General Lamin Bojang (retired) has lifted the lid on the circumstances surrounding his removal as commander of the Gambian army.
Mr Bojang was the commander of State Guard in 2010 and later became the army commander but was removed from the post and redeployed by former president Yahya Jammeh.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Paradise TV, Bojang who is now the flagbearer of Gambia Action Party said: “When I was at State Guard, there were people who did not want some of us there, people who knew the job and were hardworking. When I was there, I knew it was going to be very difficult for me to survive at State Guard.
“When I came as army commander, I knew I will not be in the army for long. Because at the time, people were not happy with the way things were unfolding. Because it’s a leader that’s responsible when even a chicken dies talk less of human beings dying.
“I did not resign but because of the selfish interest of some people… A president wouldn’t go and come. It’s the people who were going and coming and saying things to the point some of the statements got to me. That the president said, ‘he feels frightened by you, the soldiers get scared of you’. I heard all those kinds statements. Then, I knew those were plans to remove some of us from the system.”
