Omar Jah, a Gambian businessman and close associate of president Yahya Jammeh is being held at Mile II State Central Prison, reports say.

Mr Jah's business is believed have supplied materials and food items in support of the president's much doubted HIV/AIDS treatment. 

Jah was reported missing a month ago with his Senegalese counterpart after they were arrested at The State House and mercilessly beaten up by soldiers led by the disgraced former State Guards commander, Lt. Col. Gibril Bojang, and later escorted to prison.

The businessman was said to have visited president Jammeh one early Monday morning, and the two disagreed on a certain issue. President Jammeh was reportedly so angry that he warned Mr Jah not to argue with him any further. But Jah accordingly insisted that he was speaking the truth . Jammeh accordingly instructed Lt Colonel Bojang to 'take care of him', and so he was taken away by soldiers together with his Senegalese friend to prison.

Changes in Police, NIA, Immigration

The notorious blind interrogator at the the notorious NIA, Captain Saine, who was recently moved to police headquarters, has been promoted to the post of a police Commissioner and Commander of the Interpol Unit of the Gambian Police Force.

Mr Saine was moved to the police department amid a big scandal at the Nitional Intelligence Agency that sent many junior and senior officer packing to different security units while many others got sacked.

In a similar move, Commissioner Lamin Jatta, former spokesperson of the Immigration department, has been moved to the NIA as the head of Internal Operations.

Pa Louis Gomez has also been elevated to the position of deputy director of NIA, our reporter says.