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President Jammeh Warns Gambians to Change Eating  Habit!!!
President Jammeh Warns Gambians to Change Eating  Habit 
By Correspondent Fatou Jallow, Banjul 
Banjul:8/23/08-As the price for a bag of rice continues to rise at an  
astronomical pace each day in The Gambia, President Yahya Jammeh has issued a  
strongly-worded statement calling on the 1.5 million Gambian population to  change 
their eating habit.  According to President Jammeh, there are lots of  foods 
in the country such  as  maize, coos and cassava  that Gambians can avail 
themselves with,  describing the above three as healthy and nutritious diets.   
The Gambian leader's call came  hot on heels of speculations that the price 
for a bag of rice will rise to  D1,300 by next month and possibly to D 1,500 by 
 December. 
Mr. Jammeh complained that  Gambians eat rice too much. "Many Gambian 
households  eat rice for lunch, dinner and break, causing a heavy demand for it. But 
when we  change our eating habit that would help reduce the price of rice to a 
bearest  minimum," he posited 
While renewing his clarion call  for Gambians to take agriculture seriously.  
  
According to our correspondent,  since the beginning of the year, many people 
in the country have been and  continued to find it tough to feed their 
families owing to the sky high price  for rice and other basic commodities. 
A civil  servant who spoke to this medium says because of his meager salary 
he now finds  it impossible for his family to enjoy three decent meal a day. 
"It will be a  disaster for me  if the price of  rice goes higher than it is 
now. We want the government to intervene because we  are suffering," said a 
police officer who prefers  anonymity. 
Momodou Hydara, a  resident of Brufut asserted that Gambians must blame 
themselves for the current  economic hardship in the country because in his view ‘
they voted in office a  government whose only preoccupation is to build 
elephant projects and to engage  in day dreaming '. For Hydara wasteful spending of 
public  funds by the President and his cohorts must stop if ' we are to achieve 
any  meaningful growth'. He added that the Gambia government much-hyped 
blueprint vision 2020 will remain  a pipe dream as long as the Jammeh 
administration continues to squander the tax  payers hard-earned monies. 
Meanwhile, at the time of going  to press it has been wildely rumoured in 
Banjul that the country is likely to be hit by rice shortage  in the coming 
weeks. This, according to our contacts, is due to the fact that  some rice dealers 
have started hoarding the much-needed goods with a view to  create artificial 
scarcity of the  product.



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