By Mama A Touray
Retired army general Lamin Bojang has said he come to salvage the country from poor leadership as he said the country has been faced with leadership vacuum for far too long which need to be addressed.
Speaking to The Voice newspaper in an exclusive interview at his residence in Brufut, Mr Bojang, also the leader of Alliance for National Reorientation and Development said “I believe that The Gambia has a leadership vacuum and the country is not being directed in the right path,” he said.
However, he said: “ hence the name Alliance for National reorientation and development, we want to bring this country together and refocused, redirect to reliance and we reorient ourselves to alliance ourselves on a path that is going to move this country forward and that is why we name our party Alliance for National Reorientation hence that’s what will give us Development.”
He said among the reasons that motivated him to quit his diplomatic position to join politics in the country was to bring development.
“What motivated me to join politics is the leadership vacuum, and people have to sacrifice to be able to help this country to move forward. We have the potential, we have the resources but the vacuum is the leadership that vision, that mission and that foresight are what is lacking and that is what motivated me to enter into politics,” he divulged.
He disclosed that he was the medical officer in the military and the head of the medical department of the armed forces “while I was there, I also had plans and helped people to upgrade themselves the people working under me, some of them today are doctors in the armed forces some of them are having their own pharmacies in other areas along my profession.”
He continued “I work with philanthropist helping women and needy people providing educational opportunities, health facilities and building nursery schools and digging wells for them. When I was in the military as senior officer, I have also done a lot for the people in the armed forces and their dependents in the forms of ensuring mobility to be easy for the members of the armed forces.”
