The government on Tuesday said political leaders are yet to be notified of a plan to take the draft constitution back to the National Assembly, pushing back at suggestions it did.
Spokesmen of UDP, GDC and APRC told The Standard government hasn’t informed them of any plan to re-launch the draft constitution following its throwing out by MPs back in September.
In a statement signed by spokesperson Ebrima G Sankareh, government said while it is in the process of initiating dialogue with leaders of political parties in the country, political leaders are yet to be notified.
During his speech before the 67th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, the Hon Justice Minister Dawda Jallow announced that: ‘a process of dialogue with the leadership of all political parties has been initiated with a view to building consensus on all the contentious issues and re-submitting the 2020 draft constitution to the National Assembly’,” the statement said.
It added: “The message was meant to communicate that ‘a process’ of dialogue with the leadership of political parties was about to begin and not to mean that the party leaders were already contacted.”
