{"id":13387,"date":"2022-03-30T19:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/minister-responds-to-mayor-lowe-over-travel-clearance-palaver"},"modified":"2022-03-30T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:59:32","slug":"minister-responds-to-mayor-lowe-over-travel-clearance-palaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/minister-responds-to-mayor-lowe-over-travel-clearance-palaver","title":{"rendered":"Minister responds to Mayor Lowe over travel clearance palaver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Local Government minister Musa Drammeh has said yesterday that Banjul mayor Rohey Malick Lowe, who has said she will fight the \u2018undemocratic travel clearance order, is free to \u201cgo to court\u201d to fight the legality of a directive obligating her to request permission for travel from the minister.<\/p>\n

Addressing a town hall meeting last Saturday, Mayor Lowe denounced the \u2018Jammeh-era executive order\u2019 and voiced her desire to fight its legality in court. She narrated how she missed a proposed travel to Liberia because her request to the ministry for clearance was not even \u2018acknowledged\u2019.<\/p>\n

Minister Drammeh, in an interview with The Standard, denied receipt of the mayor\u2019s letter, before challenging her to take the matter to court if she so desires.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe courts are here for everybody. We have no problems with anything that is going to court. We have no problems with that. We will get the Attorney General to represent us there adequately. Let her go to court, please,\u201d Minister Drammeh said.<\/p>\n

He said that there is a procedure that must be followed anytime letters are sent to his ministry. \u201cIt goes through the PS before it comes for my approval. It doesn\u2019t just come automatically and [get] placed on my table. Maybe she does not know how administration works. If she is angry, that is her problem. That has nothing to do with me\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Minister said he has since spoken to his PS, who also denied receiving a letter from the mayor\u2019s office. Drammeh added that his office has in the past approved letters for the mayor\u2019s travels. \u201cShe is complaining, but she wouldn\u2019t tell you the number of approvals we have given her. Nobody is stopping her from going to court [but] this is the law as at now, until it changes, this is the law,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Local Government minister Musa Drammeh has said yesterday that Banjul mayor Rohey Malick Lowe, who has said she will fight the \u2018undemocratic travel clearance order, is free to \u201cgo to court\u201d to fight the legality of a directive obligating her to request permission for travel from the minister. 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