News:
June 2, 2021
A member of the Gambiam delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament, Fatoumatta Njai assured the House that the political situation Gambia is very stable, with eighteen (18) political parties exercising their civil rights.
According to her in 2017, the former President Yahya Jammeh was sent on exile, and the Truth Reconciliation Reparation Commission (TRRC) would present its report in July to the president and it would be sent back to the House which established the TRRC.
She further told the plenary on Monday, May 31, 2021 that the financial dealings of the former president and his allies were looked into, but the recommendations have not been carried out yet.
Fatoumatta Njai who was answering questions from the Community lawmakers on the fate of the former President of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh in the light of the political situation there, she said, “As a Gambian, we are concerned with reconciliation than those who have committed atrocities, we are a small country only two million in Gambia everybody knows everybody, rather we are not going through witch hunting that people expect, we reconcile, compensate the victims”.
Mr. Kebba K. Barrow is the Leader of the delegation and presented the country report on behalf of his colleagues, when most of the contributors to the Gambia report wanted to know the political situation in that country.
He further told the plenary that, there has been an inter-party committee set up that meets every quarter to develop a strategic document that would be validated next week where all parties are represented to focus on their needs, and are preparing for the upcoming elections on December 4, 2021.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com/Abuja