Ebou Jallow Urges Army to restore Democracy in Gambia

Captain Jallow on patrol in Iraq, US Marine

Dear Editor Sankareh,

As you know, I am currently too occupied with several critical matters and under tremendous pressure for the last few weeks.  However, I have promised to make a short comment on the political and security situation in The Gambia. This much I know for a fact

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Banjul letter writer reacts to Yaya Jammeh’s lies on Barack Obama

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Mr. President, how about a farewell speech?

~~We need mental health exams for our top public servants!

By Bubacarr A. Sankanu, Cologne, Germany

My Brother President Yahya Jammeh you can angrily call me an intelligent bastard if you like. I am just performing my civic duties. I understand you are wasting away one million Dalasi for the best compilation of your speeches, sorry your broken promises, since July 22, 1994.

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OP-ED

The Koro Ceesay Debate

BY: MAI N.K FATTY

I am pursuing with extra-ordinary interest the on-going debate on the veracity of the allegations contained in Mr. Ebou Jallow`s interview with The Gambia Echo regarding the assassination of late Finance Minister Koro Ceesay.

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L. J. Darbo says Captain Jallow’s essay is “All Heat and no Substance.”

By Lamin J. Darbo

In reaction to Ousainou Darboe’s recent press conference with Diaspora-based media houses, former AFPRC spokesman Captain Ebou Jallow (Ebou Jallow) declared his willingness “to give full and faithful testimony against the thugs, Edward Singhateh and his gang that murdered Ousman Koro Ceesay in any court of law anywhere in the world except in The Gambia for very obvious reasons.”

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Breaking News

President Jammeh sacks Protocol Officer, Sering Nyang

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

According to unassailable sources nestled within the corridors of state power, President Yahya Jammeh has sacked Mr. Sering Nyang, a Senior Protocol Officer, President’s Office, with immediate effect.

Sering Nyang, Senior Protocol Officer, Axed

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On Saturday September 19, 2010, veteran human rights  lawyer and leader of the opposition United Democratic Party, Ousainou N. Darboe convened a telephonic press conference with a cross section of the Gambian Diasporan, online media.

UDP's Leader Ousainou N. Darboe

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Captain Ebou Jallow replies to Lawyer Darboe’s press conference allegations

Dear Editor Sankareh,

Let me begin by making a declaration, that I am more than willing to give full and faithful testimony against the thugs, Edward Singhateh and his gang that murdered Ousman Koro Ceesay in any court of law anywhere in the world except in The Gambia for very obvious reasons.

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 Editorial

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity

By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

 

If ever the opposition party leaders needed a strong, principled voice to emulate, they got one last week. And, he has been there all along; right under their noses. Shingle Nyassi is a distinguished opposition voice, and like Femi Peters, has with easy confidence, carried the weight of the UDP in the face party leader Ousainou.......

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Breaking News

Obama White House refutes Observer hoax

--Grandiose Awards that never were! Yahya Jammeh a liar!

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Ever since the Gambian Daily Observer newspaper, better yet, the Gambian national stenographer (excuse my sarcasm) that documents every shameless act as well as President Jammeh’s sickening tomfoolery came bragging with a bogus headline on Friday September 17, 2010, buried in the irksome and monotonous English cliche “BAGS,” almost all genuine Gambians caught cold, scratching their heads, some even asked if President Barack Obama was gripped with some belated idiocy or simply stupid to confer awards on Africa’s most brutal simpleton, Yahya Jammeh, an empty barrel that relishes controversy and triumphs on drugs, prostitution, money laundering, witchcraft and blood diamonds.

Yahya Jammeh, Liar-In-Chief

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Bombshell

In Ramadan amnesty hoax, Yaya Jammeh pardons 3 dead & 2 free inmates

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

As customary during Ramadan, The Gambia government grants amnesty to a select group of prisoners who have exhibited good judgement and a positive attitude towards change. Consistent with this tradition, the office of the Gambian President dispatched a press release on August 15^th 2010, claiming to pardon 13 inmates under the prerogative of mercy powers vested in the presidency.

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Weekend Special

Gambian opposition party calls for arrest of minister Ceesay’s murderers

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Barely four hours after The Gambia Echo unleashed its bombshell scoop on the gruesome overkill of affable Gambian Finance Minister, Ousman Koro Ceesay, the political and legal reverberations have been felt across the globe as genuine Gambians and human rights groups are poised to take action against the senseless and wholesale barbarity of President Yahya Jammeh’s utterly despicable dictatorship where rogue soldiers have gone amuck, killing innocent citizens like butcherbirds.

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Bombshell

Cpt. Ebou Jallow confirms Echo story

--Details Minister Ceesay’s macabre murder-Names Singhateh brothers, President Jammeh, Yanks Touray & Sgt. Kanyi

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

EVER SINCE OUR WEDNESDAY MORNING scoop alleging that prior to the gruesome execution of Finance Minister, Ousman Koro Ceesay, on that fateful Friday June 23, 1995, erstwhile Vice Chairman and Defense Minister in the Gambian military government, Captain Edward David Singhateh(a.k.a the butcher of Banjul), gave out palm wine as charity to Captain Ebou Jallow who flatly rejected the ritual as insane, our Echo mailbag has been inundated with a barrage of emails mostly expressing disgust at the seeming insanity and unGambianess of the alleged act.

US marine, Ebou Jallow speaks out

Cpt. Edward Singhateh, Cpt. Yankuba Touray & President Yahya Jammeh, conspired and killed Finance Minister, Ousman Koro Ceesay 

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Opinion

Lawyer Mai Fatty tells Islamic Council: “stop meddling”

---Urges President Jammeh to desist from petty squabbles!!

BY: MAI N.K FATTY**

OP-ED: I have no desire to interfere in citizens’ religious affairs because I consider it personal. Freedom of worship is as sacrosanct as any of the fundamental freedoms, and an entrenched clause under The Gambian Constitution.

Lawyer Fatty during a recent European tour

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Breaking News

Yahya Jammeh is criminal, infidel-Officer ‘X’

--Palm wine charity portended Koro Ceesay’s murder-Says Kissy Kissy Mansa

-- Plus J.T. Kujabi’s fictitious transcript unravels

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

No sooner had Gambia’s salacious leader, Yahya Jammeh, concluded his bellicose commentary apparently directed at Florida’s mad pastor; a somewhat sociopathic cult leader, Rev. Terry Jones, with followers the size of a soccer team, than our most trusted Officer “X” (a.k.a. OX) with close ties to the Jammeh establishment, comes out with some withering indictments of Jammeh’s own shameful sacrilegious behaviours.

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Bombshell

President Jammeh Axes 3 top diplomats in Washington

--Appoints JT Kujabi new DCM

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES AT THE Gambian Foreign Ministry in Banjul, report the sacking of three diplomats from Washington’s ill-fated Gambian Mission late last week. The three diplomats are Deputy Chief of Mission, Baboucarr HM Jallow, Counsellor, Ebrima Mboob and Director of Cultural Affairs, Fatoumata Ayo Sidibeh.

Amb. Alieu Ngum & DCM Ebrima JT Kujabi

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