By Lamin Njie
Operation Three Years Jotna has been granted a permit by police to stage a protest on Monday 16 December, a development seen by observers as a major victory for the right to freedom of assembly.
The group has in the past months been engaged in months of negotiation regarding its plan to take to the streets this month to demand President Adama Barrow leave office.
A source told The Fatu Network today the Inspector General of Police has called the chairman of Operation Three Years Jotna and told him his permit to stage a protest was ready for pickup. The officials will meet with the police chief on Tuesday, the source added.
It comes hours after President Barrow announced at a rally in Banjul on Sunday that he would registering his party by the end of December. The president said the party will be launched in early 2020.
Mr Barrow had earlier on invited Operation Three Years Jotna to a meeting in Buffer Zone but the group declined his invitation.
On Friday, officials of Operation Three Years Jotna met with the minister of interior at his office in Kotu. The summit was attended by other top senior goverment officials.
