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“A lot of revenues bypass the national revenue structure, look at Westfield and Bamboo, these are hubs for the foreign exchange black market,” he stressed during the 2024 State of the Nation Address (SoNA) debate by President Adama Barrow.
“We have created a revenue structure and hired people to monitor it; we tax institutions to ensure foreign exchange transactions. So this market should be structured in such a way that the government can realize revenue.”
He said the central bank and the Treasury needed to be questioned about where these people were getting all this hard currency. “We are all turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to this pressing issue that is slowly strangling the country’s economy,” he said.
He elaborated on national security issues, asking the interior minister to explain how drugs enter the country while stressing the importance of strictly guarding the borders.
“We know that drugs are taking the lives of our people. We should be asking how are these drugs getting into the country? Before we can protect people from drug abuse, we have to prevent the drugs from coming in.”
He also said the government should conduct a civil service audit to understand the structure of the civil service. “We need to know the number of people receiving salaries to avoid layoffs,” he said.
Speaking about the allocation of Dh10 million by Parliament to the Fisheries Ministry for drilling wells in rural communities across the country, Mr Ceesay asked for a list of the beneficiary communities, including those where wells have been drilled but not yet built and those where construction has been completed.
The MP for the Fornikansala constituency, Laming Jiba, has alerted the Minister of Defence to a bill introduced in Parliament that would strengthen national security. However, he said the bill is still pending and has not yet been tabled in Parliament.
He urged the ministry to study the bill carefully and resubmit it to Parliament.
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