By: MariamaNjie
Muslims in The Gambia have appealed to government to reconsider its stance over the closure of mosques across the country.
Yusuf Kolley, who spoke to The Voice, said: “if the idea of social distancing is really implemented in The Gambia, then I believe it is with bias because the market is still opening and crowded with less observance of social distancing, people are intermixing with one and another daily.”
He categorised the market as one of the hotspot for the transmission or spread of COVID-19 virus.
“So, stopping people from going to the mosques is totally illogical when other public gatherings like market places, transportation are left open for people to congregate,” he argued.
“Masjids are only open at specific times and for a short period, if at all we are to be fair, then masjids should be one of the last public gatherings to be considered close,” he said.
Mr Kolley urged government to take a keen look into the matter and allow people to go to the mosques to worship Allah.
Momodou Jeng and Sadibou Ceesay also said social distancing has not been observed by many in this country, saying “if the government ban public gathering which includes closure of masjids, let the government have a second look at this and allow worshippers to go worship.
This is because it doesn’t make sense when important places like mosques are close whiles social distance is not observe by many stated by the government.”
