Banjul Mayor’s office has held its second leg Town Hall meeting as mandated by the Local Government Act 2002 for a sitting Mayor to hear directly from the residents of his people, the meeting was held at Fitzgerald Street in Banjul Central Constituency.
Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe took a series of questions from the people of Banjul to clarify on some already happened developments under her leadership.
Big Mo, a singer asked the Mayor Office to clarify to the public on who was responsible for the construction of ‘Tali Dawda.’
“I want to take the opportunity to thank the Central government for the ‘Banjul Project’ but I can assure you that BCC was responsible for the construction of Tali Dawda, Primate Street, Pill Streetwalkers, Spalding, Spalding curved and Hadinting Street,” Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe responded.
And Pa Modou Colley of Lancaster Street sought clarification on the issue of the street lights and the relationship between the Members of Parliament and Council.
In her response, the Banjul Mayor said: “I want to make it clear for everyone no single MP had ever given the council a bag of cement and we haven’t seen their contributions in anyway so I would take this opportunity to urged the people to vote for the right candidate not just anyone we know that we are heading to the Parliamentary Election and they will say anything to get your votes so vote wisely.”
On the street lights, she said it’s the council alone that is responsible for the lights.
Meanwhile, Lady Councillor Isatou Njie said:” This Gathering is very important because it has given Banjulians the chance to asked vital questions about how their council is runing. For her part the Mayor of Banjul opened with a minute silence for late Councillor Ann Secka.
“I want to assure Banjulians that this is the only council in West Africa that is debt Free. As a council we think it’s unfair for us to charge for rubbish collection that’s why we will continue to collect rubbish for free. We made sure that at least we have two rubbish bins for each household and I want to make it very clear before we came to office there was no rubbish collection truck in place but I can proudly say we have 4 rubbish collection trucks in place,” she said.
“This town hall meeting is historic because it has never happened in the history of Banjul therefore it’s important for people to come forward and ask vital questions about their council,” she added.
