We  have been in touch with Jammeh Musa's advance team in Ethiopia. Jammeh is leaving Banjul tonight for Ethiopia. He is afraid to announce his trip, the Freedom Newspaper can reveal. A source who claimed to be travelling with Jammeh said the dictator is trying to keep Gambians out of the loop in regards to his pending Ethiopian trip. 

Opinion by Fakebba J Samateh (UK)
The Gambians in United States of American did make us proud after showing their anger and profound disapproval against Dictator Yahya Jammeh and his entourage. The Kanilai killer is hurt and humiliated and now wounded. A man who thinks the world is under his feet until few young men and women prevented him from even getting fresh air from a simple hotel balcony. This was the greatest most humiliating coup any Dictator can wish for. Now what can he do? He is humiliated and shamed before the eye of the international community. Gambians also watched everything on You Tube and Social media thus sharing every story with Gambians back home that until then feared and despise the tyrant.  Gambians inside the Gambia knew a coward backed by guns and batons now rule them and he is back home preparing revenge, which is why he came up with his confused statement against Mandinka, UK and US calling them all sorts of names. Gambians knew Yahya hates Mandinkas and anything associated with Mandinkas.

The NIA DG Captain Lamin Saine and his Deputy Yankuba Badjie have succeeded in convincing our foolish President Yahya Jammeh that the survival of his dying regime largely depends onto what extent he can crackdown on the main opposition UDP. The NIA has concluded that an opposition uprising is likely to take place in the Gambia, in view of the nation’s economic crunch. We have started witnessing rice shortage and other basic commodities in the market. Local importers have complained about lack of foreign exchange to order rice. 

Due to the regime’s declining credit ratings, most banks here are not comfortable issuing letter of credit to facilitate the importation of food stuffs from overseas. Some of the banks don’t even have the cash at hand to cater for their customers needs.

Given the country’s cash shortage, characterized by an erratic electricity cuts, massive unemployment, delays in paying workers salaries, declining national reserves, low per capita income, and lack of sufficient budget to run the government, an NIA intelligence report intercepted by one of our agents suggest that there is a growing public frustration and dissatisfaction against the status quo in the Gambia. The fear culture is fading away. People have started speaking openly against the regime.

She only knew about her fate in court on Thursday morning after languishing in NIA custody for close to two weeks without having access to lawyer and her family. State prosecutors have finally charged the dismissed GRTS television celebrity Fatou Camara. Ms. Camara has been charged with sedition. She has been accused of spreading false news by allegedly passing information to the Editor of the Freedom Newspaper Pa Nderry M’Bai "with intent to tarnish the image of the President Yahya Jammeh." Mr. M'Bai is an American journalist based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Wednesday, October 09, 2013