An alleged coup plotter who recently defected to the ruling APRC Aji Fatim
Mbenga of Kanifing Layout has declared that Bakau is no longer an opposition
stronghold and that the APRC was going to wrest the seat from the UDP in the
next National Assembly elections. Addressing an APRC meeting held at the
Bakau Community Centre Wednesday, Aji Fatim said that since she joined the
APRC a few weeks ago, many other people in Kanifing and Old Jeshwang have
followed suit.

Therefore she said come the next elections, Bakau constituency would be
taken over by the APRC. She called on all those youths who wanted to get
national identity cards or voters cards to contact her. Speaking at the
meeting, the Secretary of State for Tourism and Culture and APRC national
mobiliser Yankuba Touray said the UDP has lost two seats to the APRC in four
years. He said during the recent bye-elections the UDP lost Kiang East
constituency, which he said was followed by the recent defection of Almamy
Touray of Niani. He accused the UDP and NRP of campaigning for sanctions to
be imposed on The Gambia, which he described as "an act to destroy the
country".

The APRC he said has achieved a lot in just few years. "The groundnut
industry has improved from less than 40,000 tones to more than 80,000 tones
per season and from D150 per kilo to D300 per kilo" he said. Mr. Touray also
promised that in two years time, girls will gain free education from primary
to senior secondary level and that later this month a new 6 megawatt
generator will be ordered and in July and October another new generator will
be received in order to boost the electricity system. He also promised that
there were plans to build a factory and also that a new all-inclusive system
of tourism was being planned for some hotels and restaurants.



Mori

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