‘We’re going to have a long fence’: Independent Mamadou Bah vows to build wall between Gambia’s border with Senegal’s Casamance as he files his nomination

Independent presidential aspirant candidate Mamadou Bah has vowed to build a ‘long fence’ between Gambia and Senegal to combat drug trafficking.

Mr Bah made the pledge after completing filing his nomination papers to officials of the IEC on Tuesday.

He said: “No political party is talking about the Gambian-Senegal border. You can see a lot of people are being arrested.

“Dealing in drug and then my first 100 days in office, I am together with the Senegalese government we are going to have a long fence between Gambia and Senegal so that drug smugglers will never engage our young people in drug trafficking.”

He was last to file his nomination on Tuesday after Mamma Kandeh, Dr Ismaila Ceesay and Mamadi KS Camara.