Pa Malick Ceesay, executive secretary, National Youth Council, has disclosed that some of the recommendations of the 2006 biennial National Youth Conference and Festival (Nayconf) were achieved though he said there was no technical format for the implementation of those resolutions.

Mr Ceesay made these revelations at the National Assembly, last Friday, while answering to a question posed to him by Honourable Alagie Sillah, chairman of the National Assembly Youth and Sports Committee, during a five-hour meeting organised by the National Youth Council and the committee to brief the Department of State for Youth and Sports on their activities.

According to Ceesay, NYC and its stakeholders will seriously look into the 2008 Nayconf and customise everything. He narrated that this year's Nayconf will target only two hundred and twenty-five participants.

He further revealed that, for the 2008 youth gathering, which will take place in December at Farafenni, NBR, all the regions and municipalities will transport their participants to the gathering and be responsible for their feeding.

When asked by Honourable Sillah as to what led to the incompletion of many mini stadiums in the country and who the contractors of those projects were, the deputy permanent secretary, DoSYS, Abdoulie Kah, answered that those pending projects came at a time when the department was not financially strong enough to complete them. He added that the projects were contracted to Nasir Atom Construction Company through GAMWORKS.

Deputy Permanent Secretary Kah further maintained that lack of adequate information was also a contributing factor to these problems.

Mr Musa Njie, general manager of the Independence Stadium, said in order to achieve the set targets of Nayconf, the biennial resolutions must be looked into for implementation before the following gathering. He added that the shortcomings must also be looked into. He concluded by saying that the relevant stakeholders must be capacitated for them to carry out their functions more effectively.