By: Landing Colley
Leading human rights lawyer Assan Martin, has said that partisan politics has dominates the National Assembly of The Gambia. Saying that parliamentarians are not doing enough to reflect the concern of the citizen.
Lawyer Martin disclosed that in an interview with The Voice that majority of the country’s lawmakers are not putting the nation’s interest first in their work as people’s representatives. He noted that majority of the parliamentarians are not active at the parliament when it comes to addressing of constituencies issue.
“Well some of them you question how educated they are, do they know the law? Do they know what the role of Lawmaker is? Some of them are there without making any contribution to what’s going on in the parliament,” he said.
He added that “Gambians now have their consent and when it comes to voting tomorrow they should know who should represent them and their views. The parliamentarian role is representing the view of your constituency and also holding the government to accountability by making your role real,” he said.
He went further that “we have seen lot of debates in the national assembly which the public expectation is for their representatives to speak for their peoples but at the end of the day nothing come from majority of them to support that few that speaks out.”
He opened up saying that majority of Gambians are with the views that some numbers of the lawmakers are not up to standard while few are trying to provide service for the Gambian peoples.