Momodou Jawo
This challenging situation, he said, has left the department exceedingly engaged at a time when it needs to focus more on its reform agenda as envisaged in the National Development Plan (NDP).
“This has compelled the department to divert a greater chunk of its resources through the conduct of operations and capacity training to mitigate the menace of irregular migration,” he said during the opening of the GID’s retreat.
“However, the reform agenda of the department has led to the validation of the SP which conveys the department’s goals and creating the opportunity for the GID to secure much needed funds from the Swiss Federation through the EU to help review our obsolete legal and policy documents.”
The retreat was held at Bakau and attended by senior officials of the GID, senior officials of other security units, and officials from the Ministry of Interior. It was meant to assess GID’s on-going efforts, successes, challenge and progress made in the implementation of the GID Strategic Plan (2019-2024) and its indicators in the framework of the security sector reform.
The GID boss said: “Following the 2017 security sector assessment report, a series of recommendations were pronounced for the GID to hail and develop user friendly policies reflecting current realities in a bid to sanitise institutional odds.”
He added: “Going forward, the department committed massive resources and time to develop a five-year strategic plan on various interventions to ensure effective implementation of the general and specific recommendations highlighted in the 2017 SSR Assessment Report.”
