By: Nyima Sillah
The NAM for Foni Bintang Karanai has said calm has returned to the Foni border villages following some years of bombardment around the Gambia-Casamance frontier.
The Senegalese forces have been launching attacks on MFDC bases after they arrived in The Gambia to enforce the 2016 presidential election results.
These attacks, characterized by gunfire and loud explosions of artillery pieces, led to population displacements and widespread panic in the Gambian border communities.
However, an uneasy calm has returned to the communities following the election of BasirouDiomaye Faye as Senegal’s President.
The Karanai NAM Bakary Badgie told this reporter that farming activities in the area are at their height as the population no longer has to endure constant bombardments.
“Since Diomaye came to power, we haven’t heard any bombardment. All we see in the areais peace and harmony. People are going on with their daily activities and farming activities areongoing. Those, who ran away from their homes out of fear, are also back though some of the people, who were taken away by the Senegalese security such as Mustapha Colley and BasiruColley, have yet to be released,” he explained.
NAM Badgie explained that farmers in his constituency used to abandon their farms to rodents and birds because of the security situation.
He extolled the Senegalese government for the improvement in the area’s security situation as he called for the building of the gains made.
NAM Badgie also called on President Faye’sgovernment to look into the issues of the Gambians in Senegalese detention.