HURRICANE KANILAI!!!!

Workers Destroyed GAMTEL CABLE???

While the National Intelligence Agency is busy trying gather evidence as to what might have been responsible for the Hurricane Kanilai—which destroyed GAMTEL’s main fiber optic cable, situated at Sting corner along the Banjul/Serre Kunda High Way, unconfirmed reports reaching the Freedom Newspaper said the cable was damaged by accident by ‘unnamed workers” on site, who hurriedly covered their mess unnoticed. Sources say they spotted contractors on site on the day in question, and the incident doesn’t look like a sabotage as painted by the management of GAMTEl. Our source said the contractors were digging on site, and mistakenly destroyed the cable. Though, they never reported the cable destruction for fear of being arrested but sources said it was not intentional on the side of the workers to destroy the said cable—which GAMTEL said was destroyed by national saboteurs. 

During a visit to the site of the incident, this reporter was told that some workers were seen on site Tuesday morning—a day before the cable was destroyed.  It is not clear if the said workers are employees of GAMTEL, but sources said the incident could have been resolved without false public alarm with the perpetrators handing themselves to the relevant authorities to avoid apportioning blame to the wrong people.

There are numerous cellular phone companies in The Gambia. Our source said the incident might have been perpetrated by one of the technicians of the cellular phone companies.  Although such reports could not be independently corroborated by GAMTEL’S management.

Witnesses said the destroyed cable was covered with sand—suggesting that the culprits are  hiding the incident from the authorities. They said this could have been an honest mistake, but yet since the perpetrators failed to own up to their mistakes, it is still considered a criminal act.

Meanwhile, Hurricane Kanilai is under investigations. The NIA are yet to arrest anyone for the incident, but sources said there is a person of interest linked to the destruction of the cable.