APRC deputy leader Ousman Rambo Jatta has attacked the Barrow government over an agreement for former President Yahya Jammeh to return to the country.
The former dictator fled the country after losing the December 2016 presidential election. APRC insists there is an agreement that said the former president can return to the country whenever he wants.
But according to the party’s deputy Ousman Rambo Jatta, the Barrow government at first denied there is an agreement.
Speaking to citizen journalist Alpha Bah, Mr Jatta said: “For the joint communiqué, I was there when it was being drafted. That was when Conde and this guy from Mauritania came. It was us who fetched them from the airport and took them to State House. We have been pushing for this joint communiqué for a long time. You were there when we protested.
“We took it to AU, we took it to ECOWAS. Up to now, we did not get a response from these people. And that demonstration you saw how tough it was to get the permit. It came on the very day of the demonstration but people did not know what was happening behind the scenes. When they asked us to go and answer with, it was Lajos we found there. He had a meeting with them and told them not to issue a permit to us.”
Mr Jatta then singled out Ebrima Sankareh for criticism and said he has nothing in his head.
He said: “We’ve been pushing the joint communiqué. At first the government was denying it. They said they have no knowledge of it. We all heard it. He (Ebrima Sankareh) is the biggest nonentity in Barrow’s government. He doesn’t have anything in the head. However big his head is, there is nothing in it.
“Ebrima G Sankareh doesn’t know anything. But no wonder, he will do whatever it takes to retain his position because in America he was a jobless person.”
