The Reason Why I Say The Gambia Can Do Better Than It Is:
I’m taking this opportunity once again to reiterate my unshaken believe that there is that sense of urgency for change in The Gambia. Fellow citizens of The Gambia, now is the time to take our civic duties seriously and responsibly bring change we desperately need to the leadership of our country.
Last weekend I wrote about some economic policies that make the Jammeh administration look good in the eyes of the electorate but in actual sense, they are fiscally irresponsible. Building white elephant infrastructures is a waste of tax payer money, which could have been used to strengthen the value the Dalasi and invest in agriculture and industrialization.
There is no reason why The Gambia is still not food self sufficient. We don’t have to educate all The Gambian population in order to be food self sufficient. In a country where more than half the population don’t want to send there kids to school even if they have a school built at there back yard, why in the world should we spent so heavily on building expensive empty school buildings for the shake of building. Yet children and pregnant women of such communities whether in school or not are staffing because of low agricultural productivity and unaffordable food prices as a result of inflation that is caused by uncontrolled government spending. Can you imagine that The Gambia has the finest water way in West Africa? River Gambia alone with the required political will and sound economic policy can feed not only the entire Gambian population with fish and rice year round but also make us a formidable rice exporter. Commercial fishing industry in the Atlantic Ocean can bring a lasting economic boom in The Gambia if we put the right kind of investment in it. Moreover, with the scale of ground nut production in The Gambia, it makes no economic sense to import cooking oil into The Gambia. The $10,850,000.00 loan from Kuwait could have been to build new oil mills. Producing sufficient locally consumed cooking oil and possibly exports it—with the necessary tariff laws in place—will help us to preserve our foreign currency that we desperately need for building quality infrastructure in the future.
Finally, everybody in the Gambia from the president downward should use soap manufactured by Sankung Sillah & Sons. By that I mean, the National Assembly should play a pivotal role in structuring The Gambian economy. Laws should be passed to help investors in the area of manufacturing to grow and expand their businesses. The National Assembly can do that by passing laws that will make it difficult if not impossible to import goods that are locally produced in abundant such as soap and mattress. The more those kinds of businesses grow and expand the more they hire workers of any kind who will consequently pay taxes. This is the way government can create an enabling environment for businesses to strive, collect tax revenues from their employees, reduce unemployment rate and eventually alleviate poverty. BUT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD CREATE LAWS THAT DISCRIMINATE FOREIGNERS IN WORK PLACES.

Well i refer you to observer's edition of today topic ( ONE PEOPLE).Digest what a sierra leonean have wrtten about jammeh. therefore am sure many Gambians will share my view that we dont have the need to change a government that is moving magnificently, so if your agenda is hatret.then deal with your sickness. we are tired of your repeated suggestions Bubacarr

Bubacarr,

There you go again, babbling, babbling and babbling again. Why can't you go and help implement all your "castle and the air" suggestions rather than sitting in the US behind a keyboard and babble nonsense? I realise that, commentiong on your childish articles are just a waste of precious time. So, consider this my last comment to you.

Anonymous, I don't need any foreigner to tell me the condition of my country. I know my country more than any other foreigner. I know where we came from, where we are , and where we heading. To be doing better than a war turn country like Sierra Leone does make The Gambia a good country economically.
hower, i still respect your opinoin and I appreciate your comment. I look forward for further dialogue about the situation of our country that we both love dearly. Thanks

I want to point out to the typographical mistake I made in my article.
I don't mean that the Nation Assembly should make laws that discriminate foreigners. instead I meant the opposite. I was saying that "the National Assembly should NOT make laws that discriminate foreigners in the work place" I apologize for that mistake!

Buba is just an other empty barrel making lots of unwarranted noise. Let him rattle. He will soon shut up when he is empty of rhetorics.