Yakumba Jaiteh insisted the Supreme Court vindicated her intentions for a multi-million dalasis loan scheme proposal she sponsored for MPs.
Jaiteh last year moved a motion for 54 million dalasis to be given to MPs as loan so that they could build their houses. The MPs had slashed the budget of a number of government departments and allocated it to themselves.
Two civil society groups then sued them insisting it was illegal – and the Supreme Court this week held that the act was unconstitutional.
But Mrs Jaiteh insisted on Thursday: “The Supreme Court Ruling on the 54million Loan Scheme is partly bizarre, giving its interpretation of word ‘amend’ in S101 of the constitution, which I do not agree with and will give my reasons in another post.
“Although the SC did not agree with the procedure used by National Assembly in approving the loan scheme. The Supreme Court vindicated my intentions for a loan scheme and proffered the exact same reasons and arguments I gave on the floor of the house.
“To those that were opposed to the loan Scheme and viewed it as “self serving” or a “conduct to improperly enrich NAMs”, the SC has completely disagreed with you lot.”
