It is a fact that the regime of Yahya Jammeh associate
herself with anything good and distance with anything
evil.The recent conference of strategy for poverty
alleviation in Sinola camp in Kanillai to briefy
national assembly members is unfortunate. Having keen
interest on issues of rural development, I have sense
political inferfence in the work of SPACO during Sami
women milling machine crisis in which some women who
are anti kebba Kome and APRC end up in Janjanbureh
police cells.
Anyone who have being following the evolution of
SPACO, knows that the institution is not APRC creation
but a brainchild of PPP government. SPACO evolves from
the 1992 Gambia government and International Labour
Organisation poverty survey.Before the coup of 1994,
there was a donor conference in Geneva, involving the
UN agencies, World Bank, African Development Bank and
other agencies to attract financing of Gambia's
strategy for poverty alleviation.The focal point of
SPACO's programme is food security, micofinance,
health and nutrition, social exclusion.The
coordination was then at the Ministry of finance and
economic affairs.
In the last october presidential election,I learned
that SPACO was one of Jammeh's presendial election
manifesto.The institution now is directly under the
office of the president.It is sad and disheartening.A
corrupt person like Jammeh to dictate the fund manager
who and whom should benefit from funds that are meant
for the most vulnerable regions, communities and
groups in our society.
The ILO survey indicate issues such as income poverty,
food poverty, literacy poverty etc.It is about time
that SPACO focus attension on such and address such
development iniatives rather than organising
expensives conferences to please the butcher.

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