GAMBIANS ANGRY OVER POLITICIANS’ WAGE BOOST

Youth-led protests in The Gambia are demanding plans to boost salaries for politicians and the judiciary are scrapped.

They’re against the unpopular Judiciary Officers Bill and National Assembly Remuneration Bill and voiced their anger in the capital, Banjul. Calling themselves ‘Concerned Gambians’ demonstrators chanted ‘reject the bill, we are tired’

They’ve put forward an eight-point list of demands to authorities including better compensation for public servants and equitable allocation of natural resources.

It comes at a time of high inflation which topped 18 per cent last September, and follows protests in Kenya that saw IMF tax-hikes abandoned.

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