GMC Press Release
YAYA JAMMEH COPIES FROM GMC MANIFESTO ON FISCAL REFORM SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT
In his address to Parliament on the 26th March 2020, President Jammeh unveiled a programme of accelerated growth called PAGE which is predicated on what he describes as MTEF (Medium Term Expenditure Framework) contained in the recently introduced Public Finance Management Reform Policy.
The concept of MTEF (Medium Term Expenditure Framework) as relates to The Gambia is contained in GMC Manifesto entitled “ERA” – ECONOMIC REFORM AGENDA, Paragraph 3 under the rubric Key Strategies of Fiscal Reform Policy. The policy justification provided by GMC under OUR Economic Reform Agenda is the same pretext copied by Jammeh and read by him in Parliament which he paraded as his own. While emulation is the best form of flattery, Yaya Jammeh ought to be man enough to acknowledge the superiority of our ideas, and own up to the calamitous failure of his APRC fatal prescriptions. This is not the only occasion when Yaya Jammeh steals from our pages and flies with them while lacking essential appreciation of the complexities of the issues involved.
It is clear that Yaya Jammeh has no plans or sustainable policy on any significant aspect of national development, and should be honourable enough to step down. To borrow a phrase from General Obassanjo, there is the path of honour and dignity and if one does not know this path, then he knows nothing. Yaya Jammeh, the path of honour and dignity is for you to step down now instead of wrecking our economy beyond redemption. Gambians are fed up with policy inconsistencies between different macro-economic goals aggravated by a weak institutional capacity for economic policy management.
Now that Yaya Jammeh acknowledges the superiority of GMC Platform since APRC has none, he should now dissolve his Party and apply for GMC membership.
We invite you to read Part 2: Development Challenges (particularly Policy Thrust, section dealing with Fiscal Policy in some detail) available at GMC website: www.gambia-congress.org. This site has been running for over a year now. Click on National Platform and Constitution and you will discover where Yaha Jammeh and his Planning Commission have been secretly stealing from but unable to successfully implement.