President Adama Barrow has set out to soothe the concerns of the nation’s Christians by insisting he is ‘alive’ to the principle that everyone has the right to be protected.
“I am alive to the principle that everyone has the right to be protected, no matter what our religious beliefs may be,” President Barrow said in his Christmas message this year.
The nation’s Christians have in recent weeks and months pushed for their greater protection, publicly voicing their concerns and demanding that their their rights as Gambians are well established in the draft constitution. They have continued to raise concerns after a number of their concerns failed to make it to the draft constitution.
But according to President Barrow, “even though Christians are statistically a minority community in The Gambia, their rights are as significant as the rights of their non-Christian compatriots”.
“As citizens, all are equal before the law, and have equal rights. We are Gambians without distinction, and should strive together for the progress and development of our dear country,” the president said.
