Banjul Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe has made a tearful plea for the government to enforce lockdown in the Greater Banjul Area due to the mounting death toll caused by coronavirus. 

The emotional mayor said in the three minutes video shared on Facebook that people were dying in their homes without help 

“I’m directing my message to the Minister of Health. I’m begging you in the name of God to lockdown the Greater Banjul Areas for at least a week,” she pleaded. 

Mayor Lowe said the capital, the Greater Banjul Area and North Bank Region are the worst affected areas. 

“As a politician I have conscience and I cannot sit down seeing my people dying everyday. Look at the hospital (it is overwhelmed). I’ve been to the sanitarium. The coronavirus has escalated

“People are dying in the Greater Banjul Areas. People are dying in their homes (without medical care). The frontline workers are dying. Please help us. 

She added: “People have coronavirus and there is no health facilities to take them to as the main hospital in Banjul is operating beyond its capacity.

“As I speak a Banjul elder has died today (suddenly). A good friend and father figure.

The mayor pleaded with the government to deploy police and soldiers to enforced the lockdown and social distancing rules in the capital and Greater Banjul Area. 

“People don’t abide by the rules” and this is causing a huge strain on the hospitals in the Greater Banjul Areas.