UDP’s youth wing on Monday thanked the world bank for coming to the aid of the Gambian people through their 31 million dollars cash transfer project for rural households.
“This couldn’t have come at a better time for The Gambia considering the poverty and suffering our people go through on a daily bases,” the wing in a statement signed by Kemo Bojang secretary general said.
The wing however insisted that “as grateful as we are for the help, we cannot continue this state of affairs where our basic needs are fulfilled only through help from donor parties”.
“We have enough resources and capacity to be self sufficient in food production and a UDP government will invest heavily in agriculture to reverse this trend,” the wing said.
It added in its statement: “Adequate investment in agriculture will have the twin effects of ensuring food security and creating employment avenues for the youth to remain in their communities while being gainfully employed either in direct production or processing of agricultural produce through the value chain that will be created in collaboration with private sector entities.
“The Gambia cannot continue on this path of perpetual begging for the most basic of human needs, any serious government would know that and adequately address it.”
