As
part of measures to curb covid-19 and decongest prisons, His Excellency
President Adama Barrow in exercise of his prerogative of mercy, has immediately
pardoned some 115 prisoners.
Seventy
eight (78) of those inmates were from the Mile 2 Central Prison in Banjul,
twenty four (24) from Jeshwang prison within the Kanifing Municipality and
thirteen (13) from Janjangbureh Prison in the Central River Region (CRR).
Ever
since his coming to power in January 2017, President Barrow has consistently
granted amnesty to prisoners. Soon after assuming office Barrow in a
magnanimous gesture emptied Mile 2 Prisons of all political detainees and
prisoners, some of whom were languishing behind the prison walls for decades
without court appearance.
By
Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu,
Senior
Information Officer,
The
Gambia Government
