{"id":21488,"date":"2022-09-07T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption"},"modified":"2022-09-07T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:05:06","slug":"ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Alagie Manneh<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming, and called on President Barrow to step up and address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Standard yesterday, Ambassador Diab who is a member of the opposition United Democratic Party highlighted a series of high-profile corruption cases that has bedevilled the country in recent times, and argued that nothing has come out of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the government should act now in order to make sure we go in the right direction,\u201d Ms Diab said. \u201cI think the president should step up and lead. I don\u2019t have anything against the president, but the problem is, I wish that the he would listen more to the people. Everyday people are being disgruntled, and complaining, but it seems the president is not saying anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Diab pointed to some \u201ccorrupt dinosaurs\u201d in government who she claimed are taking advantage of a \u201csoft\u201d president. She said people who criticise the Barrow administration and tells it the bitter truth do not always do so because they are in the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing in opposition does not mean that you hate the president or the government or that you don\u2019t want anything to work. The opposition is there to monitor from outside what\u2019s going on in the government and what is wrong for them to try and rectify. But unfortunately, in this country now, anybody who complain or criticises constructively, is a hater or don\u2019t like the president. That is not the thing. We are all concerned\u2026 when see things going on in my country, I am passionate about it, and I want to rectify it, but it seems the people that want to help are being pushed aside because they see them as opposition,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The Gambia | Standard News From The Gambia<\/b><\/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. Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming, and called on President Barrow to step up and address the issue. In an interview with The Standard yesterday, Ambassador Diab who is a member of the opposition United Democratic Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[2355,2361,2916,379,260],"class_list":["post-21488","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-ambassador","tag-corruption","tag-gambia"],"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>Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming ...\" \/>\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\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption\" \/>\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=\"2022-09-07T19:31:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"776\" \/>\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\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-07T19:31:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption\"},\"wordCount\":335,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Ambassador\",\"corruption\",\"Gambia\"],\"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\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption\",\"name\":\"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-07T19:31:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":776,\"caption\":\"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption - Gambia","description":"Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption","og_description":"Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-09-07T19:31:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":776,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption","datePublished":"2022-09-07T19:31:17+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption"},"wordCount":335,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Gambia","Ambassador","corruption","Gambia"],"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\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption","name":"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg","datePublished":"2022-09-07T19:31:17+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Former Gambian diplomat to Malaysia, Ramzia Diab-Ganem has described the state of public graft in The Gambia as alarming ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_11-6318f9563b93b.jpg","width":720,"height":776,"caption":"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ambassador-diab-urges-barrow-to-address-alarming-corruption#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ambassador Diab urges Barrow to address \u2018alarming\u2019 corruption"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}