{"id":90707,"date":"2025-11-22T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:01:26","slug":"almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure","title":{"rendered":"Almameh Gibba Calls 2026 Budget a Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Almameh Gibba, the National Assembly member for Foni Kansala, sharply criticized the government\u2019s proposed 2026 budget on Monday, calling it \u201ca failed budget\u201d that neglects critical sectors including education, health, and agriculture.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the Assembly\u2019s debate on the estimates, Mr. Gibba said the budget offers little support to the country\u2019s productive sectors. \u201cThe said budget that we are to debate, it\u2019s a pity,\u201d he told lawmakers. \u201cWhen you look at the productive sector of our economy, you realize that this is a failed budget, a very failed budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gibba pointed to what he described as a widening funding gap in higher education. He said the Ministry of Higher Education currently owes 208 million dalasis in scholarship arrears to institutions including the University of The Gambia, the Gambia College, the Management Development Institute, and USET, yet has been allocated only about 100 million dalasis for scholarships in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hundred million minus 208 million\u2014that is like paying your debt and still having debt,\u201d he said, warning that the allocation was insufficient even to clear existing arrears. \u201cCome 2026, higher education will have zero budget line for scholarships; your daughter, my daughter, cousins and aunts, brothers and sisters of Gambia will not benefit from a single scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also faulted the budget\u2019s health-sector provisions, saying that critical infrastructure and services remain underfunded. \u201cIt is sad when you go to the health sectoral areas. Ndemban is a dead road; you cannot even determine to be in Ndemban,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to basic and secondary education, Mr. Gibba noted that allocations for food and related services had been marked at zero. \u201cYou will see they have a lot of schools that are not even benefiting, and is that fair?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gibba further argued that defense and other essential sectors were being left without sufficient resources. \u201cToday we can tell you they are only relying on us for us to put something in, and we call this a budget 2026,\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. Almameh Gibba, the National Assembly member for Foni Kansala, sharply criticized the government\u2019s proposed 2026 budget on Monday, calling it \u201ca failed budget\u201d that neglects critical sectors including education, health, and agriculture. Speaking during the Assembly\u2019s debate on the estimates, Mr. Gibba said the budget offers little support to the country\u2019s productive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":90706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-90707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","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>Almameh Gibba Calls 2026 Budget a Failure - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Almameh Gibba, the National Assembly member for Foni Kansala, sharply criticized the government\u2019s proposed 2026 budge ...\" \/>\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\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Almameh Gibba Calls 2026 Budget a Failure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Almameh Gibba, the National Assembly member for Foni Kansala, sharply criticized the government\u2019s proposed 2026 budge ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure\" \/>\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=\"2025-11-22T06:47:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-22T07:01:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1763782091.167792.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\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Almameh Gibba Calls 2026 Budget a Failure\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-22T06:47:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-22T07:01:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure\"},\"wordCount\":348,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1763782091.167792.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/almameh-gibba-calls-2026-budget-a-failure\",\"name\":\"Almameh Gibba Calls 2026 Budget a Failure - 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