Corruption Galore: Yahya Jammeh Spends $500,000 On Hawaii Vacationers, Millions More in Limbo

--Armored Car, 11 Buses, Air Tickets, etc, etc

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

In our September 2^nd. 2008 lead story captioned “Nissangate” we reported that President Yahya Jammeh was lavishly using Gambia Government money to throw beachfront parties in Hawaii’s exquisite resorts for American beauty pageants while Gambians could not afford to feed themselves. We promised to investigate the matter and talk to our attorneys before we could proceed with the amazing details.

During a conference call with President Jammeh, paid for by The Gambia Government when hospitals lack basic facilities 

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Analysis

The Corruption of Absolute Power

By MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor

Social and political scientists have long recognized the corrupting influences of absolute power in the hands of a single individual. This prompted the coinage of the phrase; absolute power corrupts absolutely, to bring this point home. Today, in most African countries, but specifically in The Gambia, history has, as in many previous instances around the world, proved this right once again

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Nissangate: Lamin Sabi Sanyang- A Presidential pimp, NIA agent, Diplomat or Businessman?

 -Echo Exclusive

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Over the past several years, we have been following the gradual rise of Lamin Sabi Sanyang our good old-friend into celebrity status and his has climaxed to a lamentable tale that we can no longer keep quiet. While we have been receiving numerous allegations on Sanyang’s dubious activities at The Gambia’s ill-fated consulate in Washington, DC, we had always brushed it as utter malice given that during his school days, Sabi as he was affectionately called, was a paragon of virtue-modest, quiet and smiling. But that was then and this is now.

Alhaji Yahya Jammeh&Deleware Beauty Queen Lauren Elizabeth Parkes

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Interior Minister Sonko & IGP Badjie Helped Abdoulie Kujabie Escape

-Echo Exclusive

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable sources from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) report that Gambia’s Interior Minister, Ousman Sonko and Inspector General of Police; -IGP Essa Badjie (a.k.a Jesus) facilitated the fleeing from justice of Abdoulie Kujabie former NIA Director General. Reveals our NIA insider, Kungkiling Tamala, “Sonko and Badjie even provided Kujabie the pocket money and transport that helped him elude the authorities in the case involving the stealing and selling of a vehicle by the late police Inspector, Manlafi Sanyang.

 Minister Sonko, Fugitive Abdoulie Kujabie & IGP Essa Badjie

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The Verdict: An Indictment of a Perfidious Justice System

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Press Releases on Fatou Jaw Manneh’s Conviction

 STGDP PRESS RELEASE

The unjust conviction of Fatou Jaw Manneh today by Magistrate Buba Jawo is seen by the STGDP as a conviction against all Gambians in the Diaspora and a total disregard for the constitution and the rule of law. The very magistrate that said he did not have the jurisdiction to hear the case barefacedly buckled under pressure and called the case for the state. This verdict demonstrates the total erosion of democracy and the rule of law in the Gambia.

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News Just In: Magistrate Jawo Convicts Journalist F.J.Manneh to 4 Years

Predictably, after one and a half-year of a protracted legal saga over jurisdiction, today Magistrate Buba Jawo shamelessly rendered gross injustice by convicting US based Gambian journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh. As our correspondents work out the legal details of the conviction, it is understood that she had the option of paying a $12,000 fine.

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Breaking News: United Nations & ECOWAS Investigate Deaths of Ghanaians in The Gambia

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH Editor-In-Chief

It all began in July 2005 when the autocratic regime of President Yahya Jammeh allegedly acting on a fake intelligence report that a team of well-armed West African mercenaries was destined to it shores to seize power and restore democracy and the rule of law, that it rounded up several dozens African immigrants in the Senegalese border post of Amdalaye and in brake neck speed, drove to Barra village in The Gambia’s North Bank Division, 7 sea miles off the capital, Banjul.

Ambassador Curtis Ward in charge

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Sheikh Hassan Cisse:A Rara Avis Scholar Dies at 63 

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor In-Chief

The Gambia Echo Newspaper joins the millions of Muslims and non-Muslims who mourn the sudden death of Senegalese born multi-lingual Islamic scholar, Imam Sheikh Hassan Cisse; a tireless and erudite educator, a charismatic and affable communicator, a humble humanist and phenomenal philanthropist who passed away Wednesday.

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It is Official: Gambians have become Yahya Jammeh’s Slaves

By MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor

Hundreds of volunteers descended on Kanilai in response to Yahya Jammeh’s call for help on his farm, cried The Daily Observer Monday August 11^th. 2008 headline. That so many did so after The Daily Observer editorials hit the stands last week was not unexpected, what was surprising was that the bulk of these respondents are career civil servants who include some of our top bureaucrats.

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