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Gambia News : President Jammeh assists Gambian flood victims
President Yahya Jammeh on Tuesday donated 1,750 bags of rice to Gambian
flood victims in Banjul, the Kanifing Municipality and Western Region,
official sources told PANA here.
At the presentation ceremony of the gifts, held at the State House
grounds in Banjul, Tuesday, victims in the Kanifing Municipality
received 1,000 bags of rice, those in the Banjul City Council received
211 bags and 539 bags went to victims in the Western Region.
Presenting
the gifts, President Jammeh thanked those Gambians who rendered
assistance to the victims immediately the incident happened.
Jammeh
said he decided to donate bags of rice instead of the monetary
assistance he had promised because the money could be embezzled.
He
urged the local government authorities to distribute the rice in a
transparent and fair manner, saying that corruption would not be
tolerated and that the distribution should not be politicised because
"the gift is entirely for the victims and no body else."
Receiving
the gifts, Lamin Sanneh, governor of Western Region, expressed
appreciation to the president for his intervention, noting that the
gesture was highly welcomed.
He promised that the rice would be distributed fairly among the flood victims.
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- Taiwanese will say ahhh! Gambia is rich to donate us money wow! Gambians r saying we help a rich nation with D.20,000,000 and help the Gambian flood victims with only D.1000 000. I`m sayng if u r poor + more problems to solve show simparty+condolence
(Posted on October 1, 2009, 7:38 PM k.swamy)
- CORRUPTION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! who said that?...
(Posted on September 20, 2009, 9:18 AM David Riddington)
- if some bad people think this ,s freedom of speech there whare stupid they dont want to see gambia devolope.if taiwan give money to gambians u say nothing why if we give u have to say bad thing aginst jamme.bro look how bad u are.that is not how we a
(Posted on September 19, 2009, 3:09 PM sambou abubacarr)
- what is a bag of rice compare to almost half a million dollars donated to a wealthy nation? the the kind of money he is donating outside of The Gambia, these Gambians are more deserving of that kind of money than a bag of rice. shame on you Jammeh!!
(Posted on September 18, 2009, 3:06 PM fatou faal)
- Sharp observation, Freedom of speech!
(Posted on September 17, 2009, 3:55 AM Lamin Jallow)
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