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Posted - 25 Sep 2020 : 15:09:44
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https://foroyaa.net/halifa-sallah-makes-critical-comment-on-security-sector-reform/
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By Yankuba Jallow on September 24, 2020
Halifa Sallah, the member for Serrekunda on Wednesday, 23rd September said the Gambia is missing the agenda for the security sector reform.
Sallah said it is important to bear in mind that at the level of ECOWAS, the country requested for ECOMIG to stay and they are talking about transforming that force more into protocol that will establish a police responsibility for that force. Sallah added they are seeing that Gambia is so stable that you may not need a military force; they are not having the type of problems they are having elsewhere.
“So it means that we need to redefine all these and see where resources should go. What do we need to have security? What type of internal security are we looking for? What type of Gambia do we have at all levels, political, civil that we are not able to maintain stability in our country not just cosmetic stability by saying do we really need these forces and some will say yes, because we are insulting each other. We are attacking each other. We are threatening each other. So others must govern us – must rule us so that we are able to behave.
“We are failing to build a nation where we respect each other, love each other and have no other interest but to build a nation where all of us will live in liberty and dignity. That is what we are failing to do,” he said.
He said the security sector reform was meant to create new beings in the security forces.
He said for people to know that the State is providing security service not a security force, “we must get rid of the mentality of a force which is an instrument of coercion to an instrument of service – protection.”
He said the President told lawmakers that the third phase of the German support training programme in the security sector reform and the institutional policy drafting process have been halted.
“Policy drafting has been halted. Why should policy drafting process be halted because of COVID-19? How can brains be halted? What does it require to draft a policy? What we should be informed is the face of the policy of the drafting process and not talking about halting of a process,” Sallah said.
Sallah called upon the Honourable Vice-President to explain why all these things are being halted because security sector reform is a key element of the transition process.
The Secretary General of PDOIS said the Gambia is part of ECOWAS.
“We are supposed to have a single currency. What is the state? The President recently attended a meeting which is the 57th Ordinary Session of ECOWAS. What did they agree regarding the currency? That is what this report is supposed to do. We need to know how the country is being run. The policies of the country and the administration of the State is what we need to know. We are not in the Executive. We do not join other head of states. We don’t sign communiqués. We don’t know what is happening there. We are not supposed to take our individual approaches to go and investigate to know what is happening. That is not what parliament should do. Parliament should be informed and we are not being informed.” |
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 01 Oct 2020 : 14:33:23
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https://foroyaa.net/what-more-does-momodou-joof-have-to-say-for-further-clarification-by-opposition-parties/
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
Momodou wrote: “There’s no guarantee. If these people led their political parties since 1986 and others since 1996: for 34 and 24 years and are still leading after several failed attempts to rule and they still think they should still be leading – there’s no guarantee they’d not self-perpetuate in office.
“Didn’t all these parties agree to a three year transition? What guarantee was there they’d respect that?
“How many countries in Africa with limited terms tried to or changed their constitutions to extend rule?
“Busy right now. Let me wait for all political parties to submit their manifestoes to Foroyaa on this topic.’’
Halifa Sallah’s response:
“Thank you for referring the comment to me for further elucidation. Such comments are not trivial as one may think. They may be genuine or an attempt to deflect pressure on an executive to save it from subscribing to term limit.
First and foremost, PDOIS’ position is that we should all advocate for a term limit. Modou Joof should be amenable to this proposition. Secondly, we should all work for internal party democracy. PDOIS is amenable to this and selects candidates for election on the basis of a Primary. In fact, a PDOIS candidate has not stood for President since 2001 elections.
PDOIS did put up Halifa Sallah in 2016 but he bowed to the verdict of the Coalition 2016 Convention.
PDOIS want to assist young people like Momodou Joof to understand the peculiarities of the party. First and foremost, PDOIS refers itself as a Democratic Organisation because of our resolution as young people in our early thirties and forties that a political party is not founded, on the contrary, it is built.
The building of a party may take longer or shorter route depending on the hills it has to climb and the obstacles it has to overcome before it develops the mass base to assume power if it does not want to take any shortcuts through mass uprisings or coup d’états.
A special type of leadership is needed at each given turn before the party attains its fullest maturity attested by the size and quality of its leaders who could replace each other in minutes and seconds without any loss of vitality, efficiency and effectiveness.
My intention is not to change Modou Joof’s opinion. I respect them. My duty is to explain in good faith that the PDOIS leadership has been responding to the demands of times and circumstances for their leadership qualities and resilience otherwise Gambian history would have been written with more pints of blood.
However, growth is both a quantitative and qualitative process. We are now convinced that many younger people are learning all the lessons that would temper their conscience and will to live and die for truth and justice. This is the verdict of 34 years of toil and moil and it is irrevocable. We will now surrender the baton to other parties and engage Momodou at his volition for more clarification.
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