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A bizarre revelation!
Monday, 23 August 2010 14:16
Gambia’s anti-drug agency uncovers gang spy plot By Abdoulie John
In what can be described as a systematic attempt to infiltrate the country’s anti-narcotics agency, a drug dealer who had offered his services to President Yahya Jammeh in his crusade against drug trafficking has fallen into police net himself.
A dispatch issued by the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA) states that the brain behind this ‘spy plot’, Pa Jabel Sosseh, “who claimed to be a patriotic Gambian”, had offered “his services to the Gambia Government in the fight against drug trafficking.”
Pa Jabel Sosseh was detained since August 3, 2010.
NDEA’s two-page dispatch also states that “sometimes in the month of June 2010, he (Pa Jabel Sosseh) wrote to the Office of the President requesting an audience with the President so as to create a strategy to eradicate both drug abuse and drug trafficking. He claimed to be an expert in the area of drugs.”
Mr Sosseh even went up to the extent of stating that he has “both theoretical and practical knowledge on narcotics” and further expressed his desire to work with the country’s anti-narcotics body in its fight against drugs abuse and trafficking.
Lifting a corner of the veil on this unprecedented spy plot, the NDEA’s dispatch quoted a segment of the letter Jabel addressed to the Gambian Head of State: “Your Excellency, I have both theoretical and practical knowledge in narcotics drugs, I can assure you that a disastrous epidemic is imminent if appropriate measures are not taken to combat drug smuggling and trafficking. In the light of the above, as a patriotic Gambian, I am with the objective of joining you in the endeavor of nation building.”
In spite of his inspirational missive, his hopes to bag a job at the NDEA were doomed after anti-narcotics officers conducted a thorough investigation on the issue that subsequently led to his arrest. “On August 3, 2010, Pa Jabel Sosseh and three others were arrested with 5 parcels of Cannabis Sativa in Banjul,” the statement from NDEA said. The men have all been put under custody and are now said to be helping anti-narcotics officers in their investigation.
This latest development constitutes an illustration of what narco-traffickers and other criminals are capable of doing so as to contain the crusade launched against them.
In fact, since President Yahya Jammeh declared a ‘double zero tolerance’ in the fight against drugs, narco-traffickers are deploying all sorts of strategy to infiltrate NDEA and its parallel bodies with the sole objective of destroying any effort to scale up the fight against a phenomenon that is expanding its tentacles within the West African sub-region. The country’s anti-narcotics and law enforcement people though, appear ever determined, capable, professional and going all out heart and soul for these bad guys…
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If you ever know anyone who is state guard ask him where jammeh was the day senegalease soldiers attak the rebels close to kanilai and all those bomb sounds.
We heard you clear: as long as you're comfortable, everyone else can go to hell?
Lng Tombong Tamba, Ensa Badjie,etc, all did have the same attitude.
Very interesting of you on your environmental political analysis that you wonder why I support this government. Is not important telling you people I know and talk to in this government. To me what matters is what projects, services and sacrifice these people are making. One thing I know serving a government you have to be loyal to that government and the president and if you are not then you cant serve to the interest of that particular government. Just as I always say politics should be everyone’s concern but not everyone’s game to play. I would have been one if I was interested but not because of loss of dignity and many more. If people are afraid I don’t think they are at gun point to vote when they are inside the poll. That’s why even you if you sacrifice to run my nation for me, I will give you all my support because I know the task involved that you have sacrificed for the rest of us.
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