IEC’s
senior electoral officer in the West Coast Region, Sambujang Njie, has said his
office is ready to conduct a free, fair and credible election, come 6 April 2017.
Speaking
to this reporter on Wednesday in an interview held in his office in Brikama, Mr
Njie said they are waiting for 6 April, which is voting day, to conduct the
election.
The
regional IEC official announced that they will train about 1700 polling staff
on Saturday and Sunday (1 and 2 April 2017) on conducting the poll, at the
Gambia College Brikama campus.
Some
EU observers are currently in the region, and ECOWAS and AU observers have
indicated their readiness to participate in the election observer process,
coupled with the Civil Society Organization (CSO) local observers.
Since
the campaign started on 15 April, the IEC office had not received any reported
incident of violence from any of the candidates, Mr Njie went on.
The
IEC has enough election materials such as drums and tokens, and assures the
public that the IEC would conduct a free, fair and credible election, come 6
April 2017.
