Tourism Minister Hamat Bah said ‘I apologise and I withdraw that immediately’ as he reacted to the backlash that has trailed his ‘rat’ comments.
Mr Bah sparked huge anger among Gambians on Saturday when he branded the opposition as ‘rats’.
Speaking to The Fatu Network on Sunday, the politician said: “I never intended to call my colleague dirimos in the context that it is taken from. I became a bit sarcastic, politicians usually are sarcastic. But you think my Honourable colleagues I have struggled [with], I will call them rats? Dirimos as the highly classic specie that is very dangerous, that goes to get it done.
“And I was only warning, advising the supporters of Adama Barrow that, ‘you cannot be complacent, because then the dirimos are after you, they will destroy you’. If at any level, somebody interpret my that dirimo as rat on anybody, I apologise and I withdraw that immediately.”
