Senior police officer blames Barrow, Police over 3 years Jotna fracas

Chief Superintendent Officer of The Gambia Police Forces (GPF), Muhammad Kanteh has revealed to the press that his family is under target by President Adama Barrow’s government while blaming both Barrow and the GPF for illegally offended citizens who took the streets to exercise their constitutional rights, as the permit was granted to them by the IGP.

The senior officer who leaves 100 men in Brikama under his command because of anger and what he described as illegal and unfair to the country for the police to assault citizens, Kanteh said he does not care to lose his job and remain as a private lawyer.

The chief of operation at Brikama Division, who was speaking at a visit to the victims at Serrekunda Hospital, explained that the protesters’ constitutional rights have been guaranteed by the constitution, saying “They were issued with a permit to go for their lawful procession, where they were stabbed with a knife. I commanded about 100 men in Brikama as I speak and I left them there because my two brothers are stabbed.”

He claimed that the IGP granted them a permit and it was just a peaceful and lawful exercise which is their constitutional right.

“I am not treated fair and the president himself will know that Kanteh is not treated fairly because when Jammeh refused to step down, I took President Barrow from his house to my brother’s house, where he slept.”

The angry Superintendent indicated that his family is been targeted because his two brothers had been just stabbed among the lots; he said, “That saws that Kanteh’s family is been targeted by Barrow’s government.”