Omar Bah<\/b><\/p>\n
Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The UDP leader Ousainu Darboe has called on President Adama Barrow to establish a special criminal court to fight against corruption and stop making statements that only irritate or further divide Gambians.<\/p>\n Addressing a group of purported NPP supporters who claimed to have cross-carpeted to the UDP, Darboe said the president should concentrate on fighting against corruption and mismanagement of public funds.<\/p>\n According to the UDP leader, the government should stop using the Anti-corruption commission as an excuse for their failure to put up a strong resistance against corruption.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is unbelievable that we are still talking about not having an anti-corruption commission when there are an anti-corruption commission in 2012 which with all its imperfections can be utilized; and we also have Economic Crime Act. All those Acts are intended to curb corruption and the president also has the powers to establish a special criminal court to fight corruption.<\/p>\n \u201cI urge the president to focus on those issues and if he does that, we will join him in the fight,\u201d he noted. Dou Sanno<\/p>\n According to Darboe, the president is losing respect among his own people because of comments the likes of Dou Sanno are making against people. The former vice president condemned Mr Sanno\u2019s recent comments against the late Solo Sandeng.<\/p>\n Darboe said for the president\u2019s deputy political adviser to say that Gambians should avoid making the mistake Solo Sandeng made in 2016 was disrespectful and irritating.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to tell President Barrow that his decent minded people are alienating him because of the irritating audios his deputy political adviser is releasing. But Dou Sanno should know that it is Solo Sandeng\u2019s sacrifice that inspired this change,\u201d he tensely said.<\/p>\n He said Gambians should stop irritating each other because the country is \u201ccrying for reconciliation\u201d and the attitude of caricaturing people and calling names would not bring about that reconciliation.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you are in a position given to you by the people you should be humble. I also want to urge the young people to respect the country\u2019s laws but at the same time they should not allow anyone to intimidate them,\u201d he added. He welcomed the NPP supporters from Sanyang to the party and challenged them to be ambassadors of the party.<\/p>\n \u201cThe UDP doesn\u2019t encourage violence or confrontation but also whosoever comes to us with aggression we will meet you with that. I want to take this advantage to tell the Gambian people that the UDP will never hide behind any individual or group \u2013 whatever we want to do we will do it,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n Source: The Gambia | Standard News From The Gambia<\/b><\/p>\n For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Omar Bah Africa-Press – Gambia. The UDP leader Ousainu Darboe has called on President Adama Barrow to establish a special criminal court to fight against corruption and stop making statements that only irritate or further divide Gambians. Addressing a group of purported NPP supporters who claimed to have cross-carpeted to the UDP, Darboe said the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[2781,2355,2361,2485,260],"class_list":["post-22579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-corruption-2","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-darboe","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"\n