{"id":88885,"date":"2025-10-28T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/president-barrow-responds-to-jammehs-homecoming-claims"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:24:41","slug":"president-barrow-responds-to-jammehs-homecoming-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/president-barrow-responds-to-jammehs-homecoming-claims","title":{"rendered":"President Barrow Responds to Jammeh\u2019S Homecoming Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has said that former President Yahya Jammeh should have remained silent and prayed for peace and stability for the country instead of proposing to return home from Equatorial Guinea.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>President Barrow made the statement during a speech to his supporters in his birth village of Mankamang Kunda. He was responding to Jammeh\u2019s homecoming claims, which were on audio making rounds over social media and in Kanilai, the birth village of former President Jammeh.<\/p>\n<p>Jammeh is expected back in The Gambia in November this year, according to the audio. President Barrow downplayed the claim. \u201cJammeh is playing with the minds of his supporters. If he had to come back to this country, he should have come when his mother died,\u201d Barrow hammered. He also recalled attending a meeting with Jammeh\u2019s host, the President of Equatorial Guinea, when Jammeh\u2019s mother was pronounced dead. \u201cJammeh pleaded with me for forgiveness through other African Presidents, including President Macky Sall of Senegal, to permit the burial of his mother in the Gambia,\u201d Barrow added.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambian leader said he could have denied entry of the remains of the mother of Jammeh, just like he (Jammeh) did to other citizens who passed away abroad during his administration. But Barrow said he did not follow suit in that direction. He went on to mention the following Gambians who died abroad and whose remains were barred from entering the country by Jammeh: Bubacarr Baldeh, Foday Makalo, and Samba Sanyang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were someone else, I would have done the same when Jammeh\u2019s mother died\u201d, he reiterated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has said that former President Yahya Jammeh should have remained silent and prayed for peace and stability for the country instead of proposing to return home from Equatorial Guinea. President Barrow made the statement during a speech to his supporters in his birth village of Mankamang Kunda. 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