Barack Obama actually said...

We call specifically on The Gambia's security services to uphold their sacred duty to protect all Gambians and reject any instruction to suppress peaceful expressions of dissent.

Context

Press Release - Statement by NSC Spokesperson Ned Price on the Situation in The Gambia

12/09/2016

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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