Anti-Corruption
International The Gambia (ACIG) is an accredited chapter in formation for
Anti-Corruption International (ACI), a global movement that seeks to stop
corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels
and across all sectors of society. The status of accredited national chapter in
formation means that Anti-Corruption International The Gambia (ACIG) is now
part of ACI’s network of just under 100 countries and is ACI’s designated
reference point in The Gambia. ACIG is registered under The Gambia Companies
Act.
The
peace loving people of The Gambia are witnesses to lack of respect for ethical
values particularly since the defeat of the incumbent in the December 1, 2016
presidential election. Democratic institutions are deteriorating, hope of
achieving open governance, trust society and trust government is eroding
rapidly. The outgoing President Yahya Jammeh’s acceptance and subsequent
rejection of the December 1, 2016 presidential election results in its entirety
and calling for a new electoral body and new election has disparaged the values
of primacy of law and adherence to orderly and peaceful transfer of power to
incoming President-elect Adama Barrow of the coalition.
Anti-Corruption
International The Gambia (ACIG) strongly deplore the refusal of the outgoing
President Yahya Jammeh to accept the articulated will of the Gambian people and
call on the incumbent to recognize that any attempt to derail the freedom,
equality, justice, peace and dignity of the Gambian people is contravention of
the essential objectives for the achievement of the legitimate aspiration of
the African peoples as enunciated in the Constitutive Act of the African Union.
ACIG therefore, urge the outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to respect public good
and public interest and to hand over power peacefully to President elect Adama
Barrow.
Furthermore,
the organization is seriously concern about the numerous “fortify soldier
camps” at strategic locations in Greater Banjul Region and other parts of the
country. This development is damaging the physical and mental function of
Gambians and non-Gambians to enjoyment of all rights. The fortify soldier camps
are also fertile grounds to grow grand and petty corruption and corrupt practices.
We call on the outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to desist from deploying
“fortify soldier camps” at public space and take immediate and necessary
measure to remove them to “soldier barracks”. ACIG further call on the
incumbent to respect ethics as enshrine in the Gambian Constitution and other
relevant instruments that The Gambia had ratified.
Sign:
Michael Davies
National
President
