{"id":20467,"date":"2022-08-16T16:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:12:06","slug":"kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire","title":{"rendered":"Kurang urges 88-year-old IEC chairman Njai to now retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Alagie Manneh<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Alieu Momarr Njai who turned 88 yesterday, has been urged once more to retire and hand over the electoral body.<\/p>\n<p>At such age, some are concerned that Chairman Njai\u2019s faculties may not be intact given the rigors involved in managing a national electoral body like the IEC.<\/p>\n<p>Alagie Kurang, leader of the Youth for Change is one of them. He told The Standard that while Gambians appreciate Mr Njai for the work he did, particularly in the 2016 presidential election in setting a new democracy, it must be noted that no human being is indispensable and if the government retirement age is 65 and Njai has gone 20 years above that, he should just thank God and give chance to a new generation of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA retirement age is for a purpose; it is for people to take a rest when they reach certain age because of the limitations of the job they do and at 20 years above retirement age, that argument becomes even more relevant. So, I don\u2019t think anybody in their reasonable mind will say no to that,\u201d Mr Kurang told The Standard.<\/p>\n<p>He said that if the chairman decides to hand over now, it would be considered a fine approach to preserving his 11-year IEC legacy. \u201cI think it would be a great thing for his legacy for him to step aside. They always say \u2018your best moments are the time to go\u2019. I don\u2019t see what he can do for the country again that he hasn\u2019t done before. It\u2019s the best thing for him, and I believe he will call it a go before the next elections,\u201d he said.<\/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>Alagie Manneh Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Alieu Momarr Njai who turned 88 yesterday, has been urged once more to retire and hand over the electoral body. At such age, some are concerned that Chairman Njai\u2019s faculties may not be intact given the rigors involved in managing a national electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[2355,2361,3016,260,2568],"class_list":["post-20467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-commission","tag-gambia","tag-iec"],"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>Kurang urges 88-year-old IEC chairman Njai to now retire - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Alieu Momarr Njai who turned 88 yesterday, has been urged once mor ...\" \/>\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\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kurang urges 88-year-old IEC chairman Njai to now retire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Alieu Momarr Njai who turned 88 yesterday, has been urged once mor ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire\" \/>\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=\"2022-08-16T16:37:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-16T18:12:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_12-62fbddcd0dbcc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"440\" \/>\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\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kurang urges 88-year-old IEC chairman Njai to now retire\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-16T16:37:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-16T18:12:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire\"},\"wordCount\":304,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_12-62fbddcd0dbcc.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Commission\",\"Gambia\",\"IEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/kurang-urges-88-year-old-iec-chairman-njai-to-now-retire\",\"name\":\"Kurang urges 88-year-old IEC chairman Njai to now retire - 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