Mr. Sidibeh,
I agree with you too. I understand exactly what you are talking about.
Being an eye witness to moms who had travel miles on horses' or donkey
carts to deliver, I can attest to how much those folks will feel if they
have a road to take them to a near by health center. It is easier said than
done. Anyone could list their priorities, but just as you pointed out, it
all leads to the same thing: A better Gambia for all.
What I do not like is when people say that the Jammeh government is busy
building infrastructures instead of trying to eradicate poverty. What is he
going to do? Give EVERY Gambian some phiysical cash? I hope not, what of
the ones who come in the next decades? The cash will be gone. That is why
he has to continue to focus on the infrastructure and everything else will
unfold by themselves.
I am sure all those who might have a different approach, would not deny
that they would not invest in a neighborhood or a country without the basic
infrastructures; good roads, good running water, electricity and good
communication.
Why would a hotelier who might employ hundereds of people go build a hotel
in an aera without those amenities? So let us encourage the development and
give it time to grow.
Ousman Jallow Bojang.
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From: Edi Sidibeh [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:59:40 +0000
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: THIS OBVIOUS BUT......
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<P>Mr..Bojang,</P>
<P>Thanks for your response and I commended your takes on the issue.
However, Education health, food, and employment sufficiency in my opinion
cannot materialized properly without the infrastructural building that will
sustain and contain the above aspects of life. It is as well obvious that,
there is no use in building hospitals, schools as such, without
enough educators and doctors, but on the other hand, it a necessity for
every Gambian to be able to get easy access to hospital as much to have a
little bit of education. However, it is okay too to ponder on other things
as priority than the infrastructure saga, as everybody has your own aspects
on how things in your opinion should be dealt and you never can't be wrong
knowing how to defend your stands. Of course others who thing
infrastructural development shouldn't be the first priority are not wrong
too as you point out, they are of the same ambition but different
approaches.</P>
<P>To start with, more people are employed as laborers, brecklayer,
carpenters, engineers metal workers etc and etc in the process of
infrastructural buildings, again when those buildings are ready, more and
more gain employments on the long run and foreign investors are now given
an assurance to easy access to transporting their goods and the reliability
of the electric city which seems a big headache fro the government to
sustain as promised or maybe they need Dam to make the part sustained.
However, eradication of complete poverty does not happen in a year in my
opinion but years. On the other hand, there are simple thing like rule of
law, corruption mis-managements are really reducible or can be totally
eradicated in couples of years as they are also having great impacts on
people's living conditions as such, eradicating those mean making people's
life easier and prosperous too.</P>
<P>Again Bro thanks for your takes</P>
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