By Lamin Njie
Madi Jobarteh on Tuesday said the sacking of a sitting national assembly member by President Adama Barrow is tantamount to a coup.
“The act of removing Hon Ya Kumba Jaiteh clearly manifest that the President can as well sack the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker and appoint in their place a person of his choice,” the polemical political commentator said in an opinion piece.
President Barrow last week dismissed Ya Kumba Jaiteh as a member of the national assembly. She was one of five people who were hand-picked by the president in 2017 to be members of the national assembly.
But according to Mr Jobarteh, “when the president can have such power and audacity it means therefore the independence and security of the National Assembly has been damaged hence a direct threat to the sovereignty and democratic governance of the Gambia.”
“I am ready to join any Gambian to go to the Supreme Court to challenge this most unconstitutional act.
“I urge the political parties to stand up and take this matter to court.
“I call on the Speaker and all NAMs to go to court and refuse to entertain this undemocratic and unconstitutional misconduct by the President,” he said.
