GAMBIA POLITICO: BAC STANDS WITH BCC – OP CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT MANAGE MACCARTHY SQUARE!
By Yanks Darboe
With all the challenges facing the responsibilities of the Office of the President, namely: our declining economy, inflation, cost of living crisis, youth unemployment, etc, our Office of the President is not thinking of anything better to mitigate those challenges, than to frolic around the idea of managing a public space, such as MacCarthy Square. What a madness!
Is that what the citizens of this nation voted the president to burden his office with? Is the president aware of his TOR in the constitution of the Gambia?? Because that is not what the Gambian people voted him to be pre-occupying his office with. Instead the Gambian people voted for their local council to be responsible for those functions and not the Office of the President.
I hope their objective is not to mortgage the MacCarthy Square too or use it as a collateral for some shady loans! This madness is really hard to fathom, how can this government claims ownership of everything that they claim to have spend public funds on.
My advise to BCC is to challenge this madness to the courts! BAC stands in solidarity with you on this, as there is no legal backing or justification for this usurpation of council function by OP, except an obvious manifestation of their abuse of their executive powers against your local authority!!
Gambia we have to speak up and stand up against this madness, otherwise we will have nothing to bequeath to our children as a country!
Image credit to Standard Newspaper.
