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Momodou
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 Posted - 17 Sep 2018 : 14:24:29
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Environment minister concludes nationwide tour
The Point: Monday, September 17, 2018
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/environment-minister-concludes-nationwide-tour
The Forestry, Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources minister Lamin Dibba has concluded a five-day intensive nationwide tour that enabled him to visit under construction forestry stations and discuss with regional forestry officers and staff on their challenges
The Environment Ministry and Department of Forestry in collaboration with the Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EBA) and Action Against Desertification and (CBSDFM) project under the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) organised the tour. During the tour, equipment and materials worth D2.6M were presented to various community forest and joint forest park managements across the country for the prevention of forests from bushfires and other illegal activities.
Permanent Secretary Pateh Jah, Director of Forestry Muhammed Jaiteh, project coordinator of Ecosystem Based Adaptation, Lamin Ngando and FAO officials, accompanied the minister.
The areas visited included Fort Bullen, Barra Market, new forest stations at Juffureh, Mbapu Marikeh in North Bank Region and at Sare Fordikeh in Upper River Region. The delegation also visited mangrove-planting site in Keneba in Lower River Region, which was supported by the EBA project.
Minister Dibba said he was impressed with what he saw during the tour, saying that when he took the office last year, the situational condition of staff was poor and he made a promise to address their accommodation challenges. He said they found it important to construct new forestry stations to help address accommodation problem.
He said such initiative is something he wants to continue to create conducive environment for staff in the provinces. He also announced that his ministry is establishing some nurseries that will support in the availability of seeding.
At Barra, the minister expressed concern about the dumpsite charcoal burning in CRR, which, he said are both posing harm on the environment.
Author: Fatou B Cham
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Momodou
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Posted - 17 Sep 2018 : 15:33:00
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Run-off gullies threatening Mbapa Mariga community, villagers call for help
The Point: Monday, September 17, 2018
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/run-off-gullies-threatening-mbapa-mariga-community-villagers-call-for-help
As agriculture remains the backbone of Gambia’s economy, downpour of rain has been a blessing for most of the rural dwellers as they actively involved in livelihood support through agricultural practices on farmlands.
This is not the scenario with the people of Mbapa Mariga, a border line community in the North Bank Region district of Sabah Sanjal where erosive powers of the down pour in the past years divided the village into two halves making life terribly difficult for women to reach the central well, men to access the central mosque and students to go to school.
Although very optimistic with their farm produce this year, the villagers are devastated by the deepening and widening of a three-meter width and about four-meter deep gully that separate the two sides, caused by the massive erosive powers of the down pour. The gully stretches for more than eight hundred meters.
Chairman of the Village Development Committee (VDC), Omar Ngett said series of interventions by the villagers and projects were made but they did not yet answered their quest. “We are totally devastated as the problem is worsening. The gully swallows any structure near its way. Our children and domestic animals are the most vulnerable especially during heavy down pour at night.”
Mr. Ngett said they are helplessly waiting for disaster if no meaningful intervention is done, appealing to the government, projects and philanthropists to join the efforts of the National Environment Agency and the NEMA project in their continuous engagement in looking for a lasting solution.
He applauded the efforts of the local primary school that bridged one side of the gully with a concrete slap to allow pupils to cross to the other side to attend school and women to cross and fetch water.
Village Imam Morr Mbye revealed that village elders and youths do not sleep during rains, as they stay alert for any unforeseen circumstances. “We live in constant fear,” he told this reporter in an interview during a visit by the NEA`s Environment and Social Management Plan (ESMP) monitoring team to NEMA project intervention sites.
Aruna Jobe, NEA`s senior programme officer for Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) revealed that the disheartening issue in Mbapa Mariga village has been highlighted in their baseline study report to the NEMA project during the starting of the project years ago, and subsequent reports and recommendations were reported to the project.
He noted that inadequate measures were taken over the time by the project and other stakeholders leading to the current depleting situation on the ground. “If you don`t act on time to avert environmental problems, you are likely to pay high cost in repairing the damage,” he said, warning that immediate action is required to avert a hanging disaster.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 18 Sep 2018 : 11:40:54
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"He noted that inadequate measures were taken over the time by the project and other stakeholders leading to the current depleting situation on the ground. “If you don`t act on time to avert environmental problems, you are likely to pay high cost in repairing the damage,” he said, warning that immediate action is required to avert a hanging disaster."
What does this mean ? I think that it is due to someone trying to extend the time the project should take and maybe, extreme delay in obtaining funding for progress of elements that were encountered along the way.
I can only make these comments from the information that has been reported by those villagers & others.Another commission is not required ,BUT a review by a senior powerful person with an in depth knowledge of the implementation of such projects & report their findings with the utmost speed to the Presidents Office.
PEOPLE MUST NEVER LIVE IN FEAR as highlighted in this report. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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