Gambia opposition member who died in custody. Solo Sandeng with the megaphone with UDP protesters at Westfield Junction.
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Gambia’s UN Envoy Blames Foreign Elements For Fanning Anti-Regime Protest

Samsudeen Sarr
Samsudeen Sarr

(JollofNews) – A senior Gambian envoy to the United Nations has accused supporters of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) of being used by some rogue elements in the diaspora to stage an uprising against the governing APRC regime of President Yahya Jammeh.

Last month, supporters of the UDP headed by the party’s national organising secretary, Ebrima Solo Sandeng embarked on a‘unauthorised’ street protest  at the busy Westfield junction some 12 kilometres away from the capital, Banjul, and displayed a banner with the slogan:  “We Need Proper Electoral Reform”.

The protesters also chanted anti-government slogan and demanded the resignation of President Yahya Jammeh.

A few minutes later, they were nicked by security officers and whisked away to various detention centres where they were allegedly  subjected to various forms of tortured resulting in the death of Mr Sandeng.

The Gambian regime has since come under serious international condemnation over the way it responded to the ‘peaceful’ street protest.

But Samsudeen Sarr, Gambia’s ambassador to the UN, said the street protest was an ‘uprising’ that was sponsored by anti-Gambia government dissidents in the USA and Europe.

Writing on his Facebook page, Mr Sarr added: “I cannot boast about my linguistic skills in spoken Mandingo, but I can definitively say that I have a perfect understanding of every word spoken in the language. Hence, from the video footage circulating on-line about the so-called demonstration on April 14, led by Solo Sandeng, there was nothing he said that suggested anything like demanding for electoral reform in the Gambia.

“That desperate excuse was a last resort of justification after the ultimate uprising failed dolefully. Solo for all I heard him saying in the video footage was his aggressive demand for a change of the government, period.”

Solo Sandeng, Gambia oposition member died in detention for protesting against electoral reform.
Solo Sandeng leading the protest on 14th April

He added that the protesters had posed a huge security threat  to the peace and security of the country in their demand to change the regime and in the manner they wanted to do it.

“Anyone with such intention should expect to die in the process either by accident or incident,” he said.

The former head of the Gambian army, who was secretly recorded threatening to shoot and kill the protesters added: “My position was clear and will never change in that if I am in charge of any military or police operation in a country where a bunch of useless thugs are paid and released in the streets to render the society ungovernable without their consideration of how many people could lose their lives in the process, using deadly force will not be ruled out in my master plan.”

“My position on the so-called peaceful demonstration never changed since the architects of the anarchy started their conspiracy to the very day it happened on 14th April 2016. That if you want to tear down a country in an effort to change a government that was popularly elected into office, then be ready to face or see anything in that uphill battle including the end of few to many lives, plus of course yours.”

2 Comments

  1. YOU SAM SARR IS THE TYPE OF USELESS SOLDIERS YAYA JAMMEH BYPASS AND TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY. YOU ARE VERY USELESS ANS SHAMELESS. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN PRISON BY NOW FOR WRITING A BOOK SELLING IT AND BUT THE MONEY IN YOUR DIRTY MOUTH AND TURN AROUND SAYING THAT THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK WERE FEBRECATE LIES WHAT A DISGRACE MR SARR . YOU HAVE NO TRAINING AS YOU WENT TO THE ARMY THROUGH BACK DOOR. A PROFFESSIONAL SOLDIER WILL NEVER OPEN FIRE ON HIS PEOPLE. YOU ARE THE TRPE OF PLEPLE DESTROYING YAYA JAMMEH PRETENDING YOU LOVE HIM WHILE ITS THE MONEY YOU ARE LOOKING FOR

  2. Jollofnews shouldn’t give this selfish coward any space to defend his murderous master.
    Check this out:—–

    For the country’s deputy ambassador at the United Nations to want to ‘F…… FIRE AT THE PROTESTERS IF I WERE IN CHARGE’ shows how hateful Sam Sarr is, and the type of a lowlife Jammeh recruits to work for him. The people he so wanted to slaughter are our parents, brothers and sisters. But I’m sad that Sam is type that lowers the remaining tattered reputation of a body like the UN. They have to up their standards cos Sam wouldn’t have gotten access pass to that building even as a visitor had they vetted him. He deserves no respect, and will be addressed as such today.

    In the very short years that I’ve lived, I’ve heard and read about many maniacs and satanic humans but very few sit lower in the peat of filth than Yaya Jammeh. That was what I thought until I came across the cronies who do not only endorse him but help market his merchandise of hate and evil. Of those people Sam Sarr is the decayed f….. of them all.

    I mean from the onset, one could watch and see through the manipulative and shameless frame of this coward who has zero conscience and character devoid of any respect and better upbringing. This man should commit suicide at a family dinner to wash, cleanse himself of the filth and shame he muddied his family with.

    Spare me the cliché that we sell of a person hailing from a great respectable family in the country when they f…. up. Sometimes, the apple does fall far from the tree. When I read Sam’s tales of what he’d endured in the hands of Jammeh and the military junta, and how Jammeh never had the interest of the Gambia at heart, with his unloved and unpleasant upbringing made him a heartless murderer when he was EBOU COLLEY, I sensed a lot of hurt and bitterness in his cries though I was sure that most of what he’d said about Jammeh were true. I was still cautious. Then came the reconciliation bull…. when he came on the radio to recant all what was said in his book and more, turned his rusty dagger on the folks trying to rid our country of the animal and wasted sperm holding us hostage. Sarr was not hiding the plot to run back to the master like a dog despite all the horrible torment he’d gone through. Even after Yaya referred to him on TV as a liar and failure. But what do you expect of a man who has no integrity or shame, who’d been a scam and mental fucktard, breastfed by the demon’s concubine?

    Sam was in Mile II when the AFPRC arrested him, faked mental illness, s……. on himself in the cell and rubbing his own waste on his body just so when Edward Singhateh and co. came for their nightly tour of the prisons to torture them he’d be spared. He’s a coward, a fraud and disturbed amphibian who can never live a decent life on his own. He thrives on grounds of hate and deception. So for him to want to kill for Yaya Jammeh isn’t a surprise, except that this idiot who shot himself to avoid been deployed for peacekeeping.

    How could you blame the guy who taped the conversation when you did not deny saying what was recorded? How could you have wished people be killed for protesting the murderous president and his ways but want to turn around to lecture us about what you’d learned or not? You must have realized that your old and useless ass is about to catch the wrath of the world, and having your unprincipled, disloyal master dump you to have you back into an unproductive life until you die a pauper! What else must Sam had said to others if he could be comfortable enough to speak in such a manner to someone walking into his office to register displeasure with the regime and its heavy-handedness? Gambians are not stupid. These are our fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. They’re Gambians! Our people that are paying you to f……. serve and not f……. murder!

    To want to call these protesters ‘sponsored thugs’ is to want to appease the maniac that you share the same cloth with. And to distract from your hateful thought and wish of mass murder. You and your ilk disgust me. I hate your type. Not for your political association but the disingenuous, selfishness and unconscionable extent to which you’d defend Jammeh in the face of the killings and oppression. And these victims and their families are your friends, neighbors and sometimes your relatives. What has become of us? I hope, pray that Yaya invites Sam to Banjul to have him subjected to the same painful fate as those extrajudicially missing like Daba Marena, Ebou Lowe, Almamo Manneh, Tabara Samb, Chief Manneh and Mr Sandeng. This man is not worth much.

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