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.

Captain Bunja Darboe Speaks Again
Thursday 4th December 2006

By Modou Sanyang & Sarata J. Dibba

Captain Bunja Darboe, the 1st accused in the alleged March 21 coup plot, yesterday testified before the general court martial sitting at Yundum military barracks on a trial within a trial of his undated cautionary statement.In his testimony, Captain Darboe told the court martial that he was arrested on the night of 21st March 2006 while he was having dinner with his wife at Lamin village. He added that he was taken to the state’s central prison, Mile 2, accused of involvement in the 21st March abortive coup.

He said he was later collected from Mile 2 and taken to the NIA Headquarters in Banjul, adding that at the NIA a soldier in combat boots kicked him and, as he bent over from the pain, another butted him from behind. He said he was later taken to the panel hall where the current Chief of Defence Staff, Col. Lang Tombong Tamba, informed him that Col. Ndure Cham had been arrested and that he had already informed them that he (Captain Bunja Darboe) was part of the foiled coup, urging him to accept involvement.