By Makutu Manneh

                                                                                                    

With the recent  Increase in the price of fertilizer from Seven hundred to two thousand dalasis , MC Cham Jr. the National Youth President  of Gambia Democratic congress speaks to the Media about the fertilizer issue ,He said it’s Something that Every Gambian should talk about .

MC Cham alleges that , the President and his former minister Mambureh Njie during the campaign period whilst seeking seeking Re-election  promised to use  tax payer’s money to buy fertilizer worth 500 million Dalasis meant to reduce the cost of fertilizer from D 2000 to D700 dalasis.  He added that , during the campaign period the president and his entourage Promised to bring in  20,000 tons of fertilizer  which will be use for 2years and will be sold to the farmers for D 700

.                                                                                           Mr Cham alleges that , some people were caught with trucks carrying  fertilizer  to Senegal . He added that , if the Government was serious in the aspect of security the perpetrators should face the law and be dealt with for smuggling the property of the Country

.                                                                                                                                      ”The Country is in a state where even a bread is costly,so which farmer is going to buy Fertilizer for D2,5000 dalasis  and transport  it which is a huge cost,therefore this is something that everybody should come out and talk about”. He noted

“Barrow and his ministers have tricked  farmers which is very bad because they can’t  be having 20,000 tons of Fertilizer which they said will serve us for 2years and they trying to blame the Russia Ukraine war. There must be a reserve which can serve  for the whole month,Who are those that took the fertilizer and wanted to sell it outside the country?                                                                             What we want is let the Government reduce the cost of their spending and put it in Agriculture which is the backbone of the country,the rural Gambians are always in support of the Government but not

anymore”He said

In dealing with the fertilizer issue , Cham responded to Dou Sanno , saying that the oppositions are here to remind the incumbent about the promises  made which include to control the high  price of fertilizer among other things .