By: Momodou Bojang
The president of the Senegalese Transport Union Gora Khouma has asserted that the Trans-Gambia corridor is part of Senegal, questioning the Gambia’s right to impose a tax on goods ferried across the corridor.
Senegalese truck drivers have been behind the tension that was brewing at the Gambia-Senegal border for the past few days for their refusal to pay the GRA e-tracking system, which obliged each truck to pay D1600 at Gambia’s borders.
The tension has reached a new level as the Senegalese transport union president raised the question of sovereignty, regarding the trans-Gambia corridor and asked the Gambia to desist from imposing a tax on goods transported across the corridor because the goods that the Senegalese truck drivers carry move from Senegalese city to another.
“We don’t consider the trans-Gambia corridor as part of The Gambia because the trans-Gambia corridor is part of Senegal. They can tax goods from The Gambia but not goods coming from Senegal going to Senegal,” he maintained. He added that the goods taxed had been transported from Zinguinchorr, Kolda, Dakar, or Sediou.
