Alagie Barrow Calls for comprehensive approach to eradicate ‘back way menaces’
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Alagie Said Barrow, former TRRC Investigator has called on the government of President Adama Barrow to take a comprehensive approach to eradicate the back way menaces in the country.
“Addresing the back way issue requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond merely passing strict laws. Conduct some form of root analysis, identify possible solutions, draw up a strategy or strategies, and implement the strategy and monitor progress; while holding staff accountable,” he posited.
Speaking to West Coast Radio popular Coffee Time Show with Peter Gomez on Tuesday,Alagie Saidy Barrow responded to President Barrow's declaration on migrant smugglers, saying passing stricter laws is akin to ‘treating the rashes and ignoring the leprosy’.
He continued: “The laws may help, but it will not help the root causes. And from a national security standpoint, I urge the government to study the correlation between countries with an active youth population like ours and social unrest in our attempt to solve a problem.
We should be mindful of creating an even bigger problem. The laws may contain the youths in the country, but given the harsh realities they faed there should be a safety valve.
That saftey valve must be built around understanding why our young people are embarking on a such dangerous journey; he advised.
He said youths embarking on this perilous journey are not criminals, adding that they are ‘desperate Gambians citizens’.
Criminalising it without adequately addressing their desperation he said, is also akin to ‘simply treating the rahes and ignoring the leprosy’.
He added: “I think we should take a far better approach than simply passing strick laws to punish migrant smugglers. Otherwise the conditions that made many of us leave the Gambia to seek sanctuary elsewhere, will be the same conditions that will continue to push our people into the Mediterranean sea,” he concluded.
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