The Gambia’s minister of health Dr. Ahmad Lamin Samateh has explained how the fight against corruption in the government could be resisted at all cost, including voodoo practices.
It’s a widely-held belief that the fight against corruption in The Gambia can come at both personal and professional cost, and according to Dr. Samateh, he experienced all this when he decided to adopt a firm stance against corruption at the health ministry.
The minister said some of the officials at the ministry were so averse to his “fight against corruption” that they allegedly tried to weaponize junior health ministry staff as a ploy to derail him.
“But I stood my ground,” Dr. Samateh stressed in an interview with Coffee Time on Tuesday.
He explained that his adversaries did not only instigate the junior staff to rebel against him but he was also a target of voodoo. The health minister said during those tough moments for institutional sanitisation, he would at times park his car only to find it wet due to voodoo practices.
He did not say whether the wetness was due to holy water sprinkles, though that was the meaning many had ascribed to his utterances.
