By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

In what could be described as President Yahya Jammeh’s latest attempt to clamp down on the West African state’s opposition, Gambia’s much feared PIU-Police Intervention Unit, arrested the intrepid Campaign Manager of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) about an hour ago. According to party insiders, Mr. Peters’ arrest came in the wake of a defiant political rally in Serekunda, 7-miles off the capital, Banjul only yesterday evening. Even though the UDP was denied a police permit, it went ahead as scheduled and in what many described as a revolutionary departure from its party leader's usually tempered demeanor, lawyer Ousainou Darboe lambasted the Gambian leader as an utterly despicable dictator who wants to micro-manage every sector of Gambian society.

Femi Peters UDP's Campaign Manager & Colonel Gibril Bojang

In another development, unimpeachable sources reaching our newsroom say that Lt. Colonel Gibril Bojang who was sacked as Presidential Guard’s commander on Wednesday, has been arrested and detained at the infamous Mile II Prisons since Friday. Bojang was promoted only nine days before his disgraceful sacking and humiliating demotion to the rank of a private.

Peters’ arrest is also a sequel to a biting interview he granted the local The Point newspaper only last Wednesday in which he described the much anticipated 2011 elections as the “mother of all elections” and that they would never allow the Gambian leader to have a landslide as predicted by Lamin Waa Juwara, Governor of the Central River Region.

As we went to press UDP insiders reveal that a press conference is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon to address Femi Peters’ arrest as unconstitutional and shameful. Numerous people that this editor have spoken to say open defiance is the surest way to dislodge the Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh from State House.

Since coming to power in a bloodless coup in July, 1994, Yahya Jammeh has consistently and systematically derailed the democratic machine of this once impressive political state. On numerous occasions, UDP supporters have been arrested, detained incommunicado and tortured to death. For now though, it remains to be seen if the Gambian opposition will now seize this familiar story to come together for the betterment of all.