By Fatou Sillah
Bubacarr Sambou, an ICT Officer at The Gambia College, has voiced strong concerns over the 2024 draft constitution, calling it the most significant threat to the nation’s security. Speaking during a Twitter space, Sambou expressed his dissatisfaction with the government’s approach.
“This government is treating us like children, and they are always quick to describe something as a National security threat. I do not think there is currently anything more threatening to national security than this 2024 draft constitution that they have presented, which they hide, doctored, and presented to Gambians, and they think we are going to just accept it anyhow,” he stated
He further criticized the government’s repeated attempts to bypass the Gambian people, asserting that this time it would not work.
“They have tried us many different times, and they get away with it, they think they can do the same thing with the constitution. The 2020 draft failed, and they went again and made some notorious changes to the draft constitution, and they want the public to accept it,” he said.
He also predicted that the draft constitution would fail at the National Assembly, or if it proceeded further, it would be blocked due to the existing threshold.
“What I am saying is that this is going to fail even at the National Assembly and if it goes out of the National Assembly it will not succeed because of the threshold that is there. So this is deliberate, this government is never serious about Gambian issues,” he said.
Sambou concluded by reiterating that the draft constitution poses a serious national security risk, warning that the people will resist it.
“What I am saying is this is the biggest threat to our national security because everything that people want to do, even when people want to protest, they find a way to describe it as a threat to national security, so this draft is a threat to national security, and what they should expect is that people will resist this and is not going through,” he said.