Saikss I agreed with your points.How can IEC organise
local government election without local government
bill that suppose to empower independent running of
local councils, ward committees and village
development committees without political
interferences.
Local governments are very important to our
development process.European development fund have
help a lot to finance the building of local democracy
concept.I think the regime fears giving more powers to
local governments.I am certain we will see more
political interference in the runing of the councils
by July 22 movement now called youth action groups.
Abdou Karim Sanneh
Manchester UK
--- saikss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We need not wait for the rest of the results to
> discuss the Local election and
> its meaning to our Democracy. I am of the opinion
> that this elections are the
> biggest mockery to Democracy, they have since be so
> and it is time for
> something else to put to better use the little
> resources of our nation.
>
> These Local Government elections should have been
> the highest form of
> Democracy in our country. Not only that they could
> have reflected many fine
> aspects that are related to our culture of mutual
> understanding and
> responsibility but also a key factor in our dreams
> and efforts to lift our
> country and people from the acute poverty and
> decadency. Marginalisation of
> people is possible partly because the power that
> governs is far from their
> reach. And remembering that it is this power that
> decides if the little that
> is in the coffers of the State should be use to
> maintain a private plane of
> the President or a jet fighter rather than clean
> water and or the buying of
> farmers groundnuts in time and in good faith.
> The empowering of Local government would have given
> many the chance and
> inspire many in playing active role in politics and
> taking responsibility for
> the development of their different areas, towns and
> villages. Our contact with
> those who represent us in the Local government will
> be more frequent and life
> and direct, because they are people who are part of
> our community and one
> would not need permission to talk to them. The
> empowering of Local governments
> would mean no right to the president or any body to
> dissolve them as he/she
> wish. Their area of responsibility must be widening,
> to include having
> responsibility in building roads, responsible for
> education, water supply,
> health etc, in other words taking responsibility and
> marking decisions for
> things that are of vital importance to their
> survival and the development of
> their community. This is possible, because it is
> happening in many parts of
> the world and has contributed greatly to the
> development of these countries.
> In some of these countries, the debate to even
> reduce more of the powers of
> the parliament and empowering more the Local
> governments to ensure the
> functioning of democracy is at a higher level. This
> is way in these countries,
> Local government elections are equally important as
> Parliamentary elections.
> Who would not understand the little interest that
> opposition parties have in
> Local government elections when they know the
> limitation of such an organ. One
> could only argue that their participation in these
> elections could be of
> importance in the continuing mobilisation of the
> people. But the fact that the
> little resources that these political parties have,
> it might not be wise to
> use their resources in that manner. There is no
> doubt that if the Local
> governments have had the power of influencing
> development in their areas the
> interest would have been otherwise.
> A government that is prepared to take this task of
> constitutional reform, that
> is aim at empowering the Local Government, will be a
> government that is
> sincere to democracy and for decentralisation of
> decision marking. When will
> the APRC government engaged the Gambian people on
> such a discussion, if not in
> the next life then it must be now.
>
>
> For Freedom
> Saiks
>
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