By Adama Makasuba
The New Yundum Village Development Committee has issued stern warning to some National Assembly Members who have been alleged of taken some plots of lands belonging to the community to immediately hand back the plots to the community.
The committee accused the government for allocating the community’s 1000/500 ‘reserved’ land to public officials including the country’s lawmakers.
In a three-page statement signed by the committee’s chairman, Alhagie H Ceesay, states: “last but not the least, that for all National Assembly Members to return the plots of land they were offered the soonest the possible time for they MUST understand that their position of being National Assembly Members is not a privilege one and not in any way should they be accorded any special treatment of self-enrichment or aggrandisement.”
The committee also urged “the State to stop giving plots of lands for free to underserving people, agencies or institutions like that of members of the National Assembly which is and cannot be justified under any condition.”
“We would like to draw the attention of the general public and by extension the government of the Gambia in particular the Ministry of Lands and members of the National Assembly of our utmost dismay, disappointment and frustration of the unlawful allocations of plots belonging to the community of the New Yundum to government officials and in particular the honourable members of the National Assembly of The Gambia.”
“We truly find this regrettable and utterly unease of how intensive our own public officials more so National Assembly Members could venture into such act of robbing the very people they are to serve genuinely,” the statement added.
