(JollofNews) – Thank you, Mr. President – but please stop Yankuba Badgie! Mr. President, first of all it is wonderful to create SIS and bury the NIA. Secondly, it is even more wonderful that the SIS will not have power to arrest or detain anyone. Arrest, as you stated earlier,[Read More…]
Year: 2017
Gambia’s Feared NIA Renamed, Stripped Of Powers
(JollofNews) – Gambia’s feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has been renamed the State Intelligence Services (SIS) and stripped of all its powers to arrest, detain and torture suspects. It comes as new President Adama Barrow pledged reforms of the state institution which was widely feared and hated by Gambians due[Read More…]
Gambia: Freed Former Minister Speaks About His Arrest And Detention
(JollofNews) – A former Gambian deputy minister who was held incommunicado for over one year has spoken for the first time about his arrest and detention by the regime of Yahya Jammeh. Ousman Jammeh, was removed from his post as deputy minister of Agriculture in October 2015. He joined the[Read More…]