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    Speaker Fabakary Tombong Jatta (c) GPN

    Speaker Jatta Warns Cabinet Ministers to Avoid Contempt of Parliament

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    By Edrissa Jallow on March 7, 2023 Business Economy, National Assembly, News

    By Edrissa Jallow,

    Hon Fabakary Tombong Jatta, Speaker of The Gambia’s Sixth Legislature has warned Cabinet Ministers to avoid missing Parliamentary appointments and contempt of Parliament on the first day of the First Session of the 2023 Legislative Year which took place on 6th March 2023.

    According to Speaker Jatta, Parlaiment’s Assembly Business Committee (ABC) has noted “grave concern that some Hon Ministers do fail to appear before this August Assembly on their scheduled business date during previous sessions. This is not acceptable to the committee and this has to be seized”.

    “In this circumstance, the Assembly Business Committee strongly reiterates its various stands on any Hon Minister who fails to attend to his or her business as scheduled and non-attendance tantamounts to contempt of the National Assembly in accordance with section 75 (Vote of Censure) and/ or section 110 (Contempt of the National Assembly) of the constitution,” Speaker Jatta warned.

    In an effort to obtain the list of Ministers who were absent from the previous session, Gambia Parliamentary Newsletter contacted the National Assembly’s Head of Table Office. Our enquiries revealed that “no list” was recorded for absent Ministers during the previous sessions and that the Speaker was drawing reference to the Fifth Legislature when the Minister of Justice failed to appear.

    This is not the first time the ABC is warning Ministers to avoid missing scheduled Parliamentary sittings. It could be recalled that on Monday 21st February 2022 the Speaker of the Fifth Legislature, Hon Mariam Jack Denton suspended Seven Bills tabled by the Hon Minister of Justice, Dawda Jallow.

    The suspension came as a result of the Justice Minister’s failure to attend a National Assembly sitting on Tuesday 8th February 2022. Speaker Denton who doubles as the chairperson of the ABC highlighted in her ruling that the committee has “decided that all pending matters and businesses of the Attorney-General dealing with Bills [emphasis is on Bills] be written off [in] the current agenda of this First Ordinary Session 2022”.

    Meanwhile, Speaker Denton further demanded that Justice Minister apologized before the Assembly which Minister Jallow submitted orally in Parliament as captured in a previous publication.

    Speaker Fabakary Tombong Jatta (c) GPN
    President Barrow Assented to the Appropriations Bill 2023
    On the same day, Speaker Jatta started the session with a communication announcing that President Adama Barrow has assented to the Appropriations Bill 2023. “Honourable Members by way of an update to this august Assembly, the Appropriations Bill 2023 [which] was passed during the Fourth Ordinary Session of the National Assembly in the 2022 Legislative Year at number 1 of 23 has been assented to by the President of the Republic of The Gambia on 22nd of December 2022,” said Speaker Jatta.
    According to the Approved 2023 Budget Appropriation, The Gambia’s total Government Local Fund Expenditure comes to D22 Billion Dalasis for 2023. When Loans, Grants and Government Local Funds are tallied The Gambia plans to spend D38.8 Billion this year.
    Meanwhile, the Government plans to collect total Revenues and Grants of D33.2 Billion in 2023. Most importantly, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs estimates Expenditure and Net Lending to exceed D37.1 Billion in 2023 leaving Taxpayers to fund a Budget Deficit of over D3.9 Billion in 2023.
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    Edrissa Jallow

    Edrissa Jallow is a journalist with over three years of experience working for two online media platforms. Mr Jallow joined Gainako News during the Nomination process for the December 2021 Presidential Elections. Since joining Gainako, Mr Jallow has published over 50 stories in less than a year. He is currently a final year student at the Media Academy for Journalism and Communications (MAJaC), a leading journalism training institution in The Gambia. Mr Jallow is currently the Project Manager of The Gambia Parliamentary Newsletter and reports extensively on Parliamentary proceedings.

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