{"id":84605,"date":"2025-08-22T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:03:56","slug":"new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute","title":{"rendered":"New Taskforce Set up for Kartong, Gunjur Land Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The press has been reliably informed that a meeting between the elders of Kartong, the Governor of the West Coast Region and the Minister of Lands, Hamat Bah took place a few days ago to discuss the Kartong, Gunjur land demarcation issue.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Our sources said the meeting was convened after the governor received an urgent call from President Adama Barrow instructing him to gather the elders of Kartong to discuss the issue, following a protest by residents of Kartong over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, an agreement was reached to dissolve the existing taskforce and form a new one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new taskforce will comprise 2 people from Kartong, Berending and Gunjur, and two more people representating the Ministry of Justice and other parties involved. Their task will be to review all documents and come up with a new report,\u201d our source said.<\/p>\n<p>However according to one Mustapha Manneh, a native of Kartong, a disagreement arose over whether the \u2018Peg Law\u2019 used to demarcate the land would be removed, with the government officials insisting it would not be removed, which the people of Kartong strongly objected to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Kartong have now said if the Peg Law is not removed they will go to court,\u201d Manneh told.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The press has been reliably informed that a meeting between the elders of Kartong, the Governor of the West Coast Region and the Minister of Lands, Hamat Bah took place a few days ago to discuss the Kartong, Gunjur land demarcation issue. Our sources said the meeting was convened after the governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":84604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-84605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>New Taskforce Set up for Kartong, Gunjur Land Dispute - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The press has been reliably informed that a meeting between the elders of Kartong, the Governor of the West Coast Reg ...\" \/>\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\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Taskforce Set up for Kartong, Gunjur Land Dispute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The press has been reliably informed that a meeting between the elders of Kartong, the Governor of the West Coast Reg ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute\" \/>\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=\"2025-08-22T16:12:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T17:03:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755869594.894642.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1290\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"730\" \/>\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\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"New Taskforce Set up for Kartong, Gunjur Land Dispute\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-22T16:12:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-22T17:03:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute\"},\"wordCount\":227,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755869594.894642.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/new-taskforce-set-up-for-kartong-gunjur-land-dispute\",\"name\":\"New Taskforce Set up for Kartong, Gunjur Land Dispute - 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