By Mama A. Touray

Abdoulie Bojang independent candidate for the breakaway Alliance for patriotic reorientation and construction and the Gambia democratic congress on Saturday shortly after filing his nomination documents to the independent electoral commission headquarters in Brikama promised to upskill youth when voted into the National Assembly.

Speaking to this medium in an interview Abdoulie Bojang said “I have many plans for youth as you cannot have any meaningful development or anything meaningful if the cream of the society is left out of your plans, training and upskilling of the youth is a great concern, how many people graduate and did not get a job or a skill but we have what we call the upskilled Kansala initiative”

Bojang added that the Foni Kansala initiative is an initiative which they have gotten for a very long time and the initiative demands that you would have to finish school, have your grade twelve certificate sometimes you cannot even go to college or the university the initiative is such that from grade three you will begin to learn about things like satellite installation, graphic design amongst other things by the time we begin to learn that by the end of your grade twelve you are able to do things independently without seeking job.

“We don’t want to be a burden on to the government we believe that we can do a lot for ourselves not what the government can do for us so that is the main thing I have for the youth as a priority the youth needs to be educated, and upskilled and my candidature is on the believe that Kansala has to be unified and self-reliance and Kansala cannot be self-reliance if the youth of Kansala are not educated and upskilled” he said

However the aspiring independent candidate continued “We have a lot of people in the military serve the nation for twelve years and there is no way to serve a country better than being in the military service but when they retire or resign they have to do one thing or the other menial job so all the people in Foni especially Kansala and those in military services as there last four years to serve will be a training to live a dignify and in dependent financial stable life.

Bojang said he is a master’s degree holder in digital marketing and business but I am equally a dental technician am not employ by the government and am able to do things for myself so getting the papers is not the issues I most make sure with the people of Kansala is self-reliance, unified and secured and development oriented and Kansala will be given its due as part of this country.

Bojang urged the natives of Foni Kansala to make sure to they vote for somebody who will represent Kansala in a first square manner complete representation to come with an agenda for the good of Kansala for the betterment of Kansala and the country at large.