It is a fact that the regime of Yahya Jammeh associate herself with anything good and distance with anything evil.The recent conference of strategy for poverty alleviation in Sinola camp in Kanillai to briefy national assembly members is unfortunate. Having keen interest on issues of rural development, I have sense political inferfence in the work of SPACO during Sami women milling machine crisis in which some women who are anti kebba Kome and APRC end up in Janjanbureh police cells. Anyone who have being following the evolution of SPACO, knows that the institution is not APRC creation but a brainchild of PPP government. SPACO evolves from the 1992 Gambia government and International Labour Organisation poverty survey.Before the coup of 1994, there was a donor conference in Geneva, involving the UN agencies, World Bank, African Development Bank and other agencies to attract financing of Gambia's strategy for poverty alleviation.The focal point of SPACO's programme is food security, micofinance, health and nutrition, social exclusion.The coordination was then at the Ministry of finance and economic affairs. In the last october presidential election,I learned that SPACO was one of Jammeh's presendial election manifesto.The institution now is directly under the office of the president.It is sad and disheartening.A corrupt person like Jammeh to dictate the fund manager who and whom should benefit from funds that are meant for the most vulnerable regions, communities and groups in our society. The ILO survey indicate issues such as income poverty, food poverty, literacy poverty etc.It is about time that SPACO focus attension on such and address such development iniatives rather than organising expensives conferences to please the butcher. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~