There should be a National Assembly inquiry into President Adama Barrow’s ongoing nationwide tour, according to Madi Jobarteh.
The president has in the past two weeks been travelling around the country meeting citizens but critics have lashed out at the size of his entourage.
According to Madi Jobarteh, the National Assembly has the “power to open an inquiry, to enquire into how, what the constitution says about this tour and how this tour has been conducted, [whether it] has been conducted along the lines of the constitution, in the conduct of this tour has public money or public resources been utilised in ways that is a waste and illegal”.
“Because if you put something who is not a public official, is not a member of that community, he’s just there because he is a member of a political party or just a supporter of the president, he has no legal constitutional reason to be in this tour, yet you paid for this man’s transportation, for his accommodation, for his feeding, for his welfare all the way through. So that means that is an illegal use of public resources and that has to be accounted for. So for me there should be a National Assembly inquiry into this tour,” Mr Jobarteh said while appearing on News Review.
