By Lamin Njie
Former president Yahya Jammeh on Monday entreated the people of Kanilai to remain calm over the shooting of Ismaila Tamba of the village.
Mr Tamba was shot Sunday evening at a military checkpoint in Kanilai, making him the second victim in two years of lethal force encounters between the people of the village and security forces.
Opposition APRC officials on Monday visited Kanilai and held a meeting with the people of the village.
The spokesperson of the party Musa Amul Nyassi told The Fatu Network former president Jammeh participated in the meeting from his base in Equatorial Guinea.
Nyassi said: “Yes I think you may have heard the audio and what the conversation was, you will know here is a man that is still advocating for peace and stability of the country. He has the country at heart.
“This is what he was telling his people; ‘that it has happened again for the second time in Kanilai but Allah knows best why this is happening. So all we have to do was to remain law abiding, let’s allow the la to take its course, nobody should take the law into his own hands. The party has a leadership, your MP is there they will pursue things, remain calm and follow the instructions of the elders and the current party leader’.”
