The Gambian Minister for Justice and Attorney General, Mama Fatima Singhateh, is in Kigali to learn from the country’s best practices, specifically in fighting corruption. “The main purpose of this mission is to learn from Rwanda’s best practices in fighting corruption. We are in the process of establishing an anti-corruption commission in the Gambia and we know that Rwanda has a lot to teach us on how it started its own ant-graft structures,” she said at the Ministry of Justice, yesterday. She added that they had discussed how to strengthen ties between the two countries for further collaboration.Singhateh said her country also wants to establish a national human rights commission and they would learn a lot from the national human rights commission. Justice minister Johnston Busingye said the visit marks the beginning of relations between the two countries from which Rwanda would also benefit. “We are very privileged that the first contact between the two countries is from the Ministry of Justice. Rwanda has been learning and we can also learn from the Gambian people and some of them are our role models as intellectuals and civil society servants. So, we are blessed with a potential ally in justice and we shall later bring on other subjects in our relationship,” he said. Minister Singhateh and her delegation would also visit other government organs which deal with corruption, including National Public Prosecution, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Office of the Auditor General, the Ombudsman’s office and the Public Procurement Authority. editorial@newtimes.co.rw
