PRESIDENT JAMMEH, THE DRUG CARTELS AND GAMBIAN PEOPLE

President Jammeh

Gambia is the most suitable stopover for drug trafficking from South America to the lucrative drug markets in Europe. This is as a result of the flourishing drug trade, corruption and arms trade which goes right to the top.
The impoverished, chronically unstable country is an island and has a ‘Jammeh’ monitored coastline, literally making the country a perfect hotspot for drug smugglers. Interestingly, President Jammeh who took power of the country through a military coup in 1994 was elected in 1996, and reelected in 2001, 2006, and 2011 but lost the 2016 polls, and other high-ranking Gambian officials to include those in the Police and in the Army have been linked to different drug cartels and arms trade.

WE NEED BUHARI'S EXPERIENCE TO RESOLVE POLITICAL LOGJAM, SAYS MEMBER OF GAMBIAN COALITION

The coalition of seven political parties that produced Adama Barrow, President-elect of The Gambia, looks earnestly up to President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria to deploy his vast experience, alongside other African leaders, to resolve the political logjam in the tiny West African country.

Speaking with the media during the high-level ECOWAS /AU/UN Joint Mission to The Gambia on Tuesday, Hamad Bah, one of the coalition members, declared:

"We need the experience of President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria in many ways. Like President Jammeh, he is a former military officer, so he knows how the military thinks, and would be able to talk to him appropriately.