By Adama Makasuba
Bakaray Bunja Darbo, the man who briefly worked for former president Yahya Jammeh as his finance minister has described the former leader’s rule as a ‘most’ destructive dictatorship.
Mr Darboe speaking to journalists at a news conference on Wednesday days after his Gambia For All party was registered by IEC, said despite the 2016 elections helped free “our people from the clutches from a most destructive dictatorship, we had to recognise that the legacy that dictatorship is still very much in place.”
He said: “”What is that legacy? It’s clear by all objective standard that in the wake of two decades of misrule, of mismanagement and of institutionalise corruption, the characteristics the country was left with include an extremely weak state with a much polarised society… A weak and fragile state whose key state institution are either decimated in advanced state of decay, and a fragile state with an economy in doldrums.”
BB Darbo is a former vice president of The Gambia, serving in the role under former president Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara for ten years. He is now the leader of Gambia For All after his bitter fall-out with People’s Progressive Party.
Former president Yahya Jammeh ruled The Gambia for 22 unbroken years, a period which saw the country record some of the most terrible human rights violations and abuses.
