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Momodou
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 Posted - 02 Dec 2006 : 21:44:12
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The following AllGambian.net editorial by Sarjo Bayang is culled from allAfrica.com.
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Where There Are No Standards And Procedures Systems Failure is Inevitable
AllGambian.net (Onalaska)
EDITORIAL
December 1, 2006
By Sarjo Bayang, Editor-in-Chief
In the absence of systematic dispensation of processes, failure in the final results is inevitable. This is true about personal chores of daily life. It is also true about larger and smaller establishments like governments and even small sole trading enterprises. What we see happening in Gambia today is the result of failing standards and lack of preferred procedures in how government delivers to the citizenry.
Gambians have been warned long enough about the failure on the part of our leaders in keeping to standards and procedures. Every citizen needs making it a concern to know how different arms of the government operate and if they do so within prescribed standards and procedures as enshrined in the nation's big book of rules.
We find ourselves in a situation where our leaders have refused to utilise the instruments for the orderly maintenance of standards and procedures. That is why it gets more and more difficult to trace and track where public resources are being misdirected. It is after public funds and materials are already diverted that leaks to their source become public knowledge. By such time, all the money and material would have been converted to private use beyond easy recovery. Private houses would have been built, fleet of private cars in the traffic, travels, gifts and other personal desires met. Even after recovery of ill-gotten monies, the total loss of time is nothing the public is able to recover at very costly effects to higher priorities.
All these are happening at a time when Gambia is no short of experts in the highest skill brackets. One reason why our competent men and women are not able to salvage the nation is because there are no standards and procedures. There may be many reasons than that. They are denied the enabling environment within which to utilise the full scale of their expertise. Sycophancy is yet a greater contributor. Senior public office holders are not sincere enough to decline positions they fully know falls outside of their immediate competence and scope of experience. They derive the guts from a feeling that where a person of very low scale of ability is president then anyone can be anything even if for what they are not fit. They hold the confidence that their job will not demand an input of competence since the president is there to dictate what to do. By the same belief some of those serving in certain public positions do know by themselves that they are in the wrong place. That by itself is a conscious design by our president to allow himself twist and turn the rules with nobody questioning whatever he chooses doing. Instead, responsible high position holders prefer to weave into the flow of operations misconducts of the president and his top government players without regards to policies and procedures in the systematic dispensation of their obligations.
It takes us no better a nation when the citizenry remain docile and passively reactive to happenings carried out by the thick hands of mean men and women entrusted with operations of the state machinery. Unfortunately, this is how many in Gambia relate to things in a country we all belong. Within regular intervals, one scandal is overshadowed by the next bigger scandal as public office holders and custodians of our instruments of governance take unfair advantage of position and possession in their successive turn of crimes against the rest of society.
This is not the occasion of finger pointing. It is time we all realise that those who take deep bites into the national cake beyond what is due, the same people are driving the economy and our entire system towards a regrettable doom. In the process they encroach not only on our rights but feed on our individual shares of the national cake. Gambia needs advancing from entertaining and being entertained with regular gossips spinning from rumours and speculations.
We the people can change this by refusing to accept half standards. It is for us to demand from those entrusted with public office, to respect and maintain standards and procedures for upkeep of best practice. Until at such time we are able to track our public office holders making them responsible and accountable to us as members of the public from whose funds we place food on their tables, the Gambia and Gambians will never know what it means being a true, genuine and progressive democracy. Rules and regulations are meant to be observed by adherence to standards and procedures. This now is what lacks and for such reason it is harder to bring our culprits to book.
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Santanfara
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Posted - 03 Dec 2006 : 22:13:35
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| this is the same message a colleague of mine said a while a go.he said we have enough qualify people to take gambia forward.i believe we do. |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
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