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Gambia News : Gambian leader concludes countrywide tour with a mass rally in Banjul
The Gambian leader, President Yahya Jammeh, is ending his two week whirlwind countrywide "Dailogue with the People" tour with a mass rally in Banjul on Saturday.
The annual countrywide tour, which is a constitutional requirement, accords the President the opportunity of inspecting development projects and ascertaining for himself the progress being made and to initiate implementation of new projects. As the name implies, it also affords him an opportunity to dialogue with the masses at a number of rallies which punctuate the tour.
This year’s tour as usual started in the North Bank Region across the waters from the capital Banjul and methodically followed a pre-arranged itinerary which quickly took him to the furthermost end of the country, as far as Basse, some 400 kilometres from Banjul.
During the tour, in addition to inaugurating and initiating new prjects, he als visited schools, health facilities and agricultural projects.
Half way up country, the President during the first week of the tour laid the foundation stone to a $5.3million bridge project to link the regional administrative capital of of the Central River Region of Janjanbureh to the south bank.
During the tour, the President laid stress on the need for a change of attitude especially among the men whom he urged to emulate the "harfdworking" womenfolk. According to him, only the women have taken full advantage of development projects in rice cultivation, fisheries and horticulture and the President blamed the men for giving way to more willing non-Gambians to take advantage of self-advancement possibilitiies due to their willing exploitation of these ventures.
He also called on the people in the Upper River Region to change their consertive outlook to Western education by allowing their children, both boys and girls, to attend the many classrooms his government has built in the region.
The Saturday evening rally in Banjul, which drew a large crowd of admirers and supporters, brings to a close the two-week nationwide journey which started on 11 May.
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- Just look at the photo: a mass rally of soldiers.
(Posted on May 28, 2009, 2:16 AM Lamin Jallow)
- he has been touring the country for too long,still he never fullfill he promise,we want chage this man is not the man to take Gambia forward,he has spoil Gambia reputaion around the world,let face the reality,we all see the injustice
(Posted on May 26, 2009, 12:37 AM ye ako)
- the tour is not pointless my dear brother. if the president set only in office in banjul with out going any wher he will never know our problems we the people send him to office to fix our problems so he have to go and meet thise people to help them.
(Posted on May 25, 2009, 3:48 AM me Abubacarr sambou)
- No such word as 'consertive'. I would think the President said 'conservative'. In other words the President was asking the people to follow Western ways of education and not traditional Gambian ways.
(Posted on May 24, 2009, 9:49 PM Mike Ball)
- Think of himk what you want, he's got one point though, in saying that the Gambian women work much harder than Gambian men. Men flee into drugs or to Europe; women provide.
(Posted on May 24, 2009, 2:50 AM Lamin Jallow)
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