By Adama Makasuba
Dodou Jah, deputy spokesman for APRC, has frowned at people whom he said are using the victims of former President Yahya Jammeh as political tools for their interests, but added that APRC is willing and ready to support the victims and reconcile the country for peace and development.
Mr Jah who was speaking to Star FM during a popular Wake-up Gambia talk show, said “what we believe in is reconciliation, what has happened had happened and now let’s reconcile and move on. But some people want to take the issue of the victims and politicise it and this is not politics.”
“Yes, victims are here and we should try to ensure they are given reparations and even if some of them violated the rights of others and their rights were also violated, we should reconcile and move on.”
“They are many and that’s why I said one of the victims is my younger brother because his mother and my father are from the same parent and he is Abu Camara and he was a commando at State House.
“He had some problems and he went with them to court and won, and they came and met me at his mother’s house looking for him and I asked his mother what’s wrong and she replied: they said I must tell them where Abu is. And I told her don’t tell them, tell them he has left. And I can name many other people who were victims,” he explained.
“APRC is party own by Gambians therefore lets us not take the issue of victims and create enmity to say that we were in power and anyone who comes out and say he or she is a victim we should not see them as enemies. The party respect them and any support the party can do for the victims,” they will do it he said.
