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THIS MAN JOHN MAGUFULI!

EU recalled Its ambassador to Tanzania over Magufuli's LBGT Crackdown.

Magufuli Skipped the UN General Assembly!

Magufuli denounced UN human rights report.

Magufuli banned all foreign trips for public servants.

Magufuli deported UNDP CR Head.

Magufuli deported Head of EU Delegate to Tanzania.

European Union Stopped its Financial Support to Tanzania.

Magufuli Denounced EU-East African Trade Deal as a form of Neocolonialism.

European Union declares Magufuli a Dictator.

Magufuli Refuses to bow to New World Order.

Magufuli refuses to put Tanzania under WHO Covid-19 guidelines.

Magufuli declares Cov*d a Scam.

Magufuli refuses to Take Loans and grants from World bodies to deal with Covid-19.

Magufuli Welcomes Madagascar's traditional Vaccine for covid.

Magufuli refuses that Tanzania will not order or buy any Covid -19 Vaccine from the West or anywhere.

Magufuli is Dead! 😭😭😭😭

Breaking News: Bees dispersed crowd at Barrow’s Kerewan inauguraton Shortly after laying the foundation for the construction of an office and residence for The Governor, the crowd attending the ceremony around the premises was suddenly attacked by swam of bees. The…

AUDITOR GENERAL LAMENTS GOV'T'S INACTION ON RECOMMENDATIONS – The Standard Newspaper By Omar Bah

The Gambia's artisanal fisheries resources are fast depleting due to illegal fishing methods, mostly by foreign vessels, Chinese leading. The bilateral fisheries agreement between The Gambia and Senegal should also be comprehensively reviewed, to render it more equitable and sustainably a win-win transaction for both countries.
I went to the fish market this morning at Serre K***a. The price of two of the cheapest stock that is accessible to most ordinary Gambians continue to rise. If this trend continues, "Yaboy" and "Kobo" may soon be out of the reach of the majority of ordinary poor households who mostly rely on the species. With poor salaries/wages, food & nutritional insecurity is a dimension of poverty that threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Gambians.
The government must protect our livelihoods to avert the tide of unconventional self-help measures now emerging among coastal communities in protecting their environment, and sources of income. I stand with coastal communities in their crusade to proserve their nature & livelihoods. I commend them for their tenacity and urge all Gambians to stand in solidarity with them. Gambia's resources and natural endowments must be sustainably utilised in an environmentally friendly manner, for now and prosperity.

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Jum'ah Mubarak to all of you. While focusing on the national interest, we must always remember that it's about people. Putting people at the heart of the development agenda, is the key to inclusive prosperity. Today, as we prepare for congregational prayers, let us open our hearts and share compassion, forgiveness, love and understanding towards each other as a people. Compassion attracts empathy, and it paves the path to understanding. We need understanding among ourselves to eliminate our differences and invite positivity in our relationships.
Understanding each other, includes sincerely appreciating the other person's position, without being too judgemental. It implies putting yourself genuinely in the other person's shoes, and not just subjectively looking at your own side of the issue alone. There are always two sides to a coin. Everyone has an explanation, an opinion or view about an issue but that may or may not represent the truth. Opinion and truth are not always synonymous. The Qur'an makes it obligatory on Muslims to always affirm true facts from all sides before adopting a position on any issue or controversy. Allah Knows best. This will prevent error of judgement and will ensure fairness to all concerned. May Allah Guide us all. I wish you all a Blessed and rewarding weekend ahead.

GAP SPLITS – The Standard Newspaper By Omar Bah

Mai Fatty Says Barrow's Interest In APRC Might Have Caused His Dismissal – The Standard Newspaper By Omar Bah

GMC Accuses NPP Of Violating Covid-19 Regulations – The Standard Newspaper By Omar Bah

Police drop charges against Madi Jobarteh The Gambia police have dropped charges against human rights and pro-democracy activist Madi Jobarteh. He was charged with false and publication and broadcasting of after he gave an interview to the…

The Gambia: drop the charges of false information and broadcasting against human rights activist Madi Jobarteh - ARTICLE 19 ARTICLE 19 today urged The Gambia to immediately drop the charges of false information and broadcasting against human rights activist Madi Jobarteh and commit to repeal all laws that restrict the rights to freedom of expression. Fatou Jagne Senghore, Regional Director of ARTICLE 19 West Africa said:...

GDC Expels 2 Councilors Who Shift Allegiance To Barrow – The Standard Newspaper The opposition Gambia Democratic Congress has announced its decision to expel two councilors from the party.

