The Chairman of the independent Electoral Commission and a resident of serekunda Alieu Momarr Njai, called for the urgent intervention of the Gambia government to elude conceivable unrest in Serekunda after a Supreme court  decision was premeditated to have ransacked the Jobe kunda’s larger land.

The said land in dispute and opposite to the Serekunda mosque, belonged to one Ali Jobe, (Mr Njai’s maternal grandfather) who was the eldest son of the founder of Serekunda, late Sayerr Jobe.

According to Alieu Momarr Njai, the Jobe Kunda family has rejected the Supreme Court ruling which gave ownership of the land to one Mr Hydara.

“Immediately after the ruling, the elders of the town held a meeting and agreed for their lawyer to ask the Supreme Court to set up a panel of 7 judges to review the case. They also told the lawyer to ask the court to order a stay of execution until the case is reviewed by the panel of judges,” Njai said.

He added that the family wants the court to order Mr Hydara to stay away from the said land until they dissipate all means or there would be serious consequences.

“The Jobe family could not understand why the Supreme Court has decided to rule in favour of Hydara over a land which is owned by orphans and has not been shared yet. We made all these arguments through our lawyer at the court but still, they were not satisfied,” he asked.

He said the land in dispute was allegedly given to JC Faye by Isatou Jobe, the daughter of the late Ali Jobe, before the property was shared in the Islamic tradition.

“I want to send a clear signal to the government that whenever Hydara attempts to build anything on that land, there will be chaos in Serekunda. The youth of the town have made it emphatically clear to me that they will attack him whenever he attempts to touch the land. So the ball is in the government’s court to act now or risk entertaining a civil unrest,” he concluded.

 

By Fatima Sonko