About 40 Gambian girls in Beirut on Thursday held a protest in front of the Gambian consulate in the Lebanese capital demanding assistance from the government in returning home.
One of the women protester said “We come out because we want to go back home (The Gambia) regardless of who is helping us to go back. But Mr Khalid the Consul said he cannot do any transaction with the only woman who is trying to help us to come back to The Gambia.”
“He said because he has received directions from The Gambia government that he should not speak to Lovette because she is tarnishing the name of the government. More so that Lovette is gaining money out of her kindness to us (stranded emigrants),” she disclosed.
She went further that “we told him that we are not interested about what Lovette Jallow gain or not gain all we know is that she is assisting us to get back to the Gambia and that’s the only thing we are interested in.”
The protest comes as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed 36 emergency passports have been prepared ahead of a plan to evacuate the girls.
