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| In April 1970, The Gambia became a Republic with President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara its first Head of State (Photo taken from Kissy Kissy Mansa) |
The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has reduced to “a sham”
his country’s independence that was attained from colonialists Britain on
February 18, 1965.
“Our independence was
achieved through the hard work of patriotic independence-minded citizens but
that independence was a sham,” he said on the eve of The Gambia’s 49th
independence anniversary.
This, according to him, is because Gambia’s leadership at
the time “plunge our country deeper into the complete hegemony of the British
Empire and therefore fail to bring about any significant socio-economic
development.”
