“Our independence as a nation has no denotation or referent when majority of the citizen’s wallow in abject poverty and starvation as survival becomes an uphill battle for more than half of the country’s population,” Gambia Action Party GAP leader said.
In his nationwide independence message Musa Ousainou Yali Batchilly, GPA leader said the rise in commodity prices at the markets has “no justification and does not depict the true nature of the Gambian standards of living as poverty continue to grip our nation.”
“Our agricultural and socio-economic sectors have been crippled, the educational frontiers are becoming increasingly difficult to align with the international standard, the healthcare sector in deterioration and the dilapidated conditions of the roads still exist,” Batchilly said in his addressed.
He vowed that The Gambia Action Party led government shall ensure better operational measures geared towards this endeavour.
“Self-food sufficiency, well secured nation with effective border control, low crime rates, extirpation of corruption, provision for the youth development mechanisms and the people centric approach shall be implemented under a GAP led administration as development can only be grabbed when our teeming youth engross in various businesses, transforming their talents, skills and expertise to produce goods that we need for survival,” Batchilly told Gambians on Thursday.
He added: Our independence as a nation is meaningless when our government is in dereliction state of affairs to be shield the sovereignty and protecting our birthright is a cause that we cannot afford to swerve. Our mission is to ensure the Gambia compete globally in all fronts.”
The leadership of GAP calls for all the citizens to be law abiding and maintain the good relationships amongst Gambians as the sovereign owners of The Gambia.
“In our quest for development, we must not base our daily practices on tribalism, defamatory comments, regional, religious or sectional connotations as we are all Gambians on an equal grounds.
Our ideological political differences must not create enmity, divisiveness, hatred or harbour anger against one another but a clear manifestation that our strength as a nation rest on ideals, unity, friendliness and component necessary for the nation’s triumph,” he pointed out.
He also said, as COVID-19 engulfs the nation, GPA calls on everyone to be in adherence of W.H.O protocols and Ministry of Health.
“Life will never be the same again as we lost dear ones and more people getting infected by the day, we pray for the departed souls and let life is back to normalcy,” he said.