A Gambian British couple have been evicted from their rented Bundung home by president Adama Barrow’s real estate company—called Majum Estate Agency, the Freedom Newspaper can reveal. The company is being managed on behalf of the president by Mamadi and Njaga, both said to be relatives of the Gambian leader.
A distraught Amie Ceesay, a mother of three kids, phoned the Freedom Newspaper from her London home in the United Kingdom on Wednesday to complain about the eviction notice that was served to her family in the Gambia, while both she and her husband were away from the impoverished West African country. She had two of her black British friends living in the property at the time of the eviction. The duo was out of the property when President Barrow’s Real Estate agents used a padlock to lock the property.
Mrs. Ceesay said her visiting British friends are currently rendered homeless in the Gambia—thanks to the lack of access to the property. The property is out of bound to Mrs. Ceesay, her family, and the two British subjects currently on holidays in the Gambia.
An eviction noticed from Majum Estate Agency and was addressed to Jainaba Ceesay, Amie Ceesay’s sister, stated that the tenants were given one month notice to vacate the Bundung house by December 6th 2017. The reason given for eviction was “the payment of your rent should be on contract bases and not monthly. More so, is not regular.”
The property manager also said he hopes that Ms. Jainaba Ceesay will accept the eviction notice in good faith. He said a copy of the eviction notice would be sent to the Kanifing court rent tribunal.
” I want to set the record straight: The alleged rent arrears that they claimed that I owed; just for the record; my lease was due to expire on November 28th. I went to them before the 28th of November to make a payment of D16,000 dalasi, but they said they will not accept my payment, unless I gave them an additional one thousand dalasis (D1,000) dalasi. If you see I am in arrears is because they refused to accept my part payment. I also refused to give them one thousand dalasis (D1,000) dalasi that they requested from me,” Amie Ceesay tells the Freedom Newspaper.
“ Njaga and Mamadi are the ones running the president Real Estate company. They told me that they are cousins to the president. They also told me that I can go to anywhere and complain. They were so rude to me. They were acting like as if they own the Gambia. We tried to reach out to Halifa Sallah, but couldn’t get hold of him. Hence, I decided to contact the Freedom Newspaper to complain. They said the Gambia is now a democratic country; hence I decided to make my story heard by the world,” she added.
Mrs. Ceesay and her husband recently returned to the UK after spending some weeks in the Gambia on holidays. Her husband was engaged in an automobile accident upon their return to the UK, she said. He spent over one thousand pounds to repair his damaged vehicle, she added.
The property in question was leased out to Amie Ceesay’s sister Jainaba Ceesay. She said she was asked to pay a six month lease, but she insisted that she could only pay five months, and the landlord which happens to Manjum Estate agreed.
Her husband wanted to maintain the property until he finishes building his house in the Gambia, but down the line they received an eviction notice to vacate the property. He had plans to visit the Gambia in February next year to oversee the construction of his new home.
Amie Ceesay was in the Gambia on November 14. She said she has made frantic efforts to talk Mamadi and Njaga into to availing them with the opportunity to settle the outstanding rent, but to no avail. The two real estate agents insisted that she and her husband must vacate the property.
In another development, before going to press, Amie Ceesay contacted us to say that the eviction notice has been extended to Thursday, December 7th.
The Freedom Newspaper contacted Mamadi of the Majum Estate Agency for comment, but he was indisposed for comment. He never attended to his Whatsapp number, when contacted by this medium for comment.
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