{"id":20745,"date":"2022-08-22T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity"},"modified":"2022-08-22T16:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:48:58","slug":"brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity","title":{"rendered":"Brikama Durumakolong decries insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bruce Asemota<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Residents of Suba Durumakollong ward in Brikama have expressed concern about insecurity and noise in the locality emanating mainly from bars in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the ward\u2019s youth association, James Mendy, told The Standard that many important citizens live in the area but all are victims of sleepless nights from noise and pollution as well as petty crimes at these bars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had several meetings with the bar operators and the police to get them to control active and noise to allow residents to have peace but nothing has come out of that now we feel insecure because the noise and pollution from the bars attract all kind of people from far and wide including criminals to our area,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey adhered to the warning for sometime but returned and continue to play music to disturb residents in the area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy recalled a fatal robbery that led to the death of a shopkeeper in the area. \u201cPolice AIG Landing Bojang visited the place and advised the bar operators not to operate beyond 2am. But his warning was not heeded because they soon went back to all habits- blasting music and holding carnival all night long\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy said Landing Bojang\u2019s warning was only effective for a month but the bar operators returned to their ungodly habits of playing music to disturb residents in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe are worried that the activities will attract prostitution, drug peddling and other vices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy said the association now felt that it\u2019s like someone is playing mind game and therefore solicit the intervention of the Inspector General of Police and the Minister of Interior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Asemota Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Residents of Suba Durumakollong ward in Brikama have expressed concern about insecurity and noise in the locality emanating mainly from bars in the area. The chairman of the ward\u2019s youth association, James Mendy, told The Standard that many important citizens live in the area but all are victims of sleepless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[2355,2361,359,8036,260],"class_list":["post-20745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-brikama","tag-durumakolong","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brikama Durumakolong decries insecurity - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Residents of Suba Durumakollong ward in Brikama have expressed concern about insecurity and noise in the locality emanat ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brikama Durumakolong decries insecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Residents of Suba Durumakollong ward in Brikama have expressed concern about insecurity and noise in the locality emanat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-22T16:32:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-22T16:48:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-6303b35b31ec6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Brikama Durumakolong decries insecurity\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-22T16:32:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-22T16:48:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity\"},\"wordCount\":299,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-6303b35b31ec6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Brikama\",\"Durumakolong\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-durumakolong-decries-insecurity\",\"name\":\"Brikama Durumakolong decries insecurity - 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