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| Photo: Lamin and Sainey |
Ibrahmi Pl of
La Parisieene Restaurant has maintained that the Chief Executive Officer CEO
has not runaway on the death of two employees who were trapped inside a
suckaway.
This rejection
came at a time when he (Ibrahmi Pl) has assigned two Gambian youths to drain
his filled suck-away who died inside the suck-away as a result of bad
inhalation and the heat inside.
La Parisieene,
is a Lebanese Restaurant situated along the Kairaba Avenue just opposite the
American Embassy.
“I am the CEO
of La Parisieene Restaurant, there is no CEO at La Parisieene apart from me and
here I am talking to you, so how can I be on the run,” he quizzed.
According to
him he has his own contractor who normally cleans up his suck-away any time it
is filled.
“The
contractor came to my office and discussed on the amount and I paid him and
left for other errands. Upon arrival at my work place I met a group of people
when I asked what was going on and I was told two people died in the suck-away.
I want to sacrifice myself to enter in the suck-away in order to help them out,
but people held my hand,” he explained.
He said
it was from there they called the Gambia Fire and Sea Rescue Service (GFSRS)
who came to help remove the dead bodies from the suck-away.
“I together
with official from the Gambia Fire and Sea Rescue Services (GFSRS) transported
the corpses to Sharab Health Center in Kanifing where they were adhere to and
were given back to their families for proper burial,” he said.
Sainey Kanteh
24 from Wuli Ja Kunda in the Upper River Region (URR) and Lamin Manneh 23 from
Niamina Village in Central River Region (CRR) where the duo who died inside the
suck-away due to inhaling bad Adour and the heat in the manhole.
The tragic
event occurred on Friday 7 February 2020 at La Parisiseene Restaurant at
Pipeline opposite the American Embassy.
According to
eyewitness the duo were assigned by the manager of La Parisienne restaurant to
drain off the waste. One of the sources said even though the tragic incident
happened they still carried on their normal business.
An eyewitness
close to the restaurant has it that Ibrahmi Pl is not the CEO at La Parisienne
Restaurant.
“You know
Ibrahmi is not the CEO of La Parisienne. The CEO is one Ali and he is currently
out of town. He supposed to travel on Thursday, but had to cancel his trip due
to the tragic incident. He traveled on Friday,” said the witness.
When asked by
this reporter whether the CEO is called Ali Baba but could not
confirmed.quizzed our reporter, “No is not Ali Baba, I do not know his first
name,” replied the witness.
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| Photo: Bakary Conteh |
On his part,
Bakary Kanteh, father to one of the deceases said “This kind of a job is not my
son’s job. My son is a businessman.”
He said he
heard reports that his son Sainey Kanteh who first entered in the ditch through
a narrow hole was suffocated to dead by intense heat and bad ordour.
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| Photo: The Manhole |
“As soon as he
gets inside, he was not talking nor responding to questions from Lamin Manneh.
Lamin too decided to follow him inside to see what went wrong and they both
die,” he explained.
He said the
police have conducted investigation at the place and has taken photos in order
to establish the cause of death of the duo.
“There were no
further investigation so as to ascertain the cause of the death on Sainey and
Lamin. All we could do was to request for our deceases in order to give them a
befitting Muslim burial,” he remarked.
At the time of
going to press effort were made in reaching to GFSRS for comment, but remain
futile.
A call was
made to the police PRO, but we were told that he is current not in town.
This is a developing
story and News Bite will keep you update.
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