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Momodou
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 Posted - 22 Nov 2006 : 16:04:29
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STRAINING THE GAMBIAN TAX PAYER
By Modou Nyang
Hosting of sessions of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights by the Government of the Gambia is a strain on the Gambian taxpayer, said Dr. Henry D.R Carrol acting Solicitor General at the Department of State for Justice.
Dr. Carrol made this statement at the opening ceremony of the 40th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights ACHPR, while deputising for the Vice President Dr. Aja Isatou Njie Saidy, at the Kairaba beach hotel.
“Our official records clearly confirm that for the last three years the Gambia hosted both ordinary sessions of the commission at the expense of the Gambia Government, this is a strain on the Gambian tax payer” said Dr. Carrol. He also outlined that out of the thirty six ordinary sessions organized by the commission since its inception in 1989 nineteen were hosted and sponsored by the Gambia. I am therefore strongly appealing to the member States of the African Union to cooperate with the Gambia by readily accepting to host ordinary sessions of the African commission he urged.
Citing the decision of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments in handing the hosting rights of the commission’s secretariat to the Gambia in their May 1988 Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Carrol noted that the government of the Gambia has always honoured its contractual obligation to the satisfaction of the other party.
Dr. Carrol added that the ACHPR requested the Gambia Government to sponsor the present session but as a result of economic constrains and the fact that the Gambia sponsored the 39th session in May last year, it was unable to do so.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 102/2006, 20-21 November, 2006
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