Banjul City Council

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The Banjul City Council (BCC or rarely BanCC) is the city ​​council of Banjuls , capital of the West African state of Gambia . The city council has a Lord Mayor ( English Lord Mayor of Banjul ). Rohey Malick Lowe ( United Democratic Party ) has held this position since the regional elections in Gambia in 2018 on May 12, 2018 . At the same time, the building where the local council meets is known as the Banjul City Council .

Headquarters of the BCC

The headquarters of the BCC is on Independence Drive. During Malick Lowe's tenure , the Banjul City Council building was constructed with financial help from Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s.

history

The earliest forerunner of a city council was a Board of Health , which was founded in Bathurst in 1887.

In 1930, Governor Herbert Richmond Palmer established the Bathurst Urban District Council (BUDC), which was constituted in March 1931. This initially consisted of 14 members, including four officials, four nominated Europeans and one elected local member from each of the six city districts ( wards ) who was elected for a period of one year.

In June 1935, Governor Arthur Richards replaced the BUDC with the Bathurst Advisory Town Council (BATC). The BATC had more competencies and was elected according to a different mode of election. The first elections took place in May 1936.

The body had existed until July 1944 before it was replaced by the Bathurst Temporary Local Authority , which was dissolved in July 1946. The Bathurst Town Council (BTC) now formed had 15 elected members. Three people were elected in each of the five boroughs. The first election took place in October 1946.

The various bodies were initially occupied exclusively by men. From 1943 Hannah Mahoney , wife of the Gambian politician John Andrew Mahoney , had been a member of the Bathurst Advisory Town Council , but she was not elected to her office, but was nominated. The first women elected in 1946 were Hannah Forster and Cecilia Davies , who prevailed against eight male candidates in the Bathurst Town Council elections in the Soldier Town Ward district of central town.

With the independence of Gambia in February 1965, the Bathurst City Council (BCC) was established and replaced the previous body. Although the United Party (UP) had the most seats on the city council, the People's Progressive Party (PPP) was gaining power in the city council and Ibrahima BA Kelepha-Samba was the first appointed Mayor of Bathurst (the then name of Banjul) in May 1967 . In the 1968 election, the PPP won a majority of the seats on the city council. In June 1971, the City Council was temporarily dissolved and replaced by a management committee ( English management committee ) replaced later, the BCC was revived. With the renaming of Bathurst in Banjul in April 1973, the name of the municipal council changed to the current form.

Since 2007 the city councils can be dissolved 90 days before elections and interim committees appointed by the president with respective chairmen ( interim chairmen ) lead the municipality.

List of the Lord Mayor of Bathurst / Banjul

For some mayors / chairmen, different information is available in the literature.

Official Term of office
Chair ( Chairmen )
Ibrahima Momodou Garba-Jahumpa (1912–1994) (Chairman) 1959–1960 or until 1959 and 1963
Baboucarr Semega-Janneh (1910–2002) (Chairman) 1960–1966 or only 1962
Baboucar SO Jeng 1966–1967 or only 1964 as Chairman
Ibrahima BA Kelepha Samba (1915-1995) May 1967 - June 1971 or 1967–1970
Management Committee June 1971-1994
Horace R. Monday, Sr. (1907-1996) (Chairman of the Committee) 1970-1980
SB Foon / Salieu Foon 1980–1987 or as early as 1979
Alhagie / Alhaji Kebba Conteh (d. July / August 2001)
Malick Lowe 1983-1986
James FP Gomez (* 1946) 1985 or 1986-1994
Antouman Saho 1994-1995 or 1996
4th Samba Faal (interim) 1995–1996 or only 1996
Samba Faal 1996 – April 2002
Pa Sallah Jeng April 2002 – August 2005
4th Mam Sai Njie Sanneh (* 1965) (Deputy Mayor, executive mayor ) 2005–1. November 2007
4th Alieu Mboge (interim) November 1, 2007–12. February 2008
Samba Faal February 12, 2008-2013
4th Alhagie Mbye Chaw (interim) 2013
Abdoulie Bah (1948-2018) April 4, 2013 to May 12, 2018
Rohey Malick Lowe (* 1971) since May 12, 2018

literature

  • David Perfect: Historical dictionary of The Gambia . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-5825-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Banjul City Council (BCC) accessgambia.com, accessed May 2011
  2. ^ Sub-Saharan Africa Report . Foreign Broadcast Information Service., 1983 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ^ BCC, KMC New Interim Chairmen Speak. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ KMC, BCC dissolved. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Pierre Gomez, Hassoum Ceesay: A geocritical representation of Banjul (Bathurst), 1816–2016 . Leicester, England, ISBN 978-0-9956460-1-8 .
  6. ^ Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical dictionary of The Gambia Scarecrow Pr, 2008, ISBN 0-8108-5825-8
  7. ^ A b Great Britain Colonial Office: Annual Report on Gambia . HM Stationery Office, 1964 ( google.de [accessed July 3, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Monday's letter. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Hassoum Ceesay : Gambian women: an introductory history . 1st edition. Fulladu Publishers, Gambia 2007, p. 79 .
  10. ^ West Africa . West Africa Publishing Company Limited, July 1980 ( google.de [accessed July 3, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Gambia: Focus On Politics. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Gambia: Imam Lee Cautions Against Divisive Politics. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ "kebba conteh" - Google search. Retrieved July 4, 2019 (de-US).
  14. ↑ KMC, BCC dissolved. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  15. ↑ WOMEN POLITICIANS REVEAL STORIES OF BETRAYAL, REJECTION AND SUPPRESSION. In: The Standard Newspaper. March 6, 2015, Retrieved July 6, 2019 (American English).
  16. ^ BCC, KMC New Interim Chairmen Speak. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  17. ^ Banjul City Council (BCC). Retrieved July 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 13 ° 27 ′ 28.4 "  N , 16 ° 34 ′ 43.1"  W.