By Adama Makasuba
Association of Gambian heavy fuel transporters are gripped in fear again as they lost more than D100 million from 2017 to 2021.
They accused foreign companies as well as other Gambian companies of conniving against their association and stripped it off all the fuel transportation contracts, leading to collapse of massive businesses of the members. About thousand people also lost their jobs, the four-man member of the association told The Voice exclusively.
They extended calls to President Adama Barrow-led administration to help empower Gambia National Petroleum Company and the National Water and Electricity Company.
Waka Mass Mbai, who spoke on behalf of the group, said: “If all of us are jobless, our cost of transportation will be far more than hundred million and that’s what we are trying to avoid.”
“Because what we get always remains in the country, the money we get remains in the country and we are employing Gambians youth. But some of these foreign companies are only in for their interest and in fact their service is a lost to the country’s economic, because they take that revenue back to their homelands.
“Many of our colleagues have sold their properties because you cannot owe the bank and expect the bank to let go like that, some few of us are the ones who survived by not selling our properties,” he added.
He added that if they lose their children will not go to school again, and it will be a job lost for their staff while they are employing more than thousand people, he said.
