Banjulians and Kombo Residents  Lament Poor Sanitation

 By Staff  Writer Charles Williams, Banjul.

Despite President Yahya Jammeh's much vaunted blitz on environmental sanitation, the city of Banjul and  many towns within the Kanifing Municipal Council still  remain  an eyesore .

Residents of these places  are still grappling  with  poor environmental sanitation thanks to the ineffective services rendered by their respective   councils. According to our correspondent , despite the Saturday monthly cleansing exercise commonly known as set-settal the city and many towns could not still boast of clean environment.  He said that malaria and other tropical diseases are now on increase because of poor sanitary conditions within these localities.

The much-talked about Saturday  monthly  cleansing exercise was   initiated by President Jammeh some years ago. He came up with idea with the aim of keeping our environment clean  . In fact the President  went to the extra mile of making  it  a compulsory for every Gambian to come out to take part in the Saturday Monthly cleaning exercise. He even, on several occasions, threatened to fire  heads of government departments and civil servants who show luck-luster attitude towards the exercise.

Our roving reporter visited places where uncollected wastes are being indiscriminately dumped to take some snapshots. He also spoke to residents, passers-by who lamented the bad odor they are inhaling from the environment saying that it is exposing them to serious health consequences.

Muhammad  Sillah, complained bitterly about both councils failure to keep their environment clean .He alleged that since the elections of both Mayor Samba Faal and Mayor Yankuba Colley into office,  the duo have not been doing enough  to meet the expectation of the electorate thus deserve to be given a horse kick.