The newly elected members of the Bakau Sports Committee yesterday, paid a courtesy call to the Mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council, Yankuba Colley, at his office in Kanifing.

The committee used the gathering to brief Mayor Colley on the dilapidated state of the Bakau Mini-stadium and the facilities within it, and sought the council’s immediate assistance to reverse the strained situation.

Hadda Bangura, President of the Bakau Sports Committee informed Mayor Colley that the state of the Bakau football pitch which is the committee’s main concern right now has left much to be desired. He also spoke of the need to have a pavilion in the mini-stadium, noting that Bakau remains the only town that lacks pavilion.

Bangura also used the occasion to appeal to the embassies and hotels within the town to come and help the committee in its bid to develop sports.

Alagie Bahoum, Councillor of Bakau New Town Ward expressed similar sentiments, adding that Bakau being a tourism centre with a population of over 35,000 people, should have had a much better mini-stadium.

In his reaction, Mayor Colley, expressed his concern over the current state of the pitch and promised that the council will do all it could to put things in order.

He hailed the sports committee for working hand in glove with the two councillors in the town in its bid to develop the community.

Other speaker at the gathering was Kemo Ceesay, committee adviser who doubles as account of The Gambia Football Association.