He assured that they (municipal council) will do their utmost to work with the government so that together, they could demonstrate to the people that through unity, they could deliver even faster development.
Mayor Bensouda was speaking on Saturday 28 May 2023 after taking oaths for a second term mandate in office at a swearing-in ceremony held at the KMC premise.
“To serve our people better and more efficiently, we will also seek to realise the changes to the relevant legislation so that the Council can be granted more autonomy.
“We invite the government to let go of more authority to KMC so that we can ease its development burden. This will enable the government to focus more on increasing its oversight function, to guide us, and to assist us increase our capacity to serve our people,” he stated.
Mayor Bensouda unveiled that his next term plans would focus on road infrastructure development within the municipality, development of a low cost municipal bus transport service, developing affordable housing to ease the congestion and rent burden of the less privileged.
He stated that his plans would also mechanise and process waste at the Bakoteh Dump site, expand market infrastructure, increase youth engagement and participation in development and establish a public information office to provide guidance to residents of KM.
The Mayor revealed that they would continue to ask for more decentralisation of functions from the central government in order to take more responsibility for the needs of the people of KM.
In a related development, Fatou Janneh-Jallow, the councilor for Bakau-New Town Fajara Ward, was subsequently voted unanimously as the Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Council.
The occasion also witnessed the swearing-in ceremony of 19 elected councilors of the various wards within the Kanifing Municipal Council.
