By Heidi Tour
A leak Investigative Panel Report on the allocation of lands in Sukuta Salagi layout has revealed that the Physical Planning Department has failed to honor the State Land and Compensation Act.
The panel recommended immediate compensation to the government of Gambia to give immediate compensation to the affected Abhakutu in a view to end any further encroachment in the region.
The Department of Physical Planning recently demolished 17 compounds in Salaji, increasing the current tension between the department and the affected selling in Sukuta.
The investigative panel was established in 2019 after Kenabering Kabilo of Sukuta, who was accused by senior officials of the Physical Planning Department or of illegal allocation in the layout and selling land in the layout without consultation or approval of the affected families.
According to a leaked report, more than 860 compounds were allotted to senior officials of the Physical Planning Department along with individual gamblers in the annual layout, revealing that the department officials have failed to follow the procedure determined by the State Land Acquisition and Compensation Act.
The discovery panel report also indicated that the Gambia government never compensated the families affected in Sukuta for the allocation of land plots. The panel recommended the government to immediately pay compensation to Kenabering Cabilo members, whose land was affected by the allocation.
The report also said that the land reserved for public places and hospitals has been encroached by both the affected families of Sukuta and physical planning officials, stating that a plot of the land which was specially reserved for the public hospital, has a Uro Jithe and Dr. Yankuba Gasma was re -allocated for personal use.
The panel also recommended that the government would have to attach the afflicted party (Kenabering Kaabilo) in a dialogue for potential compensation to solve the wrangling permanently in the Salagi Propper layout. The panel said that Kenabering Kaabilo has never been compensated for his land as per the need by the law.
The panel recommended that Kennebaring Cabilo must be compensated with immediate effect under the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act Cap 57:06, Gambia's laws said that encroachment on the land reserved by some dissatisfied people of Kenabareng Kabilo should be demolished immediately.
This further recommended that the intruders be charged with criminal trespasses and powerful entries unlike Section 285 and 80 Criminal Code Cap of Criminal Code. 10 volumes. III law of Gambia. It has also been recommended that in order to reduce land in the anniversary, the state must enter the land re -entry exercise for those who fail to respect the terms and conditions associated with their allocation.
The members of the investigation panel include: PS Buba Sanyang (MLGLS), ASP Abdouli Sow (GPF), Cip Dodou Sanneh, Inspector Lamin Jammeh (GPF) and Inspector Buba Manjang (GPF). The panel presented its report to various stakeholders, but not to the affected Kaabilos of Sukuta.
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