is still languishing in the hell hole that is now The Gambia. Lang Tombong, the goofball toy soldier, has taken it upon himself to strategically "pressure" Fatou Jaw Manneh to the point of physic deterioration and has employed numerous marabouts, charlatans, seers and fortune tellers to guide him on what path to take. These marabouts hail mostly from Senegal from cities such as Kaolack, Diourbel and as far as Tambacounda. It is not the policy of The Watchman to reprint sensitive information given to him by contacts but NIA agents have been specifically ordered by the First Lady of The Gambia to interact civilly with Fatou Jaw Manneh because her relatives have been hearing all sorts of rumors about the gallant wordsmith and just want Jammeh to send her back to the US.
 
Most importantly, it will surprise many to learn that when Ernest Bai Koromah visited Banjul last month from April 10th to 13th, he made an off the record, personal request to Jammeh to reconsider Fatou Jaw Manneh's case. Who gave Mr. Bai Koromah this idea? Former President Tijan Kabba. How did Kabba learn about the case? Through a current Secretary of State who shall remain unidentified for now due to the extremely secret links the Watchman maintains. Why did this Secretary of State do this?  She absolutely hates Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay and Lang Tombong Tamba because of their destructive hold over Yahya Jammeh. Due to the fact that this piece of expo sed information will shock the president's sense of security and secrecy look out for denials from one or both governments to The Freedom newspaper. Either way the damage has been done. We all now know that Fatou Jaw Manneh the heroic lady of the pen, the Athena of all African journalists and the proud daughter of The Gambia is making powerful men urinate on their expensive kaftans.
 
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Posted on Friday, May 02, 2008 (Archive on Friday, May 30, 2008)
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