Echo Analysis

The Gambia: Terrorism and Economic Looting

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

 The recent revelations, in The Gambia Echo, of massive transfers of cash to one Lamin (Sabi) Sanyang, a so-called employee of The Gambian Embassy in Washington, D.C, does not even begin to characterize the surreal corruption in which Yahya Jammeh and his regime are engaged. The facts and numbers presented in these stories are not made up; they are very real, however hard to believe as they may seem to some. The Gambia Echo wishes the stories were not true, but sadly, that is not the case.  

Yahya Jammeh & friend, Lamin Sabi Sanyang

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BOMBSHELL

The Money Trail:How Jammeh Pillages Gambia’s Economy, Transfers 

US$ 4,480,634.87 Millions to Lamin Sanyang, June-Dec., 2007 

--Women, 5Armored Armadas, S600 Mercedes Benz Costing $151,625 etc.

 By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Ever since we began unraveling Yahya Jammeh’s corruption web with promises of more damning evidence, we have been inundated with a barrage of phone calls. Our email has been equally saturated with inquiries and interests in the scoop. The unprecedented level of interest demonstrated from Gambians everywhere and other organizations thus far, punctuates the degree of seriousness with which this story is taken.

President Yahya Jammeh and Lamin Sanyang

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Banjul Letter Writer Alleges That President Jammeh Sacked Mayor Conteh Over Girlfriend Palaver-Says Both Are Corrupt Womanizers

Dear Ebrima,

I must thank you for the wonderful and factual stories that you are publishing for our benefit. Your paper has really become a force to be reckoned with in terms of reporting the truth and exposing the ills facing the peace loving people of the great country of The Gambia. I have followed all your stories on a daily basis with keen interest.

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Echo Exclusive

Breaking News: President Jammeh Transferred US$4,480,634.87 Millions to Lamin Sabi Sanyang, June, 2007-Dec., 2007

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor In-Chief

President Yahya Jammeh, a glorified boy scout who seized power on July 22, 1994 promising to fix corruption is today, irredeemably corrupt and has found in Lamin Sabi Sanyang, The Gambia’s urbane and unassuming Financial Attaché in Washington DC, a very loyal confidant who can discreetly run his clandestine operations.

President Yahya Jammeh and Lamin Sanyang

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Corruption Galore: Yahya Jammeh Spends $500,000 On Hawaii Vacationers, Millions More in Limbo

--Armored Car, 11 Buses, Air Tickets, etc, etc

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

In our September 2^nd. 2008 lead story captioned “Nissangate” we reported that President Yahya Jammeh was lavishly using Gambia Government money to throw beachfront parties in Hawaii’s exquisite resorts for American beauty pageants while Gambians could not afford to feed themselves. We promised to investigate the matter and talk to our attorneys before we could proceed with the amazing details.

During a conference call with President Jammeh, paid for by The Gambia Government when hospitals lack basic facilities 

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Breaking News: Missing NIA Officer, Kebba Secka Spotted At Mile II

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

One year after his mysterious disappearance followed by a combustible combination of speculations and differing tales of conspiracy theories as to his fate, today, we report with unassailable evidence that Mr. Kebba Secka is currently detained at Banjul’s infamous Mile II Prisons.

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Analysis

The Corruption of Absolute Power

By MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor

Social and political scientists have long recognized the corrupting influences of absolute power in the hands of a single individual. This prompted the coinage of the phrase; absolute power corrupts absolutely, to bring this point home. Today, in most African countries, but specifically in The Gambia, history has, as in many previous instances around the world, proved this right once again

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Ghana Politics: The NDC’s Existential Crisis

 By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has always been a one trick horse. In its first eight years after emerging from its military roots, the NDC run on befuddled socialism under its founder Jerry Rawlings who ruled Ghana for almost 20 years. Out of power for almost eight years in a new democratic dispensation, it transformed itself and ran on social democracy.

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Ramadan: Month of Worship, Repentance & Brotherhood

By ALIEU BADARA GAYE, Santayala Mosque,  The Gambia 

The nation of Muslims began the observation of the Holy month of Ramadan a fourth night ago. This is one of the greatest months in the history and religion of Islam ranking it the 4th pillar of our religion. It is also the month in which the noble Quran was revealed in piecemeal for a period of 23 years to the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

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The Corruption of Jerry Rawlings

By KOFI AKOSAH-SARPONG, Montreal, Canada

On the campaign trail for the upcoming December 2008 general elections, former President Jerry Rawlings’ accusation of the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) as the most corrupt regime Ghana has seen is an old Rawlingsian song, most times without hard evidence but ridden with emotions and agitations.

