The Chairman of the UDP-led Brikama Area Council(BAC), Yankuba Darboe, has maintained that his administration’s accomplishments have always been met with strongarm policing tactics. “The pattern is very simple and unsophisticated! Every development we register in my region, is followed by threats of police arrest and detention! Tonight too is[Read More…]
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BAC Condemns Police Brutality Against Its Elected Councillor
Press Release The Brikama Area Council representing the biggest and most populous region of The Gambia, being the West Coast Region, condemns police brutality, abuse of police powers, unconstitutional, unlawful and abuse of the basic human rights of its elected councillor, in the person of Abdoulie Jammeh, the councillor for[Read More…]
BAC Reacts To Police Charges & Line Ministry’s Press Release
Brikama Area Council (BAC) vehemently condemns the arbitrary and deliberate interference of the central government, through our line Ministry of the Ministry of Local Governments and Lands, into the affairs of what is supposed to be a democratically elected council with a high degree of autonomy, as enshrined under Section[Read More…]