Salieu Taal has said Local Government Minister Musa Drammeh informed them the executive did not give instructions for the deployment of riot police to KMC.
Riot police came to KMC Monday morning and took their position amid uncertainty at KMC. Embattled CEO Sainabou Martin Sonko was to return to work even as she got suspended by the council over corruption allegations.
Amid the chaos, riot police came to KMC and the Mayor of KMC Talib Bensouda said the officers came on the instructions of the executive.
But Gambia Bar Association president Salieu Taal speaking at an emergency meeting of KMC councils on Monday said: “As the president of the Bar and a member of the civil society, I took it upon myself to engage my colleague John Charles Njie as head of TANGO. I also called upon the minister of justice. I also called upon the minister of lands.
“In line with our duty as civil society, we thought it was important to get all the facts and do our utmost to contribute to resolving the process, in the interest of ensuring accountability, respect for the rule of law and good governance. Our first port of call was to the minister, in the morning, and he on short notice gave us audience.
“In our engagement with the minister, we raised the issue of the PIU primarily and other issues and he informed us that it was not his instruction or the executive’s instructions to deploy the PIU.”