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President Jammeh Recalls Washington Intelligence Attaché, Threatens to Send UK&US Envoys Packing

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Unassailable sources from The Gambia’s Foreign Ministry say Mr. Ousman Taal, Gambia’s Intelligence Attaché to the United States, has been recalled following a direct request by Head of State Yahya Jammeh. Says our most competent and most dependable source in the President’s office, Kissy Kissy Mansa, President Jammeh has a bone to pick with Taal and wants him in Banjul immediately.

British High Comm. Sinkinson, US Ambassador Wells & President Jammeh 

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Breaking News:

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Immigration Inspector Jerreh Jammeh, NIA Officer Madikay Faal, Police Inspector Jammeh, 40 Others Sacked at Amdalaye Post

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH Editor-In-Chief

Following the dramatic and bedazzling movie-like escape from Gambian jail of British engineer Mr. Charles Northfield, erstwhile General Manager of Carnegie Minerals Company in The Gambia to his native England, President Yahya Jammeh has reacted with unusual anger and sacked 43 Immigration, Police, Customs and National Intelligence officials posted to Amdalaye Post on the country’s Northern Region.

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The Gambia Echo- Milestones

We at The Gambia Echo Newspaper, LLC are please to announce to our readership of our recent recognition by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the United States Department of Commence to include us on its list of news sources across the globe. Below we reproduce in pertinent part the invitation extended to us in a letter dated August 25, 2008 to which we have positively responded and work has since began in earnest.

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I urge every Gambian to read this story

Rawlings, Election 2008 and National Security

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, Montréal Canada

For former President John Jerry Rawlings, two time civilian president and two time coup maker, the political violence, mainly in a small town in the Northern Regional city of Tamale, ahead of the upcoming December 2008 general elections, is so bad that it might engulf the whole Ghana. In Rawlings’ figment of imagination, it is as if this is the first time there is political violence in Ghana, 51 years on as a republic from British rule, and that during his almost 20 years rule there was nothing like Tamale.

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The Tragedy of Yahya Jammeh-

Editorial

By MATHEW K. JALLOW Associate Editor

Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s recent threatening remarks during the graduation ceremony of 876 recruits late last week caught my attention and piqued my interest and curiosity for two reasons. First, what did the repulsive and noisome Yahya Jammeh tell the new recruits that we have not already heard? Secondly, why were there an unprecedented large number of new recruits this time round?

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Senior World Bank Official Visits The Gambia-Analysis

BY   TIJAN NIMAGA, Bronx New York

Mrs. Joy Phumaphi a senior World Bank official recently visited the West African state of The Gambia and even before her arrival, her photos were plastered all over the papers and National TV. It was as if a pop star was about to descend on Banjul; or as if Bob Marley has reincarnated from his grave and reggae loving Gambian fans were to have a grand visitor. In the end, she had more air time than the proclaimed owner of Gambian Radio and TV, Dr., Retired Colonel, Commander in-Chief, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Defense etc, etc, Alhaji Yahya A.J.J Jammeh, BA, BSc. MA, MSC. MD, PhD.

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Ghana Election 2008: Prophets Collide with Reality

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Despite its limitations globally, democracy as a system of governance, is so far what has emerged globally as the best for humanity – it makes practically all voices heard, minimizes dictatorship, and as the Germans will tell you, its by-product of decentralization, if properly instituted, rapidly propels progress. After years of confused one-party systems and threatening military juntas, Africans are coming to the conclusion that democracy will serve them better, as a development vehicle, more genuinely if blended with their cultural values as other parts of the world have done, than all the hugely foreign ideological governance systems they have

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Engaging Evil Spirits through Spiritual Courts

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

The suggestion by Akanayo Konkronko, Director of Black Herbal Clinic, a traditional medicine clinic that among other activities battle evil spirits, for the establishment of National Spiritual Courts to try traditional spiritual cases may sound weird to some, especially, those who may think of it as irrational in an age of advances in science and reasoning, but, however, it reflects authentic Ghana and some of its inhibiting cultural challenges. That certain deplorable behaviours are attributed to evil forces is a fact within the Ghanaian/African culture. Despite 51 years of nationhood even some educated folks believe that evil forces cause certain awful behaviours.

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Nissangate: Lamin Sabi Sanyang- A Presidential pimp, NIA agent, Diplomat or Businessman?

 -Echo Exclusive

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Over the past several years, we have been following the gradual rise of Lamin Sabi Sanyang our good old-friend into celebrity status and his has climaxed to a lamentable tale that we can no longer keep quiet. While we have been receiving numerous allegations on Sanyang’s dubious activities at The Gambia’s ill-fated consulate in Washington, DC, we had always brushed it as utter malice given that during his school days, Sabi as he was affectionately called, was a paragon of virtue-modest, quiet and smiling. But that was then and this is now.

Alhaji Yahya Jammeh&Deleware Beauty Queen Lauren Elizabeth Parkes

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