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By Sheriff Saidykhan
Victim-Led Organisations in partnership with Civil Society Organisations of The Gambia, have frowned on the slow motion of justice, for victims of April 10/11 student demonstrations.
Marking the 23rd anniversary of the April 10th and 11th student demonstrations, the Victim-Led Organisations and its partners said in a statement.
“For more than two decades now, Victims and their families continue to be ignored and sidelined by the government of The Gambia, making it extremely difficult to seek for justice. Until today victims of April 10th and 11th 2000 are still not given the due consideration they deserved,” the statement said.
April 10/11 2000, is a day set aside to remember students who were killed, tortured, maimed and rape during a peaceful demonstration under the leadership of former President Yayha Jammeh.
“This was the day that the former government under the leadership of Yahya Jammeh, ordered the unlawful shooting of students, who were merely protesting the brutality meted onto their colleagues by some of the security forces, at the time. Students were killed, arrested, detained, physically assaulted, raped and tortured in several different locations across the country,” the statement added.
By SHERIFF SAIDYKHAN
Customers of the Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB), one of the commercial banks in the country have lamented their growing frustrations over the long ques and poor banking service at the various branches of the bank.
An anonymous source said he stopped banking with GTBank, due to the poor service delivery. This he said, has compelled him to switched doing banking transactions with GT Bank.
Anna Sambou, a customer of the bank highlighted the lack of customer friendly service, which she said is difficult to make banking transactions.
“At times it is very difficult to make transactions there, because some of the tellers are not friendly. Sometimes they talk freely to customers,” she argued.
Lamin F. Fatty, a regular customer of the bank queried on the slow motion of effective service.
He also complained about the long que of customers, especially during the beginning and the end of the month.
“Banking with GT Bank is one of the boring things, because they have many customers with slow service delivery. Normally, end of the month and the beginning of the month when salaries are paid people que for hours just to make sure that they get their money. But it\