{"id":3010,"date":"2019-11-12T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/gambia\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2019-11-12T18:41:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:41:01","slug":"mai-frowns-at-wasteful-govt-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mai-frowns-at-wasteful-govt-spending","title":{"rendered":"Mai frowns at \u2018wasteful\u2019 gov\u2019t spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mai Ahmad Fatty, the leader of the Gambia Moral Congress, has criticised what he calls \u201cwasteful\u201d government spending on travels and buying of vehicles.<\/strong>
\nMai was speaking to journalists at the airport from his European tour during which he visited Germany, Spain and France.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this wasteful spending in government, example spending millions on vehicles, fuel and useless travels must be curtailed. I was in government and I know a lot has been done but we must empower the sectors that lead to growth in this country,\u201d he told waiting journalists.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWe must focus on growing the economy. We cannot spend all our time on just TRRC alone and recommendations of the Janneh Commission that have not even been properly implemented. We must focus on developing the human capital of our people. We spend over D600M every month just to pay debt; money that is wasted\u201d.<\/p>\n

Migration
\nFatty said an estimated 18,000 Gambians are seeking asylum in Germany alone.
\n\u201cThey are just sitting there without any future. It is the Gambian future that is being wasted unless we build the future of our people in this country here which is possible, if our politicians put people\u2019s interest first. We cannot continue this recklessness. We cannot keep playing lip-service to this situation when our young people are dying and the Gambian future is being exploited outside of the country through migration,\u201d he said.
\nFatty further explained how he had intervened through engaging the French authorities to have hundreds of Gambians living in the streets given shelter.<\/p>\n

State House meetings
\nFatty said he wouldn\u2019t certainly have followed Barrow\u2019s trend of staging meetings at the State House, saying if he were the president, he would have had them elsewhere.
\n\u201cState House is a house for every Gambian but I think State House is not a meeting place. If I were the president, I would have gone out to meet people to do it there. But what the president is also doing is not unlawful. State House is a place for all Gambians,\u201d Fatty said.<\/p>\n

3 years
\nFatty said his party agrees to the completion of the five-year constitutional mandate for the president.
\nBut he said the GMC would have loved the President to honour his agreement. However, he said it would be unrealistic to conduct election in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, having election in 2019 is not realistic. One, we have the same constitution that Jammeh left with us and this constitution is heavily skewed in favour of the incumbent. Simple majority, you are gone through. And it is now a prevailing trend in the world to have absolute majority. That is why it is essential we reform the laws\u2026 Secondly, we need to change the electoral laws. There are too many distortions in our electoral laws and unless we sanitise our electoral laws, we will have something similar to what we had with Jammeh. So, we are supporting 5 years for these reasons,\u201d he added.
\nHe said: \u201cThe purpose of this trip is to engage diaspora on GMC\u2019s enduring values and to share our message of inclusivity and development to our countrymen around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mai Ahmad Fatty, the leader of the Gambia Moral Congress, has criticised what he calls \u201cwasteful\u201d government spending on travels and buying of vehicles. 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