Three Years Jotna

Prior to 2016 Gambian presidential election, a group of opposition parties reluctantly came together with a common goal of ending the 22 year regime of Yahya Jammeh.

President Barrow, who had since renegade the coalition agreement, towards the middle of his term that he was ultimately elected to, was criticised for increasingly aligning himself to the former regime of Yaya Jammeh that he unseated.

Finance Minister Mam Burr Njie was also implicated in controversies, specifically alleged involvement in the spending of millions of dollars of state money.

Many political analysts argued that the misappropriations of states funds, Jammeh-like status quo and the [clarification needed] of UDP leader Ousainou Darboe led to dissatisfaction among many Gambians.

[1] Later Darboe changed his position and said that the “UDP (urges) all the parties to the 2016 Coalition agreement, particularly its principal beneficiary, President Adama Barrow to be faithful to the terms and conditions of the Gambian electorates that if elected he will serve for a term of three years only and step down to supervise free, fair and transparent presidential elections.”[2] Many Gambians believed that the coalition failed the electorate.

Following media war and competition for crowd size, 3 Years Jotna conduct their first peaceful protest in December, 2019 at the outskirt of the capital, Banjul near Denton Bridge to handover their petition to the president.