Momodou Sabally has savaged Mambury Njie and his principal President Adama Barrow amid the finance minister’s claim there was no money yet to sponsor the voting of Gambians in the diaspora.
The Standard reported this week Finance Minister Mambury Njie disclosed there was no money budgeted for Gambians in the diaspora to vote in the December election.
Sabally reacted: “I felt disappointed and sad. The Standard headline says, ‘no money yet for diaspora voting’. Finance Minister Mambury Njie who is a bull within Barrow’s squirrel community was the one who said there is no money yet for Gambia diaspora voting.
“When I saw this, I was sad due to the sacrifice Gambians in the diaspora made to ensure Adama Barrow became president. But all the reward went to those who not fight, who never supported Barrow. So this government is like a squirrel that grabbed the peanut heap from its owner. Mambury Njie has snatched the peanut heap of Gambians in the diaspora.
“Mambury said the budget approved by MPs for 2021 did not cater to Gambians in the diaspora voting. He said if Gambians in the diaspora are to vote, the government will have to go back to the national assembly to ask for more money called supplementary appropriation.
“So Adama Barrow and Mambury Njie did not know there will be elections in this year? Do they not know Gambians in the diaspora are supposed to vote? Why didn’t they include that money into the budget?
“But again when Barrow likened Gambians in the diaspora to the tail of a goat is when I knew he would not accept them to vote. Because he knows those people are politically aware and he cannot deceive them and they will not vote for him.”
