President Adama Barrow of Gambia 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 Wednesday.
Central Bank governor Amadou Colley, two of his deputies and
the bank’s financial director, who all served during Mr. Jammeh’s iron-first
rule, received their letters of dismissal.
A Central Bank senior officer, Nuha Barrow, told dpa that
the dismissals are part of Mr. 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 January 19, Mr. Barrow ordered the
dismissals and arrests of numerous security, intelligence and government
officials.
Mr. 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, Mr. Jammeh eventually conceded
defeat and went into exile in Equatorial Guinea.
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