*President Jammeh’s Cows Ravage 60-year-old Man’s Findi Farm*

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

One Sankung Minteh of Kenbujaye Medina in the West Coast Region of The
Gambia has alleged that cows belonging to Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh
have destroyed his ‘findi’ farm situated behind the Brikama power plant.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily News on Sunday at his farm, the 60
year old taxi driver cum farmer narrated that the incident took place
between the 19th to 20th September 2011.

“I came to know of it about three weeks ago when my wives informed me of it.
I am a taxi driver and I hardly have time to visit my farm regularly,” he
said.

He added, that his son also told him a similar story when he (his son)
returned from the farm one day.

“He said Dad you don’t have anything to harvest from you ‘findi’ farm
because everything there is destroyed,” he said.
According to him, he is not looking for any compensation of sort from the
president, but rather for him to be aware of the incident.
“All what I want is for the herdsmen to be vigilant at all the times and
control the animals. They are destroying crops around that area,” he said.

Minteh added that the cattle are stationed at Farato but they do travel
through the forest to their farm lands in Brikama.
He said his ‘findi’ farm is 40 by 30 and that all his hope is dash to zero.
“ I cultivated the ‘findi’ farm for my family but you see what God decides
at the end of the day. I left everything in God’s hands, he said.

“When I reported the matter to the guards at Farato, they told me that is
not their area of business. And unfortunately for me, I did not also met the
herdsmen too,” he said.

Sad looking Minteh further stated that he just want the president to aware
of what has happened to his ‘findi’ farm.
He revealed that he has also cultivated some corn, maize and beans on a
separate farm and they are doing well.

“You know is not easy when talking about something that has to do with
people with powers. So am appealing to him the (president) to see how best
in future such unfortunate incident could be stopped.

Dailynews.


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