(JollofNews) – Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh’s extravagant and endless taste for money continues to be revealed by his former staff at the Commission of Inquiry.
The commission was established by President Barrow in July to act on the financial activities of public bodies, enterprises and offices as regards to their dealings with the country’s former President, Yahya Jammeh.
During his testimony before the three-member commission today, Mr Jammeh’s one-time secretary general and head of the civil service, Njogu Lamin Bah, said Mr Jammeh had a strong and real appetite for money.
He said when Mr Jammeh request for cash, he will spend it on buying luxurious cars, personal, on family and on state.
“When he request for money and said it is for urgent state matter, he will never say what the urgency was,” Mr Bah said.
He also recounted how he and some government officials traveled to India sometime in 2006 on the instructions of Mr Jammeh to Mahindra Tractors Company to see the type of tractors they manufacture.
He added that the trip led to the ordering of 500 tractors.
“Some of these tractors were sold, some were given to farmers and and some were used by the former president himself at his farms.”
Mr Bah also recounted how he signed a letter on Mr. Jammeh’s authority requesting for withdrawal of US$500,000 from the Carnage Mineral account. He said the money was meant for urgent state matter.
He said it is not always easy to exactly say what Mr. Jammeh’s requests for money were meant for.
500.000 from Carnegie’s account ? You just could not make this up.!!!
Mike Scales,
Please pay a little attention. You are a leaned person.ITS not about gambia as it is. Thanks to professor-doctor jammeh.
Some of these witnesses at the commission should be reporting to the Djembe hotel from the remand wing of mile 2.
Now that Jammeh is not around anything and everything was given to him,and these are professionals???? i sometimes wonder how they just sacrificed their professionalism to the exploitation of Jammeh,without them benefitting from it in anyway,or do they think they are talking to people who stand on their head instead of on their 2 legs ?Let them spit out the tobacco and tell us the real stories and not fictions please.
I think you misunderstand me…. The American’s would call this Grand Theft Auto.
African’s call it graft.
The movie The Godfather would dim in comparison. The Mafia made you an offer you can’t refuse. Jammeh would make you an offer so many could not understand.
No reason No procedure No accountability….Just that it was an urgent matter of state.
The Executive today still have the same powers.
I now think we are beginning to understand why Jammeh fired so many public servants.{ over 450} The sacked public officials should be asked to contribute their story>>of being sacked for refusing Jammeh’s unreasonable and illegal demands.
Whilst we appreciate the senior government contributors….coming clean. It does cast doubts over their integrity and why they continued in service, knowing all government protocols had been jettisoned at the Executives demands and orders.
Once again, working under a dictator is very tasty and sensitive, you either do or face the worst of evil, this is how dictators works. But let’s keep pressing every thing will be revealed.
That yahya Jammeh is evil,very few people have a doubt about that yet they lobby positions from him. Such are not innocent as they would want us to believe. I Fabaks could have get close to Jammeh and get a position near him but I resisted and refused even after been urged because of the fact that knew he is evil. The best protection against evil is to get far away from it.
I have the believe that even Yahya Jammeh’s claim of been able to cure HIV AIDS and other diseases was not done for nothing. It should be investigated. My suspicion has been that he got into that business of treating diseases to be able get rid of the unsuspecting human witnesses to his atrocities against Gambians. It was during these times that the Musa Jammehs and the Tumbul tambas who were known to be his killers all died mysteriously So many lives were lost during his treatment programmers which were all brushed under carpet.
Mike Scales is a big fan of Amadou Samba and not objective otherwise he will not engage in areas he knows he was mentioned.