(JollofNews) -President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia has sacked the country’s minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Dr. Aboubacar Senghore.
Dr Senghore, 48, was sent packing from his office on Monday afternoon. No reasons were given for his re
moval, but a statement from the President’s Office said it was in accordance with the provisions of the country’s constitution.
Fatou Lamin Faye, Minister of Basic and Secondary Education has been tasked to oversee Dr Senghore’s position while the Higher Education ministry has been placed under the purview of the Office of the President.
A PhD holder in International Human Rights Law, Dr Senghore, first joined the Mr Jammeh’s cabinet in November 2013 when he was named minister of Foreign Affairs. He was later moved during a cabinet reshuffle to the Ministry of Higher Education.
Prior to his ministerial appointment, Dr Senghore was Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of the Gambia, where he worked as a senior lecturer in law, governance and international politics.
He also served as legal and research officer and head of the Legal and Research Department of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies in Banjul, from August 1999 – December 2002.
A native of Fass Njaga Choi in the North Bank Region, Dr Senghore also served as a former lecturer in comparative law at the Department of Islamic Law, Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences of the International Islamic University, Malaysia.
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Yahya expect that many of their tribesmen will abandon you, but remain steadfast and reaffirm your position “backward never forward ever. God is ever powerful and Inshallah they will all regret their acts. As the wollof saying goes “Sosseh du sosal ken” they are devillish and only want to see your downfall but they will never live to see that. Note that with their treacherous plans in their defections none will ever survive to see your downfall. It is now clear to you that with all what they were saying in niceties and praise singing they were undermining you just to see your downfall but God the all knowing and everpowerful is and will continue to.protect you from their evil machination. INSHALLAH.
LONGLIVE YAHYA A.J.J. JAMMEH
LONGLIVE THE GAMBIA