Pressure group Justice For All has been consolidating its national mobilization effort as part of moves to ensure border justice for the Gambian transport operators, who felt abandoned by their own government and trade union.
Despite the warning from the office of the Gambia’s police chief against such a planned action, Justin For All has been widening its national reach and making its presence felt in parts of the country over the past days.
The strategic objective of this mass national mobilization effort is to “enforce border justice” by staging a sustained border action in which Senegalese commercial vehicles would be barred from entering the Gambian territory.
According to information reaching JollofNews, the intended civil action of defiance has been having the buy-in of many transport operators, drivers and members of the greater public.
The national police has, however, issued a warning against any blockade of foreign vehicles as, according to the force, this would border on violation of ECOWAS protocol on free movement and would not be condoned.
However, JollofNews has learned that the Justice For All group has grown suspicious of the government that it has not been protecting the interests of the Gambia’s transport sector.
The group has vowed to continue with its national campaign and called on the IGP to come to the quick realisation that “he is not above the law” and cannot forever suppress citizens’ right to manifest grievances.
The group also believed that the Gambia government has been compromising Gambia’s sovereignty by allowing Senegalese registered commercial vehicles to enter The Gambia without any impediment while commercial vehicles with Gambian number plates continued to be prevented from entering the Senegalese territory.
“Senegalese vehicles are not only entering The Gambia, but they are loading and off-loading cargo in The Gambia to the detriment of Gambian transport owners and drivers. They can enter and work here while our commercial vehicles are refused entry to Senegal. This is what we want to put an end to,” one recruiter said.
