4 Opposition Supporters Arrested In Gambia

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4 Opposition Supporters Arrested In Gambia

Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:45

Mai Fatty

(JollofNews) - Four senior youth members of the opposition Gambia National Congress (GMC) were today arrested and detained for several hours by officers of the Police Intervention Unit in the North Bank Region.

The men Yaya Kongira, Daniel Mendy, Mama Banja and Muhammad Fatty who are on a national tour, consulting with youth branches on their role in national politics and development were later released unconditionally by the police without being told the reasons for their arrest.

GMC leader Mai Fatty

However, a statement from the GMC secretariat said the youth leaders were arrested in connection with a bale of party T-shirts police found in their possession.

“The Youth Brigade members insisted that they had committed no crime, and if the Police believed that they had infringed the law for carrying GMC T-shirts, they should arrest them. As they attempted to walk out of the Police Station together, the National Youth Coordinator, Muhammad Fatty was told that he was under arrest. Hours later, he was not told what offense he had committed, and all four were later released unconditionally,” the statement said.

Sometime last year, the parents of GMC Leader Mai Ahmad Fatty and his brother were arrested and detained over-night for pasting his picture on the wall of the family house and for raising GMC flag in the compound.

GMC Leadership is calling on the authorities to desist from restraining the free movement of its members and supporters in conformity with their constitutional rights.

“The right to political activities is an entrenched provision of the Constitution [of the Gambia] which should be observed by all organs and agents of the State''.

In the interest of maintaining peace and political stability, GMC urges the National Security Council to intervene on the part of all security agencies not to interfere with the lawful exercise of its members’ constitutional and political rights.

As stakeholders, it is of cardinal importance that security agencies do not provoke situations that may over-heat the polity, by unnecessarily heightening the political temperature in the country than it already is.”
Written by Jollofnews

Comments

-2 #4 2011-12-17 20:44

I think we need to take a good look at this guy. He appears to be very shady and afraid.

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+3 #3 2011-12-15 18:36

Yahya and his government can do all they want, can kill whom they want, can threaten whom they want, but can never escape the Justice that awaits them only time will Tell..you shall reap what you sowe Jammeh.

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+5 #2 2011-12-15 10:25

The world is watching. Yaya has benn put on check and his days are numbered.

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+5 #1 2011-12-14 21:10

And this is the same government that wants to hold dialogue with Gambians?

We all know that Jammeh is just trying to buy time as he knows that he has won a disputed election and international scrutiny of his regime is mounting.
It is just unfortunate that some opposition figures are choosing to flee instead of standing up and fighting as some of their loyalist are doing on the ground.

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