REJOINDER | Unsolicited Response to DUGA, Right2Know, Team Gom-Sa-Bopa and Gambia Participates
Rejoinder - ‘Open Letter to President Adama Barrow: Resubmit the Bill for a referendum and let the people decide’ By Pa Louis Sambou Having read the above captioned publication by DUGA, Right2Know, Team Gom-Sa-Bopa and Gambia Participates which was published on 2 October 2020, I thought it necessary to share a few thoughts. It is perhaps a good idea to address a few myths before addressing the substantive issues: The publication represents that “the majority of Gambians agreed in unison, that the 1997 Constitution, as it exists, is unfit for purpose given that it had been amended, and watered down 58 times…” With such a bold claim, the only reason advanced by the author to substantiate such claim that the 1997 Constitution is “unfit for purpose” was that it had been “amended 58 times”. One would imagine that the author has a good grasp of the subject of which they speak and in which case it won’t be unreasonable to expect a much better substantiation of such claim than