A frantic fundraising drive has been launched in a bid to return the D78,000 that President Adama Barrow contributed to the family of the late Solo Sandeng as housing support.
The President and the First Lady were subjects of intense social media rebuke following the leakage of a D78,000 receipt for rental payment they made for the Sandeng family.
Last week, the Gambian President received quite a bashing from social media users after he failed to grace the funeral service of his fallen comrade with his presence.
Meanwhile, the interment of Sandeng’s remains has apparently stirred the hornet’s nest as social media became the battleground between the President’s critics and his supporters.
Many social media commentators severely criticized President Barrow for “abandoning the late Sandeng’s family in the cold”.
However, as if to say the President and the First Family were financially supportive to the late Sandeng’s family, a receipt of D78,000 for rental payment for Sandeng’s family through the First Family surfaced on the social media and there was this widespread suspicion that it was posted at the behest of the Presidency.
It has yet to be clear to JollofNews whether the receipt was posted on social media on the order of the First Family but what has become clear is that a fund-raising drive has been launched to return the D78,000 to Mr. Barrow and Lady Bah.
The forces behind the initiative were exasperated by the leakage of the receipt and they said it’s sacrilegious.
“This is tantamount to desecration of Solo Sandeng. Solo cannot be measured in monetary terms, considering his noble contribution to The Gambia,” one of the brains behind the initiative Mr. Lamin Sillah said from his base in Bronx.
“This (leakage of the receipt) is an egregious devaluation of Solo’s worth. Releasing this receipt is insulting to Solo and hugely embarrassing to his family,” he lamented.
“We, therefore, appeal to Gambians to contribute to this fund so that we can pay back the money the First Family contributed to Solo’s family,” Mr. Sillah said in an audio recording.
