President Adama Barrow has stated Gambians are in the happening of apportioning responsibility to God over events, seeking to dispel the long-held thinking.
“In The Gambia, rightly or wrongly, we tend to associate whatever happens with God, but we must admit that, individually and collectively, we are responsible for our actions and, therefore, their consequences,” the president said.
The president spoke to the nation on Thursday evening in a New Year message where he called 2020 as a year clouded by the pandemic.
According to the president, institutions had to work on rotated shifts and reduced capacity which “impacted negatively on performance, and lowered the national productivity rate”.
“The makeshift arrangements also retarded the attainment of key policy and programme targets,” the president said.
