Listen to our own "highly qualified" new MP Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay try to 
discourage debating in parliament.  And to think that some of us believe this 
whole "interest of the nation" BS.  These people only care about their 
interests.  In other words, a parliament completely dominated by their agenda 
and nothing less even though we know that there are very few other parties in 
the parliament.

FJC is a joke and she should accordingly shut up.  This shameful woman knows 
nothing about parliamentary procedures yet she still spouts rubbish


The Assembly is not a constitutional university

The nominated National Assembly member, Honourable Mrs Fatoumatta Jahumpa 
Ceesay, has urged members of the august body to make the new House an 
institution with a difference, emphasising that such a forum should not be 
manipulated by anyone to make a name for themselves. “We are going to make 
this National Assembly, a National Assembly with a difference in 
professionalism, in calibre, status and integrity.... We will not allow this 
National Assembly to be used by any individual NAM to make a name,” she said, 
adding that the House was for one to make sure that he/she was there “for the 
interest, progress, and prosperity of the Gambian people,”. 

Therefore, we will not allow it to be used as a constitutional university to 
be debating on the constitution for hours. While the Gambian people in the 
remote villages somewhere are suffering and want a water pump or solar 
system, somebody is debating seven hours, talking about constitutionality in 
the National Assembly,” FJC said. She said they would also use the might of 
the majority in the interest of the Gambian people, especially the 
under-privileged women and children. 

Therefore, for anybody to think that you can come in and say I have come to 
this Assembly to make a name for the international community to know me or 
hear me, you are fooling yourself. We are going to make sure that it does not 
happen and we will do it with dignity, integrity and maturity because after 
all, we are all Gambians - brothers and sisters. We will make sure that we 
are one family and work in the interest of the Gambian people,” FJC said. She 
said people should however not see her as a gender activist in the house. “I 
am going to be here as a Gambian and support both male and female because we 
are partners in development,” she noted. 

She thanked President Jammeh for nominating her, describing it “a privilege,”
 saying ... “this is not the chip of the block but the block itself because 
my father was a Mayor of Banjul. I was also the first female deputy mayor of 
Banjul. He was also in parliament and here again, I am also in the 
parliament. So I think it is a challenge and I will take the challenge,” she 
said. FJC expressed optimism that the new Assembly would be very interesting 
and with a difference “because we have three opposition leaders.” 


    
    

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