By Musa Jammeh, a former Security Agent

Dear Editor,
 
I thank you very much for your service to our country.My name is Musa Jammeh.I live in Vienna, Austria for the past ten years.I am a former state security agent to my uncle Yahya Jammeh in the Gambia.I completely broke away from him after falling apart with him in our Dobong family land issue in 1996.

I have been keenly following events in the Gambia through the Freedom Newspaper.I am very much angry about the way they are treating this young lady called Fatou Jaw Manneh.How many of her calibre has visited the Gambia without much ado.Recently my cousin name withheld by Editors left the Gambia from a brief visit without any problem.I think she is innocent.

Therefore,i wish to disclose the name of the NIA operative in her case to avoid double standards.His name is Aziz Hydara,a half baked educated georgetownian as we refer to them at Armitage.The only 1992 Armitage graduates in the NIA presently are Aziz and Mariatou Janko.The latter is in one of the embassies in the gulf.Sambujang Fatty and Samba Kebbeh were also in the NIA but have since resigned and resides in europe today.Ebrima Kinteh,Jalamang Janko,Saihou jeng 1993,Omar Tunkara 1995 are the other Armitage products in the NIA power echelons.

Aziz's notoriety is widely realised in the Gambia.He is said to be behind the Mandorry book saga and other high profile state cases;torturing captives with no just cause.This mulatto style boy whose parents settled opposite Methodist Primary School from Mauritania was a nobody in our school days.He needs to be checked.

Please acknowledge receipt of this letter and publish it for public viewing.

Editors note: Mr. Jammeh we censored our colleague's name for ethical reasons. We do not want the NIA to arrest him, if he visits Banjul in the future. It was great to hear that he visits Banjul unnoticed by the Agency. People are visiting Banjul, despite Yahya's bluff. Thanks. Please join us in exposing your uncle.

By An Ex- Security Officer

Thanks P. Mbai and Hamadi Maasinah. I disagree a bit about your DONE DEAL piece on  journalist  Fatou Jaw Manneh. In fact it is the other way around here on the ground. The government is looking for anything that will save them from this case. Yaya will sneak to Fatou and say he is sorry if he has the chance. We never have this kind of a case here.I think you are giving verdict very fast here. It is not that easy for Magistrate Buba Jawo neither for any of us, security agents who have been on this case. She is your colleague but know that  you are not helping the matter by coming up with those write-ups. Actually the NIA started hunting her in  Dakar when you published that she was in Dakar dishing out  gifts which was not true. Remember?. She has big connections in Dakar that we learned and that was why the NIA did everything to seal all her routes. So please watch out for what you write sometimes. It does not help her.

Breaking News:

BY WISE MAN

The people of  Western Division have scathingly criticized the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and his APRC government for  not allowing them  to commemorate the Gambia's   43rd Independence Anniversary last Saturday. They lamented that  Governor Abdou Badjie who was acting on orders from the top  told them to postpone the event until further notice  due to the Operation Clean the Nation otherwise "Set Settal".

In Fatou Jaw Manneh’s case “concealed” state witnesses revealed. They are working for the NIA analyses unit.

By Hammadi Maasinah
 
 
Once again Yahya Jammeh’s government is ready to use electrocuting hidden details to “finish” a Gambian journalist. If Fatou  Jaw Manneh was male or did not have any international publicity surrounding her trial, the Jammeh government would have never ever thought about a camera trial for her. Never ever I mean. She has two advantages here. That is, she is female and a journalist. These two attract international attention very quickly because both are so vulnerable under a dictator like Yahya Jammeh. On  the other hand President Jammeh is the very one who wants to make sure that Fatou Jaw Manneh is punished for what he sees as an “unpatriotic” way of criticizing his government.