President Adama Barrow has tasked his cabinet ministers to transform the government’s developmental plans into workable strategies. 

Barrow made the rallying cry at an  address to the nation during the commemoration of the country’s 57th Independence Day.

“The next five years provide opportunities to pursue such noble goals with more passion and vigour. We now have the chance to be proactive and be better organised to utilise our resources more efficiently and usefully. 

“The world is moving fast, and we must keep moving equally fast. I challenge the relevant Ministries and institutions to transform such ideals into workable strategies and infuse them into our next development plan and national policies,” the president said.

“In discussing economic independence, my vision for The Gambia is a nation with top-class infrastructure, sufficient energy for national coverage and a technology-supported society that matches the digital world, all of which propel growth, economic development and social cohesion through an adequately equipped human resource base,” Mr Barrow added.

According to him, “to advance economically, there is an urgent need to inject value and derive value from whatever we do.”

“We should insist on designing value-driven projects and programmes that add value to the lives and livelihoods of the people, and ensure that our interventions yield tangible results that are not short lived.”

Reporting by Adama Makasuba