{"id":88978,"date":"2025-10-30T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:40:50","slug":"ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness","title":{"rendered":"Ceesay Criticizes Mayor Bensouda on Governance and Cleanliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, Minister of Information, Media, and Broadcasting Services, has criticized Mayor Talib Ahmed Bensouda and his associates during an interview with Senegalese media, citing concerns over poor sanitation within the Kanifing Municipality.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although he did not mention names directly, Dr. Ceesay said some young politicians\u2014including a sitting mayor\u2014are seeking the presidency despite lacking the necessary experience to govern. He argued that the mayor\u2019s municipality is smaller than Gue\u0301diawaye in Senegal, yet he struggles to maintain cleanliness, raising doubts about his capability to manage a national government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll those around him have never worked in government, and they have no experience\u2014they are a danger to the subregion. They don\u2019t understand the security complexity of the subregion and the Sahel,\u201d the minister remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ceesay further accused the mayor of betraying his political party, the United Democratic Party (UDP), adding that he has failed to maintain cleanliness in Serrekunda. He questioned why such a person should be entrusted with leading the country.<\/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. Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, Minister of Information, Media, and Broadcasting Services, has criticized Mayor Talib Ahmed Bensouda and his associates during an interview with Senegalese media, citing concerns over poor sanitation within the Kanifing Municipality. Although he did not mention names directly, Dr. Ceesay said some young politicians\u2014including a sitting mayor\u2014are seeking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":88977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-88978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","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>Ceesay Criticizes Mayor Bensouda on Governance and Cleanliness - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, Minister of Information, Media, and Broadcasting Services, has criticized Mayor Talib Ahmed Benso ...\" \/>\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\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ceesay Criticizes Mayor Bensouda on Governance and Cleanliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, Minister of Information, Media, and Broadcasting Services, has criticized Mayor Talib Ahmed Benso ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness\" \/>\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=\"2025-10-30T06:22:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-30T06:40:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1761793819.721401.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1071\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"459\" \/>\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\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ceesay Criticizes Mayor Bensouda on Governance and Cleanliness\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-30T06:22:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-30T06:40:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1761793819.721401.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/ceesay-criticizes-mayor-bensouda-on-governance-and-cleanliness\",\"name\":\"Ceesay Criticizes Mayor Bensouda on Governance and Cleanliness - 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