By Lamin Njie
Ousainu Darboe spoke tough on Friday as he detailed how he was prepared to return to Mile 2.
Mr Darboe was jailed at Mile 2 in 2016 after he and top UDP figures took to the streets following the arrest and torture-death of Solo Sandeng, a member of UDP.
Mr Darboe on Friday said he was ready to return to the country’s hardest prison as he laid into police chief Mamour Jobe after he denied his party a permit to hold a rally in Brikama.
The UDP leader said: “We respect the law but we will not allow anybody to misuse the law against us. Because that discretion… You want to misuse that against us, we will not allow it.
“This country belongs to us. We liberated this country. If you see people can go and demonstrate today, it’s because of us. People used to be jailed here for merely applying to demonstrate.
“Tomorrow, let’s all meet there. If you want to… Mile 2 is not a place I am not familiar with. I know everywhere in there. I am prepared to go back there for this country, I am prepared to go back to Mile 2 so that the liberty of the people of The Gambia will be guaranteed. So that people will exercise their political right without undue interference.”
