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Justice Minister Gomez lies to parliament!
Friday, 08 October 2010 12:58
By Journalist Yaya DamphaIt has been reported on the government owned Daily Observer newspaper, on its Thursday 7 October edition, that Justice Minister Edward Gomez, in his response to questions posed by Hon. Pa Jallow, National Assembly Member for Jarra Central, said that the state had no idea about missing journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh’s whereabout. The Justice Minister also said
the state is contesting the high court ruling on the habeas corpus against the Director General of the National Inteligence Agency (NIA) and the Attorney General demanding that they produce Kanyiba Kanyi and Ousman Rambo Jatta before Hon. Justice Manogeng on the 7 of June 2007. In short, Jsutice Minister Gomez is saying they are never in state custody.This is the greatest lie of the century, Mr. Justice Minister. Did you forget that there were eyewitnesses when the plain cloths officers were arresting these inocent citizens? Secondly, I would once again remind you that I, Yaya Dampha, in December 2006, saw Journalist Ebrima Manneh detained at Fatoto Police Station. In the same month and year I saw Ousman Rambo Jatta detained at Sarangai Police Station.
Before reporting my sightings on Foroyaa newspaper, my editor Sam Sarr advised me to inform the then police public relations officer, Aziz Bojang, who hypocritically refused to comment on my sightings. During the treason trial in 2007, a trial prisoner told us (journalists) that Chief Manneh was at Mile 2 prison.
The nockle headed managing director of Daily Observer, Pa Malick Faye and the Lamin Dibba my old friend are in fact said to be the very ones who reported to Saja Taal that journalist Manneh wrote an article critical of the state or Yahya Jammeh. There are living witnesses to this as well. Today, under Malick Faye’s leadership, the same Daily Observer has reported that ”Justice Minister clarifies Journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh’s whereabouts”. Where lies your consciences, boys?In April 2007, I again saw journalist Manneh at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital(RVTH) in Banjul under police and prison warden escort. The doctor who treated him told me he was been treated for high blood pressure. That same day, he was admited at the military clinic in Banjul.
In October 6 2007, I led the Amnesty International fact finding team to Sarengai where I had told them I saw Rambo Jatta. We found Ousman Rambo Jatta sitting with the police out side the police station. We were denied the chance to interview him. However, that did not prevent Jatta from telling us who he
was and how long he had been detained. He said he had spent 13 months in Sarengai Police Station. I was going to take the Amnesty researchers to Fatoto Police Station when we were arrested at Basse by three NIA officials who were not ready to identify themselves to us as required by Gambia’s own constitution. We were freed six days later and the folllowing day, on the 13 October 2007, Mr. Ousman Jatta (Rambo) and school Master Tamba Fofana were released from government detention.Mr. Gomez, Kanyiba Kanyi was arrested by security forces accompanied by then chief of defense staff Babucarr Jatta (dafoo). To expose your lies more, investigations have shown that Kanyiba was arrested together with his younger brother on the orders of Babucarr Jatta. Both of them were held at Bajul police station for a night before been transferred to the NIA where his brother was freed.
Edward Gomez, I have very few words to tell you. Your lies may make you think that you are in dictator Jammeh’s good books. But if you were a wise man, you would learn from the lessons of your predecessors. Reflect your mind on how Sheik Tijan Hydara crafted the media bill and the media commission Act only for him to be booted out by Jammeh. Do you remember the day Daba Marenah sat in front of GRTS cameras and discribed late Deyda Hydara as a womanist and alleged that he was responsible of his own death, that their findings rev
ealed 
that Deyda made lot of enemies for himself? Where is Daba today? Nine months ago in February 2010, Mary Saine Fredaus sat in front of the whole world in Geneva during the Universal Periodic Review(UPR), making the same lies you are doing today in defense of dictator Jammeh. A good friend of mine from Amnesty International asked her how she would want her name to be spelt when she is fired or detained by Yahya Jammeh? She did not survive three months from that day.These and many others could have been an eye opener for you Edu. But, knowing the type of greedy hypocrite you are, I believe it won’t be until when you will have become the victim of your own greed that you will learn.
For Pa Malick Faye and Lamin Dibba, your days are numbered. If you escaped the wrapt of the dictator you will surely not escape the International Criminal Court. The facts are there waiting for the right time.
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Comments
You can never be more royal than the king. No one can be more patriotic than Jammeh, not even when you are defending him.
get that Edu and the rest of the hooligans around this idiot of a president.
The Gambian government remain in defiance of the ruling of the honourable ECOWAS court...where they adjudged that the Gambian government are responsible and that they should pay adequate compensation.
The problem with this is two fold.
FIRSTLY
If the government aceedes to the demand of the ECOWAS court..this would set the precident for other such cases to follow.
SECONDLY
It exposes the impotency of the ECOWAS court in having no apparent means to enforce its judgement.
If ECOWAS is to progress...it needs to assemble sufficient pressure to force the issue.
Otherwise..the people MUST reject their combined authority.
We have said here over and over. It is a Gambian ailment that the people who are not adversely affect by events vehemently deny that others are affected. And the scary thing is that these are the people we look up to, to be guardians of our sacred constitution!!
Shame on these lowlife worms.
Chief Manneh was born in the Gambia and is a Gambian citizen, why should his fellow citizen (Jammeh), decide that he should disappear just because he has a different political opinion from him?
I would encourage Manneh's family to set up a tent outside Edu's home and keep a vigil out there until their minister of justice gives them justice!
For Pa Malick and Lamin Dibba know it Ebrima Manneh today but the next day could be you or other hypocrites you dinning with. Shame on you all.
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