(JollofNews) – Gambia’s Information Minister
Demba Ali Jawo has said the government will
consider the three-child policy proposal that
parliamentarians from Ecowas, Mauritania
and Chad have agreed to help pioneer in the
coming years.
“Ecowas has made a suggestion for such a
policy. I can assure you that the government is
going to consider it,” he told journalists during
a presser held on Thursday at GRTS building
on MDI Road.
Over the past decades, West Africa has
witnessed an exponential population growth
that experts fear could hamper efforts to bring
prosperity within the subregion.
Burkina Faso’s National Assembly speaker
Salifou Diallo is playing a lead role in the
campaign. The move is expected to restrict by
2030 every woman to have only three childs.
Minister Jawo said as a member state of
Ecowas, it is very likely that the Gambia will
adopt any policy that Ecowas will try to
implement.
“The government has to take a decision which
it has not done yet,” Jawo added.
However, there are fears that the regional
bloc’s three-child policy will spark concerns
among Muslim and Christian communities.
The Serrekunda West National Assembly
Member Halifa Sallah, who spoke on Thursday
to a group of reporters, said Ecowas
parliamentarians have the right to initiate any
policy they feel necessary. But he was quick to
warn against turning social legislation into
crimiinal legislation.
“Whatever you cannot transform into criminal
legislation, that is really a very bad law,” he
stated.
Sallah, who also double as special adviser to
President Barrow, suggested that the right
approach is to conduct a sensitisation
campaign in order to make sure the
populations adhere to the project.
“Campaigning to solve populations problems is
much better that social legislation.,” said
Halifa Sallah.


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