President Adama Barrow has said a UDP delegation headed by former Gambian ambassador to Paris Dr Sidat Jobe ‘attacked’ the Senegalese ambassador over Senegalese meddling in Gambian politics.
“How many ambassadors do we have here but they singled out the Senegalese ambassador and went to attack him,” Mr Barrow said on Saturday while speaking strongly against UDP.
According to the president, UDP was organizing thugs who were black outfits and going around profiling Gambians.
The president said: “You have people who mobilise themselves going around and profiling people – who is a citizen and who is not. Myself they labeled me saying I’m not Barrow but Barry and I’m from Guinea. It’s politics that can bring violence in this country.
“You have not come to power yet and yet you organize thugs wearing black outfits and they’re attacking people, they’re going to be at queues and taking their papers and telling them they’re not Gambians. What kind of people are they? If such people take this country, Billahi until the world ends you will never forget what they will do to you.
“And it’s deliberate. You have people among those thugs who are holding American passports and they vote in the America election. And their blacks when America is a white country. And these same people wrote a letter to the Senegalese ambassador telling him his people were engaging in Gambian politics and then a delegation was formed headed by someone said to be a top diplomat, Sidat Jobe.
“They went to Senegalese ambassador and told him his Senegalese people were meddling in our politics and they want them to stay away. How many ambassadors do we have here but they singled out the Senegalese ambassador and went to attack him.”
The Fatu Network will reach out to Dr Sidat Jobe for his side of the story.
