Sukuta’s LC denies compensation claims – then brands lands ministry officials as ‘land criminals’

By Fatou Camara

Sukuta resident Lamin Cham who the government claimed compensated by giving him 37 plots of land after taking his land elswhere in the town has denied the claims.

“The allegation levelled against me by Buba Sanyang the PS is that they compensated me with 37 plots [of land], something that is not true,” Mr Cham told reporters on Sunday while responding to the claims which were made at a news conference last week.

Lamin Cham added: “If the government doesn’t dissolve the committee [at ministry of lands], they will make Adama Barrow fail because those people are land criminals.

“They take people’s land, give it to real estate agencies who would sell it for them and then they would give those people government allocation letters.”