Over 50 wounded as police fired tear gases, bullets on anti gov’t protesters

Over 50 people are reported wounded as a result of tear gases and rubber bullets fired by the paramilitaries and anti crime unit of The Gambia Police Force (GPF) who were assisted by some soldiers in the ground to control 3 years Jotna protesters during a fracas.

The anti government protesters are a pressure group calling on the president to honor the three years MoU and step down this month.

However, the police seriously wounded some of the victims and many fainted after inhaling gases.

Abdou Njie, the chairperson of the 3 years Jotna told the press that the whole world will no that the security destroyed the country; adding that whatever former president Yahya Jammeh was doing, is the security who pushed him into it.

He said they also influenced Adama Barrow to act in such ways, while stating that “I was standing when kalilu Njie, senior police officer ordered the shooting of tear gases to the protesters. After firing gases, the paramilitary also stoned Abdou Darboe and broke all his teeth.”

Njie believed that the police lied to them because they were in the ground before their arrival and barred the place.

He added that their people arrested will freed and whatever the police want will never happen.

“Barrow is nothing and is because of people he is something and he is abusing that power against its people but we will remove him as the same we did to Jammeh.”

Confirming how many victims wounded and arrested, he said he don’t know exactly how many people are arrested but lot of people had been wounded.

The police revoking their permit, he said is an only uneducated person who operates like such because that is not communicated to them. He said rubber bullets were also shot on protesters.