Mayor
of the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), Talib Ahmed Bensouda, has outlined his
council’s plan for 2020, citing market infrastructure as one of his main areas
of intervention.
According
to Mayor Bensouda, their new strategy dubbed GIS mapping and Address Taskforce
will seek to embark on market infrastructure and expand markets space to making
sure youth, women and vendors in the streets are all accommodated in safe
sanitary market place to do their business.
Bensouda
was speaking in an exclusive interview with The Point on Tuesday, in which he
disclosed that one of his biggest passions for 2020 was to have a municipal bus
service that would provide easy transportation to its staffs at an affordable
rate.
He
added that the KMC has initiated four taskforces to bring projects in the New
Year. He cited these taskforces as: Waste Processing, Municipal Bus Service,
Addressing Taskforce and the Market Infrastructure Taskforce.
“My
biggest passion for the year 2020 is to have a municipal bus service and we are
very close taking that to reality. It breaks my heart to see all the people
working here struggling to have transportation making them fighting to get into
commercial vehicles after work,” he said.
He
added that he wants to bring a standard municipal bus service to his people at
an affordable fee.
According
to him, his next passion for the year would be on waste processing, citing
Bakoteh Dumpsite as the target.
The
33-year-old politician said that all the council’s workplan for the year has
already been developed since last November. He added that implementations have
started in earnest and that they were working very hard to bring these four
projects to reality in 2020.
He urged the people to be united and work
towards a common goal for the development of their communities and The Gambia
in general.
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