By Mustapha Jarju
Amadou Sanneh, the Former Finance Minister under the incumbent government and a senior member of the UDP famously called Yellow Party has enunciated that the United Democratic Party (UDP) is yet to sit and decide if elected members of their party to the National Assembly to accept the vehicles or not from the National Assembly.
“The UDP may come up with a decision earlier if the budgeting of the vehicles was exposed earlier but everything was running under the table until when they already buy the vehicles, this is already pure water,” Hon Sanneh stressed.
Hon Sanneh who initiated the vehicle policy to minimise the government spending unnecessarily on vehicles said, in his own opinion as a citizen this is not the right time for the MPs to take a vehicle costing millions of Dalasi.
He added that even the countries that give support to The Gambia in terms of funding make policies to ease the transportation of officials but they don’t do such kind of spending.
The former Finance Minister recently spoke on Kerr Fatou TV on a program called ‘Politic Kacha,’ he said: “If they went into their ordinary life as MPs some of them couldn’t afford to buy that kind of vehicles they purchased, and at the end of the day this monies will be paid by the government so it should be a concern to all to consider the future of the Nation.”
He continued that, for the NAMs to agree to take the vehicles it is their opinion, but quickly added that, there are lots of things that need to change but are still halted in the National Assembly which included the draft constitution which is a thing that needs to be done for the citizenry.
Hon Sanneh advised MPs to look into the constitution and also remove all the acts that are entrenching dictatorship in the country which includes the issues of the public order act, the president’s appointment of Alikalos, and the governors.
He continued that, some of the Lawmakers are in the Assembly for 7 to 8 years now but nothing changes in those aspects, they should make efforts for the people to recognise, and bring the power back to the people.
