FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
27 August 2007
Information reaching this paper has it that five (5) Gambians were deported by the Cape Verde authorities on Saturday 25 August.
According to the weary-looking deportees who spoke to these reporters on board the Air Senegal plane, they boarded a boat in The Gambia. They said their destination was Spain, but their boat missed the route and they finally landed themselves at the St. Vincent Island in Cape Verde.
They said they were then arrested by the Cape Verde authorities and put in an underground cell for forty (40) days.
According to the deportees three hundred (300) of them were arrested but as of now, only five (five) of them are deported and the rest will be deported bit by bit. The deportees further told us that their air tickets were provided by the United Nations. They claimed that they arrived in Senegal on Friday without food or water while the flight was to depart from Dakar on Saturday at 9pm.
A Gambian who was returning home from mission abroad provided them with food while they were at the Senegalese airport on Saturday.
According to the deportees, they accepted what happened in good faith adding that, they left the country to seek for greener pasture,
The deportees are Kajali Marong, Bakary Barrow, Kawsu Sillah, Dembo Touray and Sulayman Jawo.
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