Paradise
FM radio station has shut down transmission, after being closed following
orders given to the station’s proprietor.
Proprietor
Harouna Drammeh confirmed to this paper that, on Sunday evening, five
plainclothes security officers came to his station “asking me to close the
station”.
“I
asked them for their identity and one of them showed me his identity card, and
then he said to me: ‘we were instructed by the ministry of Information to close
your station’”.
He
added that they came with three vehicles, including one white pickup, and one
taxi Benz 190.
Efforts
were made yesterday by this paper to contact the minister of Information,
Sheriff Bojang, but we were told he was out of the jurisdiction of The Gambia.
