Breaking News: Yaya Bajinka Released

By Modou Jonga

Exactly one year after he has been held incommunicado at the Mile II State Central Prison Yahya Bajinka, an intelligence officer with the National Intelligence Agency, was released unconditionally on the evening of Wednesday 16 April 2008. According to reliable sources, since his arrest on 16 April 2007, Bajinka was incarcerated at the maximum wing of Mile II Prisons.

According to sources, Bajinka was taken to the Headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency in Banjul, before being escorted to his native Brikama by three plainclothes officers. Sources indicate that Bajinka had never been arraigned before any court of law in the country during his one-year detention. Family members expressed delight and gratitude over the release of their loved one. This reporter has confirmed agent Bajinka’s release. (Source: Foroyaa Newspaper: Issue No. 45/2008, 18 – 20 April 2008)