{"id":42796,"date":"2023-09-14T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=42796"},"modified":"2023-09-15T07:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:50:46","slug":"jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes","title":{"rendered":"Jaha\u00a0Expresses Regret for Not Filling\u00a0Halifa\u2019s\u00a0Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Top PDOIS official Jaha Dukureh has expressed regret for not contesting HalifaSallah\u2019s seat in the legislature.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As the debate over the repealing of the anti-FGM legislation raged on at the floor of the National Assembly early this week, Madam Dukureh pointed out that the FGM conundrum will persist if the House does not havedetermined people to defend the rights of women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of things that happen in our country are especially related to laws. If you don\u2019t have people there (Parliament), who can stand up and defend the rights of women and girls, we will always have issues like this in society,\u201d she stated in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am mad at myself for not, at least, trying to be a National Assembly Member because right now my voice would have been needed in the National Assembly more than anything else,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, there was this realization from the outset that ending FGM in The Gambia would not necessarily be easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the end of the day, we are also notbacking down. We will continue trying to educate ourselves and educate our people on the dangers and the harmful effects of this practice and we know that someday, we will get there,\u201d Jaha stressed.<\/p>\n<p>She reiterated that: \u201cI am mad at myself for not contesting Halifa\u2019s seat when he retired from Parliament. A lot of us are needed in that National Assembly.\u201d<\/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>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Top PDOIS official Jaha Dukureh has expressed regret for not contesting HalifaSallah\u2019s seat in the legislature. As the debate over the repealing of the anti-FGM legislation raged on at the floor of the National Assembly early this week, Madam Dukureh pointed out that the FGM conundrum will persist if the House does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-42796","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":"<!-- 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>Jaha\u00a0Expresses Regret for Not Filling\u00a0Halifa\u2019s\u00a0Shoes - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Top PDOIS official Jaha Dukureh has expressed regret for not contesting HalifaSallah\u2019s seat in the legislature. ...\" \/>\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\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jaha\u00a0Expresses Regret for Not Filling\u00a0Halifa\u2019s\u00a0Shoes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Top PDOIS official Jaha Dukureh has expressed regret for not contesting HalifaSallah\u2019s seat in the legislature. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes\" \/>\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=\"2023-09-14T15:42:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-15T07:50:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/09\/sm_1694691454.2301.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=\"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\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Jaha\u00a0Expresses Regret for Not Filling\u00a0Halifa\u2019s\u00a0Shoes\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-14T15:42:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-15T07:50:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes\"},\"wordCount\":262,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/09\/sm_1694691454.2301.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\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jaha-expresses-regret-for-not-filling-halifas-shoes\",\"name\":\"Jaha\u00a0Expresses Regret for Not Filling\u00a0Halifa\u2019s\u00a0Shoes - 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