Barrow Urged To Take Action Against Tribal Insults – The Standard Newspaper By Omar Bah

Turo's VDF Donates Modern Traffic Control Car – The Standard Newspaper Vision Development Vision of Turo Darboe over the weekend presented a modern traffic control car to the Mobile Traffic division of the Gambia Police Force.

PRESIDENT WANTS POWERS TO DISSOLVE ASSEMBLY – The Standard Newspaper By Alagie Manneh

Gambia-based African American says Gambians are slow, lame and uneducated While the black race and their non-black supporters are rallying together under the banner of ‘’Black Lives Matter’’ to break the yoke of racial discrimination, subjugation, and oppression, a Gambia-based African American YouTuber posted a video online calling for the exploitation and abus

Imam tells Gambian women: Obeying your husband is the key to paradise The former imam at the Banjul International Airport, Alhaiba Hydara has said if a woman obeys her husband, she may enter paradise through any of the gates she wishes.    During a recent appearance on GRTS, Imam Hydara said a woman is required to obey her husband and exert her utmos

Finally, here is the bizarre reason why Manjang was sacked Gambians were left confused and shocked in April when the State House announced without explanation that Muhammed Manjang was removed as director general of Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC).  But now the reason behind his dismissal has been revealed to What's On-Gambia

KUNTA KINTE ISLAND IN THE GAMBIA.

Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly called James Island and St Andrew's Island, is an island in the Gambia River, 30 km (19 mi) from the river mouth and near Juffureh in the country of the Gambia. Fort James is located on the island. It is less than 3.2 km (2 miles) from Albreda on the river's northern bank.

METHOD OF REARINGCATTLES IN THE GAMBIA
Methods of Rearing:
The rearing method used is mainly traditional and most production is targeted at the domestic market.

Overall traditional production is widespread and subsistence in nature, with value laid more on the total numbers owned rather than the economic values of stock. Livestock management is mainly extensive pasture based form of rearing. In this regard the animals are essentially free-range on harvested croplands during the dry season being tethered in the evenings and limited to restricted areas or tethered during the harvesting season.

Over the years livestock production has become more sedentary in nature although, brief management is still being practiced on a limited basis in some pastoral areas, especially in the CRD (Central River Division).

During the non-rainy period as well as in bad years cattle move between the floodplains and the woodland savanna in search of water, greener pastures and to reduce the risk of outbreaks of cattle diseases.

Ruminants such as sheep and goats a mainly sedentary being kept in private compounds during the night time.

Black Iraqis say George Floyd's death sheds light on their own centuries-long plight The community, many of whom are descendants of African slaves, want recognition as a minority group

Each of us need to really look in the mirror. The question each of us need to answer with the greatest sincerity is: how much do we truly love our country and each other, to move beyond the artificial limitations we established that keep us focusing on what divide us, instead of what bind us. If we love our country and love each other as we claim, why is so much jealousy, hate and rivalry superfluous in such a small country, such that we consume more time and energy pulling each other down, instead of pushing each other up?
This country has some of the best brains, so much ingenuity, so much beauty and wealth...if only we canalize all that positive energy into building each other, celebrating each other and appreciating each other, we shall become the beacon of the world.
I invoke the inherent purity of your humanity and the goodness of your hearts, and invite you all to join me in the campaign to spread and share understanding, forgiveness, love, unity and mutual respect among all members of our communities - based on our cherished values, morality, dignity and national pride. It does not hurt or diminish us to appreciate each other, respect our differences and honour boundaries that must NOT be crossed. Let's do this for the sake of our children...for The Gambia our homeland, for our collective future. Pls kindy SHARE THE MESSAGE.

Armed robbers strike in Upper Saloum, escape with 4M CFA - The Point Newspaper A source that spoke to our reporter on the condition of anonymity confirmed the development to The Point. The suspects, our source added were seven. Hamat Loum, the councillor of Panchang Ward who is also from Kerr Mecka Wollof village confirmed the development to our reporter.

Researchers in Madina find successful COVID-19 treatment - The City of the Prophet A blog about the socio-Islamic condition of Muslims and news related to Islam, Muslims, Gulf, Arabs, UAE, Media, and social marketing.

