GAP presidential candidate Lamin Bojang insisted Saturday President Adama Barrow is repeating the same mistake Jawara made by having foreigners at forefront of the nation’s security.
Participating in Paradise TV’s national discussion, the former army general said: “What is happening with the current regime is that we have not learned from, if it is TRRC or the lessons from the previous government. Just to give you an example, during TRRC, a particular witness said that some of the things that gave them the reasons to overthrow the previous government was because there were foreign troops here at the time, and they’ve almost capitalised and secured almost all the lucrative positions that Gambians were deprived from.
“If I am the president of the republic of The Gambia today. I would have learned lessons from there. Because what the president of The Gambia is doing today is, repeating the same mistakes that the former president or the PPP regime has done. And this could be a recipe for an overthrow, a revolt, conflict which of recent we have seen happening almost every other day.
“What is happening here in The Gambia is that during Yahya Jammeh’s time, the image of the security has been dented to the extent that nobody wants to see the security to be a professional institution.
“And because of that notion that is held by most of the government officials, they think that all the members of the security forces are junglers or all the police are junglers. So as a result, when the president was installed, instead of allowing our own citizens to take care of his security, he brought in people who are foreigners which is very very dangerous.”
