The hopes of a Gambian woman, Isatu Kanyi, were dashed having waiting patiently and anxiously for a day God became Gambian following the electoral victory and inauguration of President Adama Barrow after 22 years of the exiled Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh.
Mrs Kanyi's husband was reportedly arrested by the dreaded National Intelligence Agency (NIA) along with other who were reportedly kept in most dehumanizing condition in the notorious Mile 2 prisons in the Gambian capital of Banjul.
Her husband, according to reports was arrested in September 2006 where he had been detained ever since.
Reports say the Mile 2 prisons while Mr. Jammeh held sway harbours dissenting voices opposed to his reign of terror were detained and sometimes tortured to death.
Kanyiba Kanyi the husband of Isatu Kanyi was also detained there incommunicado since September 2006.
Recounting her mental and emotional torture to the BBC, she revealed what how she had had to live in the hope that her estranged husband like other political prisoners would be reunited with her someday but little did she know she was hoping for the moon as the gate of Mile 2 prisons were opened without her husband.
According to her, "I had hoped to see him again. His son would often ask his father, she said, "and all I can tell him is that his father traveled".
Writhing in agony, she said, when she heard of President Adama Barrow's magnanimity by proceeding to releasing all political prisoners , her hopes were rekindled and she went to the prison gates in the hope of seeing her husband, Kanyiba walk out but did not see her husband.
She said, "The doors opened, many people hugged their loved ones who came out, but I did not see my husband," she told the BBC.
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