Claim: President Adama has announced plans to sell The Gambia
Source: Social Media
Verdict: Misleading
Researched by Samuel Nii Adjetey
Multiple social media users on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and X started sharing a 5-second video on May 14, 2025, with claims that Gambian President Adama Barrow has announced plans to “sell The Gambia”.
In the viral video, the president is heard saying: “So that we can sell Gambia. Selling Gambia is not very, very difficult.”
One of these posts, shared by a Facebook user with the caption, “So he wants to sell Gambia? Tomorrow in’sallah I will look for the buyers in Senegal. Good night from my end,” gathered 12k views, 104 reactions, and 22 comments.
On X, a user shared the video with the caption: “Selling Gambia is not very very difficult kaii. 18 by 20.” The post also got 3,281 views, 30 likes, 6 reshares, and 3 comments.
This fact-check seeks to verify the authenticity of the video.
Fact-check
To authenticate the claim, FactSpace Gambia found a longer version of the viral video featured in a news broadcast by QTV, a Gambia-based Television station, on May 15, 2025, a day after the 5-second version started circulating online.
In the broadcast posted on QTV’s Facebook page, the President is reported to have visited the 18th Edition of the Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (GCCI) International Trade Fair, which took place in Bijilo.
Fig.3-A screengrab of the post by QTV Gambia
During a media engagement, President Barrow said, “As a government, we will continue to support the Ministry of Trade. We will continue to support the trade fair so that we can sell Gambia. Gambia is a very peaceful country. Very democratic country, for that matter.
“Selling Gambia is not very, very difficult, but we have to showcase what Gambians can do and what we have been doing and how we are progressing, and we are seeing that happening. So I think the sky is the limit. We will encourage the Chamber of Commerce and to continue doing more.”
FactSpace Gambia noticed that the 5-second video in circulation is a snippet of the full interview of President Barrow.
Verdict
Therefore, the claim is misleading.
