By Lamin Njie
The Gambia government on Thursday slammed as false reports it was set to spend over one million dalasis on condoms as part of its response to COVID-19.
“In a separate development, it has come to the attention of The Gambia Government that a false story on procurement of condoms is trending on social media for all the wrong reasons. The story is fatally false and simply calculated by detractors to sway attention from Government’s genuine efforts to tackle the Covid:19 Viral Pandemic,” government spokesperson Ebrima Sankareh said in a statement Thursday.
Reports have over the past days flooded social media that the government has allocated tens of thousands of dalasis for the procurement of condom.
The move was reportedly said to be sponsored from the 500 million dalasis emergency fund approved by President Adama Barrow.
