By Lamin Njie
Gambia for Five Years and Peace Building is stepping up preparations ahead of its planned protest.
The pressure group formed to ensure President Adama Barrow serve a full five-year term will stage a protest in the coming weeks, a top official of the group has told The Fatu Network.
“The group is looking at 300,000 people but the date of the protest is yet to be confirmed,” the official added.
It comes amid reports the pro-Barrow group will stage its protest on 12 January to demand President Barrow remain in office until 2021.
Thousands of Gambians last Monday took to the streets to call for the resignation in January of President Barrow. The protesters, under Operation Three Years Jotna, want Mr Barrow to respect his pledge of serving for only three years.
In 2016, President Barrow promised coalition partners he will preside over a transition government of three years. He has now made a U-turn saying he will serve a full five-year term whether ‘one likes it or not’, and going as far as announcing he is forming his own political party.
His critics say he is trying to cling to power.
