{"id":335483,"date":"2017-07-11T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=335483"},"modified":"2017-07-11T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T08:30:45","slug":"angry-residents-turn-mayors-office-into-rubbish-dump-in-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=335483","title":{"rendered":"Angry residents turn Mayor&#8217;s office into rubbish dump in Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angry residents in Gambia\u2019s Kanifing municipality turned their mayor\u2019s office into a rubbish dump over the weekend in protest against poor waste management in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, the residents of Bakoteh and Manjai blame the city council of mismanaging the municipality\u2019s main Bakoteh dump site, exposing them to health risks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335485\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mayor-office-waste-1.jpg\" alt=\"mayor-office-waste-1\" width=\"950\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They subsequently blocked the Bakoteh dump site leaving rubbish trucks and other residents stranded.<\/p>\n<p>Traders from the main Serrekunda Market in the municipality were reported to have dumped the pile of rubbish in front of the Mayor\u2019s office on Saturday after they were blocked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335487\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mayor-office-waste-3.jpg\" alt=\"mayor-office-waste-3\" width=\"950\" height=\"526\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The police brought the standoff under control and two people were arrested on Saturday as they opened the dump site, Fatu Network reported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335486\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mayor-office-waste-2.jpg\" alt=\"mayor-office-waste-2\" width=\"952\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mayor Yankuba Colley told the media that he is meeting with government authorities on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Africanews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry residents in Gambia\u2019s Kanifing municipality turned their mayor\u2019s office into a rubbish dump over the weekend in protest against poor waste management in the area. According to local media, the residents of Bakoteh and Manjai blame the city council of mismanaging the municipality\u2019s main Bakoteh dump site, exposing them to health risks. They subsequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[9111,9112],"class_list":["post-335483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-gambia-refuse","tag-mayor-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}