{"id":3487,"date":"2019-12-08T20:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/gambia\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2019-12-08T20:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:29:17","slug":"clarification-on-president-barrows-statement-about-former-president-yaya-jammeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/clarification-on-president-barrows-statement-about-former-president-yaya-jammeh","title":{"rendered":"Clarification On President Barrow\u2019s Statement About Former President Yaya Jammeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-header\">\n<header class=\"td-post-title\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Office of The Gambia Government Spokesperson<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Clarification On President Barrow\u2019s Statement About Former President Yaya Jammeh<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Banjul, The Gambia<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u2014Following widespread and conflicting reports alleging that President Barrow has assured his predecessor, President Yaya Jammeh, to return to The Gambia with guaranteed state protection and all privileges befitting a former Head of State, President Adama Barrow categorically refutes this report as fatally false.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Therefore, President Barrow wants Gambians and\u00a0 the international community to know that he is keenly following the revelations before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commissions (TRRC) and could not therefore, utter statements that may potentially be prejudicial to the Commission\u2019s work such as his alleged promise of state protection and retirement privileges to Yaya Jammeh as the false report purports to convey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While President Barrow made statements\u00a0 about ex-President Jammeh at Berefet and Sibanorr villages in the Fonis last week, his utterances were purely hypothetical. While on his annual \u201cPresidential Meet The People Tour\u201d, Mr. Barrow told Gambians that even If President Jammeh were to return to The Gambia some day, he could never again be a President and could only live as an ordinary citizen and nothing else. Mr Barrow offered no protection nor any privileges whatsoever as is being bandied around social media and some news outlets. It is totally false and very unfortunate that such a direct statement is deliberately mischaracterized for purely political reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, during the same meetings, President Barrow also alluded to conversations that transpired between him and Equatorial Guinea\u2019s leader, President Obiang regarding ex-President Jammeh\u2019s late mother\u2019s burial and his (Barrow\u2019s) magnanimity to facilitate that request.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr. Barrow told the large crowds that Yaya Jammeh was shamed by his previous belligerence of denying two prominent citizens,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Messrs<\/span><span class=\"s1\">. Bubacarr Michael Baldeh and Kukoi Samba Sanyang burial rights after they died in Dakar and Mali respectively. Consequently, Hon. Bubacarr Michael Baldeh, a former Parliamentarian and State Minister and Mr. Sanyang, the leader of the 1981 failed coup d\u2019etat were buried in Medina Gunnas, Cassanance and Dakar respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According Mr. Barrow, even if President Jammeh\u2019s late mom, Fatou Asombi Bojang, were to return home alive, he would have accorded her all the privileges befitting the mother of a former Head of State. Besides, the late Madam Bojang was a private citizen who never offended any Gambian and deserved nothing less than the best, President Barrow said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Signed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s3\">Ebrima G Sankareh<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The Gambia Government Spokesperson<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office of The Gambia Government Spokesperson Clarification On President Barrow\u2019s Statement About Former President Yaya Jammeh Banjul, The Gambia\u2014Following widespread and conflicting reports alleging that President Barrow has assured his predecessor, President Yaya Jammeh, to return to The Gambia with guaranteed state protection and all privileges befitting a former Head of State, President Adama Barrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":3488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[2003,2004,1065],"class_list":{"0":"post-3487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-head-lines","10":"category-homepage-english","12":"tag-former-president-yaya-jammeh","13":"tag-gambia-news-everyday"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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