UDP leader Ousainou Darboe on Monday told reporters he got intelligence report of a plot to plant incriminating ‘materials’ on him and other UDP top guns.
“I want to tell you gentlemen of the press that about three months ago, I had intelligence report that I should advise Momodou Sabally, EbriMa Dibba, Karafa Sonko, Honourable Saho, Yakumba Jaiteh and myself…
“[That] we should be very careful where we park our vehicle, [that] even we take our vehicle to car wash we must make sure that somebody sits in the vehicle because the scheme now particularly me, is to plant incriminating materials on us. And for Sabally, Saho, Yakumba to silence them and for me to disqualify me,” Darboe told reporters.
UDP is fighting back after its vehicle was taken in by police amid allegations of cannabis retrieved in the vehicle. The vehicle is currently held at Bundung Police Station as critics continue to brand UDP a party dealing in drugs.
But leader Darboe bit back on Monday: “We want to say that the UDP has always been against criminality in this country and more particularly use of substances that are harmful to the individual. In my career as a lawyer, I have refused to defend anybody for drug cases.
“I have refused it and all that is to show our revulsion for drugs and drug use. If someone on his frolic uses our vehicle without our knowledge and you want to pin that on UDP I think that will be most outrageous, I think that is very ingenious.”
