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| Momodou |
Posted - 22 Aug 2022 : 22:56:46
SSHFC TO ADDRESS JABANG ESTATE FLOODING WITH NEW DRAINAGE PROJECT
The Standard: AUGUST 22, 2022
By Omar Bah
https://standard.gm/sshfc-to-address-jabang-estate-flooding-with-new-drainage-project/
The managing director of Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC), Mr. Saloum Malang has expressed his office’s commitment to implement the Jabang Real Estate drainage project. The residents of SSHFC Jabang Estate have complained about the weak drainage system in the area that has resulted in serious flooding over the past three years. Over 36 families have been adversely impacted by the last floods that affected large parts of the KM and West Coast Region. Since the incident, the Jabang Residents Committee has engaged the management of Social Security who have visited the victims on several occasions on the need to urgently address the drainage system. The SSHFC boss, Mr. Malang and members of his senior management on Thursday visited the victims and donated food items worth over D200, 000, following a previous D110,000 to support the current excavation of the blocked waterway as part of the Corporation’s immediate response to the floods. In an attempt to address the floods, in collaboration with the NDMA, NRA and NEA, the corporation had earlier funded a survey costing D225,000, on the Estate and following the results, D57 million was ear-marked for the implementation of the drainage project. The visit on Thursday avail both parties the opportunity to discuss frankly on the way forward.
Addressing the community at the Estate’s football grounds, Managing Director, Mr. Saloum Malang said his office has started engaging the relevant authorities on the urgency of implementing the planned drainage project. MD Malang said Social Security had wanted to implement the project little earlier, but the sum involved is such that they needed time to mobilise funds. “I want to assure you that Social Security is doing everything humanly possible to address this situation. I want to reassure you that we are in this together,” he said.
He appealed to the residents to be patient with his office. “I want all of you to see Social Security as your own Corporation. We are concern about what has happened and we are doing everything possible to address it as soon as possible in collaboration with key stakeholders,” MD Malang added. He said there are immediate plans in the pipeline as contingency measures to support those who are severely affected. Commenting on the donation, MD Malang said it was conceived to support the families who have lost all their belongings during the floods. The chairman of the Jabang Real Estate Association, Falou Sowe thanked the delegation for their visit and asked the top Social Security management as a matter of urgency to support those who are mostly affected by the floods. Mr. Sowe also urged the SSHFC management to do everything possible to address the drainage issues. “I want to urge you to mobilise resources to avert the flooding,” he urged. Fatou Ndow, a widow who was hardest hit, said the flood has devastated her home and her whole family has been forced to relocate. She appealed to Social Security officials to resolve the situation and assist all those who have evacuated their houses. All the other speakers at the meeting sought support from SSHFC to solve the flooding. Further reassuring the corporation’s commitment to address the situation, MD Malang assured that his office will work closely with the Jabang Residents Committee and relevant stakeholders to provide lasting solution to the community. The Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Fabuka Njaay thanked the Jabang Committee for their amicable collaboration with the Corporation and assured them of the Corporation’s resolve to strengthen this partnership.
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| kiwi |
Posted - 24 Aug 2022 : 12:51:46
So unfair. They should receive full compensation for their houses. |
| Momodou |
Posted - 24 Aug 2022 : 09:09:45
ANOTHER CASE OF VICTIMS ABUSE BY THE BARROW ADMINISTRATION, WHILE CRIMINALS ARE PROTECTED!
By Sulayman Ben Suwareh
It is heartbreaking to witness another form of injustice at SSHFC Jabang estate, the physical planning authorities demolishing flooding victims' homes; the victims stand helpless to see their homes destroyed without considering following due process or exploring other alternatives to remedy the effect of the flooding.
WHO authorises the demolition exercise?
Has the authority obtained any court order to carry out the demolition exercise?
No institution has the power to carry out such acts without following due process, which might be necessary to obtain a court order or find another alternative approach, including the payment of compensation to the victims!
Have victims been shown any document to prove that the due process was followed, which should start with consultation between the victims and stakeholders? Also, if physical planning now believes they have the power to demolish, logic tells us they must be able to stop any development. Why didn’t they do that?
The bottom line is that they needed to prove that these houses and these alone were responsible for the flooding and that their demolition would remove the risk. There were no alternatives; therefore, it was essential for the greater good.
How can people buy land from their state cooperation SSHFC be blamed for causing the flooding?
Where were the supervising authorities from the state and SSHFC when the development was carryout by the homeowners?
Have the SSHFC carried out its responsibility properly in ensuring all groundworks carry out to mitigate the flooding?
The state should appoint An independent adjudicator supporter by a panel of experts to investigate the flooding to determine the best remedy and the people to be held to account; the other stakeholders like SSHFC are likely accountable for the flooding, and the Physical planning department with its line ministry the land ministry too could be liable based on Neglect of their duties.
The local government and land Minster can’t use the physical planning department to enforce the demolition without following the due process by having an independent adjudicator or the courts determine the final out. Even if demolitions exercise became the last resort, the victims are likely entitled to compensation. That’s why it’s prudent to facilitate an independent evaluation to protect the victim's rights and force them to continue suffering in taking up the combat against the state.
The state's responsibility is to protect its citizens, especially those that are victims of injustice, by holding the people responsible for their suffering to account, not by aiding the incompetent and corrupt bureaucrats.
What’s going to happen to the victims of the demolition? We ignore them and move on as we are doing with the JAMMEH victims and the historical injustices while the privileged few enjoy their lives.
When is the physical planning authority carrying out the demolitions exercise at TANBI Wetlands? Or no, those are the deep state, the untouchable!
Our failed state status shall continue to manifest Until we organise ourselves and get rid of these criminals in office who are only interested in looting our coffers and satisfying their sexual desires.
Stay tuned for part two to provide the evidence to expose some of the responsibility for exacerbating the floods at the SSHFC Jabang estate.
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Article contributed by Sulayman Ben Suwareh.
@24/08/22 |
| Momodou |
Posted - 23 Aug 2022 : 19:24:12
It’s very disgusting seeing the demolitions of peoples live savings. There are better ways of diverting the the water without demolishing finished houses where people spent their entire live savings on land purchased from a Government institution SSHFC.
This is purely incompetence!
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 23 Aug 2022 : 17:13:00
Couldn't believe what I was reading today, JUST ONE DAY after the report in the above posting.
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https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/headlines/physical-planning-demolishes-houses-worth-million-dalasis-at-jabang-estate
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Aug 23, 2022, 11:04 AM | Article By: Arfang M.S. Camara
The Department of Physical Planning on Monday commenced the demolition exercise of houses blocking believed to have been built on waterways at the Jabang Estate.
This move came following the recent flooding in July which ruined some homes in the community.
According to one official from the Physical Planning, who were accompanied to the exercise by the National Disaster Management, the moves were ordered from the “top”.
“These orders were given to us from the top. The identified houses or places are those that are blocking the waterways, causing floods in the area,” said one official from the Physical Planning Department.
The exercise has left the victims and the inhabitants of Jabang devastated, particularly those living at the Estate.
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