Lutakh Gambia du dem show on security concerns ft David Kujabi PRO Gambia Police force

Lately, there has been a a rapid rise in crimes in The Gambia and a lot of people currently feel unsafe. Just last week, about 3 different organized crimes happened in the greater Banjul area alone. There was a broad day light armed robbery, the house on an Imam in Pipeline was burned down and the house of a top UK based Gambian business man was broken into. As a result, The Lutakh Gambia du dem show yesterday engaged David Kujabi, the Public Relations Officer of The Gambia Police Force on key issues affecting the country especially in the area of Security.

According to the Police P.R.O of The Gambia Police Force, "This thing needs to be looked at holistically. Let us not just sit back and say that there's a lot of crimes happening. Are we asking out the questions as to why are people engaging in crimes? Unless we sit back and answer these questions, saying that the police is not doing much or is not doing their nothing is not going to help anybody at all. "

He further cited the lack of unemployment as a potential cause for the increase in the crime rate in the country.

When questioned about whether there has been an increase in the crime rate in the country since January of 2017 when President Barrow took office till now or has it decreased or at the same level, Kujabi said
"Since I do not have the statistics, for now I can't say authoritatively but then even the lay man would notice that there has been some kind of a rise in crime. How much it has risen, I can't say for certain.
When further challenged as to why he does not have the statistics, Mr. Kujabi said "the question about whether there is a rise in crimes in The Gambia since December 2016 to now, like I said, I have answered either questions, I do have statistics that I can quote right now but from a lay man's point of view, there seems to be a rise in crimes. Isn't that answer enough for you?"

Mr Kujabi closed by saying : " I know that times are hard right now and some people will tend to despair, but if anything at all, this is the time when we should come together. The problems we are facing in The Gambia right now are not desirable. Crimes specially is not something we want in our country and if we want to have them stopped, we should come together and work as Gambia and not put it entirely in the hands of the police which is heavily under resourced." He concluded