There are certain conducts not becoming of a child much more a President, especially of a President with myriads of advisers that are paid by the poor taxpayers of this country to make decisions that will reflect or accord with the wishes and aspirations of Gambians – if not the[Read More…]
Opinion
Madi Jobarteh: New President. New National Assembly. What For Gambia?
The sad and annoying fact is that while the country now has a new President and new National Assembly Members, the Gambia is in bad shape! With the failed promise for system change in 2017, five years down the line the Gambia instead turned into a cesspool of public sector[Read More…]
GPU Should Put Its House In Order – UDP Reacts To GPU Over Pa Nderry Touray
The United Democratic Party is amazed by the reaction of The Gambia Press Union (GPU) against the comments made by our party leader, Lawyer ANM Ousainou Darboe, in response to a journalist by the name of Pa Nderry Touray. In his response Lawyer Darboe called out the the said journalist[Read More…]
The New National Assembly – A Prescription For Chaos?
With his five nominees to the National Assembly, President Adama Barrow seems to have clearly demonstrated that he is more concerned with protecting the interest of his party and administration than that of the people of the Gambia. There is virtually no other reason for selecting those that he nominated[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: Objection To The President’s National Assembly Nominations
By all standards, these current nominations betray the reasons and rationale for presidential nominations. The norm that has guided the President in proposing nominations to the National Assembly is to cater for sectors of society that are under-represented to promote inclusion and national unity. For that reason, women, youth, persons[Read More…]
National Assembly Election Postmortem
Gambians have spoken through their ballots by electing those they want to represent them in the National Assembly for the next five years. It had been an election full of anticipations as well as surprises. In view of President Adama Barrow’s landslide victory in the last presidential elections, most members[Read More…]
On The National Assembly Election: An Opportunity To End Barrowflation
Ours is a boat without paddles; call it an aeroplane without direction. A ship heading for the iceberg while President Barrow is getting more and more intoxicated with power. The essence of democracy is the balance of powers: an effective mechanism of checks and balances for overall sanity and effectiveness.[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: The Illegality And Immorality Of Amnesty For Sanna Sabally
The uproar that emerged in the wake of TRRC’s purported recommendation for Sanna Sabally has raised many perspectives which divided the Gambian public into two main camps. One camp completely disagrees with the TRRC on the basis that Sabally killed human beings without putting them through due process. The other[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: IEC Should Respond To The UDP Allegations
It is 72 hours today since the United Democratic Party released the names and pictures of some 256 people said to form part of a larger list of people who were fraudulently registered by the IEC. The party said this is part of the evidence they have indicating that the[Read More…]
D. A. Jawo: Meet the People’s Tour – Another Abuse Of Incumbency?
While there is no denying the fact that President Adama Barrow has the constitutional mandate to undertake his mandatory annual ‘Meet the People’s Tour’, but everyone expects him to do it at the most appropriate time and occasion. We have seen a press release trending on social media announcing President[Read More…]
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