President Adama Barrow has lifted the lid on how UDP struggled to have bank accounts due to the party’s debt portfolio.
President Barrow was once in charge of UDP’s treasury and he on Wednesday disclosed the party was could not at some point open bank accounts due to debt.
The president, while facing NPP reporters, said: “When I was taking over as treasurer, I was given D14,600. And the day they were giving me that money, we did not have a bank account.
“The bank accounts they had, they took loan and could not put money into those accounts. If they put money into it, they [banks] take it. So we dare not head there. We did not have an account.
“I took that D14,000 labelled it UDP and put it in a safe. But I realized nobody owns his soul, anything could happen and I wanted us to have a bank account.
“We gave the responsibility to Mr Darboe. [But] until I became president, he did not open an account. Any time I ask him, he tells me, ‘I will call Fatou Darboe, she will sort it out’. It was never sorted out.”
