{"id":4623,"date":"2020-12-20T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/gambia\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2020-12-20T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:47:08","slug":"gdc-claims-govt-plans-to-reintroduce-lockdown-after-barrows-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gdc-claims-govt-plans-to-reintroduce-lockdown-after-barrows-tour","title":{"rendered":"GDC claims gov\u2019t plans to reintroduce lockdown after Barrow\u2019s tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Omar Bah<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The opposition Gambia Democratic Congress has accused the government of planning to reintroduce a lockdown immediately after Barrow\u2019s tour.<\/p>\n<p>The GDC national youth president, Modou MC Cham said his party has received information from reliable government sources, that a new lockdown will be introduced immediately after the tour but warned that any plans to do so will be met with serious resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sources informed us that the president is planning to reintroduce a lockdown to mainly target the opposition. But as far as the GDC is concerned, we will not accept any useless lockdown \u2013 it will not stop us from engaging in political activities,\u201d Cham said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Barrow\u2019s tour has been politicized to the detriment of the opposition. \u201cWe cannot allow him to go round the country to make all kinds of comments against us (opposition) and then he returns only to lockdown. That will not happen in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cham said the GDC is also planning to hold political rallies after the president\u2019s tour to clear the misconceptions created by the president and his political machines around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing that will stop us from holding these rallies. We want to send a very strong warning to the government that we will not succumb to any nonsense lockdown after the president\u2019s tour just because Senegal has reintroduced a lockdown,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said if the government is serious about the lockdown, they should immediately stop the president\u2019s tour.<\/p>\n<p>Gambia\u2019s immediate neighbors, Senegal has since reintroduced lockdown after a surge in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>However, a highly-placed in the government source who did not want to be named, said he is not aware of any such plan. \u201dI think the country has already suffered too much from these lockdowns and even if there is going to be one, it will have to be based on sound professional health reasons, not political reasons,\u201d our source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. By Omar Bah The opposition Gambia Democratic Congress has accused the government of planning to reintroduce a lockdown immediately after Barrow\u2019s tour. The GDC national youth president, Modou MC Cham said his party has received information from reliable government sources, that a new lockdown will be introduced immediately after the tour but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[2355,260],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GDC claims gov\u2019t plans to reintroduce lockdown after Barrow\u2019s tour - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gdc-claims-govt-plans-to-reintroduce-lockdown-after-barrows-tour\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GDC claims gov\u2019t plans to reintroduce lockdown after Barrow\u2019s tour\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. 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