As we celebrate our one year anniversary, Friday June, 15, 2007, we have two distinguished Gambians as The Echo's Special Guests. Captaina Sana B. Sabally ( a.k.a. Bairo) who together with Yahya Jammeh, the late Sadibou Hydara and Edward Singhateh overthrew the PPP government on Friday July 22, 1994 will tell us about his life, his up-bringing, military career, the planning and execution of the July 1994 Coup, the motivation for the coup, who was involved, did United States assist the coupists etc? The interview asks about the November 11, 1994 incident in which numerous soldiers perished, his arrest, the Mile II experiences etc.
The other special guest is Pofessor Abdoulaye Saine of the Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio. He too will talk about his Armitage School days, his experiences at Yundum College, his teaching career until 1973 when he left for the US. He will trace his academic struggles in the US, Canada and back to the USA.Professor Saine is an erudite Gambian academic and human rights crusader who has written volumes on Jammeh's harrowing authoritarianism and abuse of power.On this one on one interview with The Echo's Ebrima G. Sankareh both Sabally and Saine will provide our readership vital information that will no doubt, be relevant to The Gambia's future democratic dispensation. So stay tuned to The Echo for these exclusive interviews on our special edition on Friday.