Over 50 protesters were
yesterday reported wounded as a result of tear gas and rubber bullets fired by
the paramilitaries and officers of the Anti Crime Unit of The Gambia Police
Force (GPF). The clash also left 18 police officers wounded with 137 protested
arrested.
The anti government
protesters are calling on the president to honour the three years MoU and step
down.
The police seriously wounded
some of the victims while many fainted after inhaling some gas.
Abdou Njie, the chairperson
of the 3 years Jotna told the press that the whole world will know that the
security destroyed the country; adding that whatever former president Yahya
Jammeh was doing, it was the security who pushed him into it.
He said they also influenced
Adama Barrow to act in such ways, while stating that: “I was standing when
Kalilu Njie, senior police officer ordered the shooting of tear gases to the
protesters. After firing gases, the paramilitary also stoned Abdou Darboe and
broke all his teeth.”
Njie believed that the police
lied to them because they were on the ground before their arrival and barred
the place.
He added that their people
arrested will be freed and whatever the police want will never happen.
“Barrow is nothing and is
because of people he is something, and he is abusing that power against its
people but we will remove him the same way we did to Jammeh.”
Confirming how many victims
were wounded and arrested, he said, he did not know exactly, but said many
people were arrested and also lots of people were wounded.
The police revoking their
permit, he said, was not communicated to them, adding that rubber bullets were
also shot at the protesters.
