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From the pages of the Daily Observer.
GOV’T TO ISSUE TRADE LICENSE TO DARBOE, IF ...
Written by Pa Malick Faye
Thursday, 28 September 2006
Yankuba Touray, the Secretary of State for Agriculture and APRC National
Mobliser, has said the government is willing to issue trade licences to Lawyer
Ousainou Darboe, leader of the opposition UDP to take part in the
2006/07groundnut trade season since he cannot make headway in politics.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer yesterday, SoS Touray said
it is up to Darboe to prove his patriotism to Gambians since he had publicly
disclosed throughout his election campaign that he has travelled to Geneva
in Switzerland and had enough money to buy all the groundnut produce in the
country. “We will issue him a trade licence to take part in the upcoming trade
season if he meets the criteria. We have no objection to that because all
that we want is to have companies and individuals who will buy the farmers
produce on time. Government is not a buyer of nuts. It is the private sector and
we will be more than willing to have Darboe establish a company to buy nuts.
If he does as he promised, he will prove to everyone that he is a patriot.”
According to him, there will be a stakeholders conference on the way forward
for the trade season and Darboe is free to take part. “We have no objection
to it and it is up to Darboe to prove himself”
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