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Newfy
Western Samoa
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 Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 03:49:01
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Jambo -- was this what you were talking about the eviction of market vendors? I know this is old news, but wondered if this was the one.
RESTRUCTURING S/KUNDA MARKET
By Surakata Danso
Some vendors at Serrekunda Market have expressed their dissatisfaction at the manner the restructuring of the market is proceeding following the last fire disaster. In their bid to implement the recommendation of the task force which was set up by the Mayor of the KMC, the chairman of the Kanifing Market Monitoring Committee has on the 1st of December 2005, sent notice of demolition to hundreds of canteen owners and vendors who use the road behind the market to sell their goods. The road that links
Dippa Kunda high way to the Sayerr Jobe Avenue after the old Anglican Church, is the precise location.
According to the affected victims, the period covered by the notice is the days after which the structures will be demolished. The affected persons claimed that the action of the KMC authorities is uncalled for because the notice is short. They further claimed that the action of the KMC authorities is callous because hundreds of those affected by the emergency notice of eviction are family men and women; that if it is implemented as planned, it will endanger the lives of thousands of young and elderly people. The victims therefore called on the Secretary of State for Local Government, the SoS in charge of Social Welfare and the Vice President to intervene in what they call a cruel action aimed at denying
them their source of livelihood. KMC should have created an alternative place for us before taking any action, the aggrieved victims said. They said the claim that their structures are illegal is baseless; that despite the claim, KMC has been collecting tax from them over the past 15 years.
The committee at the market claimed that they are aware of the issue of the notice; that the move is as a result of the fire that has ravaged the market eight months ago. The exercise is aimed at creating three 6 metre roads in the market for accessibility in case of fire or other accidents. The committee members that this reporter contacted agreed that the recommendations of the Gumbo Touray Task Force have been from the market vendors themselves, but that they had told the committee that before any action is taken against them, the would-be victims should be provided with a place for selling their goods. On the issue of the 6 metre road, many vendors called on the KMC authorities to reconsider and look at
the entry point of the back road from Dippa Kunda highway which had been used by the KMC Cleansing service truck and fire service tanks up to the toilet; that such a situation had been existing since PPP days. They suggested that what could be done is to allow that access road up to the Church; that anything more than the size of that road is going to worsen the poverty of many families which they say contradicts the governments programme of poverty alleviation. All efforts to get in touch with PRO Sanyang of KMC proved futile.
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jambo
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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 12:19:36
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hi newfy, no the one i mentioned was outside african village hotel, in baku/farjari. they had been there at least 10 years and were evicted by the landlord with less than three days notice. If you go there now there is nothing on the land. I just thought the treatment from one gambian to another gambian is all about money. This was there livelihood.
On one of my trips and I mentioned it on bantaba the vendors on the beach outside the senegambia hotel had been evicted. once agin no notice livelihoods lost. They did not have a lot of money but they had a living and had been there for years. Its all to do with money. |
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 12:24:57
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i know its hard but its also to do with planning permits, housing regulations, public health and regulations.those stores were illegal contructions on the roadside. infact some of them not only make a living there but they lived there with their families.
those who have rented proper stores and try to make a living from it are still doing it.
those squatting risk losing everything anyday. |
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jambo
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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 12:33:36
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| okay, i get it never thought they were squatting, they had been there so long. I had thought they were paying some sort of rent. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 18:23:10
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| NO ONE SQUATS IN THE GAMBIA. EVEN THE SO CALLED SQUATTERS PAY DILY MARKET DUES TO THE LOCAL COUNCILS. IT SI MORE LIKE TAXING DRUGS AND THEN ARRESTING THE SELLERS. IF YOU THINK DRUG IS ILLEGAL, WHY COLLECT TAXES FROM SELLERES AND THEN TURN AROUND AND ARREST THEM. THIS IS THE FATE OF THE SO CALLED SQUATTERS |
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 18:58:55
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| ONCE again kon you are right. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 20:54:43
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 15 Jul 2006 : 13:40:38
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Originally posted by kondorong
NO ONE SQUATS IN THE GAMBIA.
once again you're generalising. and you statement is not true. NO squatters in the whole country? you surprise me.
