Papa Faal said ‘I cannot change people’s minds’ as he reacted to those calling him a terrorist with regard to his role in the December 30, 2014 attack on State House.
A group of Gambians mostly dissidents including Papa Faal launched an early morning attack on State House five years ago as part of a plot to overthrow then President Yahya Jammeh. The attack was repelled in which Faal escaped.
Last Saturday, Faal announced he will run for president at next year’s presidential elections. However some Gambians continue to call him a terrorist.
He told The Fatu Network: “I cannot change people’s minds and I cannot dictate what they have to say. To them I am a terrorist but to some we did good.
“So I just have to tread that and accept that there will be divergence of opinion about what happened. Everybody has been talking about Rwanda but the Rwandan president was what?”
