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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Gambia government has spent more than one billion Dalasi on foreign travel in just three years, according to the NAM for Serekunda West.<\/b><\/p>\n

Madi Ceesay yesterday reached out to clarify that the Barrow government has used up D1.079, 380, 733. 10 in three years as opposed to the D491,777,057.74 figure that we attributed to him in our Monday publication.<\/p>\n

The SK NAM revealed that the Barrow government spent D258,078,482.86 on foreign travel in 2020 alone, adding that the government\u2019s expenditure on travel jumped to D329,535,192.50 in 2021.<\/p>\n

The Barrow administration spent D491, 777,057.74 in 2022, he stated.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. The Gambia government has spent more than one billion Dalasi on foreign travel in just three years, according to the NAM for Serekunda West. Madi Ceesay yesterday reached out to clarify that the Barrow government has used up D1.079, 380, 733. 10 in three years as opposed to the D491,777,057.74 figure that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-41357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"\nGov\u2019t\u2019s Three-Year Cumulative Expenditure\u00a0OnExternal Travel Surpasses D1B-Madi - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gambia government has spent more than one billion Dalasi on foreign travel in just three years, according to the ...\" \/>\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\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov\u2019t\u2019s Three-Year Cumulative Expenditure\u00a0OnExternal Travel Surpasses D1B-Madi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Gambia government has spent more than one billion Dalasi on foreign travel in just three years, according to the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi\" \/>\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=\"2023-08-22T15:23:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/sm_1692702090.289107.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gov\u2019t\u2019s Three-Year Cumulative Expenditure\u00a0OnExternal Travel Surpasses D1B-Madi\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-22T15:23:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi\"},\"wordCount\":115,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/sm_1692702090.289107.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govts-three-year-cumulative-expenditure-onexternal-travel-surpasses-d1b-madi\",\"name\":\"Gov\u2019t\u2019s Three-Year Cumulative Expenditure\u00a0OnExternal Travel Surpasses D1B-Madi - 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