By Binta Jaiteh
Honorable Halifa Sallah, National Assembly member for Serrekunda, has enjoined the whole nation to work together in other to end abject poverty.
“Honourable speaker this country is still begging for a way forward and if we are sincere, we will not fool ourselves. Fool of self-brain is not the way forward. Hardship is here, suffering is here. To placate it with this mighty building or an arch or a bridge and say well we’ve done well. Yes, it’s an assessment we’ve done well, to build more bridges and roads is development, but unless we free people from being born in poverty, living in poverty and dying in poverty. We have not done the type of well that our people deserve,” he said.
“It was my objective to be here so that we will be building a self-reliant, a self-determine economic for our people. So that whoever that come tomorrow to lead will have a foundation to rely on for self-reliant and self-determined development. We are still on that path. Honourable speaker the future is still ahead of us – we must head towards it, we either do so rapidly or we will be left behind but we must either be self-determined people or with fits of claim, and if we do fits of claim the world will move and we will be left over,” he expressed his view.
“I am glad that members here are ready to rethink so that we can re-event our relationship as a people. The executive and legislature in other to serve our people better. We must start somewhere; we do not expect affection.
“We all have our competences and we must believe in one another. We must want Gambians to be the best and appreciate the best in people that’s what collectively will build a better Gambia. Each with competence doing his or her best and we all of recognise it. Appreciating it and helping others to move forward. That was the objective of One Gambia, One Nation and One People, but we have not achieved that, but we have achieved this,” he disclosed.
