{"id":56038,"date":"2024-04-07T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=56038"},"modified":"2024-04-07T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T16:22:48","slug":"basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection","title":{"rendered":"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of engaging in unauthorized revenue collection from communities without adhering to proper procedures.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarely less than two hours after our initial post on the suspected fraud activity, we can confirm that the suspect, Muhammed Susso has now been arrested by the Police and is currently under their custody, helping them in their investigations. While the Council cannot make any further comments on this issue for now, we want to remind our taxpayers and residents to be vigilant and desist from transacting with anyone claiming to be collecting revenue on behalf of the Council without valid certification,\u201d Basse Area Council said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Council, Muhammed had been suspended indefinitely and was under investigation after initial suspicions arose regarding his unauthorized revenue collection activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile still under suspension and investigation, Mr Susso persisted in this act until our attention was drawn to it again. He was reported to the Police in Basse on Thursday, April 4, 2024, after which he absconded,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The Council stated that the suspect has now been arrested and is cooperating with the police in their ongoing investigation.<\/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. The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of engaging in unauthorized revenue collection from communities without adhering to proper procedures. \u201cBarely less than two hours after our initial post on the suspected fraud activity, we can confirm that the suspect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-56038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","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>Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of en ...\" \/>\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\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of en ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection\" \/>\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=\"2024-04-07T16:55:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-07T16:55:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection\",\"name\":\"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-07T16:55:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of en ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection - Gambia","description":"The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of en ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection","og_description":"The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of en ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-04-07T16:55:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection","datePublished":"2024-04-07T16:55:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection"},"wordCount":222,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Gambia","Gambia"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection","name":"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg","datePublished":"2024-04-07T16:55:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Basse Area Council has made public the apprehension of one of its staff, Muhammed Susso, who stands accused of en ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/sm_1712494188.087477.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/basse-area-council-reports-arrest-of-employee-for-illicit-revenue-collection#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Basse Area Council Reports Arrest Of Employee For Illicit Revenue Collection"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}