I Am No Mandela –Adama Barrow By Tony Ademiluyi | Sahara Reporters Barrow was initially hailed when he first assumed office as he established a truth and reconciliation committee to look into the human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated... READ MORE:
Yahyah Jammeh came to power in a bloodless coup in The Gambia in 1994. The then junior military officer who was just twenty-nine years old seized power and sacked the democratically elected government of the nationalist and founding father of the tiny former British colony, Sir Dauda Jawara.
Yielding to pressure by the international community, he decided to democratize his rule. It was more or less a personal transition from being a military dictator to becoming a civilian one as he ensured that he used the machinery of the state to perpetually rig himself back to power. He got his comeuppance in 2016 when the opposition parties rallied round the candidacy of Adama Barrow to endure that the latter humiliated him at the polls.
Three years down the line, the magic of Barrow has been fast disappearing from the lips of many of his supporters. The economy has been worse off and the much promised economic revolution backed by foreign investors through the vast international contacts of the President has become more of a mirage. There is hunger in the land and all the actions of Barrow don’t point to the hunger pangs ending anytime soon.
His critics opine that he didn’t do much to bring those found guilty of human rights abuses to book. Others point to the wobbly economy characterized by spiralling inflation and rising unemployment among the youths.
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