By Buray Alhpha Jawo, NRP Official
Pa, i read your Lamarana Jallow file on Hon Hamat Bah making wild allegations about fraudulent visa, tribalism and being a security threat inter alia.What srike me in the first place is, the reporter in line five. '' The President, Lang Tombong Tamba and myself had a meeting about what needs to be done '' .To me that is where the credibility of your reporter is shartered.He merely cannot be the one person meeting the president with Lang and become Pa Nderrys freedom news paper anonymous reporter.Practically impossible,because he will not be anonymous to president jammeh who will not allow lamarana to tarnish his government.
To say Hon.Bah is soliciting external support to disrupt the democractic process is malicious.Hon Bah is not and never has been a military man and knows the consequence of military will never advocate for milirary adventure in any form,.I can bet you if Hon Bah is soliciting for any external support it would be for his survival but not military adventure.
To alleged that Waa juwara accused Hon Bah of tribalism is also the biggest nonsense.Waa cannot accuse any body of tribalism in The Gambia.If he does tell him he is the known tribalist,most violent against President jammeh and the APRC Infact juwara didnot only hate jammeh but incited violence that landed him in jail.Now that he juwara has decided to join the ruling party like most Gambians most of these type of politicians would say any thing to gain recognition for political positions US
On the issue of obtaining money from people with a promise of a US vIsa will be the dommiest thing Hon Bah will do.Has the party in the recent past help party militants secure US visa ,ofcourse, myself and other party officials did benefit . What is certainly not true is to alleged non party members benefitted.Infact not only in the US but UK,Germany ,France,Italyetc.Some working others reading,contributing to the party funding.With regards to Mambanick denied US visa whilst he was obtaining visa through fraudulent means is horrendous.
Personally,i was in the picture mambanick was constantly informing me on every step of the process.Unfortunately to him he was denied not because it was fraudulent but the timing of his visa application and the lack of basic requirements.Mr njie wanted to come to America to study but unfortunately it didnot workout for him.The best thing for our country is to stay positive on the democractic process and wish good things for our small country where almost everybody knows everybody.
Lang Tombong is a security officer your anonymous reporters keep on linking him with all the unpopular issues which is not fair.He could think you guys are always plotting him to be fired unnecessarily.I will not give credit to any reporter who hide behind anonymous names.If they are sure of what they are reporting. why not come clean .It will certainly not be helpful to think because one is away from The Gambia or can use anonymous names to accused decent Gambians of such a nonsense.
Editors note: Thanks Mr. Jawo for setting the records straight. We were busy at work when you called earlier in the day. We are back to base now.
First, you got it all wrong by concluding that Lamarana Jallow is an accredited reporter of the Freedom Newspaper. For the records, Lamarana is not affiliated with the Freedom Newspaper. He is an opinion writer like any other contributor. We must hasten to add that he is one of those sources supplying us information from the state house. I think you should have used the word source than a reporter. The two are different.
Regarding Lang Tombong Tamba, it's only Lamarana who can defend himself on your allegations.
On the whole PS Njie was denied visa. Buray, thanks for clarifying this piece of information for us. We look forward to seeing Lamarana Jallow's reaction. For now, we say let sleeping dogs lie. We cannot be blamed for conveying someone's message.