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Barrow Plays with Our Money
D500,000 EXAMPLE SET BY SABI WARD COUNCILOR IN URR
The Ward Councilor for Sabi District in the Upper River Region of The Gambia, Hon. Yuba Jawara has launched a remarkable role-modelling in his region by digging boreholes for his constituents out of his own fund-raising efforts. The boreholes, so far, have cost over D500,000 (five hundred-thousand Dalasis) for the villages of Mampatayely in Fuladu East District, Upper River Region and Sare Musa village respectively.
The efforts, according to the Secretary General and Ward Development Coordinator of Sabi, Mr. Hagi Suwareh, are part of deliveries of some campaign promises made by Hon. Jawara. “If the region seeks to rely exclusively on taxes to fund projects, there is usually a return of only D80,000.00 out of D100,000.00 after local Alkalos debit their 10% from collections,” Mr. Suwareh told forGambia.
It is in this spirit that Hon. Jawara had to look elsewhere for funding, as well as employ his own methodology of delivering services to his people, instead of waiting for the Gambia government, Suwareh mentioned, lamenting the hardships confronting local women in getting just clean water for daily household consumption.
Such services addressing perennial problems of decades post-independence could perhaps, only come “under the efforts of Hon. Yuba Jawara who he is tirelessly working as promised in his campaign that the most difficult constraint his people are facing day in day out is lack of access to clean drinking water,” Suwareh continued.
“Now that he has taken office as people’s representative, he will do his utmost best to fulfill those promises. Now that delivery has started, this poor settlement of Mampatayely village will benefit from such a development brought by Hon. Yuba Jawara,” he put it.
[He] has made it possible for them to have easy access to clean portable drinking water with 30 meters drilled boreholes. This will ease the hardship on the women who use hand-pulling ropes to fetch water daily from local 30-meter-deep Wells,” Mr. Suwareh ended.
Mr. Mambureh Njie, a serving cabinet minister of both Jammeh and Barrow’s Gambia took D202,500.00 (Two-hundred and two thousand, five hundred Dalasis) from Gambia’s coffers in July 2018 to fix his teeth in a Dakar clinic. How many boreholes, with that kind of money, could have been dug for rural Gambians without basic access to water? A Borehole, in the 21st Century is still a very basic human facility not even seen in the wilderness of most countries.
But Barrow’s mind and government don’t see that. They don’t even see the need to dig one for the people of Mampatayely and Sare Musa. In these little villages reside our mothers, our aunts, our uncles, our young children that are all Gambian. And also, our voters who cheer for the presidential motorcade but still can’t get the most basic human need: Water.
It has to take a local councilor’s personal effort to bring the basics to his people. But Adama Barrow can boast of buying 400 vehicles for his Barrow youth movement, or two water cannon trucks to spray hot water on fellow Gambians that actually voted him into office.
This website isn’t a profit venture or spree for vainglory! In it will be painted portraits of injustice, greed, and the most bestial of corruption silhouetted on a rare public indignation for history to brood over. Barrow’s most recent purchase of a D27 million building in Tabokoto is another screamer. A source informed us later that he had also bought another multi-million Dalasi house along the Bakau road off the return highway from Banjul.