By Lamin Njie
President Adama Barrow has called on all Gambians to grace his meeting on Saturday in Buffer Zone, reserving special invitation for rival groups Operation Three Years Jotna and Five Years for Peace.
Mr Barrow has been engaged in a nationwide tour but the exercise comes amid calls for him to leave office. As part of efforts to ensure he steps down in line with a deal that was reached when he was running for president in 2016, pressure group Operation Three Years Jotna will stage a protest later this month.
But at a meeting in Sukuta on Thursday, Mr Barrow insisted he was hired by Gambians to do a job, Gambians whose decision should be respected.
The president posited while extending a hand to Operation Three Years Jotna: “One thing that has been talked about for six months and coming to eight months is Operation Three Years Jotna. It’s a democracy and I said before I speak on it myself, let me allow people to talk about it.
“People debated it on the radio, they debated it on the television. Five Years for Peace also emerged and continued the debate. I later saw them on TV signing a peace pact.
“What I want to tell all these groups, The Gambia is more important than all these [groups]. I want to call on Three Years Jotna to come to Buffer Zone. I want to call on Five Years for Peace to come to Buffer Zone. Gambia is more important than all these.
“It’s people who put me in power and we should respect the voice of the people. I urge everyone to come because it’s going to be a meeting which if anyone misses, would come as regret for you. I want everyone to see what will happen there.”
