Former president Yahya Jammeh has spoken out after a shooting incident in his hometown of Kanilai on Sunday.

Mr. Jammeh is reported to have called for calm and urged the people of Kanilai not to take the law into their own hands.

The victim, Ismaila Tamba, is a former soldier turned van driver. He was alleged to have been shot for refusing to stop his van at an army checkpoint in Kanilai.

Mr. Tamba is in hospital recovering from the gunshot wounds.

Officials of the former president’s party, APRC, held a meeting with the people of Kanilai on Monday.

The party’s spokesman confirmed that former president Jammeh participated in the meeting from his base in Equatorial Guinea.

Nyassi said: “Yes I think you may have heard the audio and what the conversation was, you will know here is a man that is still advocating for peace and stability of the country. He has the country at heart.

“This is what he was telling his people; ‘that it has happened again for the second time in Kanilai but Allah knows best why this is happening. So all we have to do was to remain law abiding, let’s allow the la to take its course, nobody should take the law into his own hands.

“The party has a leadership, your MP is there they will pursue things, remain calm and follow the instructions of the elders and the current party leader.”

The checkpoint shooting in Kanilai is the second major incident involving the villagers and the security forces since Jammeh was ousted from power.

Kanilai is still loyal to the former president and is a strong political base of the opposition APRC party.