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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