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Gambia News : Gambian opposition leader slams government over witch hunters

Feb 11,2009 by

gambia The Director of People's Centre for Social Science Research and Civic Awareness, Halifa Sallah has charged the Gambian government to investigate and disassociate itself from the ongoing arrest of people accused of being witches by purported witch hunters and people posing as military personnel.

Addressing journalists at Serrekunda Tuesday, Sallah said some people were arrested and convicted for spreading false information about President Yahya Jammeh recently, and asked why the government was keeping quiet about the abduction of people in Jambour (about 36KM from Banjul) and Barra (in the North Bank) on allegation of witchcraft by people posing as military personnel and witch hunters.

The Coordinator of the Opposition National Alliance for Democracy and Development said scores of people were abducted by the so-called witch hunters and taken to an unknown location in the Kombos (the closes settlement to Banjul) and forced to drink a concoction.

Sallah said it was wrong to enter people's compound and forcefully take them away on allegation of witchcraft, adding that he asked Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy, to convene a meeting of the National Security Council to address the matter.

Dodou Sanyang, a resident of Essau in the North Bank, told journalists that his mother, Jonyi Sonko, was arrested by people in military uniform and so-called witchcraft hunters on Thursday and taken to a place in the Kombos called Baba Jobe's Compound.

Sanyang said his mother was held by her captors until Monday when she was released to go home.

He said his mother told him they were given a concoction to drink, adding that some of those who drank the concoction became unconscious and said crazy things.

Sanyang added that his mother also told him that some of her co-captives defecated and urinated on their clothes after drinking the concoction.

comment Comment on This Gambia News (5 posted)  3511 times read
  • Jammeh days are numbered ,though he is arrogant about his political future in the gambia but one fact that skip his ruthless mind is that the Liberty of the gambia lies in the hand of the people kudos to the Gambia matters party.
(Posted on July 18, 2010, 2:48 PM Comrade Ojaomo Tolulope,President .Africa Unity Movement)

  • My fellow Gambians we need to go under a revolution of consiciousness. 60% of the Gambian thought Socalled killer is using his own money to built Gambia. That not true Remember Yahya jammeh 1994 he did not even have ten thousand Dalasis in his account. I found his action very immoral. Is time Gambian to stop voting for a lunartic KIller yahya jammeh our tallented and compassonate citizens have being secretely murdered while others humiliated in front of their own families in their communities.Leaving his Mother. and abuse our parents Being a self claim president thonot amount to insan actions that Gambians are facing today MUHAMMEDIN IAN BANORAMAS
(Posted on February 21, 2009, 4:15 AM Muhammedin Ian Banoramas)

  • Am I correct in believing that this probably has more to do with opposition by the people to President Jammeh, than it does to practicing magic? Or is this genuinely a attack on religous freedom?
(Posted on February 18, 2009, 9:02 PM david riddington)

  • i am very much disturbed to have read the arrest of some peoples for simply accusing them of being witches and wizards. if what is been rumoured that orders leading to such irresponsible,irrational and unmature behaviour came from the self acclaim eternal leader of the republic (JUNKUNG) can i just simply but clearly call on politicians both from the ruling and the opposition party alike to wake up to the realities happening around the world.focus now should be on ways to revive the crumbling economy, the respect for peoples rights and the respect for the rule of law. will continue
(Posted on February 13, 2009, 12:08 PM JAY BLACK)

  • When will we know the God we are worshipping or serving. If we know why thinking of witchcraft or somebody being a witch. Let us be awake and know that the God we are serving is more that any powers on earth and in heaven because He created them and He said at the mention of His name every knee must bow and every tongue must confess that Jesus is the Lord. If you believe in God and you are still afraid of the witchcraft then you are fooling yourself. For I don't know much about Muslism but my Bible tells me and I believe, that why I never believe in those powers. Faith is important for without faith you are dead. My fellow Gambian, this things are putting us into poverty and we cannot fight poverty without fighting things that is making people poor. Instead of keeping money for their children, they are making sacrifice to protect them. While not spend that money by building their lives so that when they are old they will make good use of it.
(Posted on February 12, 2009, 10:48 AM anonymous)

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