The Gambia And The World Bank:" A Classic Government Corruption". Part Two Of Two
Aug 19, 2008, 17:44
Banjul,The Gambia Journal
Timmerman wrote that in 1998, for example, Berkman was sent to “the tiny West African country of Gambia to investigate a $12.3 million project aimed at helping farmers.
Burning shoe leather in the capital, Banjul , he visited suppliers who had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for equipment they never sold, and confronted government officials who tacitly admitted to the kickback scheme. “
Although the project was supposed to provide direct assistance to farmers, he found that World Bank project managers had approved the disbursement of “huge sums” on “frivolous and illegible procurement.”
The Gambia And The World Bank:" A Classic Government Corruption". Part One Of Two
Aug 18, 2008, 20:02
Banjul,The Gambia Journal
Senior officials at the World Bank have admitted that the firing of former Bush administration official Paul Wolfowitz as World Bank president was a scheme to block an unpopular anti-corruption campaign he had championed, wrote Kenneth R. Timmerman of Newsmax , citing a former World Bank official . Quoting former World Bank official Steve Berkman, Timmerman wrote on August 8th 2008, “The stuff about his girlfriend was all contrived, It was a mini-scandal people at the Bank used to nail him.”
Jammeh ;"The Supreme Islamic Council Hold Elctions"
Aug 16, 2008, 00:35
Banjul,The Gambia Journal
Over this weekend two jarringly contradictory tendencies are to manifest themselves in the form of a congress of the Supreme Islamic Council, SIC. The council has not have any such congress for decades and did not think of holding one until about a month ago when it invited President Jammeh to officially opened its new D6 million center funded by the Emir of Qatar. The occasion was to be part of the celebrations of the 14th anniversary of the coup that brought Mr. Jammeh to power. But to the chagrin of the erratic Gambian leader, construction of the center was not fully complete. There were still some finishing jobs left. Members of the council might have hoped that, showing the building to the Gambian leader would prompt him into donating supplementary funds for completing what was left of the finishing work of the building. But President Jammeh was enraged. His suspicion was that council members had mismanaged the funds and that the whole ceremony was a bait to get more funds from him. President Jammeh denounced the council members as corrupt and self-seeking and divided over issues that have nothing to do with Islam. He went on further say that the present council members have been in control for too long and he gave them a week’s ultimatum to reconstitute “democratically.”
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