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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.

According to our highly placed intelligence sources, the sacked officers include: Immigration Inspector Jerreh Jammeh (Immigration Station Chief), Immigration Inspector Haddy Jawara, Immigration Sub-Inspector Molifa Sanneh, Immigration Sub-Inspector Musa Manneh, Immigration Cpl. Jainaba Sambou, National Intelligence Agency Officer Madikay Faal, Police Inspector Jammeh and WPC Fatou Bojang. These eight, together with 31 other rank-and-file security officers from these agencies, have all been sacked with immediate effect and could face treason and economic crime charges at the conclusion of investigations into Northfield’s escape.

While England’s respected Daily Mail reported on Charles Northfield’s escape in dramatic details, the story does not specifically state which of the porous border posts he may have escaped from. However, from the story, it is highly unlikely that he made it through Amdalaye given that Northfield could not have swam from Banjul the capital, to Barra on the North Bank without notice given the pounding waves of the ferocious Atlantic Ocean. The most likely post of escape could have been Kartong given the description in the Daily Mail. That too is subject to conjecture as Charles Northfield knows the repercussions that await any potential culprits given Yahya Jammeh’s brutality hence the potential for a twisted tale to further confuse the regime that brags enormously and is often times, caught wanting in most operations. Remember the Farafenni and the Kartong military attacks!

Reveals our military affairs correspondent “Officer X” (a.k.a “OX”), “I have never seen President Jammeh as angry as he was on Tuesday, fisting on elaborate mahogany tables, ranting and using worrisome profanities at the British and American governments, accusing them of trying to cause trouble in The Gambia.” According OX, the bellicose Gambian Head of State believes that the CIA and British intelligence seized advantage of poor and corruptible Gambian officers, conspired and facilitated Northfield’s dramatic escape to freedom following his arrest in February, 2008 and subsequent kangaroo like-trial that continued to raise eye-brows within legal cycles.