The National Assembly’s Special Select Committee has spoken with a clarity and courage rarely seen in our legislative history. At the very top of its recommendations, placed deliberately, unmistakably, and without diplomatic cushioning, the Committee calls for criminal investigations into Alpha Amadou Barry and Alpha Kapital Advisory for conspiracy to defraud the State, and further insists that Mr. Barry be permanently prohibited from conducting any business with the Government of The Gambia.
This is not a minor administrative note. It is a thunderclap. It signals that Parliament is no longer willing to tolerate the culture of impunity that has long shielded politically connected actors from accountability. It is the opening line of a report that exposes not only individual wrongdoing but the structural weaknesses that have allowed corruption to thrive in the shadows of our public institutions.
A nation does not collapse in a single moment. It erodes slowly, through the quiet decay of institutions, the normalization of shortcuts, and the steady corrosion of public trust.
