UDP leader Ousainou Darboe has reacted to President Adama Barrow’s comments desperation on the part of UDP members led them into desecrating graves and putting charms in them.
President Barrow told NPP reporters earlier this month they engaged the services of marabouts in desperate bids to have Darboe released from prison. The president said on three occasions, they had to desecrate graves and place charms underneath the head of a corpse.
But Mr Darboe, the man President Barrow said they did the despicable act for, said Friday: “The position [of president] is too high. It’s too dignified a position, a position that you should not trivialise with statements that are so puerile, so boyish. Don’t let others to treat us with contempt. Don’t let Ghana be condescending towards us, don’t let the people of Sierra Leone to be condescending towards us, don’t let the people of Senegal to be condescending towards us.
“For them to say ‘your president doesn’t say any good thing except these foolish statements’. Mr President, I appeal to you… You can politic but stop engaging in trivial things and address the more important and pressing issues of the Gambian people rather than going… to raise the head of dead people. Those nonsense things and plucking kaba fruit.”
