{"id":85407,"date":"2025-09-04T17:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:16:19","slug":"udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate","title":{"rendered":"UDP Youth President: Corruption Forcing Young Gambians to Migrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Youth President of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Haji Suwaneh, has accused the government of corruption and mismanagement, which he says are pushing thousands of young Gambians to seek opportunities abroad.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with West Coast Radio, Suwaneh said the lack of accountability and political will has left many young people disillusioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom May 2025 to June 2025, in the space of one month, almost more than 2,000 young people left this country in search of a greener pasture; this was by IOM,\u201d Suwaneh said. \u201cIf those 2,000 young people can live, risk their lives in the deserts or in the waters, do you think our country\u2014we are at peace, we are not at peace\u2014what is stopping us from having that pasture here? It is corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the government\u2019s handling of major corruption scandals, citing the $20 million fertilizer procurement issue in 2021, which he claimed remains unresolved. \u201cThat 20 million failed scandal in 2021, that huge failed shortage still went unaccounted for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Suwaneh also condemned the government\u2019s response to the acute kidney injury crisis, which led to the deaths of more than 70 children. He accused authorities of attempting to offer compensation to victims\u2019 families instead of pursuing accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 70 children case about that acute kidney injury issue, the government was trying to bribe the parents instead of trying to find mechanisms of accountability; they tried to bribe the parents, they call it compensation, I call it bribery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Suwaneh emphasized that a UDP government would implement a zero-tolerance policy on corruption and ensure strict accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUDP government would stand for accountability to ensure that Gambian people\u2019s bututs wherever they went, would be accounted for; that is what we call accountability,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The Youth President of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Haji Suwaneh, has accused the government of corruption and mismanagement, which he says are pushing thousands of young Gambians to seek opportunities abroad. Speaking in an interview with West Coast Radio, Suwaneh said the lack of accountability and political will has left many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":85406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-85407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>UDP Youth President: Corruption Forcing Young Gambians to Migrate - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Youth President of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Haji Suwaneh, has accused the government of corruption and ...\" \/>\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\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UDP Youth President: Corruption Forcing Young Gambians to Migrate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Youth President of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Haji Suwaneh, has accused the government of corruption and ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate\" \/>\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=\"2025-09-04T17:26:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T18:16:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/09\/sm_1756997139.206975.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1110\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"740\" \/>\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\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"UDP Youth President: Corruption Forcing Young Gambians to Migrate\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-04T17:26:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-04T18:16:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate\"},\"wordCount\":308,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/09\/sm_1756997139.206975.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/udp-youth-president-corruption-forcing-young-gambians-to-migrate\",\"name\":\"UDP Youth President: Corruption Forcing Young Gambians to Migrate - 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