Saihou Saidily has called on his fellow UDP supporters to allow police put across their investigation into a vehicle belonging to the party.
A UDP vehicle was seized Saturday night during an encounter with police officers on patrol. The illicit drug cannabis was later retrieved from the vehicle.
And UDP man Saihou Saidily has now taken to the pen to ask UDP supporters to wait for the police to get to the bottom of the matter.
He wrote on Sunday: “My fellow UDP folks, in line with the press statement by our Party in relation to one Yankuba Jabang from Sukuta found in possession of cannabis whilst driving our Party vehicle, let’s wait for the police to get to the bottom of it. At the end of the day, they can confiscate the vehicle for all they want, but it’s no brainer that it’s Yankuba who should be the subject of investigations here and not the vehicle.
“From 1996, even under the most difficult conditions, UDP maintained decency and no amount of smear media campaign can taint the Party’s image. We’re a decent law abiding Party and no individual can take that from us. Records have shown that fact under our belt.
“It’s gratifying to note that, our Party has condemned this act and called for the police to go into the bottom of it. This is what a responsible Political Party does in matters like this and inshallah, come rain come sunshine, UDP will cooperate to the fullest to nip this matter in the bud to ensure whoever is found wanting brought to book in accordance with the law.
“However, isn’t it totally ironical that loudmouths of NPP who up to this day are completely mute about the biggest drug scandal in history of our country, worth billions of dalasis, are all over this story simply because UDP vehicle is involved. If you call yourself a patriot and concern with the use of drugs in our country but chose to be completely quiet about 3.8 metric tons of cocaine imported into country 92 days on, with no meaningful act to find those allegedly behind it to the extent presiding judge is threatening to throw the case out due to inaction by authorities, what does that make you? Ain’t you just being a hypocrite?
“Every well meaning citizen should urge for all drug related matters to be thoroughly investigated and not cherrypicked based on whom it affects. NPP supporters, seriously you folks have no moral authority to celebrate this issue, because you have been totally quiet ? about Banta Keita issue. How come you didn’t ask Government to step up investigations on the issue and be constantly updating us? Or do you know something about that the rest of us don’t? Hence your deliberate attempt to be silent on it? Oh well, be rest assured that, just like this one involving the UDP vehicle, truth will eventually come out on the cocaine scandal too no matter the longevity of the so called investigations. Wa Salam.”
