Police have rearrested and charged the leaders of Three Years Jotna movement. 

Nine members of the group including activist-lawyer Yankuba Darboe were taken to the police headquarters in Banjul yesterday to face new charges over last year’s anti-government protest. 

Mr Darboe told reporters outside the police headquarters after their release that the arrest was “an abuse of our judicial process”. 

 “This should never be condoned by anybody. I call on the [Gambia] Bar Association, I call on every conscious Gambian to stand up against this brute barbarity. This is nonsense.

“We have no confidence in going to any other court with these people and the charges that they brought against us because we know they will abuse the process,” said Mr Darboe, a UK-trained Gambian lawyer. 

“What they will do is bring those charges, as soon as they know they’re about to lose, they will withdraw it and be charged again.”

“How is anybody going to get justice in that kind of system. If that is the system, we’re happy to be in Mile Two and we will remain in Mile Two until this government goes,” he added.