Ebrima Nyang, a Gambian man has expressed dissatisfaction about Saturday’s protest by Rising Against Racism over the death of Momodou Lamin Sise and George Floyd as “a protest of discrimination” despite condemning their deaths.
“What puzzles me about the Saturday’s protest is what the protesters cannot do for their own citizen brothers is what they had done today for an American citizen,” he said.
“Haruna Jatta was killed and no one spearheaded a protest to give him a justice, in the Faraba incident at least three youth were killed for claiming their lands and nothing was done or organise for them by the George Floyd protesters. A Garawol man was shot by the Senegalese’s force in The Gambia and he was abducted to Senegal and no one protest for him too,” he harped.
Without stopping there, he expressed that despite political differences, Solo Sendeng puts his life for this country and no group of protesters ever organise one to demand justice for his death.
“All these mentioned above are real in The Gambia and are all against human rights but were never protested upon to give them justice. As I am speaking more than $20m is so far raise for the Floyd’s family. The million-dollar question is what we have ever done in the name of the people we lost?” he asked rhetorically.
He went further “where does our nationalism lies?”
But he quickly added that “the death of Lamin Ceesay is a very unfortunate one just like the death of our other Gambian brothers. All Gambians deserve equal call for justice as all lives matter to our nation.”
According to him, what happened to George Floyd and Lamin Ceesay was a sad story that no one wishes it to happen because they both deserved to live like any other American citizens, “I condemn racism in the strongest term because it does not promote diversity of the humankind.”
“In as much as I hate to see black people being subjected to racism around the world. The just ended Protest organised by few Gambians is nothing but a discriminatory one. In The Gambia we have very painful stories that requires the same amount of attention like the show that is just put out today (Saturday) for George Floyd, but it was never done for our fellow brothers,” Mr Nyang said.
