Gambia: Rights Group Calls for Conversation and Not Celebration on February 18 –

In seven days, Gambians will be marking 18th February as the 60th Independence Day. The Government will be spending millions of dalasi to celebrate the day in grand style.

In the first place, EFSCRJ holds that the actual date of independence of the Gambia is 24 April 1970. We hold that 18 February 1965 only established the Gambia as a colonial dominion under the British Empire with internal self-rule status. In the coming days, we will be sharing provisions of the 1965 Constitution to…