By: Nyima Sillah
Jame.F. Mendy CEO of Peace and Humanitarian Assistances Organization on Tuesday rhetorically questioned the decision of the National Assembly members on the laws imposed on skin bleaching.
“Will the skin bleaching laws be applied on visitors that wants to come to the country, because people from other countries might not be facing the same law in their countries,” he said.
Speaking to The Voice, he said: The National Assembly members should target importation and put a ban to it because if those products are not in the country people will not access them.
Adding that they should also organized community sensitization programs because everyone is involved in one way or the other even high-profile women and no one will support the authorities to arrest his or her relative.
“Sometimes the application of the law is a problem. People are given responsibility but they don’t treat people equally they will apply law on others whilst others are above the law. This is a concern. If it is going to be applied, it should be applied impartially no matter of who is found wanting as we live in a country where our people are not bias,” said James.
If the law is not going to be impartially applied, he said, then there is no need to put in that law and another point is the fact that we have things like smoking which is more dangerous than skin bleaching.
“I am not saying skin bleaching is good, but it affects only the person that applies it what about the smokers who smoke as they said that the second-hand smoker’s faces more damages than the one who smoke,” he said
He went on that these are some of the things that are urgent and should be the priority of the state before skin bleaching. “We have other health hazards that are more damaging to the public than skin bleaching which I think government should put first before any other law. I therefore urge authorities to look at issues that are more seriously damaging the health of the population and come up with urgent laws.”
