News:
January 28, 2020
Speaker of the Gambian National Assembly Rt. Hon. Mariam Jack Denton on Monday evening 27th January 2020 hosted the outgoing Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament Rt. Hon Mustapha Cisse Lo and Community lawmakers to a dinner.
This was at the commencement of the last extraordinary meeting of the fourth legislature in Banjul, Gambia, which would hold from the 27th to 31st of January 2020.
Majority Leader, K. K Barrow who represented the Speaker who is bereaved welcomed his colleagues to the dinner and revealed that, due to the country’s hospitality most people would love to come again.
“Already two people have decided to become citizens of the Gambia and the President has agreed to sign their papers to become citizens of the Gambia. Government is willing to host Parliamentarians and they should feel at home”, he added.
Again, he noted that the meeting is to prepare MPs for the fifth legislature and thanked the ECOWAS Parliament for choosing Gambia.
Gifts from the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia were presented to the outgoing Speaker Cisse Lo and each country of the fifteen member states.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com/Banjul