By Mama A. Touray
As the Gambia Transport Union threatening a sit-down strike over unmet demands from the authority, the union has expressed its unreserved disappointment at the Ministry of Land over scarcity of garage across the country.
Speaking to reporters in Banjul on Tuesday, the union’s president Omar Ceesay said: “we are disappointed at the Ministry of Land” asking that: “What garage has the government create for us the citizens? Every day the vehicles are increasing both day and night, port is increasing, GRA is collecting (revenue) and the borders, too and still the government of The Gambia cannot create a car pack for us.”
”If you tell them about the garage issue, they will tell you that there is no land, when will they have land is the space of The Gambia (which the population is) increasing, if the government say as at today that they don’t have land when will they have land then,” he further asked.
Speaking on, he said, ”the Ministry of Transport is to prepare the report and record to give to the Ministry of Land but up to date we did not receive anything from them up to now and we wrote different letters to the Ministry of Land and we did not receive any respond from them” he added.
According to him, it is so unfortunate that the KMC everyday is having press conference on the need of the whole country and still the Ministry refuses to respond or say something about it.
He said the KMC press conferences that are not working (yield anything) is a joke “we are very disappointed about the entire Ministry of lands” he reiterated. Saying all documents were given to the government but “it is not the government who owns it and this is part of our demands if the Ministry of Lands. And if government cannot find a garage, we are not going to work we are tired of the police following us as someone who did not know where they are from,” he maintained the union stance.
