President
Barrow has inaugurated a six-member panel to look into matters at the Social
Security and Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC). It is headed by Mr. Momodou
Samateh, the current Chairperson of the Public Service Commission (PSC), who
has extensive national and international experience in public administration.
The
panel has a period of one month to present a comprehensive report to the
President. The findings will also inform the government’s policy on crisis
management in public enterprises and parastatals in the country.
In
his inaugural remark, President Barrow said: “In our new democracy, we have to
identify people who have the capacity, professional ethics and honesty to take
responsibility. It is in this context that members have been chosen to
constitute this panel.”
The
Chairman of the Panel, Mr. Momodu Samateh, appreciated the honour bestowed on
the panelists with admiration of their experience and knowledge in the
execution of the task that lies ahead.
He went to say the team is expected to do a good job that could be used
on the management of other public-private enterprises in the country.
Mr.
Samateh committed that they would dedicate time to the assignment, and would be
fair in the execution of task so that the nation can move forward. “It is a
part of nation building. We are not doing this job for the president. We are
doing it for ourselves, for posterity and for all Gambians,” he added.
Other
members of the Panel are equally experts and respectable members of society:
former Minister of Higher Education, Mr. Crispin Grey-Johnson, Hon. Alieu Ngum,
Mrs. Nelly Taylor and Alhaji Tamu Njie and Nyallo Barrow.