The Gambian government has aborted a cabinet decision to give green light to a Belgian biometric company to start the production of the country's ID Card and Passports, reports Gambian media.According to a report in The Freedom Post, the Barrow government has decided to put a hold on the signing of the contract it had earlier intended to enter with the firm Semlex. Citing unnamed official sources, the government of the Gambia has now decided to put the biometric contract in an open competitive tender-which will allow competent companies to bid for the contract. In February, the minister of Justice has announced that the government had finally agreed to restore, rather than award, the national identity productions contract to Belgian biometrics company, Semlex."After a whole year of consideration of this matter, culminating in the establishment of a Ministerial Taskforceߪthe Government has decided to recognise and restore the subsisting June 2016 Contract with Semlex which was purportedly terminated by the previous government shortly after the contract was executed with the Ministry of Interior in 2016," Ba Tambadou told journalists at the Victims' Centre in Kololi at the time.
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