GFA OFFICIALS IN NIA NETS!!

SEEDY KINTEH, AND OTHER GFA OFFICIALS QUESTIONED BY NIA OVER “SECRET” MEETINGS WITH GEN. TAMBA

GNOC’S George Gomez Reportedly Implicated Kinteh And Others, As He writes To The President—The NIA Tells Freedom Newspaper

By Staff Reporter Fatou Barry, Banjul

The President of The Gambia Football Association Seedy Buwaa Kinteh, Lamin King Kolley, the Second Vice President of GFA, and Ajatta Gibba a member of the football body,  who also doubles as an NIA Officer attached to the Analysis Unit, were called for questioning on Thursday May 27th 2010 in connection with the recent treason case involving the former Chief of defense staff Major General Lang Tombong Tamba, the Freedom Newspaper can reveal.

The above named persons spent hours at the NIA Thursday, before they were told to go home, as the President Yahya Jammeh ordered the agency to probe into the activities of the GFA officials, following reports that they had numerous “secret” meetings at General Tamba’s residence in the recent past. The GFA officials had a pending case file at the NIA. NIA investigators are busy trying to figure out what connections the persons mentioned therein had with the embattled former army chief—who risked being sentenced to death if found guilty by the high court.

The top brass at the country's football federation were called to clarify certain issues in connection with the embattled former army chief of defense staff Major General Lang Tombong Tamba, who was also an executive member of the federation, sources said.

According to highly placed sources familiar with the case, one George Gomez of the GNOC had written a letter to the office of the president stating that the top brass at GFA were having a “series of meeting” with the former CDS at his house—which warranted a Presidential enquiry into the matter. The President wants to know the issues discussed at the said meetings, said a senior official of the NIA who wished not to be named.

 Also implicated by Gomez’s letter was the former Police deputy chief, sources said. Mr. Kinteh and co were called in for questioning by the NIA about their ties with Mr. Tamba.