Gambia: Protest to demand resignation of President Barrow cancelled
Banjul, Gambia(PANA) - A protest schedule for Sunday January 19 to demand that President Adama Barrow step down has been cancelled by the organizers, a pressure group dubbed “three years Jotna(three has reached)”, officials told PANA here Saturday.
An interior ministry source told PANA that on Friday the group leaders held a meeting with senior government officials including security chiefs and both sides agreed to call off the protest.
According to the source, the protest has been rescheduled for Sunday, January 26.
Operation Three Years Jotna had been denied a permit to protest but the group threatened to stage its protest regardless.
“Operation Three Years Jotna agreed to call off tomorrow Sunday’s protest while the Police have agreed to undo its initial position of refusing the group a permit on the other side,” the source told PANA.
Police will now issue the group a permit to stage a protest on Sunday, January 26 to demand President Barrow step down.
On Friday, the ECOWAS Permanent Mission in The Gambia warned all stakeholders to ensure peace, security and stability in the West African nation.
In a statement signed by Vabah K. Gayflor, the Special Representative of the President of ECOWAS to The Gambia, ECOWAS stressed that its mission would not give credence to any group that sought to be a source of instability.
Also the European Union (EU) Delegation to The Gambia, on Friday urged political parties in The Gambia to express their views through public manifestations or rallies.
The EU called on all political parties to do so in a calm, peaceful, law-abiding and respectful manner, and to refrain from using threatening languages and or aggressive conducts.
-0- PANA MSS/RA 18Jan2020
