In yet another show of the importance he attaches to the education sector, President Yahya Jammeh has made a surprise donation of seven buses to seven schools in the Greater Banjul Area. The buses were presented to the students and their principals at the 1st anniversary of the HIV/AIDS Breakthrough Celebrations held at the July 22nd Square in Banjul, yesterday.

The beneficiaries are Muslim SSS, Gambia SSS, Mindaw SSS in Farato,J C Faye SSS, Nusrat SSS, Saint Augustine's  SSS and The Gambia Technical Training Institute. The American type buses will help ease the transport problems confronting student commuters to and from their various schools.

The president, in addition, promised to provide 1000 litres of fuel for each of the buses after which the schools should be able to run the buses on their own.

"I will give 1000 litres of fuel. After that I don't know you, you don't know me. Is that a deal?" he asked the excited students who answered in the positive.

The president also used the occasion to annouce his abilty  to  treat stroke and  skin cancer .

" If you have stroke there is a 99 percent possibilty that you will walk again. Already I treated one with stroke and he is today walking. If you also take  one dose, you will be okay from skin cancer," he said.

HIV/Aids Cure

Groups of cured patients were in attendance to thank the President in person for their well-being. Moving speeches were made by two of the patients, and Dr Mbowe and SoS Malick Njie (full speeches to be published in full in the next issue of the Daily Observer).

In a jovial and happy speech, the President also cautioned those who have now been cleared of the pandemic to be careful as his medication is no guarantee against re-infection.To  that effect he said:

"It is not a guaranty that you will not re-infected if you are careless. I make it clear that my medication clears AIDs from your system. We only discharge you if the machines that first tested you and said you have AIDs again say you have been cleared of it. To say the virus is now curable does not give you the chance to be careless."
No war
The president emphasised that his cure of AIDs is free and  purely based on humanitarian grounds and not a  fight against pharmaceuticals that are making billions in fortunes due to the pandemic.

"Making my treatment free does not mean fighting anybody. Those who see the treatment as a threat should think of Allah as human beings are His assets," he concluded.