You're missing the point. operating a business and erecting a structure are controlled by two different offices. taxes are collected even if you dont have a physical location. people who walk in the streets selling stuff are taxed, daily.
thats different from squatting. if they were not squatting why aren't they still there, legally? dont confused the two.
where jambo was talking about is in bakau right opposite the Bank. its were illegal. period |
Edited by - njucks on 15 Jul 2006 13:42:34 |
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 15 Jul 2006 : 23:31:30
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njucks,
Go to the river/mosque to be baptized.You need enlightenment.
All these you are talking about,despite controlled by different offices,all those offices are answerable to one man/woman the chairman who is answerable to the secretary of state eho answers to the big chairman.
Tell me is there any institution that can challenge the orders of the big office despite their difference since the devolution of the central and local government?
Whether be it bakau ect ect,Gambia is Gambia.Where is more congested than the ex-car park where women now sell in serekunda market?
But no because Ara Jatta is there as the women mobiliser selling food stuff.Where do the taxis go now?Nowhere where everywhere is NO PARKING.More funds for the government isn't it?That is even more illegal.
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 14:05:22
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 hahaha Janyanfara.
maybe i should stop but you miss the point as well. i think it is possible to have a debate on this Bantanba about any issue in the gambia without putting a political dimension to it. dont you agree?
Jambo asked a specific question about a landlord who has evicted people who have erected structures on his fence for more than 20yrs. its just outside African Village hotel in Bakau.
i responded because not only do i live around there, i know the people who lived and sell there personally.there was a telecentre there, some regular shops selling cigarettes, a spare parts shop. infact one of the shop keepers was quietly running a ''FOREX'' bereau changing money also.i also know the landlord. i also know why they were evicted.
let us keep the debate to the question and try to be logical. those people as i said knew the risk all along. infact this is not the first time. if you live in a place without a proper permit you risk loosing everything anyday no matter how long. do you find this difficult to understand?
according to Jambo, it is the landlord who evicted them not the government. try to understand the problem you wish to talk about.
i dont care what happens in Serrekunda as i dont live there and its a problem for those affected. that is why i did not comment on the issue.
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 22:33:06
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quote:
Originally posted by njucks
hahaha Janyanfara,
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........i dont care what happens in Serrekunda as i dont live there and its a problem for those affected. that is why i did not comment on the issue.
Bro njucks,
are you ok?
What do you mean about the above statement?
Don't you love your country?
Oh do I mis understood you again?
please clerify I love you so much that I don't want to belief what am thinking of you now.Please tell me am wrong!
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 01:20:49
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| Njucks same on you,is Serekunda not in The Gambia.YOU should CARE about any village,town or city in the Gambia and of cause any tribe if you are truely a Gambian.Please withdrew your statement as it is not a nice one to make.Hope you dont mean it.PEACE TO EVERY GAMBIAN AND LOVE THE WHOLE GAMBIA AS A COUNTRY.ONE COUNTRY, ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE.AM VERY UPSET ABOUT YOUR STATEMENT NJUCKS. |
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Edited by - LEMON TIME on 17 Jul 2006 01:23:35 |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 01:29:49
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quote:
Originally posted by LEMON TIME
Njucks same on you,is Serekunda not in The Gambia.YOU should CARE about any village,town or city in the Gambia and of cause any tribe if you are truely a Gambian.Please withdrew your statement as it is not a nice one to make.Hope you dont mean it.PEACE TO EVERY GAMBIAN AND LOVE THE WHOLE GAMBIA AS A COUNTRY.ONE COUNTRY, ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE.AM VERY UPSET ABOUT YOUR STATEMENT NJUCKS.
SO LEMON-TIME YOU ARE NOW GROWING UP? |
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 01:42:27
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| I CAN BE MADIBA, WHEN SOME ONE CROSS THE LINE.PEACE TO YOU. |
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 10:10:57
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| I think we should care about injustice anywhere in the WORLD, not just our own village or country. The world is a small place now and what happens in one place affects another. |
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jambo
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Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 11:19:46
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| Njucks, why were they evicted |
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