By: Fabakary B. Ceesay
Since the advent of the diplomatic passport saga in which fingers were pointed to top government officials, business persons, private sectors and non Gambians, the government has always maintained that they have only issued 1, 175 Diplomatic passports between 5 January 2017 to 22 August 2019.
The State claimed that in 2017, 582 Passports were issued, in 2018, 449 and in 2019 174 Diplomatic passports were issued.
The list intercepted by Trumpet Newspaper from the Diplomatic Bio-metric Passport Enrollment Centre, Monthly Production Report of 2017, printed by Zetes Gambia Ltd.