By Landing Colley
The Gambia College officials are issued with an ultimatum warning to provide activity reports from2014, 2017 and 2018 and appear before national assembly committee on education before the end of December.
Alhagi Mbow vice chair of the select committee said: “We are here today to have a presentation from the Gambia College from 2014 to 2019 dictated by the constitution.”
He added: “I want to remind that section 175 sub-section 5 of the constitution stated that public enterprise shall within three months of the end of its financial year summit annual report to the national assembly on difference and operation during its president year provided that the committee of the national assembly may extend the time.”
“We are here today talking about 2014 report, that clear shown that the laws of the land have not been respected by the Gambia College,” he added.
“we expect to get the entire missing document by the by the end of December from 2014 to the end of 2018.”
“Section 110 of the constitution of the constitution stated that any act or omission which obstruct the national assembly in the performance of its function or which obstruct any member of the national assembly in discharge of his official duty shall be in-content with the national assembly and in addition to any reliability respect thereof under the criminal law the offender shall be liable to do the criminal admission,” he said.
Abubacarr Jallow, Principle of Gambia College said “annual report for 2014 should have been summited, but I don’t know what has happened. The management came in 2015 so maybe that is why probably we didn’t check our report.”
According The annual report for 2017 is not summited because we were thinking that without the complete document it will not be accepted, adding: “however, the document is ready but not yet printed…we want to wait until we are finalizing 2017 before starting 2018.”
Ebrima TAS Dondel chairperson of Gambia college said “with all due respect I think you are asking me to give instruction to my staff to produce something maybe very few of them may have an idea. We were appointed in February 2015 and from January 2000 up to December 2010 the institution was under the University of the Gambia.”
“The most unfortunate position is asking my staff to produce an information that is to available to them, I think that question should be directed to the oversea of the university to come with those account.”
