Concerned youth leaders on Friday called for the reversal of the sacking of Lamin Darboe.
Darboe was earlier this week dismissed as acting executive secretary of the National Youth Council by the Ministry of Youth. No reason was given in his sacking letter.
At a press conference held at TANGO on Friday, youth leaders demanded that he is restored, as they unveiled their game-plan.
Lala Touray said: “We’ve been called radicals before for taking onto the streets to protest for our rights. We’ve been labelled and called names for exercising our democratic and constitutional rights to protest and freedom of assembly and association. So what we are going to do this time as civil society, as youth leaders…
“We might not take on the streets and protest. But what we’re going to do if the government does not take a stance to reinstate Lamin Darboe, if the government does not take a stance to work with us amend the act that gives them the power to interfere in the institution of the National Youth Council, as civil society we’re going to boycott the National Youth Council. We will not have anything to do with the National Youth Council, we will not work with the National Youth Council…”
The chairperson of the National Youth Council Dembo Kambi on his part said: “We (council) have met and we have taken the decision that we’re going to provide leadership in this whole entire issue and we are also going to write and we implore on all the young people of this country to remain steadfast and to remain calm.
“We’re going to provide that leadership and we are going to reach out to government to negotiate, to talk to them to ensure we bring sanity back to National Youth Council.”
