{"id":24433,"date":"2022-11-25T18:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/touma-njai-voices-against-d36m-budget-allocation-to-speakers-office"},"modified":"2022-11-25T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:32:18","slug":"touma-njai-voices-against-d36m-budget-allocation-to-speakers-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/touma-njai-voices-against-d36m-budget-allocation-to-speakers-office","title":{"rendered":"Touma Njai voices against D36M budget allocation to Speaker\u2019s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>During yesterday\u2019s debate, Hon. Njai argued that D36 million was too much to be budgeted for the Speaker\u2019s Office.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThirty-six (36) million dalasi is extreme to be budgeted for salary increment alone for the Speaker\u2019s Office. We should consider the life and livelihood of our children,\u201d she argued. \u201cWe should be investing in education and health rather than paying and feeding ourselves out of our ordinary people of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see the salary of the Speaker increased from D658,534.00 to D1,560,000 (one million five hundred and sixty) is shameful, and I am ashamed to be called a parliamentarian. We should be reminded that we are here to serve our people and not to feed and enrich ourselves from our electorates\u2019 money,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

The Banjul South lawmaker justified her point of argument, saying that the constitution states: \u2018We should not enrich ourselves in any way\u2019 and increase our salaries. She added \u201cwe are going against the constitution because we are enriching ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

She pointed out that ministers should be competent enough to advise the president on any policy about their ministries. She noted that the president should stop appointing advisers or consider sacking ministers; \u201cand stop wasting resources by paying those two sets who serve the same purpose,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n

She calls on the president to act on the recommendations of the TRRC. \u201cWe suffered for 22 years and the fact that there were no budget allocations for implementing the recommendations in 2022 and also in 2023 is showing that he is not ready to act on it. I call on you to implement these recommendations to prevail justice,\u201d Hon Njai noted.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. During yesterday\u2019s debate, Hon. Njai argued that D36 million was too much to be budgeted for the Speaker\u2019s Office. \u201cThirty-six (36) million dalasi is extreme to be budgeted for salary increment alone for the Speaker\u2019s Office. We should consider the life and livelihood of our children,\u201d she argued. \u201cWe should be investing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-24433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"\nTouma Njai voices against D36M budget allocation to Speaker\u2019s Office - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During yesterday\u2019s debate, Hon. 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