President Adama Barrow’s government is consistently being criticized in the local government community for still refusing to adhere to the Local Government Act, mandating it to give budgetary support to local authorities. According to the Act, 20 per cent of the councils’ budget shall be financed by the central government.[Read More…]
Tag: Brikama Area Council
Who Will It Be?
As the political temperature values are expected to increase sharply in The Gambia in the few months to come before the local government elections, the country’s largest opposition party has started to experience some political battlefield problems as some of its officials show no sign yet that they’ll backpedal on[Read More…]
Ex-Diplomat Tuku Jallow Eyes BAC Chair
Former Gambian diplomat, Madam Tuku Jallow, is poised to shift the narrative as she aspires to become the first female chairperson of the Brikama Area Council (BAC) under UDP ticket, JollofNews can report. “Yes, I have my eyes set on the BAC chair,” she wrote back when asked about reports[Read More…]
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