Gov’t, GACH and Mining for minerals: Where are the $ millions - Malagen Malagen's investigation into black sand mining in Gambia shows nothing changes under the new government

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Madi Jobateh: The new SOE declaration is unconstitutional 1. The President has no power to make more than 1 SOE declaration one after the other consecutively without parliamentary approval in between. Having declared an SOE on May 19 to expire on June 9 c…

Barrow uses taxpayers millions to pay uneducated, unqualified advisers Forget the bombastic and self-serving activism of Madi Jobarteh and his ilk. A scandal has been happening right before our won eyes and our social and political activists are so blind and uncreative to do anything about it to force the government to do right with our money. According to app

US Ambassador Cautions Against Violence – The Standard Newspaper The US ambassador to The Gambia, has spoken on the death of the African American George Floyd at the hands of police, the universal opprobrium it caused and

On the New Yundum land dispute, this is what the National Assembly member for Fulladu West, Sanna Jawara (UDP) told Standard Newspaper: " I will only give back the land if the community can prove to me that the land is actually owned by New Yundum. If that is the case, I will not only stop at returning my plot but I will also convince my fellow NAMs to return their plots. But until then I have no case to answer.”

Nonsense!

Why should National Assembly members receive free plots of land? Dude, return the plot! You are not better than the teachers, nurses, soldiers and other public servants who are taking loans from banks and credit unions to buy land.

So many wolves in sheep's clothing. They will be ranting and raving everyday about corruption, when they are worse than South Africa's Jacob Zuma.

Barrister Lamin J. Darbo

THE MINISTRY OF LANDS MUST RESTRAIN ITS APPETITE FOR LAWLESSNESS

In an extraordinary assault on law and truth, Mr Buba Sanyang (the Permanent Secretary) at a press briefing 02 June 2020 stated the position of the Ministry of Lands (the Ministry) on demolitions: “We are planning to embark on another massive demolition in areas where lands allocated to people by government are annexed by people who have decided to build structures on them. This will come as the second phase demolition to be carried out to enable those people to acquire their lands. Government will not allow people to annex these spaces.”

Herein the lawless propensity of the Ministry!
Under the law, Government can only acquire in the public interest and lands so acquired must be used only for public purposes. The Permanent Secretary must study his critical brief.
He also asserted “… the government will not allow people to take the law into their hands by appropriating public places for their own personal use”.
It is the Government acting badly, and in complete defiance of the law.
In a bid to make more effective use of the Government megaphone, the Permanent Secretary claimed “… the Department of Physical Planning sent a letter to the alkalo of Sukuta in August 2007 informing him that the state was planning to use the land located between the Old Salagi Layout and Pateya village as a residential layout…The alkalo was advised not to process any documentation for land transactions or development for that area and that anyone who had questions should consult the department. This was made very clear to the alkalo”.
Contrary to the assertion of the Permanent Secretary, the competent lead department on land acquisition is the Department of Lands and Surveys not the Department of Physical Planning that purportedly “sent a letter to the alkalo of Sukuta in August 2007”.
As if to put the icing on the cake of state vandalism and utter lawlessness, the Permanent Secretary rather pleadingly intimated to the briefing that “section 38 of the Physical Planning and Development Control Act 1991 prohibits people building without obtaining development or building permit”, and that “… all developments without permit have consequences”.
I am aghast at the cruelty of the Ministry, at the cruelty of its constituent departments of Land and Surveys, and Physical Planning and Housing (DPPH), at their routine violations of the law, and the evasive and secretive conduct underlying their operations.
Aghast at the unwillingness of government to step in and wipe the tears of numerous ordinary citizens dispossessed of their lands by the cruel twins of land administration under this lawless and rampantly corrupt Ministry.

In my possession is documentation including a completed lease originating with the Department of Lands assigning dozens of plots, in some cases more than seventy compounds to individuals out of lands stolen from their customary owners in Salagi. They are refused clearance for development or other purposes but those who purchased these lands through dubious channels including from staff of the Ministry’s constituent departments of evil have no issues with clearance.

And all these lawlessness under purported colour of law and public authority!

Irrespective of the Permanent Secretary’s position on the State Lands Act 1991, the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1991, the Physical Planning and Development Control Act 1991, and their subsidiary legislations, the controlling law on land acquisitions is section 22 of the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia (the Constitution).

Any law at variance with the Constitution is void to the extent of the inconsistency.

In particular, the lands at Brusubi, Salagi, and Nemasu in Sukuta, and those involving New Yundum, and Brufut, all in the Kombo North District of the West Coast Region, Brikama in Kombo Central, Tujereng and Tanji in the Kombo South, and Bakau in the Kanifing Municipal Council, were trespassed upon by agents, or purported agents of the Ministry on the pretext the lands concerned were confiscated and reserved by Government.

Absolutely preposterous!

Complete nonsense with no iota of truth!

As Government has no land in these areas, it cannot confiscate and reserve same.

In the event Government requires use of private land, it must follow a stipulated legal process. It is for no reason that “Protection from Deprivation of Property” is included among the fundamental freedoms and entrenched.

