Baba Jobe a role model for youths

The vice president, Isatou Njie-Saidy, has described the majority leader and National Assembly member for Jarra West, Honourable Baba Jobe as a role model for Gambian youths. Speaking at the victory celebration of the APRC in Karantaba, Mrs Njie-Saidy said Baba Jobe had continued to be a hardworking and dedicated supporter to the APRC Party.

Honourable Jobe, the former chairman of the defunct July 22 Movement and assistant secretary to the Office of the President should be emulated by Gambian youths,” she said. Mrs Njie Saidy expressed gratitude to the people of Jarra for their support and loyalty to the APRC Party. Hon Baba Jobe expressed appreciation to his wife for mobilising the opposition in the Lower River Division to join the party. He also extended gratitude to the members of the National Assembly and the electorate for nominating and electing him as majority leader and member of the House respectively. He said since 1994, LRD had witnessed rapid developments through the support of the government. He added that as part of his own development plans to alleviate poverty in LRD, “I am sponsoring more than 100 school children who would also be instrumental in the fight against poverty.”

He assured the electorate that President Jammeh and the APRC were ready to assist the people and that they should not let down the party due to what emanated from the just ended Local Government elections. The secretary of state for Tourism and Culture, Yankuba Touray, urged all Gambians including the newly elected APRC chairpersons and councillors, commissioners, chiefs and members of the National Assembly to work selflessly for the country and support the APRC.

In another development, the people of Jarra witnessed the official inauguration of a 1275KVA generator which was donated by the president, Alhaji Yahya Jammeh. Other speakers at the occasion included Alhaji Seedy Jobe (who deputised for the alkalo of Karantaba), chief of Jarra West, Alhaji Yahya Jarju, and Honourable Suku Singhateh. Present were SoS for Agriculture, Hassan Sallah, SoS for Information and Technology, Bakary Njie, SoS for Health, Yankuba Gassama, Lamin Kaba Bajo, deputy APRC mobiliser, Buba Baldeh, director of GIA, director of Population Affairs, NIA director general, commissioners and some National Assembly members.