Sierra Leones’s High Commissioner to The Gambia, Soulayman Daramy, has delivered a special letter from President Ernest Bai Koroma to the leader of The Gambia Yayah Jammeh at State House in Banjul in which Koroma strongly condemned the December 30th 2014 attack on that country's presidential palace.
In the letter, Koroma praised Jammeh's “transformative achievement over the years that have put The Gambia on the map.”
Koroma assured President Jammeh that the government and people of Sierra Leone would stand by him and pray for his good health and prosperity and that of The Gambian people.
President Jammeh expressed his thanks and gratitude to President Koroma, whom he referred to as his brother and the people of Sierra Leone for “your genuine concern.”
President Jammeh told High Commissioner Daramy that “The Gambia will always stand by Sierra Leone as it has contributed to the socio economic and development of The Gambia.”
According to The Gambian leader, the attempt on state house was “not a coup but rather a terrorist attempt that did not succeed in whatever was their intention.” He added that “as a Gambian nation, we are what we are and that is the way it’s going to be.”
President Yayah Jammeh noted that Sierra Leone is rich in palm-oil and granite among others and expressed his desire and that of his country to do business with the government and people of Sierra Leone. “We should really come together and engage in big time trading instead of doing business with or rely on the ungodly IMF”, he stressed.
He called on the “sub -region to come together and merge our airlines for the region to have an ECOWAS Airline.”
Commenting on the Ebola virus in the region, President Jammeh referred to it as an eye opener to all Africans but that it will no doubt be defeated as the winning signs were already evident.
© Politico 28/01/15
