APRC USA branch’s Gibril Fadia has disclosed a very serious recruitment group that is trying to use Mandinkas against other ethnic groups in The Gambia. Fadia was speaking to forGambia in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

According to him, the whole thing started when his phone number was added to a whatsapp group claiming to be purely for Mandinkas. He later realized the majority of the group’s members were using Senegalese phone numbers.

He added that 47 members were all using Senegalese numbers while only 23 were using Gambian phone numbers. This set some amount of suspicion and some Gambians started leaving the group which he said was set up by one Jalang Fatty who was using a Senegalese number.

One Sheriff Bojang started asking very important questions about the group’s activities and that upset the group’s founders who claimed that Fadia (being paternally Mandinka while his mother Wollof), “was half-cast and only pure Mandinkas must have a bigger say.”

Fadia’s mother is Wollof and his father Mandinka. But he was added to the group without his consent. When others were leaving, he decided to get to the bottom of the group’s activities by staying before they removed him for asking important questions.

He told forGambia that he asked the group’s founders what they would do if other Mandinkas were caught insulting other tribes and that question was not liked by the founders who laid out a plan to react to any tribes insulting Mandinkas.

We discussed with Fadia how this whole thing could have been a handiwork of the Senegalese intelligence network trying to divide Gambians for the coming presidential elections. We reported how desperate Adama Barrow has become in finding a way to cling unto power.

And Senegal is more desperate than Barrow in creating any conflict situation in The Gambia which will be a pretext for their continuous stay in our country.

forGambia is more than a newspaper and radio. We are about anything that helps Gambia prosper. We seriously look out for any trouble brewed by Gambia’s enemies in sheep clothes.

Fadia also gave a brilliant historical context of how Senegal treated Jawara, betrayed the terms of the confederation by withdrawing all Senegalese forces, including those guarding Jawara for even his Friday prayers.

He mentioned Jawara’s guards were abruptly removed and Senegal bragged that he wouldn’t have even a soldier to accompany him to the mosque.
Senegal tried to play Jawara to no success. When the 1994 coup occurred, Jawara’s last communication with the junta was while he was on the American ship after which they took him to Dakar were his communication lines were cut off.

This was a sabotage and a revenge on Jawara seeing that he refused to hand-over Gambia’s sovereignty to Senegal earlier. When Jammeh came, they tried similar tricks to undermine Gambia’s sovereignty, according to Fadia.

They even lured Jammeh into attacking the Cassamance rebels in a raid where both Senegal and Gambia would launch an operation simultaneously. But when the operation’s exact  time came, Gambian soldiers showed up to the sites only to realize that Senegal didn’t show up. “And this was their own problem…their own rebels,” he remarked.

As for the “Senegambia” bridge, Fadia lamented how Macky Sall bragged about usurping from its rightful owners and legacy, including the fact that it could have been named after our own Gambian heroes like Sir Farimang Singhateh, Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, and many others.

He continued that an APRC government would fix Gambia back to its good in about twenty-four hours. Fadia also laments how Gambia can rely on a foreign nation that doesn’t have her own economic and political freedom.

 “They even pay rent to France for their State House. And there is silicone which France mines from Senegal, shipped directly out since colonial days. I went to a Senegalese radio and told them this which some of them confirmed, wondering how I knew it,” Fadia said.

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