BambaLaye,

With the exception of people like Sidia Jatta, I think these folks should be 
called African Lawbreakers, not lawmakers. How can NEPAD, the AU or any 
other pan-African body function properly when the units that make them up 
are the very incarnations of ineptitutde, corruption and dysfuntionality. 
Africa is not yet ready for bodies like NEPAD mainly because we are yet to 
have the kind of enlightened and committed leadership needed to make them 
work. Thanks for sharing.

Baba


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>Subject: Fw: African lawmakers lament NEPAD's lacklustre performance
>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 14:47:31 -0500
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>  08/05/2007 17:00 MIDRAND, South Africa, May 8 (AFP)
>
>African lawmakers lament NEPAD's lacklustre performance
>
>African parliamentarians on Tuesday bemoaned that an ambitious homespun
>plan for economic growth and good governance had failed to improve the lot
>of most in the world's poorest region.
>
>"The implementation of the NEPAD programme is problematic. African
>populations wait for concrete actions from NEPAD," Senegalese MP Ibra
>Diouf told the Pan African Parliament (PAP) in a debate assessing NEPAD's
>performance.
>
>The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) was launched amid
>great fanfare and hope in 2001. It created with the aim of attracting
>private investment in return for evidence of improved governance.
>
>Sidia Jatta, a Gambian parliamentarian, said 340 million Africans lived on
>less than a dollar a day, three million others were refugees and 20
>million were displaced by war or economic hardship.
>
>"These are crying statistics. What is NEPAD as an instrument doing to
>bring about African development?" he said.
>
>But the chief executive of the NEPAD secretariat, Firmino Mucavele,
>stoutly defended the body at the seventh ordinary session of the PAP, an
>African Union body, which is currently in session at its headquarters near
>Johannesburg.
>
>"It is not true that we have not made progress in NEPAD. We have created
>an investment climate in Africa. We are working hard and we have made
>advances," he told a news conference on the sidelines of the parliamentary
>debate.
>
>The lawmakers also stressed the need for governments to submit themselves
>for assessment under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
>
>Set up to further the goals of the NEPAD, the mechanism is a system of
>"self monitoring" by which African countries review each others'
>governance.
>
>Only 26 African nations have ratified the APRM convention so far, with
>South Africa and Algeria due to be reviewed next month. The heads of state
>of both countries, Thabo Mbeki and Abdelaziz Bouteflika, are architects of
>NEPAD.
>
>"We need to encourage our countries to embrace APRM. We need to look into
>our politics which interfere in our development programmes and prevent us
>from leaving the quagmire of poverty," Toscin Bartile, an Ugandan
>parliamentarian said.
>
>©2007 AFP
>
>Source:
>http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=070508170043.81yy1q8j.php
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