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The Gambia is on track to achieve all seven of the seven U.N Millennium Development Goals, President Yaya Jammah has told that country’s National Assembly and he said there was no reason why the country cannot become an ‘economic super power’.
In his address to the National Assembly in late March, President Jammeh said that the Africa Development Bank had claimed in its 2009 report on Africa’s Economic Outlook that only the Gambia was on course to achieve all of the Millennium Development Seven Goals. Morroco came second with 6 out of 7.
According to president Jammeh, every Gambian must know that his government is not about to rest on its laurels. He said they have started this rating and therefore must tighten their belts so that they would not be first now and by 2015 they become last. He said this tightening of belts means more hard work and sacrifice.
On Health and Education, he said his government will continue to provide quality health services, accessible and affordable to the people of the Gambia. He noted that education is the bed rock for building sustainable human capacity and therefore accessibility, affordability and quality education are key elements at all policy level. He stressed on building the requisite technical skills, arguing that the development that his government envisages cannot be sustainable if the economic super power and technology that they want to develop is dependant on foreign nations.
However, the Gambian strongman warned against a tide of lawlessness in the country. 2009, according to Jammeh, was the worst year in the Gambia because it registered lot of crimes such as murders, rapes and armed robberies.
He added that murder, armed robbery, rape and drug dealing will not be tolerated in the country in the name of human rights.
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