The food aid, he added, is designed to ameliorate the living condition of average Gambians amid Covid-19 pandemic.
Sulayman Saho in a recent interview with this reporter, stressed the need for citizens to be vigilant and to participate in the distribution process of the food package, saying the money that government spent on the food package is from the national budget.
“Chiefs, Alkalolu and Village Development Committees must serve the needs of their communities at this trying moment rather than their individual interests because those days are gone when traditional rulers will be used against their own people,” he said.
The Central Badibou Lawmaker thus called on VDCs and Ward Councilors to be keenly monitoring the food stores and distribution centres. The distribution process, he reaffirmed should not be politicize because President Barrow Youth Movement or National People’s Party (NPP) are not mandated neither by the legislature nor the executive to spearhead the distribution process.
Gambia Teachers Union Young Teachers Platform (GTUYTP) said it is concerned over the Government’s decision to resume classes for grade 9 students across the country, starting yesterday Wednesday.
Coordinator at The Swallow Centre for Emancipating Education in Manjai Kunda has spoke of her institution’s resolve to win this year’s TAKE-M Transformation Organisation’s national lower basic school spelling bee contest.
Ghanaian Community in The Gambia Tuesday donated sanitary items to the Department of Social Welfare as part of their contribution in the fights against coronavirus pandemic.
The leader of The Gambia Action Party (GAP), Musa Batchilly has called on politicians in the country to put aside all their differences andput the interest of the nation first.
