Issued Tuesday 28 March 2017
The
GLOVE Project on 24 March 2017 donated 31 pairs of shoes to the police, at a
handing-over ceremony held at the conference hall at Police headquarters in
Banjul.
The
gesture is aimed at complementing the government’s development efforts in not
only health, but also education and other socio-economic development areas.
The
donated items were received by the Inspector General of Police, IGP Yankuba
Sonko, in the presence of some senior police commissioners and other ranks of
the police force.
The
IGP expressed profound gratitude to the GLOVE Project and their CEO, Jackie
Church, for being instrumental in supporting The Gambia.
“The
Gambia Police Force has a secret of making best use of the little available
resources, which makes the GPF outstanding,” IGP Sonko stated.
He
assured the team that the donated items will be put into best use, and appealed
to them to continue with such noble initiatives since the government cannot do
it all alone.
According
to IGP Sonko, “the bedrock of the development of every nation is based on its
security, although we have constraints, as it is with most African countries’
police.”
He
assured the team that the donated items will be put to good use, and urged them
to continue with such noble initiatives since the government cannot do it all
alone.
The
CEO of the GLOVE Project, Jackie Church, echoed the words of the IGP, saying
although they focus more on other sectors of development, they have also been
ensuring that some form of support would always go to the security sector for
the past five years, because security is fundamental to development.
The
ceremony was chaired by the commissioner of Police for Policy Implementation,
Lamin Banda.
