{"id":87399,"date":"2025-10-06T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/banka-manneh-discusses-diaspora-gambians-exclusion"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:48:34","slug":"banka-manneh-discusses-diaspora-gambians-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banka-manneh-discusses-diaspora-gambians-exclusion","title":{"rendered":"Banka Manneh Discusses Diaspora Gambians&#8217; Exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Banka Manneh, a prominent diaspora representative, has expressed concern that Gambians living abroad feel excluded from contributing to the country\u2019s development, despite their expertise, resources, and desire to participate.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the diaspora inclusion is not there,\u201d Manneh said. \u201cThey have been totally shut out of having a say in how their country is run and of coming in, contributing, and participating in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that members of the Gambian diaspora are not only denied the right to vote but also face constitutional restrictions that prevent dual citizens from holding ministerial positions.<\/p>\n<p>According to Manneh, access to key government and public service positions is often influenced by political loyalty rather than merit. \u201cThere is a \u2018pay-to-play\u2019 system where you literally must appear as a supporter or loyal fan of the ruling party,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that many Gambians in the diaspora, particularly those in the United States, are professionals working in corporate environments and are not accustomed to the culture of political patronage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so the diaspora, unfortunately, most of them are not groomed in that kind of culture. Most Gambians in America are working in corporate America, and so they do not have the time to go to the Gambia and play the loyalty card and the political game to be able to secure a position,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these challenges, Manneh underscored the critical role the diaspora continues to play in national development through remittances and other contributions that sustain the Gambian economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe diaspora must be engaged, and they must be allowed to vote. They must be allowed to participate in our economic process, in our political process, in our social development process, in our security sector reforms, and in all these other reforms that we have in civil service reform, all the reforms we have going on without really forcing them to kind of choose one side or the other, because that\u2019s where the major problem lies,\u201d Manneh emphasized.<\/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. Banka Manneh, a prominent diaspora representative, has expressed concern that Gambians living abroad feel excluded from contributing to the country\u2019s development, despite their expertise, resources, and desire to participate. \u201cSo the diaspora inclusion is not there,\u201d Manneh said. \u201cThey have been totally shut out of having a say in how their country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":87398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-87399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","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>Banka Manneh Discusses Diaspora Gambians&#039; Exclusion - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Banka Manneh, a prominent diaspora representative, has expressed concern that Gambians living abroad feel excluded fr ...\" \/>\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\/banka-manneh-discusses-diaspora-gambians-exclusion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banka Manneh Discusses Diaspora Gambians&#039; 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