By Sarjo Brito
The deputy spokesman of the opposition Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction has told The Fatu Network during an exclusive interview that he believes Gambia has no COVID-19 cases.
Dodou Jah accused Government of making what he described as ‘fake cases’ in order to access funds from the international community. The wild allegations did not stop there as Jah alleged Gambia’s first reported coronavirus death was in fact due to pneumonia and not COVID-19. Jah argued the preacher could not have died of the virus as all the people he met tested negative.
“Somebody who travelled from Bangladesh with a group of people, through Mali to Senegal, interacting with people through preaching. All those people were tested but came back negative. But the guy was positive and died, let them show us the proof,” he said.
He has also criticized the massive sample testing at the Bakau community centre after five new cases were confirmed by the ministry on Saturday.
“They are just adding up their numbers, to keep it long and make more money. They are going around asking people to come out so they can be tested. The other cases we had, where were they detected? Why are they not doing mass testing in those communities? Those people also belong to communities. What happened to the people they interacted with? It does not add up’’.
Conspiracy theories, false claims, a deadly virus and a fight by government to contain it; the coronavirus pandemic has surely been accompanied with an outbreak of misinformation and wild accusations around the world and The Gambia is no exception.
