Economist Nyang Njie has opined that President Adama Barrow has hijacked The Gambia – and has looked at his personal interest over the collective good.
Njie stated this during an exclusive interview with The Fatu Network on Monday.
The pundit said: “This transitional government has completely failed. Why did it fail? What brought them together was smaller than what can keep them together. What does that mean? They came together for one purpose and one purpose only: to boot out Yahya Jammeh. There was no sincerity in transforming this country and it has shown thereafter. The Janneh Commission has failed woefully, we all know that.
“The draft constitution has been butchered and killed by the very champion who should have championed the draft constitution because that’s what he sold to the Gambians. He is the one responsible for the mess this country finds itself and truth be told, it has to be told as it is. What does that mean?
“The president was supposed to be an arbiter, a referee, make sure that the ground is level, the playing field is good, put the institutional structures in place, put the reparations and other things in place, call for an election, eject himself out of the political process and allow the country to move on. He has hijacked Gambia, he has strangulated Gambia and he is responsible and history will not be kind to him.
“Because we had a unique golden opportunity to transform this country through its institutions and making sure what happened in the past will never repeat itself but he looked at his personal ambition over our collective good and that’s why I cannot see him as a statesman. A statesman would put country before self and everything that this president has done is to advance his personal interest over our collective good.”