According to Section 22 of the Constitution:

(1) No property of any description shall be taken possession of compulsorily, and no right over or interest in any such property shall be acquired compulsorily in any part of The Gambia, except where the following conditions are satisfied:-

(a) the taking of possession or acquisition is necessary in the interest of defence, public safety, public order, public morality, public health, town and country planning or the development or utilization of any property in such manner as to promote the public benefit; and

(b) the necessity therefor is such as to afford reasonable justification of the causing of any hardship that may result to any person having any interest in or right over the property; and

(c) provision is made by law to that taking of possession or acquisition:-

(i) for the prompt payment of adequate compensation, and

(ii) securing to any person having an interest in or right over the property a right of access to a court or other impartial and independent authority for the determination of his or her interest or right, the legality of the taking of possession or acquisition of the property, interest or right, and the amount of any compensation to which he or she is entitled, and for the purpose of obtaining prompt payment of that compensation.
(2) ….

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the making or operation of any law for the compulsory taking in the public interest of any interest in or right over property, where that property interest or right is held by a body corporate which is established directly by any law and in which no moneys are provided by an Act of the National Assembly.

(4) Where a compulsory acquisition of land by or on behalf of the Government involves the displacement of any inhabitants who occupy the land under customary law, the Government shall resettle the displaced inhabitants ….

(5) Any such property of whatever description compulsorily taken possession of, and any interest in or right over property of any description compulsorily acquired in the public interest for a public purpose, shall be used only in the public interest or for the public purposes for which it is taken or acquired.

(6) Where any such property as is referred to in subsection (5) is not used in the public interest or for the public purpose for which it was taken or acquired, the person who was the owner immediately before the compulsory taking or acquisition, as the case may be, shall be given the first option of acquiring that property, in which event he or she shall be required to refund the whole or such part of the compensation as may be agreed upon between the parties thereto; and in the absence of any such agreement such amount as shall be determined by the High Court.

Of significant import, the Government must pay adequate compensation.

I must stress that the compensation envisaged by the Constitution is not stealing lands from two people and relocating one of them in the other’s property. Where appropriate, there must be both monetary compensation and resettlement as enjoyed by those in Half die affected by the Banjul Port expansion who were monetarily compensated and settled on Bakau lands.

More fundamentally, the acquisition must be in the public interest and for a public purpose, and “any such property of whatever description compulsorily taken possession of, and any interest in or right over property of any description compulsorily acquired in the public interest for a public purpose, shall be used only in the public interest or for the public purposes for which it is taken or acquired”.

Under section 2 of the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act (LACA), “public purposes” is defined as including:-

(a) for exclusive Government use or for community use;
(b) for or in connection with sanitary improvements of any kind, including reclamations;
(c) for or in connection with the laying out of any new Government station or the extension or improvement of any existing Government station;
(d) for obtaining control over land contiguous to any port or airport;
(e) for obtaining control over land required for defence purposes;
(f) for obtaining control over land subjected to environmental protection and conservation;
(g) for obtaining control over land the value of which will be enhanced by the construction of any railway, road or other public works or convenience about to be undertaken or provided by the Government; and
(h) for planning purposes.

It is only after land is acquired from its owners by the Government in accordance with the law that it may be designated a State land. According to section 3 of LACA, “any land acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be designated as State lands and shall be administered under the provisions of the State Lands Act”.

And contrary to the assertion of the Permanent Secretary, section 4 of LACA states that “the Minister may acquire any land for a public purpose, paying therefore such consideration or compensation as may be agreed on or determined in accordance with this Act”.

It is a fact that senior employees of the Ministry’s twin departments of evil are living on lands stolen from their customary owners. It is also true that they sold many other lands across Salagi either directly or through third parties to private buyers.

A victim of land gangsterism in Sukuta was told a number of stories by agents, or purported agents of the Ministry’s twin evils. Some told him there are underground cables on his land placed there for special purposes, and others that the Government was creating a housing complex to be used as rest houses by holidaying Gambians settled abroad.
Whatever the truth of these claims, they have nothing to do with the proprietary right of the traditional owners of these ancestral Salagi lands.

The Salagi lands were stolen and not acquired by delineated legal processes.

Consequently Government cannot allocate what it does not own through legal acquisition.

Assuming these are lands which legally belong to the Government - and I reject that emphatically - the Salagi demolitions were conducted in violation of due process according to procedures laid down by DPPH itself.

The Ministry is wrong and the Permanent Secretary must reassess his position. I am in no doubt the land owners will be the ultimate winners as against the public gangsters hiding behind the façade of law.

Gambians are outraged and rightly so by the killings of George Floyd, and Lamin Sisay in the United States of America. I hope we direct part of that energy for justice to victims of Government lawlessness at home over lands in Salagi and elsewhere.