Marr Nyang blames government's inaction to fight corruption

 



  




By Sheriff Saidykhan


Marr Nyang, the Executive Director of Gambia Participates (GP), a civil society organization set up to investigate corruption in the country has blamed the government of President Adama Barrow for its lack of inaction to fight corruption.


According to Transparency International, Gambia is ranked 110 in the world corruption report 2022.

      

“It just shows the consistent inaction of the government (executive) and parliament in prioritizing anti-corruption efforts,” he said.


In an interview with The Outpost Media, from Kenya, Nairobi he said the 66+ children that died due to the imported medical syrup from India were caused by blatant corruption and weak accountability mechanisms.


“Corruption kills and it knows no age or gender. We’ve witnessed citizens dying because of the government's lack of efforts to procure life saving medical machines or mechanisms to test medications before allowing fake drugs to make it to the market.


It just takes humans to do what is right for the government to live a comfortable and healthy life, our government is not doing what is right” he argued.


He added: “The corruption performance data for the Gambia is evidence that we are witnessing the backsliding of corruption in this country. We are just eight points better than one of the most corrupt governments in African history led by Yaya Jammeh. That tells a lot about our current situation,” he concluded.

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