Background
Sadibou Hydara was born in Dippa Kunda, Serekunda to Mandinka parents from the Upper Division region of the Gambia. Hydara was raised in Koidutown, Kono District, Sierra Leone, where his father was a trader.
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After he completed his secondary school education, Captain Hydara returned to his Motherland the Gambia, were he attended Gambia College in Brikama.
Career
Hydara was an important Gambian military and political leader who served in various international peacekeeping operations. He later served as the Gambian Minister of Interior and the government spokesman. Early Life & Koidutown has a large and prosperous Gambian community.
And Gambian businessman Bashiru Jawara was also a long time resident of Koidutown.
Sadibou acquired his secondary school education at the prestigious all-boys Ansarul Islamic Boys Secondary School in Koidutown along with General Yankuba Drammeh, deputy Chief of the Defence Staff of The Gambia National Army and Doctor Kaifala Marah, Sierra Leone"s Minister of Finance. After joining the Gambia Army, Captain Hydara went to study at a number of military colleges around the world, incluning United States, Turkey, France, Cuba, and United Kingdom and served in various United Nations and ECOWAS peacekeeping operations.
Lieutenant Hydara, along with Lieutenant
Yahya Jammeh, Lieutenant Sana Sabally, and Lieutenant Edward Singhateh and other junior officers of the Gambian Army went to Banjul the capital of the Gambia to protest against President Dawda Jawara.
The situation escalated into a coup, and in the confusion a military government the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) was formed. Few months after the coup, on January 27, 1994, President Yahya Jammeh accused Captain
Sadibou Hydara and Captain
Sana Sabally, the deputy leader of AFPRC of an alleged coup plot. This happened on the same day that the AFPRC junta was to announce a four year transitional government to be headed by President Yahya Jammeh. Captain Hydara and Captain
Sabally were arrested and detained at the maximum prison.
Captain Sadibou Hydara was tortured and killed in prison on the order of President Yahya Jammeh. While President Yahya Jammeh wanted the military to stay in power, Captain Hydara was publicly advocated the hand over to democratically elected civilian government within one year.
Even in prison, President Yahya Jammeh saw Captain Hydara as a threat to his ambition to stay in power for lougitude
Captain Hydara was brutally tortured and murdered in prison in June 1995.
Captain Hydara was a Multilingual. He spoke English, French, Arabic, Wolof, and his native Mandinka.
Membership
He was a member of the first Gambia contingent to the ECOWAS peacekeeping mission in Liberia (ECOMOG). Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh emerged as the leader of the AFPRC, Lieutenant Sana Sabally became the deputy leader, Lieutenant
Edward Singhateh became Defense Minister, and Lieutenant
Sadibou Hydara, the most educated member of the coup leaders, became the Minister of Interior and the spokesman of the AFPRC. lieutenant was believed that Captain Sadibou Hydara who was the most outspoken member of the AFPRC was in favor of returning the country to democratic civilian rule, and he was strongly opposed to Yahya Jammeh"s candidacy.
