When someone speaks without the facts or data, they are merely expressing their opinions mostly to mislead people, and we respect that, but the truth has no two sides.
The truth is that it is like a double orphan child without any siblings. We expect our politicians to be untruthful at times, but not medical professionals who should maintain the highest code of ethics.
I’ve listened to an interview in which one medical professional deliberately lied, forgetting that some of his lies or denials were within a WhatsApp group that the Ministry of Health created, and he is in that group.
There is no need to do a VAR to expose him on this occasion unless he continues his lies. Let his conscience and our creator, whom he prays to, deal with him. It’s not easy, and I feel sorry for him.
Thank you, Diaspora Club and Brother Momodou Cham, their perceived Political opponent, who immediately made this government and our Nianija NPP gang react with an afterthought project as their counter-attack.
Suppose their afterthought project, now under feasibility studies, is fully implemented. In that case, that’s a win for our community of Nianija, which had been made victims of their political games to prolong our misery unnecessarily.
We have the complete list of things they promised to capture. We are waiting for plans for their state-of-the-art, newly built health facilities to see that they are fully implemented within 12 months; hence, they said the funding is already in place.
Let me leave you with these facts and use your common sense to judge. Don’t allow to be manipulated and misled:
- Momodou, a private citizen, has worked with many other partners, implementing entirely different projects before this Maternity Ward project. Not once was he accused of mismanaging or misappropriating any funds. Why is he now the enemy of the Chamen maternity ward?
- The Chamen Health Centre was neglected for decades during this dispute when we had a Nominated member and National Assembly from Nianija twice under Jammeh and now under Barrow; why didn’t they act then until now?
- The Chamen Health Center was without a functioning solar system for months, and they were aware of this. Well, let me give them some credit here because the MP took a Patient there one night a few months back.
The place was dark without any light, and he later bought one solar battery, which cost less than D6,000, but it could only power two light bulbs or charge mobile phones. Where is his over D500,000(half a million Dalasis) yearly constituency development fund for Nianija?
4: The Deputy Speaker, a native of Chamen, was informed of this problem; let me again give credit here. He tasked someone to do some work to fix this, and due to the poor quality of the artistry, the place caught fire 🔥 a few months ago after that work.
- One member of the Nianija Diaspora Team was visiting the GamChamen Nianija Minor Health Centermen to pay his respects to a family member who died, and on the same day, the Deputy Speaker was also in Chamen.
Our Diaspora Member visited the Chamen Nianija Minor Health Center at night with some villagers and saw patients treated using candles or Mobile devices.
He left a very emotional voice note in our Nianija Diaspora Team WhatsApp forum stating that we need to act immediately as this is an unfortunate situation with the Health Centre. We got into action whenever we were called upon.
6: On December 14th, the Nianija Diaspora Team raised over D34,000 from our own pockets to purchase two powerful batteries with an inverted, transport them to Chamen, and hand them over to the Health Centre, the Alkalo, and the Health Centre Committee.
7: On the 16th of December 2024, one Samba Bah, an NPP member, recorded two audio messages and shared them on the Niani and Nianija NPP WhatsApp forum, commending the intervention from the Nianija Diaspora Team and saying that if the government failed to act, then we did. Someone forward me those audio messages!!
8: The President had a meet-the-people tour meeting at Buduck in Nianija on November 21st, 2024. Hamat Bah, the NAM, the Chief, the Deputy Speaker, and the President spoke, and none of them mentioned the Chamen Health Centre project they are now discussing. Do you think all those speakers, including the president, will miss that opportunity to discuss such a project?
9: On November 18, 2024, I engaged the Deputy speaker about the Chamen Health Centre issues. He responded, “ I’m trying to get the Ministry to build the health centre. I have already engaged a contractor for me. This may not be much, but it will get it in better shape” (Ref: No4 on my post).
I don’t like to share such conversations, but some of our family members blame me for not engaging with him. I always do anything I am involved with as if he were my younger brother because I respect his position and family.
10: In its letter rescinding the clearance issued to the Gambia Diaspora Club, the government said they secured funding through the ADB. The Information Minister said it’s WHO on Coffee time. The links below from ABD and WHO don’t list the Chamen Health Centre in those projects, but all the other places are listed. See for yourself.
Let them produce their list, which includes the Chamen Health Project from the WHO or ADB. We can tolerate their deliberate misinformation to mislead our people, but insulting our intelligence on top of that is not acceptable!! Money and positions of power or influence don’t change people but reveal who you are.
Juma Mubarak, and may Allah bless us with honesty, truthfulness, and humble leadership with integrity that puts our nation’s interests above theirs.
