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Breaking News:Two Army Trucks Armed To The Teeth Surrounds UDP'S Dembo By-Force's Bakua House!
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Breaking News:Two Army Trucks Armed To The Teeth Surrounds UDP'S Dembo By-Force's Bakua House!
Breaking News:Two Army Trucks Armed To The Teeth Surrounds UDP'S Dembo By-Force's Bakua House!
Bojang
Accuses The Military of Politics Of Terror-As He Urges Them To Return
To Barracks In The Interest Of Free And Fair Elections...
By A Staff Writer
Panic and anxiety gripped the family of the former Bakau MP Dembo
Bojang alias Dembo By-force when two military trucks armed to the teeth
surrounded his Bakau house yesterday. Mr.Bojang who had to return home
upon seeing the armed soldiers urged his family to remain focus and
and not to panic for anything. The soldiers who never explained their
mission were seen seated in the said trucks while looking very wild.
Their presence in the area followed a UDP/NRP meeting held in Serre-Kunda
yesterday where speakers upon speakers demanded for regime change in
the impoverished West African country. The opposition youths and their
party leaders said the Jammeh government brought economic and political
hardship in the country. The believed that unless a regime change was
effected there cannot be any meaningful development in the country.
It
is not clear if the state is trying to silence Dembo By-force with the
deployment of armed soldiers around his house. In an interview with the
BBC Network Africa yesterday, Dembo maintains that there cannot be free
and fair elections unless the military returns to barracks. Bajang
lamented about the high presence of armed soldiers around his house.
"My gate was packed with soldiers. I found two army vehicles fully
armed near my gate. I went back and told my family to be calmed. My
family were so scared. Anywhere you go, you will see gun men. The voter
population are very afraid." Bojang told the BBC.
Mr.Bojang says
he did not know why the armed soldiers were trailing him at this hour,
while jokingly saying that he was not the flag bearer of his party. Bojang says if
he was the flag bearer, he would have been in the upcountry campaigning.
He cautions the soldiers to stop harassing the voter population at this
hour. Bojang argues that a free and fair elections will no doubt lead
to his party's victory. Dembo By-force says up til this hour they were
not in the position to know the number of voters in the Gambia.
Meanwhile,
the head of the commonwealth observer team to the Gambia Dr.Salim told
BBC that some concerns were raised by the opposition regarding the
electoral process. He said his organization met with the opposition,
ruling party officials, IEC and the NGO community. The Freedom
Newspaper earlier spoke to the commonwealth media contact at the
Kairaba Hotel Julius
Mucunguzi, Communications Officer and forwarded an interview request
with Dr.Salim. Dr.Salim was at the time busy chairing a meeting according to her communication officer. This
paper was asked to call back in an hour time. The Freedom Newspaper will provide you with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the 2006 elections. Stay tuned.
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Posted on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 (Archive on Saturday, September 30, 2006)
Posted by PNMBAI Contributed by PNMBAI
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