Pa Modou, Thanks for the update on the German-Manjai road and coastal protection projects. Regarding the implementation of the latter, the onus is not only on the contractor as Government statement seem to imply but rather on ALL players, i.e. the Executing Agency in this case the Department of Infrastructure, Works and Construction, the Department of State for Finance and the AfDB. I am certain that the contractor will deliver because they are world class; the same is equally true of the supervising engineer as they have proven during the conduct of the study phase of the project. The rest must sit up. Sidi Sanneh ----Original Message Follows---- From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: The APRC living up to its name Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:09:56 -0500 To confess, I was one of the most skeptical of the then AFPRC cum APRC pronouncements of developing the country; but that was a long time ago. If you would recall folks, I once announced on the L that the government was to re-construct the Latri-Kunda German to Manjai road and that it was to be done within six months. At the time, there was some activity in the area and everything was just dropped. I wondered then what could have been the problem but did not find out what. Well, the project has resumed and the bulldozers are at it clearing the right off way. I understand that the reason for its suspension was to allow farmers acces to their fields so as not to disrupt farming activity in the area. This D3 million project is expected to be completed within six months, providing another alternative route to Manjai, Kotu and Kololi from Kanifing, Dippa Kunda and Latri kunda German. In another development, government yesterday signed a contract to tackle our coastal erosion nightmare. The contractor has been told in no uncertain terms that this project must be implemented as a matter of urgency. The contractor is expected to mobilise from now against January and to start the 18-month project by the end of January at the latest. Have a good day, Gassa. -- There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve (Mike Leavitt) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~