{"id":11806,"date":"2013-01-28T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/gambia-authorities-arrest-newspaper-staff\/"},"modified":"2013-01-28T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T09:35:00","slug":"gambia-authorities-arrest-newspaper-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/28\/gambia-authorities-arrest-newspaper-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia: Authorities Arrest Newspaper Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Officers of the notorious National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on January 18, 2013 arrested and detained three senior administrative staff of the Jammeh-controlled Daily Observer newspaper, as part of ongoing investigations into alleged corrupt practices and maladministration at the newspaper&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>According to Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)&#8217;s sources in The Gambia, the three, Amie Manka, Marketing manager, Yasin Faal, Accountant and James Campbell, procurement officer were, however, released on a bail-bond on January 20 but had their travelling documents confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of the three comes weeks after Pa Malick Faye, self-exiled former managing director of the newspaper and currently on the wanted-list of the NIA was sacked by President Jammeh on January 3, 2013, over financial malpractices.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, Faye&#8217;s dismissal was also linked to a caption in the January 2, 2013 publication of the newspaper, which read: &#8220;The Execution was hypocritically blown out of proportion.&#8221; The caption accompanied President Jammeh&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s message, published by the newspaper, where he defended his government&#8217;s execution of nine death row inmates in August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>President Yayha Jammeh continues to brutalize and order actions against staff of the paper each time a publication criticizes him as was the case of Chief Ebrimah Manneh, reporter with the Daily Observer, who was arrested in July 2006 by officials of the NIA. Manneh&#8217;s whereabouts remain unknown and Jammeh&#8217;s government continues to deny custody of him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/7b52p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Officers of the notorious National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on January 18, 2013 arrested and detained three senior administrative staff of the Jammeh-controlled Daily Observer newspaper, as part of ongoing investigations into alleged corrupt practices and maladministration at the newspaper&#8217;s office. According to Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)&#8217;s sources in The Gambia, the three, Amie Manka, Marketing manager, Yasin Faal, Accountant and James Campbell, procurement officer were, however, released on a bail-bond on January 20 but had their travelling documents confiscated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}