Pa
F Sanyang, a Sweden-based Gambian politician, has said he is interested in
taking up politics in his home country, The Gambia.
Mr
Sanyang, in his early 50s, is based in Stockholm where he had served as elected
councillor for Sweden’s Social Democratic party for seven years.
He
said he would return home to join the People’s Democratic Organisation for
Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), which, he said, has common social virtues
with his former party in Europe.
Sanyang
said PDOIS already has “a good working relationship” with his former Swedish
Social Democratic party.
He
explained that he is not interested in initiating a political party that is why
he would join and participate in organising and building up PDOIS.
He
said he had read the party’s manifesto and would arrange to meet with the
leadership of the party to possibly take up membership as one of the party
militants.
Sanyang
is said to be a native of the Sanyang family of Serekunda, one of the early
settlers of the area. He is the son of
the late Baboucarr Sanyang, an ex-staff of the defunct Gambia Public Transport
Cooperation (GPTC) and the late ‘Yaayi Compin’ of the Peoples Progressive
Party, Fatou Badjie. His mother is a
sister to former minister of education during the first republic, Alagie Kama
Badjie.
He
has worked for 25 years in Europe where he built his family.
