By Lamin Njie
Gambia Action Party flagbearer Lamin Bojang has disagreed with suggestions all soldier presidents preside over governments that violate and abuse rights of citizens.
The Gambia is struggling to come to terms with the 22 years rule of former President Yahya Jammeh – a period that saw the elimination scores of Gambians. So many others also had their rights violated in the form of arrest, detention, torture and disappearance.
Former commander of the Gambian army, now flagbearer of Gambia Action Party Lamin Bojang has however said not all soldiers behave the same, as some Gambians continue to reservation over his decision to vie for the country’s top job.
“What we have gone through under Yahya Jammeh, it doesn’t necessarily mean that anybody who comes, like a soldier or a retired general, is going to be like what we have gone through,” the retired general told The Fatu Network.
Mr Bojang also said “in military you don’t go to military schools to go and learn how to kill people”.
