(JollofNews) – Contrary to reports that The Gambia’s former president is living in a “seven star hotel,” The Standard has been informed that Jammeh is in fact staying in a government allocated house in the Island city of Mongoba.
An independent journalist in Equatorial Guinea who was contacted by The Standard said Jammeh was still staying in a heavily-guarded government house boxed by a high perimeter fence and other security installations that make it difficult to access him.
Our source who is a veteran investigative journalist said he has made several requests through the Ministry of the Interior of Equatorial Guinea to interview Yahya Jammeh without success. “All my requests were declined,” he said.
A human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea who attended a just-concluded conclave in Banjul told the press that the former president was staying in a “seven star hotel” while his victims are wallowing in misery.
But our source said the former president “is deeply isolated and is restricted” in many ways. “My sources within the ministries of the Interior and National Security have confirmed to me that the former dictator is constantly monitored and is not even allowed to move out of his government allocated residence without prior notice.
“Also, all the officers that accompanied him to Equatorial Guinea have been separated from him making him,” said the investigative journalist source in Malabo. “Most of these officers, perhaps because of their low educational background, are finding it extremely difficult to survive in Equatorial Guinea. In addition, the language difference also greatly contributes to their difficulty.”
Our source also revealed that Jammeh did not enter Equatorial Guinea with the limousines that were carted on board a chartered flight when he was leaving The Gambia. The vehicles, according to our source, were left in Guinea Conakry where Jammeh had a brief stopover.
Our source said the government of Equatorial Guinea had backed out of an earlier commitment to fly in Jammeh’s limos in a chartered plane from Conakry.
Although some Gambians are with the belief that Jammeh could destabilise The Gambia from his base in Equatorial Guinea, our source said that appears very unlikely “because at the moment, all of Jammeh’s domestic accounts are blocked and he is confined to either his house or the farm that the government allocated him where he is farming cacao, plantain and other crops.”
The president of Equatorial Guinea in a statement at the last African Union Summit, said his country granted asylum to Jammeh purely on the principles of pan-Africanism. Jammeh’s asylum in Equatorial Guinea is premised on the fact he does not in any way meddle in the internal affairs of The Gambia. According to our source, any indication that Jammeh is involved in anything that breaches his asylum condition would lead to it being revoked.
Also, pressure is building on Jammeh by international human rights groups to bring him to justice over allegations of various forms of right violations. Commenting on the case of one of Jammeh’s most trusted lieutenants General Saul Badjie, our source claimed the former president is no longer staying in the same facility with the general.
He said Jammeh is said to have “personal problems“ with General Badjie when the two had a feud some two months ago. “My sources have told me that the former president has expressed dismay that monies were withdrawn in his name from the Gambian central bank. Although I am not very clear about this particular issue, but my sources in the government of Equatorial Guinea have told me that the general was withdrawing money from the Central Bank,” he told The Standard.
Source: The Standard Newspaper
Yaya Jammeh can’t certainly be ‘dismayed that monies were withdrawn in its name`when they had been sanctioned; otherwise as everyone knows, Saul badjie would’ve been arrested in the first place at times of withdrawals, just like many before whom have been accused of economic crimes’ etc if Yaya wasn’t authorising…
It’s this very same pathological lies the evil kanilai killer devil is usually known for that’s been dubiously attempted to be shifted on Saul when both of them were master & servant accomplices, alongside many others, as being uncovered in the commission(S)…
We must brace ourselves for many more revelations of murderous kanilai develling barbarities & kind yet to be made public…
This sound like jammehs regime are gang of criminals running various crimes across the country.
People following the APRC are not taking the sorrow of people he created and left behind. They should be ashamed. The people who died,the Gambian students who were shot dead in the streets on his orders. They were protesting peacefully . The prisoners who were killed in mile two (murdered) on his orders. Torture dished out ,some of which he participated . The murder of the point newspaper editor (Hydara) I cant understand how any human being can say they support the APRC . They are as bad as the murderer who sanctioned all the bad he did to Gambians . Not to forget the Ghana people who got hacked to death in Ghana town area. The money he stole from the Gambian people is a real shocker,especially to people who can’t afford to eat proper food. Jammeh and his wife used to think nothing of taking a flight to USA to go shopping. (With the people’s cash) they have no shame
John
I can’t agree more with you. Our people lack political maturity. Our ethnic based political affiliations blinded us to what create a better nation and the selfishness of many of our political leaders left many disillusioned and hence adhered to the herd mentality of follow your tribesmen regardless of what cost to the nation. Many of our educated elites followed the same pattern of partisanship of ethnic based politics instead of enlightening our folks, or contributing in strengthening the democratic credentials of our nation or the effective administration of our institutions. These can be clearly illustrated from the findings of the commission in session, where it is evident that many of our educated elites let our country and its people down by not standing up for what is right and legal.
We have only one choice now, and that is to fight together for a better nation or continue living together in abject poverty, disease and death.
Yaya Jammeh was a very bad man and a thief. A big idiot with bad friends who want to say today they were clueless.
Yaya followed prostitutes and he was just a gangster.
A real loser. He will never have peace he an his disciples.
Now he cannot even travel what a life. He will never be happy or have peace.