Opposition party, Gambia For All, has raised concerns about the security implications of President Adama Barrow’s political alliance with former strongman Yahya Jammeh. 

In a statement the party said it “viewed this alliance with concern, as it endangers the stability of our country and poses an existential threat to our motherland, The Gambia. 

“Given the role APRC played in supporting, defending and strengthening the regime of its former leader, dictator Yahya Jammeh in the brutality, murder, and other acts of barbarity committed against Gambians as well as the corruption and economic plunder of the nation’s resources, allying with such political forces is a major disservice to The Gambian people.”

It added that the alliance “undermines the efforts of national reconciliation and a naked betrayal of the Gambian people particularly the victims of state terror.

“And all of these atrocities nakedly presented at the just concluded TRRC Commission hearings, apparently meant nothing to President Barrow. What matters most to him seems to be winning the December 4th Presidential Elections by any means possible.

“President Adama Barrow, should be reminded that he was elected in 2016 to put an end to these atrocities, and the economic plunder of the country and pave the way for a nation reconciled and at peace with itself. 

“These and other transitional agenda items have remained very much unfulfilled and for President Barrow to form an alliance with the very forces who inflicted so much pain and hardship on the Gambian people reflects total disregard for what we went through collectively as a nation.

“We should not forget the supreme sacrifice and untold suffering the Gambian people had to endure in removing Jammeh from office and to turn round and grant Yahya Jammeh amnesty for all these brutalities is an insult to the victims of Yahya Jammeh and his APRC Government,” the party said.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba