Kukoi Samba Sanyang (1952 – 18 June 2013) was a Gambian politician and leader of the unsuccessful 1981 coup d'état against the government of Dawda Jawara.
In 2003 Sanyang based himself in Senegal and went several times to The Gambia to talk with Gambian President Yahya Jammeh at his Kanilai residence.
In early June 2006, shortly before the Gambian presidential elections, he was along with some of his men put in detention “at the house of a military officer in Bissau" during a visit to that country.
[3] On January 30, some military officers in Bissau blocked their own government in its attempts to hand Kukoi Sanyang over to the authorities in Banjul.
[2] That government has spent close to three million US dollars in its attempts at extradition, wanting to arrange for Sanyang's repatriation to Banjul against Casamance hard-line rebel leader being handed over to Senegal.