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 Posted - 09 Jan 2007 : 12:38:52
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NOMINATION IN KANIFING ADMINASTRATIVE AREA
By Bubacarr K. Sowe & Amie Sanneh
Halifa Sallah, the Minority Leader, was nominated on Friday by NADD to contest the Serrekunda Central Constituency seat. Speaking to reporters shortly after his nomination, Mr. Sallah said he had not been serving The Gambian people alone, but Africa in general, as a member of the Pan African Parliament. He said that he had been an asset for the African continent by contributing on every issue raised at both parliaments, writing reports and visiting places of conflict such as Darfur and Chad.
Sallah said he had been sacrificing for the past twenty years, during which he has not benefited anything personally. Instead, he had used his meager resources on the welfare of his community. He claimed that parliamentarians need to be academically mature, giving reference to the Telecommunication Bill brought to the Assembly with errors. He said that without the criticisms he and Sidia Jatta made which led to its withdrawal; it would have been passed as a faulty law.
On the role of the state media during elections, he recalled the Malicious Broadcast the GRTS made about his party and him, which he said has nullified his trust in the whole electoral process. Sallah concluded by saying that as an academician, if not voted in again, he would continue with his academic life, noting that his service for the people is not only at the National Assembly.
Pa Sainey Jallow, an Independent Candidate, was the next to be nominated at the IEC Regional Office at Kanifing to contest the Serrekunda East Constituency seat. Mr. Jallow told journalists that he would not condition people to vote for him. "This seat belongs to Serrekunda East, and it is the people who will do what they want," Jallow said.
Jallow said it is his manifesto which he will use to convince people, but not impossible promises.
"During the rainy season you can see how people are suffering there. People need good drinking water, there are less taps. The population is so dense, water is a problem. This will be one of my priorities," he said.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 003/2007, 8-9 January, 2007
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