Breaking News: Atlanta APRC Sect. Appointed Protocol Officer

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

THE LATE SERGEANT FAFA NYANG

According to our most competent and most dependable State House operative Kissy Kissy Mansa, Mr. Sering Nyang, who until last September was the Atlanta based Secretary of the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reconstruction Party of autocratic President Yahya Jammeh, has been appointed Senior Protocol Officer, office of the President. Reveals Kissy, Nyang’s high profile appointment follows a series of consultations with both Vice President Madam Isatou Njie-Saidy and President Jammeh about Mr. Nyang’s purported efforts at galvanizing support among Diasporans and the major challenges that the party faces among Gambians in the United States.

            Nyang, 41, is a 1987 graduate of the Latrikunda Junior Secondary Technical School at Serekunda from where he worked at the Atlantic Hotel as a bar tender until he immigrated to the States in 1998. Until he left Atlanta last September, Nyang was a Valet Park attendant at a local Marriott Hotel in down town Atlanta, Georgia where he was reputed for his hard work and discipline. 

            However, by a concomitant twist of irony, Sering Nyang is the younger biological brother to the late Sergeant Fafa Nyang who was brutally shot by Yahya Jammeh’s regime and then buried alive in the wake of the November 11, 1994 counter coup. Fafa and Sering were not only siblings but were very close just like identical twins and how Sering unashamedly supports Yahya Jammeh and proceeds to take up appointment as his Protocol Officer begs for answers.

            The Visit That Never Was

            Now that Sering Nyang has accepted a job from President Jammeh’s regime and is a public figure, we at The Gambia Echo have no choice but to tell it as it is. It can be recalled that five months ago, The Gambian National Stenographer (excuse my sarcastic accolade for the Daily Observer that only reproduces what Jammeh says) ran a front page lead featuring Sering Nyang’s photo op with Vice President Njie-Saidy and Nyang’s highly exaggerated political accomplishments in marshalling support among Diasporans to gravitate towards Jammeh’s regime. The hoopla and false bravado over the party’s gains in the United States pervaded the airwaves especially, on Gambian radio and TV as well as the local media outlets. Today, we at the Echo regret to announce with incontrovertible evidence, that during that purported high profile state visit to familiarize the regime with his accomplishments in rallying Gambians to support the regime, Sering was in fact, deported by the United States Immigration Services. He left the shores of this great nation leaving behind his pregnant wife, with the Hobson’s choice of voluntary departure after exhausting all his pleas with the Immigration Board of Appeals. On a more serious note however, now that Nyang has accepted a job within the corridors of state power, let us hope that something good will come out of it. Imagine Sering convincing Jammeh to investigate the cold blooded murder of his biological brother and that of several others buried in mass graves in pit latrines at Yundum Barracks. Imagine that the dictator accepts the appeal and exhumes all those graves to accord those souls the fitting burials. We ask our brother to try that please.