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Momodou
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 Posted - 25 Apr 2008 : 18:19:17
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DEMOLITION EXERCISE LEAVES SEVERAL PEOPLE HOMELESS
By Saikou Ceesay
More than one hundred residents of Busumbala were, on Wednesday, 23 April, left homeless, following a demolition exercise, which was carried out by agents working for the State.
A distraught family head, Ansumana Kinteh, who spoke to this reporter, said he and his family slept under a mango tree. He indicated that he lost the bulk of his belongings during the demolition exercise. Mr. Kinteh narrated that on that fateful night his family cried the whole night due to the ordeal they were subjected to. “I have no where to go and reside” said 43 years old Ansumana Kinteh.
Speaking to this reporter, another victim, Fatoumatta Bah, a widow, said she was approached by men who came with caterpillars and accompanied by security officers and they asked her to evacuate her residence. She alleged that they never received any notice from the authorities. She said that if they had received notice, they would have resettled elsewhere before the forceful eviction. “We doubt if there is any law in this country”, she questioned.
A renowned Gambian artist, Jali Nyama Jobarteh, was among the victims affected by this demolition exercise. She disclosed that the money she gained from her artistic profession was what she used to build her house. She said that she has spent more than D300,000 to build the house. Jali Nyama told this reporter that the PIU personnel and police officers just descended on the area and forced them to abruptly leave their homes. She explained that these security men went to the extent of throwing out some of their belongings from their houses. She said that the situation is frustrating and disheartening and describing the practice as inhuman.
One Yusupha Marong, also a victim, was crying bitterly and saying that all the money he spent on constructing the house has gone in vain. He said that he is desperate, frustrated and hopeless.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 48/2008, 25 – 27 April 2008
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toubab1020
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Posted - 25 Apr 2008 : 21:17:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Momodou
DEMOLITION EXERCISE LEAVES SEVERAL PEOPLE HOMELESS
By Saikou Ceesay
More than one hundred residents of Busumbala were, on Wednesday, 23 April, left homeless, following a demolition exercise, which was carried out by agents working for the State.
Why? 
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dbaldeh
USA
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Posted - 25 Apr 2008 : 21:46:50
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This seems to be a cruel systematic exercise this regime has engaged in for the past few years. This is a serious crime and both the people who authorize the demolition and those doing the demolition will pay dearly for this inhumane act of cruelty.
They should be going after the people who sold those lands to these innocent people who spent their whole life struggle to build a roof for their poor families to live in.
The government have no right to act this way. This is even worst than Gaza in the middle east. What a despeakable act of beast behavior. History will teach them a lesson when the time comes. Disgusting even to feel like these are our people acting like this.  |
Baldeh,
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toubab1020
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toubab1020
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Posted - 29 Apr 2008 : 17:13:31
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And so to Court......... adjourned until 29th April to sort out legal stuff bit....... complicated......... have a read from the Observer
http://observer.gm/africa/article/2008/4/29/another-demolition
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jambo
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Posted - 30 Apr 2008 : 13:37:59
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if this was an exercise, who hired the demolition men, someone has paperwork somewhere, who owns the land, what will be done with. were they aquatting or paying rent.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 30 Apr 2008 : 14:27:34
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Originally posted by jambo
if this was an exercise, who hired the demolition men, someone has paperwork somewhere, who owns the land, what will be done with. were they aquatting or paying rent.
I have no information at all myself BUT I did visit the land about 2 months ago, it was a large area cleared and all marked out and a man wanted to sell me some,I was not in a position to proceed but my friend had bought a 30X30 plot and he showed me a paper signed by an Alcali although not countersigned by a chief,he had bought it about 3 years ago ,but I must say that his plot was not part of the big cleared area which was about a 10min walk from the village.
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