President Adama Barrow has said work on the Hakalang road would be completed after 2021 – but he will return back to Nuimi to inaugurate the road.
The president on Saturday laid the foundation stone for the road where he shared how he told his ministers the road must be built or they be sacked.
At the event held in Buniadu, the president evinced both joy and regret; joy in that the project was finally being flagged off while regretting the coronavirus pandemic didn’t allow for an elaborate event.
“But when we’re officially inaugurating the road, coronavirus would have gone, 2021 would have passed and we will converged here again and do a launching,” the president said.
The Gambia is electing a new president next year and the president is hoping to seek re-election.
The hint of victory comes days after UDP said they’re going to form the next government now that the draft constitution has failed.
