Ousman Sowe, the Director General of the State Intelligent Services has described the social media as a challenge to national security and not a treat, saying that analyzing, presenting and receiving is the challenges posts by social media.
“Analysis and presentation of issues on social media is a challenge especially at the receiving end where the matter is not well analyzed and the information is totally misleading”, he told journalists yesterday at the Banjul Ferry Terminal as he embarks on a nationwide tour.
“Today, the part of our reforms is to have the public institution in the name of the SIS that is respected, trusted ,recognized, not scary to the people and commanding the confidence of the people,” he said.
According to him, the tour is now part of the institution mandated for his office to reach out to all units in the regions and the challenges as well as the improvement in the security of the country.
He said their task was to reform the structure, to reshape, reengineering and repositions the intelligence service which he said “worth it name in helping and meeting the national security needs of this country.”
He expressed delight to Gambian people for the trust they have in the State Intelligence Service, saying that this tour will take the team to all part of the country.
Sowe said: “To have such an intelligence service of national character, that everyone can look at and say yes that is State Intelligence Service that is devoid of tribe, nepotism to all those ills that are unhelpful for ensuring national character in the things we do.”
According to him, the State Intelligence Service has taken on stride that by implication the country to another.
The head of the State Intelligence Service said the tour aims to improve the Institution’s state of affairs and make it both government and public institution that would serve the interest of the Gambian people.
