Gambia: UDP Urges MPs To Summon Interior Minister, Immigration Chief On ID Issuance –

By: Binta Jaiteh

The United Democratic Party (UDP) has called on National Assembly Members to immediately summon the Minister of Interior and the Director General of the Gambia Immigration Department to explain what it describes as the unlawful issuance of Gambian national identity cards to individuals abroad.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the opposition party expressed alarm over what it termed the government’s “unlawful and politically motivated” distribution of national…