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toubab1020
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 Posted - 20 Dec 2009 : 00:54:53
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So, its western style cleansing in The Gambia from now on:
http://www.foroyaa.gm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4162
This report of Court proceedings may have some effect on a problem that is rife in the towns,but how are the residents supposed to clear their waste water? OK soakaways I suppose,seeing that there are few sewers in The Gambia mostly open gutters that deal with foul water,not human effluent that's true,but surley open gutters present the same risk to health ? These gutters are "maintained" by the councils,therefore until a correct disposal method is in place local councils shoulld also be prosecuted as they appear to be just as liable as compound owners.But that is unlikly as the councils will doubtless say that the gutters are only for dealing with rainwater and not effluent from private compounds.
The article does not make it clear if the other accused were charged with a similar offence as Muhamed Fissuri .
FULL STORY.
The National Environment Agency on Wednesday 16 day of December 2009, prosecuted five people for violating the anti littering Act.
They were convicted and sentenced by the Kanifing Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
One Muhamed Fissuri a resident of Bundung was charged with two different counts and was convicted and sentenced on both two counts. He was convicted and sentenced to a fine of D 5000 in default to serve one month imprisonment. With regards the second count, he was convicted and sentenced to a fine of D2500 in default to serve 15 days imprisonment. When the charge sheet was read to the accused, he pleaded guilty to both two counts without wasting any time. The particulars of offence, reads as follows, “you Muhamed Fissuri on or about the 3 day of December 2009, we were patrolling and went to your compound at Bundung and found out that you had dig a (hole) on your fence and allow the waste water from your compound swirling into the street which can seriously affect the health and lives of the people, which is an offence.
When the particulars of offence was read to the accused by the prosecutor Muhammed J. Jabang from the National Environment Agency (NEA) the accused person pleaded guilty to the charge sheet without wasting the time of court. When the Magistrate asked the accused person as to whether he has anything to say in his plea of mitigation, the accused person said he is appealing to the honourable Court to temper justice with mercy on him.
He told the Court that he was not aware of such regulation.
He assured the Court that it will never happen again. Prosecutor Jabang told the Court that this is not the first that he went to the accused person’s compound. He told the Court that they went there for the first time but could not meet the accused person there but left massage to the people in the compound to inform the accused person of their visit to his compound. He told the Court that their first visit was to inform the accused person to remove such waste which was swirling into the street. He added that it was when they visited the accused person’s compound on the second time and found out that the situation remained the same, that they realized that it was unbearable.
In his judgment, the trial Magistrate said he had listened to the accused persons plea of mitigation, and considering his plea of mitigation, he will have mercy on the accused person. He said that the accused person most be punished. He said the accused person was convicted on the other count and was sentenced with an option of D5000 in default to serve one month imprisonment. He therefore convicted and sentenced the accused person to 15 days imprisonment with an option of a fine of D2500. The other accused persons, Saikou Koita, Sailou Jallow and Addouraman Touray were each sentenced to one month imprisonment with an option of a fine of five thousand dalasis.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 21 Dec 2009 : 22:59:48
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I think that this may be a case of bad communication or lack of joined up government ? or put another way one hand not knowing what the other is doing.
Make up your own mind (read my above posting first)
This from the Point:
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/draft-on-national-sanitation-policy-reviewed
FULL STORY.
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare with support from UNICEF recently reviewed the draft National Sanitation Policy at a day long forum held at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi.
Speaking on the occasion, Samba Conteh, Chief Public Health Officer, said that significant strides have been made in The Gambia in the provision of safe drinking water and improvement of basic sanitation, particular in the rural areas where sanitation is most critical. Despite, a lot still remains to be done in the areas of solid waste and sewage management, urban drainage as well as the adoption of basic sanitation and hygienic practices at the personal and household levels.
He referred to a declaration, according to which approximately 580 million people or more than 60% of Africa's population currently do not have access to safe sanitation. "The signatory countries committed themselves to establish, review and adopt national sanitation and hygienic policies within 12 months to establish one national plan accelerating progress to meet National Sanitation Goals and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, and to take the necessary steps to ensure national sanitation programs are on track to meet these goals," he said.
Mr Conteh pointed out that the draft national sanitation policy was prepared to comply with the declaration, and is based on a comprehensive situational analysis of sanitation in The Gambia. The ultimate goal is to give a more coherent direction based on strategies supporting a coordinated management as well as appropriate technological approaches towards more efficiency service delivery. He added that the policy would also help in utilizing and channelling resources more efficiently.
Momodou K Cham representing the National Planning Commission declared that every individual has the right to access clean water, a right to food, shelter and good sanitation and to the protection of his or her fundamental human rights. Provision of adequate sanitation and hygiene in the community is an attempt to safeguard these rights, he added. Every individual should be entitled to a minimum of 25 liters of safe water per day free of charge, Mr. Cham said, and that a financing mechanism be developed to ensure the protection of these rights since sanitation is a cross-cutting issue.
Author: Isatou Senghore
I found this snippett very interesting,just words and hot air I wonder ?
"Momodou K Cham representing the National Planning Commission declared that every individual has the right to access clean water, a right to food, shelter and good sanitation and to the protection of his or her fundamental human rights. Provision of adequate sanitation and hygiene in the community is an attempt to safeguard these rights, he added. " |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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