The
cash-trap Gambia government is soliciting the support of donors and other
development partners to implement its four-year National Development Plan, 2018
– 2021.
In
its drive to raise the necessary funds for the plan, the government held a
donor meeting with development partners at a hotel in Kololi, on Tuesday.
Speaking
on the occasion, the Minister of Women’s Affairs who also oversees the Office
of the Vice President, Fatoumatta Jallow-Tambajang, said with the National
Development Plan, the government seeks to create a reform agenda to move The
Gambia from its 22 years of economic, social and political decadence.
“People
have suffered,” she emphasised referring to the challenges of people during the
regime of former President Yahya Jammeh.
“Unemployment rate is 63 per cent today.”
The
acting vice president said in order to transform The Gambia into a vibrant and
debt-free market, private investors must also have to continue play their
character.
She
said the government’s reform agenda constitutes constitutional, legal, economic
and social reforms.
Madam
Jallow-Tambajang said the four-year development plan has strategic direction to
move The Gambia to higher heights.
She
said that through the development plan, the government wants to reposition the
country by ensuring that opportunities are available from Banjul to the most
remote area of Fatoto.
