Turkey-based Yankuba Suso has admitted threatening President Adama Barrow’s life but the panicky 40-year-old Kuntaur native said he ‘doesn’t know how to use a gun.’
Mr Suso has continued to be slammed for his imbecile act of threatening the president’s life in an audio message nearly a month ago.
He reached out to The Fatu Network after police in Turkey arrested him over his comments.
He said: “How can I kill the president? I am not a soldier and I don’t hold a gun. I did make the threat but I only said it out of anger due to the suffering we went through in 2016. He had commented that he would ban political activities and this pushed me to react and make the threat.”
He was arrested last Wednesday by police in Turkey with Suso saying he was branded a terrorist by the Gambian Embassy in Turkey.
He said: “They told the police that I am killer. But I told the police I was only making a threat. But for them they want to take me to the detention centre so as to deport me to Gambia. But the court here said I should not leave their country. They just want to put me in trouble. They want to bring me back and put me in jail.
“I should be going to police to report but the embassy manipulated that and now I can’t go to report. So these people will think I am a criminal.”
An embassy official said Suso is lying and that the embassy in Turkey would never brand anyone a terrorist or assist Turkish authorities in deporting any Gambian.
