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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>President Adama Barrow has predicted that his successor as president will likely be someone much younger than him.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI have said it before, even though it\u2019s all in the hands of Allah, that I will be older than the next president [of The Gambia],\u201d Barrow said to applause from people who came to attend his meet-the-people tour at Makkah-Farafenni in the North Bank Region.<\/p>\n

He accordingly called for the country\u2019s young people to support and prepare.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the future belongs to the young each and every one must be ready to bring up their children such that tomorrow, they will be able to work for themselves and for their family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said one way of doing this is to advise young ones to abandon social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should focus on their education so that tomorrow they can have a job and self-actualise.\u201d<\/p>\n

He lamented that even the provision of a skills centre somewhere in Kerewan, young people refused to go there to learn useful skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe centre had both carpentry and mechanic departments, but they were forced to close them down because no one went there to learn. I think we met only 10 young people who were learning hairdressing. We are not going to be discouraged though because skills doesn\u2019t disappoint anybody and so we are planning to build big skills centres across the country because we want our children to learn skills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Turning to politics, he said the country is in \u201ctrustful hands\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are clean hands. And they are protecting the country and its resources. Then let us be careful. There are those who don\u2019t want President Barrow. True, all cannot like you, but if they don\u2019t like me, let them at least love their country because loving one\u2019s country is an act of worship. So we may differ, but we must be one to develop our country,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

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