The outgoing Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) has handled the controversy on secularism by taking an objective approach.
The CRC, after publishing the first draft Constitution on the 15th November 2019, was faced with two major controversies after publishing the first draft constitution. Unfortunately, the submissions to the CRC, like the debate on the issue of secularism, took a religious dimension. The second controversy was about citizenship. The CRC in their nationwide consultation tour were told by overwhelming majority of Gambians that any person born in The Gambia should be a Gambian, irrespective of the nationality of their parents.
...