Fresh tips reaching forGambia News say President Adama Barrow is planning on visiting the people of Mandinary where Omar Badjie was arrested by police Friday. Badjie later died under alleged police torture, a parallel to U.S George Floyd’s May 2020 police brutality.

We did not have time to publish the events unfolding in Mandinary where youth attacked a police station. As we published today’s earlier headline with herald of a wider tinderbox possibly besotting the increasingly brutal Barrow regime, we received hot tips about the government’s damage control and PR move in ventures only reminiscent of the June 2018 Faraba incident where authorities gunned down protesting youths.

Since forGambia has snatched this other scoop again, the president may cancel his trip because it has been part of the NPP scriptural injunction to counter anything we report just to discredit us. Good luck, Barrow and team!

And in case the gov’t snarls, as it inveterately does about who furnishes us scoops, how about this one just coming in: “Barrow the intelligence report you’ve received from NIA Director, Ousman Sowe and the Interior Minister is totally false. We also know that you’re planning to visit Mandinary village tomorrow to meet with the elders of the village and Omar Badjie’s family during which you’d again promise them with another commission just like several others with [Sic]” little results.

Here is another advice to the gov’t: We’re calling on the Police command not to arrest Gala’s leadership. The group has no hand in the Mandinary protest. IGP Touray and DIG Demba Sowe are seriously misleading the public to cover their shame and incompetence. But that will be coming in our next edition. Stay tuned.