By: Momodou Justice Darboe
The lawmaker who promoted the amendment of the 2014 Rent Act said those categorized as low-cost tenants could institute legal action against landlords for insisting on more than a month’s rent payment.
Equally, he added, those categorized as high-cost tenants could go down the legal path with their landlords for insisting on more than three months upfront payment.
NAM Madi Ceesay stressed the need for tenants to be proactive in the enforcement of the Rent (Amendment) Act, 2024, which was sometime this year enacted by the President and the National Assembly.
One of the sections of the 2014 Rent Act considered any rent payment of up to D3,000 as low-cost and D7,000 upwards as high-cost.
“What I had come to do was to amend that section and raise low-cost from D3,000 to D7,000 and high-cost from D7000 upwards,” Ceesay said when contacted by this medium last evening.
NAM Ceesay said tenants should seek out redress if they feel their rights, as prescribed by the Rent (Amendment) Act, have been violated.
“The laws will not find you in Busumbala but you can seek redress in the rent tribunals in all the magistrates’ courts across the country when you feel aggrieved,” he pointed out.
The lawmaker said he was contemplating involving the National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) to support in the sensitization efforts around the Act.
