By Lamin Njie
The Government of President Adama Barrow in ushering a democratic dispensation in The Gambia understood that reform programmes need to be implemented to transform the democratic credentials of the country, Dr Mamadou Tangara has told a high-level African summit.
“The country has since 2017, introduced reform programmes particularly for the security and judiciary sectors,” the foreign affairs minister said during the Africa Day virtual conference on Silencing the Guns in Africa on Monday.
The foreign affairs minister added: “This is done in recognition of the correlation between the entrenched respect for human right and rule of law and, the discipline of the institutions tasked to defend and implement these values and ethos.
“It is on this basis that the Gambia Government with the support of the United Nations conceived and implemented Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC), Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) and an SSR Programme.
“Important milestones have been made in the implementation of these national programmes supported by partners among them the African Union.”
