{"id":15346,"date":"2022-05-06T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:51:56","slug":"new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang","title":{"rendered":"New cabinet looks bloated -Kurang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The leader of the Youth for Change, Alagie Mamadi Kurang has said there could be a possible duplication of responsibilities in President Barrow\u2019s new cabinet appointed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Standard yesterday, the former presidential aspirant said the \u2018bloated\u2019 nature of the new cabinet could lead to \u201cadministrative bottlenecks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to see how the creation of new ministries work out. The example is a public service ministry. We need to see how this role is different from the role of the secretary general which is the traditional head of civil service. Unless we see the details of the segregation of duties, the Secretary General\u2019s role may not be the same again, because duplication of duties can become an administrative bottleneck,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said the de-coupling of the information and communications ministry might be a good move. \u201cWe are now in an information age, therefore, we must adjust. But again, it\u2019s a wait and see game to find out how the details work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kurang further indicated that women representation in the new cabinet could have been better. \u201cI wish they could have more women in the cabinet, but then the President knows better why he decided that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Generally, Mr Kurang said the President appeared to have made efforts for a balanced cabinet, \u201cin terms of expertise and diversity, however in a number of cases the cabinet members had little or no previous experiences in those sectors and that can be a problem as they learn on the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, in an executive presidency, a cabinet is only as good as the president. He is the head if the fish, and the head of the fish determines the condition of the fish. In short, the buck stops with him. Therefore, Gambians still hold Adama Barrow responsible for the economy, the standard of living in the country, the management of our resources, national security, and the level of corruption,\u201d Kurang noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The leader of the Youth for Change, Alagie Mamadi Kurang has said there could be a possible duplication of responsibilities in President Barrow\u2019s new cabinet appointed on Wednesday. Speaking to The Standard yesterday, the former presidential aspirant said the \u2018bloated\u2019 nature of the new cabinet could lead to \u201cadministrative bottlenecks\u201d. \u201cWe have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[2355,2361,105,260,6270],"class_list":["post-15346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-cabinet","tag-gambia","tag-kurang"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New cabinet looks bloated -Kurang - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The leader of the Youth for Change, Alagie Mamadi Kurang has said there could be a possible duplication of responsibilit ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New cabinet looks bloated -Kurang\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The leader of the Youth for Change, Alagie Mamadi Kurang has said there could be a possible duplication of responsibilit ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-06T17:25:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-06T17:51:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/img-62755ffdce0d5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"758\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"New cabinet looks bloated -Kurang\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-06T17:25:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-06T17:51:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang\"},\"wordCount\":345,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/img-62755ffdce0d5.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Cabinet\",\"Gambia\",\"Kurang\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-cabinet-looks-bloated-kurang\",\"name\":\"New cabinet looks bloated -Kurang - 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