Opposition, United Democratic Party (UDP) leader has warned Gambians to resist any impression by monies from President Adama Barrow.
“We should make sure those underhand dealings that are going on and will be going on for several months before the 4th of December 2021, we must resist them,” UDP leader Ousainou Darboe told supporters from Kunkujang.
“We must make sure your future is not mortgaged to any unscrupulous person. Look, if I say I want to help you, why should I come to you to give you money, [and you wiill say] ‘give me a position for me to help you’. Does it make sense? You’re asking for a position to help me develop the country. Why do I have to give you money?
“If anything, you should be the one to sponsor and support me because you believe in what I am saying. So those who do not believe in what they say are those that put money in their pocket and going to people and bribing them and telling people things that are not true.”
Mr Darboe stated that what he told former President Yahya Jammeh is the same thing he will tell President Adama Barrow.
“They take aids and support from our development partners and convert them to be their own personal [support] to the Gambian people. I have told Yahya Jammeh and I am telling Adama Barrow. That his father doesn’t have an estate. Adama Barrow did not inherit anything from his father that he could use to benefit Gambians,” Darboe said.
The UDP leader also said: “Before he became president, who did he give a bag of rice to as a gift in Kunkujang? If at all he was doing it, it would be to his uncles and aunts in Mankamang Kunda.
“Now that person is now coming to say I will spend 250 million dalasis to give rice when we know that 250 million dalasis is coming from our development partners to help us cushion up our hardship and this is what the Gambian people must know. The lies that they’re telling Gambians and sweet talks, is all rubbish, no truth in them.”
