Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana says that in 2005 former President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia, ordered the illegal execution over fifty persons, including nine Nigerians.
According to a statement on Thursday, Falana said that on July 21, 2005, the Gambian Navy seized a boat conveying 58 immigrants, including 9 Nigerians, 40 Ghanaians, 3 Senegaleze, 3 Sierra Leoneans and 2 Togolese sailing towards a fishing vessel anchored on the high sea to stowaway to Europe. Falana further revealed that apart from two Ghanaian nationals who were released to a Ghanaian Government Delegation another Ghanaian escaped from the custody of the Navy.
He however noted that the remaining 55 immigrants were illegally executed on the orders of the “brutal regime of Mr. Yayah Jameh, former President of Gambia”.The human rights activist said his firm was able to establish the identity of one of the Nigerians said to have been executed. ”In the investigation conducted by our law firm into the killings it has been established that the 9 Nigerians involved were travelling with their passports. However, the Nigerian Community in Senegal confirmed the identity of one of the massacred Nigerian immigrants. The details are:-While thanking the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr.
Tell it to Obasonjo
What are they looking for in Gambia. Is the country better than Nigeria
He just did what Fulani herdsmen and boko haram, bandits has been doing here since,,
Something we do to ourselves on a daily
Almost in every part of the world, Nigerians are being executed like animals, well, I don't blame the other parts of the world, since in Nigeria it self, it's still the same thing
Ok. So what should we do to him
buhari should talk to him naa after all he was part of those who supported him
Why saying it now?
The Gambia*
He should be Executed also,if found guilty
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