Coalition Chairman Talks Tough




The Independent (Banjul)

August 31, 2001
Posted to the web August 31, 2001

Shiekh Al-Kinky Sanyang
Banjul, the Gambia

The chairman of the coalition of opposition parties, Assan Musa Camara has
charged angrily at the ruling APRC for asserting that thirty years of PPP
rule brought nothing to The Gambia and her people.

He dismissed as untrue claims that old guard politicians in the first
republic did not effect any development after thirty years in office.




Speaking at a rally organized by the coalition of opposition parties, Camara
invited the APRC leadership to a debate over the socio-political and
economic situation of the country in the past seven years to what obtained
under the first republic. This he said is to put the records straight, since
"at independence in 1965 there was absolutely nothing, no resources, no
development budget and the recurrent budget was being subsidized by the
colonial government."

"Never in the history of the country has democracy been openly murdered" he
said, referring to what he called 'the adulteration of the political system
with a militaristic element'.

Mr. Camara, a former vice-president posited that the replacement of an
elected government by a military government and subsequently by a so-called
civilian military government has led to a serious setback in the economy.

He said most of the people who said the PPP regime did nothing attended
primary and high schools that were established by that regime. He emphasized
that salaries have almost remained the same in the past seven years while
the inflationary rate has become astronomical.




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