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 Posted - 20 Jan 2007 : 17:16:12
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Halifa Exposes D500M Unauthorised Expenditure
By Modou Nyang
About D500 million (Five hundred million Dalasi) of unauthorised payments have been made by the APRC government, revealed Halifa Sallah.
Making the claim before a huge crowd of supporters at a political rally in Bundung, Halifa indicated that he uncovered the allocation for payments of millions of unauthorized government expenditure during the recently ended budget session at the National Assembly. He said that when he asked the Secretary of State for Finance, Musa Gibril Bala Gaye, for explanation, the SoS for Finance said such type of payments are too many, revealing that the total sum involved is about D500 million. “The amount involved is about D500 million and every year we allocate some amount for payment,” said SoS Gaye, revealed Halifa. He added that the SOS further told the Assembly that the sums have been incurred through the purchase of various materials such as vehicles by different people and that the recipients of the Gambian millions have not been specified in the budget estimates.
Touching on the functions of a National Assembly Member contrary to what his opponents are campaigning against him, the NADD candidate for the Serekunda Central Constituency seat said that it is because of the diligence in the performance of his duties as a NAM that he was able to dig into such unauthorisations. “They say Halifa Sallah only scrutinises but brings in no development” he remarked. If you cannot scrutinize don’t go to the Assembly, because you have to scrutinise or else remain mute as some have been doing in the house for the past ten years” Halifa added.
On the reason why they are struggling to avoid him coming back to the Assembly, he said, is to enable the cover-ups of such type of scams. “If ministers campaign for a candidate, do you think such a person will dare to ask that minister such type of questions?” Halifa asked the gathering. He explained that the functions of a NAM are to check on the executive, give approval when they are right and censor them when they go wrong; that it is left to people to decide who is to represent them; that for him representation is not a career.”If you decide that I should rest, I will gladly go into something else” he stated. Concluding, Halifa warned: “If you allow The Gambia to be a one party state, the country will be isolated.”
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No.008/2007, 19-21 January, 2007
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