By: Kemo Kanyi
Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has said that former President Yahya Jammeh should have remained silent and prayed for peace and stability for the country instead of proposing to return home from Equatorial Guinea.
President Barrow made the statement during a speech to his supporters in his birth village of Mankamang Kunda. He was responding to Jammeh’s homecoming claims, which were on audio making rounds over social media and in Kanilai, the birth village of former President Jammeh.
Jammeh is expected back in The Gambia in November this year, according to the audio. President Barrow downplayed the claim. “Jammeh is playing with the minds of his supporters. If he had to come back to this country, he should have come when his mother died,” Barrow hammered. He also recalled attending a meeting with Jammeh’s host, the President of Equatorial Guinea, when Jammeh’s mother was pronounced dead. “Jammeh pleaded with me for forgiveness through other African Presidents, including President Macky Sall of Senegal, to permit the burial of his mother in the Gambia,” Barrow added.
The Gambian leader said he could have denied entry of the remains of the mother of Jammeh, just like he (Jammeh) did to other citizens who passed away abroad during his administration. But Barrow said he did not follow suit in that direction. He went on to mention the following Gambians who died abroad and whose remains were barred from entering the country by Jammeh: Bubacarr Baldeh, Foday Makalo, and Samba Sanyang.
“If I were someone else, I would have done the same when Jammeh’s mother died”, he reiterated.
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By: Kemo Kanyi Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has said that former President Yahya Jammeh should have remained silent and prayed…
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