Mamma Kandeh on Sunday was left unimpressed by celebration by MPs following the repealing of a piece of local government legislation asking, ‘is it worth celebrating?’
Majority NAMs backed Lower Baddibu MP Alhagie Jawara in his bid for a local government law that ties elected officials to their political parties to the scrapped.
Last Friday, Mr Jawara triumphed after the bill successfully passed, as photos of NAMs that are proponents of the bill emerged online showing them celebrating.
Mamma Kandeh on Sunday reacted to the development saying: ” Is it worth celebrating? So Gambians should know it’s not the national interest that made them pass that bill. It’s in the interest of those celebrating. But that law has never been a bad law.
“Because you cannot come and I put you forward in my party… You tussle with people just to be the candidate of my party, then go to the primaries and win and then become a candidate under a party ticket…
“If you had confidence in yourself that you are popular, then what are you doing in a party? The party then sponsors you and then campaigns for you until you win. And then you say those people are bad and then go elsewhere. Which party would sponsor its candidate until it wins and the sacks that person?
“But there are people that are not loyal, wherever they are. They are betrayers in everything they are part of. So if you happen to have such people in your party, whenever they get what they want, they would leave.”
