Promise Trackers
Promise Trackers keep an eye on promises made by the Government and people in authority towards National Development. Our library of Promise Trackers assess how much of the 2018 to 2021 National Development Plan has been achieved and will assess new promises such as creating 150,000 jobs, building 200,000 houses and much more.
The Gambia’s only CAF Approved Stadium was banned since March 2022 and since then the Scorpions have been forced to play all home matches outside the country. Since then the Minister for Youth and Sports, Hon Bakary Badjie issued multiple promises to rectify this problem. Our report ascertains if the MoYS kept any of their promises?
This promise tracker verifies the Minister for Transport’s promise that the Kanilai Ferry’s maintenance will be require 18 weeks for completion and that the Ferry will be back in service in September 2024. Our reporter received an updated response from the relevant authorities on when the Kanilai Ferry will be back into service.
Back in December 2023 the Justice Minister revealed to Parliamentarians that his Ministry would establish a Victims Commission in the first quarter of 2024. However, now that the third quarter is almost complete the question remains if a Victims Commission will be established in 2024 at all.
Eight years after winning his first term under the promise of a Draft Constitution, President Adama Barrow continues to promise a Constitutional Referendum for December 2024. Our factcheckers verified if the President is on track with his promise.
The Gambia Ferry Services promised to complete much needed maintenance works on the Kunta Kinteh Ferry. This article tracks if the promise was kept or not?
Has President Adama Barrow met his National Development Plan’s target to reduce the unemployment rate?
President Barrow told members of the media that his government is committed to addressing maternal mortality which he claims has reduced under his government. Our reporters tracked this promise detailed in the National Development Plan.
In a televised address at the annual Eid-ul Fitr, President Adama Barrow promised to fix the pumping station and a number of open gutters which he referred to as big holes across the city. How did contractors perform?
Has President Barrow’s government met the National Development Plan’s target of investing in Youth Entrepreneurship?
Investigations
Scandalous and Iniquitous: Interior Ministry's Smokescreen Number Plate Bid
Gainako's investigation reveals that two delegations of Security Officers travelled to Spain and Germany with Businessmen who submitted bids on the Aluminium Number Plate Bid one year before the contract was awarded. This investigation reveals pictures of the trip to Spain and the Security Officers that travelled to Germany on a trip that appears as a clear conflict of interest.
This feature publication highlights the experiences of plaintiffs who filed cases at the ECOWAS Court of Justice and what the ECOWAS Court is doing to enhance access to justice. The story highlights cases of enforced disappearances and violations of journalists including torture and unlawful imprisonment using laws that are still in place in The Gambia.
The GAF has summoned the witnesses to the shooting which occurred on 26th August 2024 in an attempt to launch an investigation into the incident which left one Stanislas Gomez with a bullet still lodged in his thigh. Meanwhile, the GAF has refused to cooperate with the NHRC to allow them to interview members of the State Guard Battalion involved in the shooting incident.
Exclusive interview with a GAF shooting victim one month after their shooting.
Passengers in a recent shooting incident refute allegations from the Gambia Armed Forces of a car chase, being under the influence and being arrested. This story gives the perspective of the passengers involved in a car shooting incident in the early morning of Monday 26th August 2024 at Bijilo where a Soldier fired a single shot that's still lodged into the thigh of one of the passengers.
President Adama Barrow is expected to lay the foundation stone for a US$100 Million Hotel to be built for the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) Summit scheduled to be held in The Gambia. According to the OIC Gambia CEO and the Branding and Communications Lead, the Gambia Government will only benefit from a 10% share of the proceeds of the Hotel.
The Gambia Government and a charitable organisation named Global HOMM have been locked in a four-year legal dispute over a property in Bijilo previously occupied by the Anti-Crime Unit.
This publication factchecks the Minister for Justice’s statements that the disputed land is still subject to a court order and that the land belonged to the state.
Gambia Police Officers gave a trio including the Country Representative for Global Homes of Medical Mission (GHOMM) and two colleagues the run-around starting from Kairaba Police Station to Kanifing Police Station and finally ending at Banjul Police Headquarters on Wednesday 13th October 2021.
Gambian Police Officers arrested and charged three persons for criminal trespass and malicious injury to property on Monday 11th October 2021, although one of those arrested had court documents proving ownership of the premises.
A pickup full of Police Officers from Senegambia Police Station had a standoff with the alleged owners of the former Anti-Crime Unit (ACU) Headquarters in Bijilo on October 4th 2021. After representatives of Global Homes of Medical Missions (GHOMM) held a press conference at the premises of the former Anti-Crime Unit, a Police Officer named Bojang attempted to disperse a gathering of owners and media personnel from the premises.
The Gambia’s Anti-Crime Unit (ACU) has moved from its headquarters in Bijilo to Police Training School next to Yundum Airport. However, representatives of the legal owners of the premises as declared by the High Court were denied entry to commence construction work on the premises today 30th September 2021.
Our observation shows that work is still ongoing, as streets like Lancaster and Perseverance are still yet to have new pavement. Therefore, Hon. Minister Ebrima Sillah’s claim that President Barrow’s government paved all the streets in Banjul is deemed misleading.
Verdict: MISLEADING