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MD’s response is as follows:
Subject: Press release from the Department of Diagnostics Trade, SAAP Consultancy Ltd. Subject: The Badea Financing Facility is now open for applications from the Gambian business community.
Fact One: SAAP Consultancy Ltd does not endorse the content of the press release from a purely professional perspective, as impartiality is driven by passion and guided by principle. Gambians generally receive such press releases repeatedly and the senders do want to see consumption rather than analysis. If we as a country are to follow the principle of “People – Process – Product”, then everyone should be particularly concerned when the national interest or the welfare of the target audience may become a victim of fanaticism.
Sometimes when we look back at press releases like this, we cannot help but miss what we call a lack of focus within the context of lofty expectations. What does the latter leave us with? An inability to see through our development approach to Gambian communities, our processes (systems), and what we ourselves can produce.
Fact Two: The rice production mission needs to be extended for another 20 years and we need about $500 billion to invest in our dear country Republic of Gambia to bring its agriculture, manufacturing, telecommunications, oil, electricity and exports up to the target of reducing inflation. We are doing the same bad things and expecting different results. Most of these opportunities have been given to more experienced and familiar people in the last 40-50 years. Aren’t we climbing the same mountain over and over again? As a result, no new jobs are being created based on the available observation data. It seems that everything on the list can be produced locally except oil and electricity. This will definitely solve the plight of our stubborn children (youth and mothers). This is the hard fact. Neither feeling worthy nor dying in the desert or ocean can be an anchor for expectations. Please note that this is not the best alternative to the desperate popular sentiment and the Ministry needs to change this plan or it will be back here nodding to our warnings.
Fact Three: How many more times do we have to dig our own graves? We need citizen participation programs to build new cooperatives for this $50,000,000.00. The knowledge is there; Gambian professionals are not on the payroll of the Project Office and Project Services Board, they are the ones who design what some donor countries, international banks use as quick reference guides in development plans. With some retirees and those about to retire joining the latter. Mr. Minister, we cannot afford to import when the Central Bank does not even have enough dollars. AED 50,000,000.00 will swell to AED 175,000,000.00. In fact, it seems like suicidal economic sabotage.
Fact 4: Our sincere suggestions will be repeatedly overturned and revised to avoid repeating the same methods over and over again without achieving results. As the French say “Nous restons a l’ecoute”, we will remain still and listen. When predictions and forecasts are born out of sincerity and honesty, they are remedies.
By: Dr. Jack Farr Jr.
Managing Director, SAAP Consulting Ltd.
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