By Adama Makasuba
Basiru Gassama, a former officer of the National Security Service has accused the PPP government of ‘illegally sacking’ him from his job when he exposed the planned military takeover two years before Jammeh finally deposed the late president Jawara from power.
Mr Gassama described his sacking as a violation of his human rights and a flaw of democracy by the PPP government in 1992.
“I was labeled a mad man and sacked from job unholy with a false allegation that is unfounded by the PPP government for just doing my job in exposing the July 22 coup. I am a victim of the PPP government. I asked where human rights with rule of law and democracy are. Before the 1992 general election, the NCP leader Hon. S.M Dibba former vice president in the PPP government often said during political rallies, that he will expose the corruption of PPP,’ Bashir explained to The Voice exclusively.
“If the Gambian electorates did not vote out the PPP government, Gambia will see themselves in the hands of other people until another nation will come and rescue them from those hands. This is what happened in 2016 when former president Yahya Jammeh refused to accept defeat. It was ECOWAS that came to rescue us from him, who was more corrupt as revealed in the Janneh Commission,” he counted.
According to him, to avert the Jammeh-led coup not to succeed Jawara should not have overstayed in power
He continued: “The top brass of the PPP was informed about the coup and all the directorate of NSS at the president’s office by my humble self while on the operation. I informed Sir Dawda again on 30th June 1993 at the State House ground, they labeled me as a mad man again which is false and unfounded. I did inform the former vice president Saikou Sabally in January 1993 at his Fajara residence.”