By Adama Makasuba
The Gambia OIC secretariat has revealed that the office raised more than 300 million dollars for the 2024 Islamic conference set to take place in Banjul. The revelation came days after President Adama Barrow announced the country would host the much-delayed World Islamic Conference in May 2024 after attending the Africa-Saudi summit in Jeddah.
Speaking to reporters on the hosting of the 15th OIC summit at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center, the Chief Executive Officer, Yankuba Dibba, said: “The OIC Secretariat has raised over 300 million dollars since its inception in 2018.”
Yankuba Dibba said since the founding of the Secretariat in 2018, the government of the Gambia, through the Secretariat and relevant stakeholders, has registered significant progress in their efforts to organize a memorable summit that every Gambian can be proud of. “Our guiding principles are to leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that hosting such a summit comes with and to deliver to the best interest of the people of our beloved motherland, the Gambia,” he added.
According to him, they believed that the OIC summit would be meaningless if it were not linked to the progress and prosperity of all Gambians. “That’s why all projects were strategically chosen and designed not only to provide a unique experience for the summit quests but also to meaningfully transform the lives and livelihood of everyone living in the Gambia,” he continued.
