The embattled former Gambian justice minister Abubacarr Marie ‘Ba’ Tambadou has laid to rest wild speculations about his cabinet appointment, explaining that his entrance into the cabinet was premised on the confidence that President Adama Barrow reposed in him.
“When the change occurred (Jammeh’s exit in 2016), I was the one that President Adama Barrow identified and appointed as the attorney-general at the most critical juncture of our country’s history. It could have been anybody else but with the will of God, I was chosen,” Ba said Friday morning in an interview with Peter Gomez.
The UDP leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has found himself at the centre of intense public debate following The Republic’s publication of how the confiscated assets of the former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh were disposed of “at prices a fraction of their value”.
There have been sizzling online and offline public debate, regarding the UDP leader’s “role” in Tambadou’s cabinet appointment. Some accused Darboe of peddling his influence in the former AG’s appointment.
Darboe himself clarified in an interview with MembeKering media platform on Wednesday that he encountered Tambadou at Barrow’s office, where the President told him that Ba was aiding him with protocol work before expressing to him his decision to appoint Ba as minister of justice.
