By Mustapha Jarju
Brikama Area Council has dismissed claims emerging from market vendors that it has not done any tangible development to uplifts the standards of the market and its occupiers.
But the council rejected the claims and insisted that it’s doing series of consultations with various stakeholders which includes the Brikama Fish Market officials, Regional Governor and other stakeholders to see what approach they can take to put a stop to such kind of things in the market
Lamin Singhateh, Clerk and Public Relations Officer of Brikama Area Council said: “people are entitled to their personal opinion, and you the person they are alleging should be in by proofing yourself very innocently in the allegation that’s what really matters but not people alleging you that matter much, with regards to the allegations.”
“The fish market is the cause of all this problem in the Brikama market and that is an institution of its own but collectively we all have something to do to combat that menace.”
According to him, BAC used to hire septic tank trucks to suck some of the stagnant water in the Brikama market.
“I really don’t know what might have happened to the fish market planting system because I am not a staff there and I am not a technical person to access that but I believe there is a major problem that and unless that issue is tackle by the custodians of that particular institution. The custodian of the Brikama market should come up with a tangible plan so that the BAC can complement it. But, as a regional authority, as the particular market is within the Brikama Area Council we are not back benchers in solving the problem and always in the forefront,” he explained.
He continued that they are doing their level best and “of course these allegations can be reality based but the reality here too is you need to understand that it is not that the council is not doing nothing, we are doing something, and we understand we are a service delivery institution and we are delivering this service to the population. No one can expect the entire population at the same time to stand change. This is this, this is good, we don’t expect people to be pressing us on issues that they themselves know they are having some deficiencies there.”