By Baboucarr Senghore & Abba A.S. Gibba

The Secretary of State for communication, Information and Technology, Mrs Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, has observed that the government of the Gambia has decided to find a strategic partner for Gamtel/Gamcel so as to inject the necessary capital to increase coverage and improve quality of service. Mrs. Macdouall-Gaye was responding to a question posed by the Minority Leader who was seeking to know whether the sale would not cause any redundancy. “Gamtel over the years has deteriorated greatly in terms of service provision, service quality and accessibility. It experienced stagnation in network expansion at a time when population increase, boom in business and transforming the economy into a technology-driven one require robustness, dynamism and strong competitiveness for any operator in the business of telecommunication,” she said.

Sankanu's Application to Jammeh Government - Faxed by accident to The Watchman 

Name: Bubacarr Sankanu (but I think I am a Serene Prince) 

Home: Refugee shelters in Germany. I do not have a permanent home yet because refugees are moved from place to place and city to city depending on available space. That's why I want a job in your excellent APRC government. 

A top official of Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency, writing under the self styled pen name Serg PMJ has declassified a list of Gambia’s most wanted persons by the state. Serg whose true identity is creating a big shake up at the agency, in this dispatch catalogued the names of Gambians and non Gambian wanted by the Gambian Government. The Intelligence official raises some concerns regarding the authenticity of the earlier wanted list filed by one of his proclaimed colleagues Lamin Sanneh. Serg says the said list is routinely updated by the Agency. He pointed out that some of names of the wanted persons were omitted for security reasons. Below is Serg’s report. Please read on….

Dear Editors

I hate to comment on stories published on your widely respectably read online medium and neither do I like discrediting authors of your stories because it is a crusade that we are all engaged in but I tend to question the authenticity of the list published on Freedom Newspaper yesterday. I was going to give it a blind eye but I could not hold it in my chest that I am forced to forward you the lists of wanted people by the Gambia government. I don’t know the self proclaim NIA neither am I interested to know but I do know that we do not have such a list. Not to my knowledge as a senior officer of the Agency although some of the names are featured in our lists. I must state at this point that some of the names have been deliberately omitted in some of the categories because these are people that cannot go unpunished. These are people that I myself will pounce on anytime they step foot on the Gambian soil. They mercilessly terrorise and rob Gambians and have to face the consequences.

The categories are five: Military Category A, B; Civilian Category; Journalists Category and Foreigners Category. It is also worth mentioning that the lists are updated regularly. Anyway until then Peace.

Military Category A

Cap. Sanna B. Sabally
Lt Alagie Kanteh
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Col. Ndure Cham
Lt. Yankuba Badgie
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Cap. Kalipha Bajinka
…….
…….

Military Category B

Col Sheriff Samsedeen Sarr
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Lt. Binneh S. Minteh
Lt Kejaw Touray
Lt. Lalo Jaiteh

Civilian Category

Foday Makalo
Omar Joof
Kukoi Samba Sanyang
Essa Bocarr Sey
Muhammed Lamin Sillah
………..
Momodou Dumo Sarho
……..

Journalists Category

Pa Nderry Mbai
Omar Bah
Alagie Mbaye
Ebrima Sillah
Musa Saidykhan
Sulayman Makalo
Mathew K. Jallow
Alagi Yorro Jallow
Baba Galleh Jallow
Ebrima Sankareh
Alieu Badara Sowe
Sheriff Bojang Jr
Momodou Lamin Jaiteh

Foreigners Category

Michael Scales
…….....
………..
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Serg. PMJ