In this Issue we publish the testimonies of two abductees who were kidnapped by witch craft practitioners accompanied by security forces and green boys and girls.

A resident of Makumbaya village, Sainabou Gibba, who was kidnapped by the witchcraft practitioners or witch hunters, narrates her ordeal at the hands of her abductees. According to Madam Gibba, it was around 11 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, 25 February, 2009, at Makumbaya in the Western Region of the Gambia, when she was abducted by her captors and taken to Kololi. She said that whilst there she was forced by her captors to drink a hallucinogenic concoction.

According Madam Gibba, she was a patient who had undergone surgical operation last year at the Westfield Clinic. She said, as a gardener, she goes to the garden everyday; that on that fateful Tuesday, she and her fellow women gardeners were all at work in the garden, when they received a message from the village Alkalo, Alhagi Kujabi, for everyone to come the Bantaba; that there are some very important guests who came to the village with their vehicles claiming to be sent by the president of the republic to come and conduct rituals in our village. She said the messenger emphasised that the Alkalo told him that we should all abandon what we were doing at the garden and to go immediately to meet the guests.

She explained that while they were on the way to the bantaba, they met up with the witch hunters, one of whom told her that she was possessed by demons and had to be taken to Kololi for treatment. She said she could not even ask why because they were accompanied by military personnel and some green boys and girls.

Madam Gibba said they were then matched to the village Bantaba where they met other villagers waiting for them; that from there they were whisked to Kololi and taken to a compound which she later knew to be Baba Jobe's compound.

Madam Gibba said she was asked to drink a concoction, which she initially refused to do, but was forced to take it; that she was threatened with all kinds of nasty and abusive words; that the liquid was poured into her palms for her to drink; that it was very difficult to drink the concoction as there were some unknown particles in it..

Madam Gibba said that her father in law, Sulayman Colley, was also abducted and that when he was forced to drink a cup full of the concoction he became unconscious. She said the 'green boys' refused her to assist the in-law when she attempted to help him. She further revealed that her aunt, one Anna Gibba, was also abducted and taken with them to Kololi. According to Madam Gibba, when the abductors realised that she has undergone stomach surgery before, she was later released on that evening after which she returned to the village.

Sainabou Gibba therefore calls on the government to clarify its position and not to be silent on who was behind this abduction and witchcraft rituals.