By Lamin Kujabi
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Southern Corporation (OSC), Mr. Manssour Bin Mussalay, who is on a visit to The Gambia, has disclosed that the organisation plans to establish preliminary research centre in The Gambia as a regional centre.
Mr. Manssour Bin Mussalay, unveiled this concept last week when he called on President Adama Barrow at State House.
He informed the press after meeting the President that he had an extensive and wide ranging discussion with the Gambian leader, including the mandate of OSC, which is centered around education, research, technology development, fresh finance and debt relief for countries of the south.
On the research centre, the SG reaffirmed the importance of re-enforcing educational capacity, research.
He acknowledged the “extra-ordinary quality and vision of the people in the government of The Gambia in seeking and being readmitted as the latest member state of OSC”.
The potential areas of cooperation, the OSC Secretary General further revealed would include the technological development “so that we will no longer remain the passage of the fourth industrial development; rather, we should become drivers’’.
Mr Mussalay went on: ‘‘We will act together to seek debt relief and negotiate fresh finances for our development agenda”.
Mr. Manssour Bin Mussalay was accompanied to the Presidency by the Honorable Minister of Basic and Secondary Education, Madam Claudiana Cole.
