Now here is someone speaking from experience
Culled from Independent
Presidential Election Marred By Frauds
Speaking to journalists at a press conference held yesterday at the UDP
Headquarters in Banjul, the party leader Ousainou Darboe declared that the
last presidential election was marred by under hand frauds. He explained that
these frauds were unknown to political parties and other stakeholders. Chief
among them, he said, were the decision of the IEC to allow people whose names
did not feature in the register to vote; the arrest and intimidation of UDP
supporters as well as the killing of a UDP supporter at Tallinding. “Although
this incident was the subject of a broadcast by the BBC radio interview with
a British MP who was one of the monitors, the world failed to realise the
negative impact it had on voters, especially UDP supporters”, said the former
Coalition flag bearer.
He also catalogued 16 villages in the Senegalese region of Casamance and
Dakar as the locations for the alleged registration of non-Gambians. The
villages, he named, were Fony Sumbunda, Kamoya, Badji Kunda, Balandor,
Mankere, Jolatung, Foni Bona, Marakesh-Jolakunda, Gui-Kun, Major, Kanial
Jolakunda, Yabo Kunda, Tabale, Sudan, Wafulu and Wonko. According to Darboe,
a registration exercise for people of Casamance origin also took place in
Arafat Grand Yoff in Dakar.
He added the people who coordinated it were Jerreh Bojang, a native of
Manduar resident in Dakar, Amoro Badjie and Fatou Badjie. The UDP leader went
on to say that they also discovered cases of double registration for which
the commission failed to take action. He also charged that registrations were
also conducted for civilians at Fajara Barracks and at the Sanatorium. Mr.
Darboe did not leave out what he called the “massive voter transfers for
which the IEC failed to give any genuine explanation”.
Responding to a question about their participation or otherwise in the local
government elections, Darboe intimated that the matter would be determined by
the party and not him(darboe) Darboe revealed that the party had been denied
permits by the Inspector General of Police on two occasions, but vowed that
come Sunday UDP will hold a rally in Brikama, with permit or without permit.
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