--- malik kah <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Events of tremendous significance are gripping the
> nation yet little or
> perhaps no attention is given to it by the ruling
> APRC, it is clear that the
> Gambian people are crying for help, the cost of
> living and accelerated
> poverty cannot be sustained by the people any
> longer, from Banjul to koina
> the predicament is the same. The ordinary people
> cannot afford the costs of
> the increments and scarcities that has become a
> daily routine. The situation
> is  so worst left unattended it can lead to
> seriously social upheavals that
> could easily lead to disintegration. The government
> seemed to run out of
> ideas they no longer show  any capacity or
> initiative to redress this
> harrowing menace. Initially the President did
> attempt to intervene to ensure
> economic stability, but since this was an
> unrealistic economic measure the
> demons did not go away, price rise and continued
> depreciation of the dalasi
> is even gettinfg worse. Many busineemen are either
> hoarding goods creating
> scarcity or they are dievesting into none priced
> control commodities, this
> is accelerating an already baed situation, but then
> the government has to
> take the responsibility because it seems they have
> run out of ideas to
> handle this economic contradiction. The best they
> could do is to expand the
> productive base of the economy hence reduce quite
> substantially the
> importation bill which is partly responsible.
> another measure is to reduce
> quite substantially per-diems an reduce travels as
> well as delegates
> accompanying the president. To lead by example
> Jammeh should freeze his
> allowances till further notice, these measures
> coupled withe targeting
> taxation on none essential items may not take off
> all the burden but mit
> will go a lomng way helping. I hope a national
> forumb will be convened to
> allow input from people all the country and abroad
> to chip with ideas that
> way a way forward could be carved to postpone the
> inevitable economic gloom.
>
>
>
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