Gambia: Statement On the Kanilai Incident and Other Pertinent Issues

Events of far reaching importance are developing in The Gambia as the country strives to give content to the new Gambia that people of diverse backgrounds hope to build, as a result of change of government through the consent of the people, for the first time in Gambian history.

No one would have envisaged that in less than six months after the emergence of a new government, blood would stain the corridors of state power. This should compel all Gambians to take a pause and ask what has gone wrong and how to right it. This is the demand of truth and justice under our times and circumstances. This is the urgent task precisely because the clarion call of the Coalition 2016 is to give Gambia a new start. Hence if that new start is blemished by blood stains, each Gambian should speak and act in accordance with the dictates of conscience and the national interest. This is the only way we could speak with one language. This is the only way we could give shape and content to the concept of one Gambia, one nation and one people.

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