Lawyer Ousainou Darboe was speaking on Friday during a solidarity session with the party supporters from Kiang West at Busumbala in Kombo North.
“We are ready and prepared to revert to measures similar to April 2016 to save Gambia.” he said.
He laid out measures of how the party is ready to stand up for nation again, making reference to 16th April2016 march past, when they took to the streets demanding the release of Solo Sandeng, who had been murdered in custody the previous day.
“It was I and Kemeseng Jammeh who were binding together while the late Lamin Dibba and Femi Peters got roped together and we would walk like animals. But it’s all for the sake of The Gambia. The Gambia deserves that,” said the UDP leader.
Darboe quizzed‘ if a young man like Solo Sandeng whose kids were small could sacrifice his life for the country’, why would some of them who have grandchildren be afraid of death.
This, he added, is the reason why they accepted to be handcuffed and also experienced all kinds of treatment just save the country.
“If a young man like Solo Sandeng whose kids were small could sacrifice his life for this country why would some of us who have grandchildren be afraid of death,” he asked.”
The veteran politician promised to do the same thing ‘if necessary just to save the country.’
“If anything happens in this country that shouldn’t, the position we took in that instance is the same position we will take to save this country.”
The Ministry of Health has issued a press release imposing a three thousand dalasi charge on every intending traveler requiring a covid-19 test certificate effect from 11 March 2021.
Hamat Bah, the minister of Tourism and Culture has emphasised the need for domestic tourism in the country, arguing that The Gambia position in terms of domestic tourism still remains zero.
The three schools around the border areas in the Foni, West Coast Region (WCR) that were reportedly closed last week amid reports of “heavy gunshots” around Cassamance, in the southern part of Senegal were reopened yesterday, The Point has been reliably informed.
Banjul: 30th September 2020: The new High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to The Gambia, H.E. David Belgrove – OBE, on Tuesday 30th September 2020 stated his resolve to deepen the already cordial bilateral relations that exist between the two countries.
