The High Command of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) has condemend allegation of tribalism and political interference in recent promotion of officers.

GAF condemned the allegation against the armed forces and the chief of defence staff. 

“It must be noted that these allegations are not only calculated narrations to soil the reputation of the GAF Command but irresponsible, preposterous, baseless and should not have warranted a dignified response from GAF.

“However, to avoid ill-informed and dangerous conclusions by well-meaning Gambians, we would kindly oblige and clarify a few issues on the ill-fated article by the social media platform. This is with a view to refute the allegations by unpatriotic, disgruntled and unscrupulous elements who wish to sow seeds of discord within the Armed Forces and the general public,” GAF said in a rebuttal.

The statement added: “The GAF High Command wishes to state that there was no interference, be it on political or ethnic lines in the process leading to or after the selection of the senior Officers for promotion as alleged by the ill-informed and malicious report. In fact, a close scrutiny of the names in the above list contradicts the assertion by the said baseless OG report that the promotion was informed by ethnic/tribal considerations.”

Reporting by Adama Makasuba