By Sheriff Saidykhan
Marr Nyang, the Executive Director of Gambia Participates, a body set up to investigate corruption malfeasance in the country, has over the weekend been awarded the anti corruption award in Qatar.
The Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Anti-Corruption Excellence Award is an initiative by the Amir of Qatar to recognize anti-corruption champions around the world “by highlighting exemplary models and promoting excellence and creativity in anti-corruption, the Award serve as incentive to greater motivation and as a tool to identify, recognize, honor and reward those who have shown vision, leadership, creativity, enthusiasm in, and commitment and dedication for tackling corruption, as well as the capacity to inspire others to replicate similar efforts.”
The award was presented to him by the Amir of Qatar under the “Youth Creativity and Engagement”.
In recieving the award Marr Nyang expressed delight and gratitude, saying his anti corruption body will continue to fight against corruption in the country.
“I feel honored, indeed but at the same time challenged to scale up my work in building anti-corruption systems. It is not a lost knowledge that corruption has cost lives in this country, especially of recent in the health sector. It is not something a reasonable person can accept. Those whose fraudulent and selfish interests cost the lives of our people are the main reason why we must not fold our hands and say “RIP”.
We are exploring ways to build offensive anti-corruption strategies to abort premature acts of corruption before the bubble up to an uncontrollable size.”.
