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Breaking News:President Jammeh snubs Yankuba Touray-As APRC NAMS opens an inquiry on farmers plight among others!!!
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Breaking News:President Jammeh snubs Yankuba Touray-As APRC NAMS opens an inquiry on farmers plight among others!!!
Breaking
News:President Jammeh snubs Yankuba Touray-As APRC NAMS opens an
inquiry on farmers plight among others- MP Duta Kamaso accused of
having links with the Freedom Newspaper!!!
By Staff Writer Karafa Badjie
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has snubbed disgraced agariculture
Minister Yankuba Touray. Touray has not been in talking terms with the
President in recent times. The whole problem revolves around the unpaid
farmers nuts which were sold on credit. The Freedom Newspaper gathered
that the President reportedly blamed Yankuba Touray for the current
predicament Gambian farmers have found themselves. Touray was said to have
failed to facilitate the payment of farmers produce. According to
sources due to the strained relationship between the two, the Head of
state has ceased talking to Yanks. Angered by the Presidential snub,
Yankuba Touray told a friend that he is being treated unfairly by the
President. Yanks was quoted as saying that he was brought to the
Agriculture Ministery at a time when the said Ministry was on its final
dead minutes. Touray took over the said portifolio from President Yahya
Jammeh last year after his uncerremonious sacking. He told his friend
that the President wants to embaras him by trying to shift blames on
him for the farmer's plight, when he the President could not revamp the
agriculture Ministry for the past five years.
  
Yanks Touray in trouble again!!!
State House
sources hinted that Yankuba Touray, who used to be the former ruling
APRC chief propagandist has been sidlened on party matters. His
attempts to join the vice presidential team on a nationwide security
tour was turned down as he was asked to stay away from the tour. The
same source said Yanks is also isolated by Neneh Macdowl Gaye, Fatou
Jahumpa Ceesay, Omar Fye, and Garba Jahumpa these days. Sources hinted
that Yanks was being investigated by the APRC National Assembly members
following complaints that he closed his doors to complaining farmers. A
circular was in circulation within the National Assembly regarding the
need to probe the Minister on other corruption matters and farmers
plight. Our source said sacked APRC Duta Kamaso was held following
leakage of the said circular, as she was accused of passing information
to the Freedom Newspaper. Despite her denial of having any ties with
the US based leading online Newspaper, the MP was fired and later
placed in prisons. She is currently denied access to her family and
lawyers. The Freedom Newspaper management say they never spoke to the
MP and learned about the case against Yankuba Touray well before the
MP's arrest. The editors dismissed the government's claims that the MP
was one of the paper's so called informants. The paper's editors urge
the government to stop using Freedom's name to crack down on perceived
opponents. The paper's editors say they stood by all the stories they reported about Yankuba Touray and vowed to defend such stories at any level.
According to sources close to the Touray family
Yankuba Touray is very desperate these days. He is said to be
contempulating fleeing the country if he had the chance anytime from
now. The President said our sources is planning to file charges against
Yankuba Touray in days to come. Touray has repeatedly denied wrong
doing, but APRC MPS said the Minister lied to them regarding the
farmers plight. While Yanks was trying to claim that the farmers were paid, evidence on the ground suggested that the farmers are still owed millions of dalasis by the state. Private groundnut buyers say they lacked money to pay the farmers. These dealers were sponsored by the government to purchase groundnuts. The IMF in a recent statement deplored the government's inability to buy the farmers produce. It also lamented about the growing wasteful spending in Jammeh's government. The firm raises concern over the regime's attempts to host the AU Summit despite the economic crisis in the country. The Gambian currency, the dalasi is said to be depreciating badly these days against other international currencies suh as the pound sterling and the dollar.
Yanks might be relieved from his office now towards the
elections or after the elections, said our source. The Minister whose
wife is currently in the US is said to be uncertain about his job
security. He is reported to be placed on survellance by the NIA. |
Posted on Sunday, August 06, 2006 (Archive on Tuesday, August 29, 2006)
Posted by PNMBAI Contributed by PNMBAI
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