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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Five Banjul City councillors opposed to Mayor Rohey Lowe last week called the press to \u201cexpose\u201d the profligacy of the council.<\/b><\/p>\n

Mayor Lowe recently accused the councillors of peddling false claims, delaying the passing of the council\u2019s budget and holding unnecessary meetings to pocket sitting allowances. She accused the disgruntled councillors of engaging in political bickering.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, BCC chief executive Mustapha Batchilly dismissed allegations on pro-NPP social media platforms accusing the mayor of engaging in gross economic malfeasance.<\/p>\n

But Councillor Aziz Dabakh Gaye said the mayor erred in accusing the councillors of seeking sitting allowances when in fact they were scrutinising the council\u2019s expenditures and demanding breakdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important for people to know what we are emphasising and why we are demanding breakdowns of the expenditure. We owe it to Banjulians and the public to properly do our job of scritunising their monies. The mayor is saying we should not do that and arguing over just D1,500 sitting allowance for councillors who are diligently working into scrutinising the tax payers money,\u201d he chastised.<\/p>\n

Gaye disclosed that some of the breakdowns they were asking for exposed \u201csome undesirable expenditures\u201d by council that cannot be justified.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us compare an expenditure of D1,500 councillors\u2019 sitting allowance to, for an example, a total of D200,000 spent on tanabeer for various fan clubs. Also, council spent lots of money \u2013 D97,000, D100,000 and D50,000 et cetera \u2013 on visibility and PR events for the mayor\u2019s Rafela elections in Kisumu, Kenya among other things. What has that got to do with BCC?\u201d Gaye queried.<\/p>\n

He also questioned the council\u2019s scholarship programme alleging that some payments were made to individuals and accused the council of not submitting those breakdowns until after they demanded them.<\/p>\n

Councillor Gaye vowed that if demanding for the breakdowns of the wasteful spending of taxpayer\u2019s monies means seeking for sitting allowances as claimed by the mayor, then he and his colleague are ready to forgo the allowances but will continue to thoroughly vet the expenditures.<\/p>\n

He said even the CEO concurred that this year\u2019s budget session was the most successful because of the diligence applied to it.<\/p>\n

Councillor Gaye also defended his earlier statement that the bulk of the D3 million spent on lighting replacement came from the central government\u2019s D2million subvention, for which he said the government deserved good mention.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Five Banjul City councillors opposed to Mayor Rohey Lowe last week called the press to \u201cexpose\u201d the profligacy of the council. Mayor Lowe recently accused the councillors of peddling false claims, delaying the passing of the council\u2019s budget and holding unnecessary meetings to pocket sitting allowances. 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