Halifa Sallah has said that the Barrow government is engaged in a “trial and error” form of governance. 

The former presidential candidate was speaking on Wednesday at a news conference held at his party’s bureau in Churchill Town.

Sallah, a founding member of the opposition People Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism, said his party will always work in the interest of the Gambian people. 

“We have made this as early as January 2022 that we will be beginning this new journey and that we will not be silent in gauging, scrutinising and restraining the government in office to do what is in line with the aspiration of the people.

“We are going to be there as we have always done in the interest of Gambians. But to us, we have seen that the government in office is more engaged in trial and error form of governance than a strategic one directed by a transformative agenda,” he said.

Sallah continued: “It’s an opinion. And they may choose to disagree, but we want a fresh conversation, a constructive one. 

“They can engage us on a debate on this issue and that’s what PDOIS intends to do in this coming four years going to five years, to begin to put the issues on the fold and for the base to take place for the Gambian people will be clear regarding the future for their future and their children’s future.”

“But why trial and error? The first act of this government is to establish what it called a caretaker government. We indicated that, that’s a foreign language to our constitution. It does not fit the language of the Gambian constitution,” he added.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba

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