By Mama A. Touray
National Assembly member for Talinding Fatoumatta K Jawara has asked support from a constitutional lawyer’s Janet R. Sallah to help educate parliament on the role of women in the 2021 amendment bill on the nation’s constitution.
Speaking at Sir Dawda Kiraba Jawara International Conference Centre, the lawmaker, said: “There is a select committee on health women children refugee and humanitarian relief and we should be enlightened more about this bill that guaranteed reserve sits for women at the National Assembly.”
She said the committee of human rights should talk to their fellow honourables about the bill, as lawmakers “should have the knowledge about the bill before the bill will be brought to the National Assembly and they will not accept it.”
“I believe that our fellow honourable men that are in our midst today will support this at the Parliament,” she said, while added that “Now women are entering into a war zone. And if a woman cried at Serrrekunda that means a woman cried in Banjul.
She also called for the sensitisation of the media about the role of women in development, saying “women at the Parliament are all capable of doing their role as expected let politicians and Gambians not discriminate women because many of the women that vote are illiterates.”
“Gambian women are crying inside and outside their hearts and the integrity of a woman is not about her clothes that she wears but also her shame is her integrity too,’ she added.
