RICE FARMERS’ PRESIDENT STILL IN DETENTION

Abdoulie G. Dibba Haruna Gassama, the President of the current Central River Rice Farmers’  Cooperative Ltd, who was arrested since on Monday 2nd March 2015 at Brikamaba in the Lower Fulladou District of Central River Region South of the Republic of the Gambia is yet to be released and  his place of detention is yet to be made known to his relatives.Haruna Gassama was arrested on the day that the staff of the Sheriff Division were in Brikamaba in Lower Fulladou  executing  the order of a Judgment delivered by Justice Penda Dibba of the high court on 12th of January 2015 in favour of the plaintiff, Haruna Gassama and his committee, in which she ordered the defendants Alhagi Musa Gimbo Trawally and his committee to forthwith hand over the affairs and assets of the Rice Farmers Cooperative Society Ltd to the duly elected Executive of the Rice Farmers Cooperative Society Ltd (Haruna Gassama and his committee). “Since his arrest on the 2nd of March 2015, we do not know his detention place and have no idea about the reason of his arrest,” stated a family source.]]>