{"id":36898,"date":"2023-06-12T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=36898"},"modified":"2023-06-12T16:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:14:41","slug":"foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah","title":{"rendered":"Fo\u00f1i NAM calls for immediate release of \u2018Baitullah\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The National Assembly Member for Fon\u0303i Kansala, Almameh Gibba, has confirmed the arrest of Omar Sanneh, alias Baitullah, tothe press yesterday, and called for his immediate, unconditional release.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sanneh better known by his moniker \u2018Baitullah\u2019, is a rabid supporter of the APRC and infamous for his regular WhatsApp rants in which he comes down like a tonne of bricks on anyone opposed to his socio-political views. He has been living in a village in the Casamance, where he was reportedly arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the news, NAM Gibba said the Senegalese authorities should immediately release him or take him before a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge The Gambia government to immediately engage their Senegalese counterparts to seek for his release or demand that he be taken to court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gibba said Baitullah\u2019s family wants to know his exact whereabouts because the first information they received was that he was initially detained at Ziguinchor but were later informed that he was in Dakar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are concerned about his arrest and we want to urge the Senegalese authorities to, in the spirit of brotherhood, tell us why he was arrested and who is behind it or else we will consider his detention a kidnapping,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gibba also accused the IGP and interior minister of deploying scores of paramilitary police in Bwiam in response to an audio calling on the people of Fon\u0303i to demonstrate over the arrest of Baitullah and the continuous marginalisation of the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis government should stop intimidating the people of Fon\u0303i for crying out loud or else there could be serious consequences,\u201d he posited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The National Assembly Member for Fon\u0303i Kansala, Almameh Gibba, has confirmed the arrest of Omar Sanneh, alias Baitullah, tothe press yesterday, and called for his immediate, unconditional release. Sanneh better known by his moniker \u2018Baitullah\u2019, is a rabid supporter of the APRC and infamous for his regular WhatsApp rants in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-36898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fo\u00f1i NAM calls for immediate release of \u2018Baitullah\u2019 - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Assembly Member for Fon\u0303i Kansala, Almameh Gibba, has confirmed the arrest of Omar Sanneh, alias Baitull ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fo\u00f1i NAM calls for immediate release of \u2018Baitullah\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Assembly Member for Fon\u0303i Kansala, Almameh Gibba, has confirmed the arrest of Omar Sanneh, alias Baitull ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-12T16:12:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-12T16:14:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/06\/sm_1686568705.163073.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Fo\u00f1i NAM calls for immediate release of \u2018Baitullah\u2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-12T16:12:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-12T16:14:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah\"},\"wordCount\":292,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/06\/sm_1686568705.163073.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/foni-nam-calls-for-immediate-release-of-baitullah\",\"name\":\"Fo\u00f1i NAM calls for immediate release of \u2018Baitullah\u2019 - 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