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Janneh Spotted at NIA, COMMIT Resumes Business
Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:56
The Daily News has now established the whereabouts of Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh, 48, a former Gambian Information
minister, who was whisked away since last week Tuesday.“I saw Dr Janneh at a distance of about 40 metres away,” a reporter who made an undercover visit at the National Intelligence Agency headquarters in Banjul on Monday has revealed.
The reporter said Dr Janneh was sitting under a veranda of a detention centre at the time of his visit on Monday morning.
“Janneh seemed to be in a not-so-bad physical shape and his composure was intact,” according to the reporter.
The reason/s for the arrest of the former cabinet minister as well as his whereabouts have been a subject of speculation since the time of his arrest at his office, COMMIT, eight days ago today.
Since then, Dr Janneh has been denied his constitutionally guaranteed rights to have contact with his family members and a legal counsel, despite the elapse of the 72 hours maximum detention period allowed by law.
Though, he was on Saturday escorted by plain clothed police officers to his office for reason/s unclear to this paper, neither the family members nor the staff had the opportunity to see him before he was driven back in an unnumbered white police Pick Up truck.
Meanwhile, the only piece of good news that has so far emerged from this saga appears to be the recommencement of business at COMMIT, a leading distributor of IT products in the country set up by Dr Janneh following his dismissal as Information minister in 2005.
The keys to the office were handed over to an unidentified person when Janneh was escorted to the office.
A native of Gunjur village in Kombo South, Janneh started journalism at the age of 17 at Radio Gambia before he left for the United States, where he bagged a bachelor’s degree in journalism, master’s and doctorate in political science in 1990.
He taught political science at the University of Tennessee for ten years before returning home in 2003 to work at the U.S. embassy in Banjul as political assistant.
Six months later, he was appointed by the Jammeh administration as minister for Information and Technology. He was relieved of his duties in 2005.
Source: DailyNews.gm
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