UDP Leader ANM Ousainu Darboe, defended media houses labeled as anti-government.

ANM Ousainu Darbo, the Party Leader and Secretary General of the United Democratic Party (UDP), defended media houses labeled as anti-government.

“We have seen gradually what happened in the Gambia in 2001, 2002, 2003, and up to 2006. When media outlets like Citizen FM and media outlets like the Independent Newspaper, how they suffered at the hands of the dictatorship. The freedom of the press in this country is very crucial. For without a free press, we cannot have democratic ideas that have been expounded to be really put across the country to the citizens of the country,” Darboe said.