A radio station esteemed to be disparaging of the Jammeh organization has been closed around the Gambian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on Sunday.
An individual from staff of exclusive Taranga FM affirmed to AFP news organization that they were requested that stop transmission on Sunday by NIA authorities. A security official likewise affirmed the request of conclusion.
"Four NIA specialists and a formally dressed policeman went to the radio this evening (Sunday) around 2:30 pm (neighborhood and GMT) and instructed us to quit broadcasting," the Teranga FM staff told AFP on state of obscurity.
"They let us know that they had been told by NIA Director General Yankuba Badjie to instruct us to quit transmitting with quick impact," the source included.
A security source on her part said, "We just requesting that they quit broadcasting, they participated with us" and did it "toward the evening," she said, declining any further remarks.
The powers however have yet to give reasons why they requested the conclusion of Taranga FM. Nearby media sources say the station is likewise observed as the official mouth bit of the president-elect, Adama Barrow's camp. Neighborhood media sources are additionally reporting that another station, Hill Top FM, has likewise been shut.
Taranga FM is a prevalent radio station in The Gambia due to its every day interpretation into national dialects of the news distributed by the Gambian daily papers.
Since its initiation, it has been shut a few circumstances and has frequently been revived restrictively as in 2011, when it was permitted to resume its exercises yet denied from tending to the subjects raised by the private press. Its writers were likewise some of the time summoned to the NIA, captured or attempted.
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