{"id":5583,"date":"2021-11-05T18:44:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T18:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt"},"modified":"2021-11-05T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:44:18","slug":"essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt","title":{"rendered":"Essa Faal slams \u2018mafia\u2019 gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Essa Faal slams &#8216;mafia&#8217; gov&#8217;t By Lamin Cham Independent presidential candidate Essa Faal has accused the National People\u2019s Party of President Barrow of using mafia-style tactics to frustrate his mobilisation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters shortly after filing his nomination papers at the IEC head offices yesterday, a livid Mr Faal explained: \u201cWe contacted the Gambia Transport Union and ordered 200 buses and 53 minivans. But the NPP doubled the money so that the drivers would refuse to ferry our supporters to the nomination grounds. They think they have sabotaged our nomination but they cannot stop our supporters from going to the polling booths. We beat them in Banjul, we beat them in Brikama we beat them in Bakadaji\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Faal painted a grim picture of the state of affairs of the country and underlined the reasons why Gambians should vote out Barrow on 4th December: \u201cThe Gambia is one of the worst places to do business in and that is why it would be hard for people to invest here. [What is happening] is state capture and that is what we have come to stop,\u201d Mr Faal said.<\/p>\n<p>The market decides However, when contacted for explanation, the president of the Gambia Transport Union, Omar Ceesay, denied Mr Faal\u2019s allegations and said his union merely responded to the forces of the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe drivers were offered D2,500 by Essa Faal\u2019s team while the NPP offered D3,000, or even D3,500. So the drivers naturally went for the higher pay. I have never been instructed by anybody to block Essa Faal\u2019s team. It was purely business,\u201d Mr Ceesay said.<\/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>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Essa Faal slams &#8216;mafia&#8217; gov&#8217;t By Lamin Cham Independent presidential candidate Essa Faal has accused the National People\u2019s Party of President Barrow of using mafia-style tactics to frustrate his mobilisation efforts. Talking to reporters shortly after filing his nomination papers at the IEC head offices yesterday, a livid Mr Faal explained: \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[2567,2355,2361,2566,260],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-mafia","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-essa-faal","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>Essa Faal slams \u2018mafia\u2019 gov\u2019t - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Essa Faal slams &#039;mafia&#039; gov&#039;t By Lamin Cham Independent presidential candidate Essa Faal has accused the National People ...\" \/>\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\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Essa Faal slams \u2018mafia\u2019 gov\u2019t\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Essa Faal slams &#039;mafia&#039; gov&#039;t By Lamin Cham Independent presidential candidate Essa Faal has accused the National People ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt\" \/>\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=\"2021-11-05T18:44:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-05T19:44:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6185897338ac6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Essa Faal slams \u2018mafia\u2019 gov\u2019t\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-05T18:44:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-05T19:44:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt\"},\"wordCount\":287,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6185897338ac6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"\u2018mafia\u2019\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Essa Faal\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/essa-faal-slams-mafia-govt\",\"name\":\"Essa Faal slams \u2018mafia\u2019 gov\u2019t - 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