Gambian
President Adama Barrow, on Wednesday, fired Gambia’s Central Bank Governor and
three other bank officials considered loyal to former dictator, Yahya Jammeh, a
senior official at the bank said.
Gambian
Central Bank Governor, Amadou Colley, two of his deputies and the bank’s
financial director, who all served during Jammeh’s iron-first rule, received
their letters of dismissal.
Central
Bank senior officer Nuha Barrow told dpa that the dismissals are part of
Barrow’s attempts to re-establish democracy in the small Islamic republic and
depose those who held high positions during Yammeh’s 22-year rule.
Since he
took office on Jan. 19, Barrow ordered the dismissals and arrests of numerous
security, intelligence and government officials.
Jammeh,
who caused weeks of political impasse by refusing to accept the result of the
December 2016 election, stands accused of having committed wide-ranging human
rights violations during his presidency, including torture, killings and
abductions.
After
weeks of regional pressure and the threat of arrest by West African troops who
had entered Gambia, Jammeh eventually conceded defeat and went into exile in
Equatorial Guinea.
(NAN)
