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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 12 May 2020 : 10:55:28
https://foroyaa.net/director-of-medical-services-calls-on-police-others-to-enforce-regulation-on-transport-fares/
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May 11, 2020
The Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health has called on traffic Police and other law enforcement personnel to ensure that drivers comply with Emergency Regulations on transport fares.
Dr Mustapha Bittaye said: “The Gambia government has drastically reduced the price of diesel and petrol across the country and the reduction must be reflected in all transportation services nationwide,”
Dr Bittaye made this statement on Sunday during his Ministry’s daily briefings on COVID-19.
He added: Passengers are equally requested to report any driver who insists on charging higher fares on commuters or travellers,”
He further appealed to all commercial vehicles drivers to desist from deliberately increasing transport fares.
Dr. Bittaye said the Ministry of Health was also encouraging the public to comply with the security forces and frontline workers whenever they appear to carry out their duties in containing COVID-19.
After the declaration of the state of emergency by the Government of the Gambia, it promulgated emergency power regulations including regulation on transport fares.
In a recent vox pop conducted by this medium, passengers complained that they pay fifty or more dalasi from Brikama to Serrekunda, which used to cost only eighteen dalasis. Others pay hundred dalasis for the same distance. In almost all car parks, passengers were seen quarrelling bitterly with drivers over transport fares.
The troubles that passengers were faced with include ‘shortening of distances’ by drivers as a way of collecting double or triple fares.
The Government has recently lowered the price of fuel – petrol from D49 to D40 per litre and diesel from D50 to D43 per litre. |
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 13 May 2020 : 15:25:42
What about this then, SUPER ACTION what is wanted in THE NEW GAMBIA
Once again the Standard has a scoop,what are the other newspapers doing, sleeping ?
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https://standard.gm/police-impound-36-vehicles-for-violating-covid-19-rules/
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By Momodou Justice Darboe May 13, 2020
The police on Tuesday impounded 36 vehicles as part of nation-wide operations to enforce the Gambia government Covid-19 regulations, The Standard can reveal.
Since the declaration of the State of Public Emergency by the government, commuters have been encountering hardships on the roads as many commercial vehicle drivers refuse to comply with the emergency regulations.
But according to Commissioner King Colley of the Mobile Traffic Unit, the police are now going all-out to bring back sanity to the roads by ensuring that drivers respect the emergency regulations.
The police said 20 people have so far been arrested in West Coast Region and another 16 in the Kanifing Municipality.
He described the arrests as major breakthrough in that it had not been easy for officers to effect arrest and prepare grounds for prosecution due to refusal of people to serve as witnesses.
The police have now devised a new strategy in which it sends out officers on undercover missions by embedding them in the civilian population in vehicles.
“The public has been complaining [about activities of drivers] but we did not have evidence because people are reluctant to be witnesses. We have deployed a new strategy and send people on undercover missions and they have discovered lot of anomalies in the traffic. Left to Gambians alone, we will not have any witness but we are using this strategy to make arrests,” Commissioner Colley revealed.
He explained that the 36 drivers were variously arrested for the alleged offences of inflating fares and loading beyond the recommended capacity, adding that they may appear before a competent court of law on Wednesday.
The mobile traffic chief assured that the police will not relent in ensuring that Covid-19 emergency regulations are observed for the greater good of the larger society.
Meanwhile, president of the Gambia Transport Union, Omar Ceesay, who was seen at the Mobile Traffic Unit, commented: “I have received lot of calls from drivers in Brikama and Kanifing municipality about the arrests over capacity and over-pricing. We are actually here to negotiate because we can say most of them [drivers] are at fault. Since day one, we’ve been engaging them. We are in an emergency and an abnormal situation. Health is wealth and physical distancing will help the entire family. If you want to insist, you are going to be the victim because it’s the law. Let’s promote social distancing. Covid-19 is a cause for concern and we already have 22 cases. We[drivers] are at fault and we are here to appeal to the authorities.”
According to the law, drivers who are found to over price fares and capacity bloating are liable to a fine of D5000 and their vehicle impounded until the end of the Covid-19 emergency.
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